The Republican chairmen of three House committees have issued a subpoena demanding the testimony of a former Manhattan prosecutor who previously led the investigation into former President Donald Trump that led to his indictment on March 30.
Mark Pomerantz, who was a special assistant district attorney in Manhattan for about a year in 2021 and early 2022, turned down a request to voluntarily cooperate with ainto the office that charged Trump, according to a letter sent Thursday by the chairmen.
The GOP leaders harshly criticized the investigation into Trump, who was arraigned on 34 felony counts of falsification of business records on Tuesday. The charges stem from an alleged scheme to suppress stories and allegations about his personal life, beginning in 2015, that Trump believed might harm his campaign, according to the office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
Bragg has denied pursuing the case for political ends, and said the GOP chairmen are trying to"undermine an active investigation and ongoing New York criminal case with an unprecedented campaign of harassment and intimidation." "This is the business capital of the world," Bragg said about New York City."We regularly do cases involving false business statements. The bedrock of the basis for business integrity and a well-functioning business marketplace is accurate record-keeping.
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