How Ivanka and Jr. Avoided Indictment
By Andrea Bernstein, Jesse Eisinger, Justin Elliott, and Ilya Marritz
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In .. 2012 .. prosecutors in the Manhattan District Attorney’s office had been building a criminal case against them for misleading prospective buyers of units in the Trump SoHo ... Despite the best efforts of the siblings’ defense team, the case had not gone away ... The evidence included e-mails from the Trumps making clear that they were aware they were using inflated figures about how well the condos were selling ...
In one e-mail, according to four people who have seen it, the Trumps discussed how to coördinate false information they had given to prospective buyers. In another, according to a person who read the e-mails, they worried that a reporter might be on to them. In yet another, Donald, Jr., spoke reassuringly to a broker who was concerned about the false statements, saying that nobody would ever find out, because only people on the e-mail chain or in the Trump Organization knew about the deception ...
Kasowitz .. by then had been the elder Donald Trump’s attorney for a decade ... in 2012, Kasowitz donated twenty-five thousand dollars to the reëlection campaign of the Manhattan District Attorney, Cyrus Vance, Jr., making Kasowitz one of Vance’s largest donors. Kasowitz decided to bypass the lower-level prosecutors and went directly to Vance to ask that the investigation be dropped.
... Kasowitz did not introduce any new arguments or facts during his session. He simply repeated .. arguments .. other defense lawyers had been making for months.
... Vance overruled his own prosecutors ...
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