People vs. Donald Trump by Mike Pomerantz - Amazon.com book review - EXCERPTS:
Mike Pomerantz gathered enough evidence to support the view - held by many of his colleagues on the case, including former Manhattan district attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. - that former president Donald Trump should be indicted for a number of financial crimes. But that indictment never happened. This book explains why [according to its author, Mark Pomerantz].
Pomerantz’s work ultimately led to the indictment of the Trump Organization and Allen Weisselberg, the chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, who pleaded guilty to tax fraud [04/10/2024, sentence: 5 months at Rikers]. But that indictment was merely the prelude to a larger criminal case that Pomerantz urged the Manhattan DA, Alvin Bragg, to bring against Donald Trump.
When the Manhattan DA refused to authorize that prosecution, Mike Pomerantz and his colleague Carey Dunne resigned.
About the author
Mark Pomerantz was born in Brooklyn and received a BA from Harvard College in 1972 and a JD from the University of Michigan Law School in 1975.
He worked as a federal prosecutor in the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. Pomerantz has also been on the faculty of Columbia Law School and has lectured on criminal procedure and white-collar law at Harvard and Stanford Law Schools.
From February 2021 to February 2022, he worked pro bono as special assistant district attorney in the office of the New York District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. to assist with that office’s criminal investigation into the personal and business finances of former president Donald Trump.
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IMHO: The Manhattan DA's objective in the present case before Judge Juan Merchan, is to take whatever is the result, to the Court of Appeals of New York State - in order for the New York State Court of Appeals Justices to decide the intent of the New York State legislature, re:
The New York statute does not state that there must be a state law violation as the covered-up crime, for elevating a New York State misdemeanor to felony.
The Manhattan DA seeks a decision, that a covered-up federal crime, qualifies for elevating a New York State misdemeanor to felony.
In other words, Mark Pomerantz thinks that he found a window of opportunity for making a mountain out of a mole hill, resulting in elevating "the seriousness of the charges" against Donald Trump.
New York State statute in question:
2021 New York Laws
ELN - Election
Article 17 - Violations of the Elective Franchise
17-152 - Conspiracy to Promote or Prevent Election.
"§ 17-152. Conspiracy to promote or prevent election. Any two or more persons who conspire to promote or prevent the election of any person to a public office by unlawful means and which conspiracy is acted upon by one or more of the parties thereto, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor."
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I do not think that in any of these court cases they care if Trump wins on appeal as long as it is after the 2024 election. To me the major point of these trials is to have enough voters in this country believe that Trump is a criminal so that he loses the election.