Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to block a House Judiciary Committee subpoena issued to a former prosecutor who played a key role in Bragg's criminal investigation of ex-President Donald Trump.
Pomerantz and another prosecutor quit after Bragg indicated he would not pursue an indictment against Trump in connection with false statements around the valuations of real estate assets owned by the Trump Organization. Pomerantz later wrote a book about his work on the probe.
Jordan and the committee had Pomerantz served with a subpoena last week, two days after Trump was arraigned in Manhattan Supreme Court on a grand jury indictment alleging 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. The prosecution, the first of any U.S. president, former or otherwise, is related to a $130,000 hush money payment that Trump's then-lawyer Michael Cohen paid porn star Stormy Daniels shortly before the 2016 presidential election.Bragg's suit says that the subpoena, and other demands by Jordan for information,"seek highly sensitive and confidential local prosecutorial information that belongs to the Office of the District Attorney and the People of New York.
Bragg argues that the subpoena for Pomerantz"has no legitimate legislative purpose," and that even if it did it is still not enforceable because it could allow the Judiciary Committee to seek secret grand jury material and other investigative information that is protected by law."First, they indict a president for no crime," Jordan wrote."Then, they sue to block congressional oversight when we ask questions about the federal funds they say they used to do it.
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