Manhattan DA Dropped Criminal Probe Of Trump Kids After Campaign Donation: Report Indictment of Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. seemed “a real possibility,” according to a report by ProPublica, The New Yorker and WNYC. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.’s office was busy probing a felony fraud case involving siblings Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. in 2012. But after Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Marc Kasowitz, intervened, the investigation was dropped within months, according to a report from ProPublica, The New Yorker and WNYC published on Wednesday. The president’s eldest children were being investigated for allegations they used false information to lure prospective buyers at the Trump SoHo, a hotel and condominium development. Prosecutors were probing whether their actions violated the Martin Act, a New York law banning false statements about real estate sales, and indictment “seemed like a real possibility,” according to the report. A lawsuit filed by condo buyers was settled in 2011, The New York Times reported, but the DA’s criminal investigation continued. The settlement forbade lawsuit plaintiffs from cooperating with the DA’s probe. Kasowitz joined the case in the spring of 2012. He went to Vance’s office that May to argue that any inflated claims made by the Trumps didn’t amount to criminal misconduct. Three months later, Vance told his office to drop the investigation, according to the report, which cited 20 sources familiar with the investigation, court records and other public documents. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...4bce4b04b9f92069229?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
Sounds like Cyrus Vance Jr is the one who should be investigated if he dropped an investigation after receiving money. I didn't go to the link, but the quoted portion said nothing about contributions. The idea that someone would send their attorney to deal with a possible criminal case does not sound particularly outlandish to me. Whom should they send, their chiropractor? Just on the face of it too, felony charges over what seemed to be real estate puffery seems a little over the top. Almost like a shakedown really, but that wouldn't happen in a bastion of good government like New York, would it?