Mark Pomerantz, the former Manhattan prosecutor who investigated Donald Trump’s business holdings, said Sunday that everyone who studied the former president’s business affairs agreed that he lied about his assets to appear billions of dollars richer than he really was.
Pomerantz served as a special assistant district attorney in New York investigating Trump’s business, spending a year reporting that he was increasing his assets to seek loans from banks. He resigned in protest a year ago, after Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg decided not to seek an indictment of Trump, saying he believed Trump was “guilty of many” felonies and had “no doubt” of his guilt.
In comments Sunday on CBS’ “60 Minutes,” Pomerantz said that anyone else in the same situation as Trump would be indicted “in a moment.”
“If you do the same thing and it’s not about Donald Trump and it’s not about the former president of the United States, will the case be prosecuted?” Pomerantz said on “60 Minutes.” “It will be charged in a second flat.”
Pomerantz, who has a new book out this week about his time investigating the former president, said he still disagrees with Bragg’s decision, adding there are “a lot of bits and pieces of evidence” he could use to make a case against Trump.
“Given all the evidence we have, no one is saying, ‘Hey, the guy’s not guilty,'” he said.
Trump has maintained that he did nothing wrong at the Trump Organization, calling the investigation a witch hunt.
The former prosecutor’s comments came after Bragg’s office began presenting evidence to a grand jury about Trump’s role in a money scheme involving porn stars during the 2016 presidential campaign. criminal charges.
Since leaving office, Trump has faced a series of criminal investigations, including classified documents found at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida and an attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election that he lost to Joe Biden.