AAAARGH! Hast thou seen the orange whale?
Posted on 03/14/2021 3:28:40 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
Manhattan’s district attorney, Cyrus Vance Jr, the veteran prosecutor overseeing a criminal investigation into the former US president, Donald Trump, announced on Friday that he intends to retire instead of seeking re-election, opting against a primary fight with progressive candidates who say he is a relic and not a reformer.
Vance made the announcement in a memo to staffers, ending months of speculation about his future and signaling it is likely to be a brand-new DA who sees the Trump case through, although Vance could still make a decision about charges before his term expires at the end of the year.
New York assembly approves 'impeachment investigation' into Andrew Cuomo Read more Vance, a Democrat, counted the fallen movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction a year ago among his crowning achievements.
But he has faced withering criticism over other high-profile cases, including dropping rape charges against the former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn in 2011 and declining to prosecute Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr over fraud allegations in 2012.
“I never imagined myself as district attorney for decades like my predecessors. I never thought of this as my last job, even though it’s the best job and biggest honor I’ll ever have,” Vance, 66, said on Friday.
His decision not to seek re-election was widely expected, but he held off on making it official while the US supreme court weighed whether his office could obtain Trump’s tax records. The court ruled in Vance’s favor last month.
Some of the Democrats campaigning to replace Vance want to slash the office’s budget, cut staff and skip prosecutions for a wider range of low-level offenses.
Eight candidates are on the ballot for the party’s June primary, an election likely to decide Vance’s successor because Manhattan is so heavily Democratic.
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Stepping aside for a Sorosite. Because he didn’t like the alternative option.
He is TRULY VILE and EVIL!!! If there HAD been ANY mistakes in Trump’s Tax Returns, the IRS would have been on him!!!
All his cases will have to be refiled.
Vance is leaving because he has lost the Trump chase.
Besuides, SOROS is running a candidate against Vance who is more liberal fascist compliant.Thats the real reason Vance is leaving.
Governments delay access to public records during pandemic
Weird how AP's finally having a hissy.
It’s that and he’d be taking on Trump’s accounting firm.
In NY, who really runs the show?
They do.
The washed up Cyrus Vance is gonna throw stones at Mazars?
Yeah right. He’s the wrong religious ethnicity to get away with that.
No there there indeed the swamp body count is increasing at an alarming rate.
I don’t know who’s the right religious ethnicity. They’re French and they’re huge, yet somehow Trump’s businesses are always being audited, and the audit never ends.
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