Mark Pomerantz, a former Manhattan prosecutor who investigated Donald Trump’s affairs, said Sunday that everyone who looked into the former president’s affairs agreed that he lied about his assets to appear billions of dollars richer than it actually is.
Pomerantz worked as a special assistant district attorney in New York investigating Trump’s business affairs, spending a year examining reports that he inflated his assets to obtain leveraged loans from banks. He resigned in protest a year ago after Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg declined to prosecute Trump, saying he believed Trump was “guilty of numerous” crimes and that there were ” some doubt” about his guilt.
In comments Sunday on CBS’ “60 Minutes,” Pomerantz said anyone else in Trump’s situation would be indicted “in a second.”
“If I had taken the exact same behavior and not done it against Donald Trump and not the former president of the United States, would the case have been prosecuted?” Pomerantz said on “60 Minutes.” “He would have been charged in a second.”
Pomerantz, who released a new book this week about his time investigating the former president, said he still disagreed with Bragg’s decision, adding that there was “plenty of evidence and evidence” that could have been used to to file lawsuits against Trump.
“With all the evidence we had, no one said, ‘Hey, the kid’s not guilty,'” she said.
Trump has maintained that he did nothing improper within the Trump Organization, criticizing the investigation as a witch hunt.
The former prosecutor’s comments come after Bragg’s office began presenting evidence to a grand jury about Trump’s role in a covert money scheme involving a porn star during his 2016 presidential campaign. The development is a significant step in the prosecutor’s work and could signal that the former president is one step closer to prosecution.
Since leaving office, Trump has faced multiple criminal investigations, including those related to classified documents found at his Mar-a-Lago, Florida estate and his attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election that -lost to Joe Biden.
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