Bragg’s effort to stop Congress from probing Trump case collides with Pentagon Papers precedent.
JTN: Manhattan DA’s office used $5,000 in federal asset forfeiture funds in Trump case, opening door for lawmakers’ power of the purse oversight.
The dramatic tit-for-tat between Alvin Bragg and Jim Jordan escalated Tuesday when the Manhattan District Attorney sued the House Judiciary Committee chairman, claiming Congress had no business investigating the New York State indictment of Donald Trump. But a modest expenditure of federally regulated funds by Bragg’s office may complicate his efforts to keep lawmakers from nosing around, thanks to court rulings that date to the 1970s Pentagon Papers leak.
The legal rub for Bragg is that his office has already acknowledged it spent $5,000 seized from criminals under the federal asset forfeiture program to pursue the criminal investigations against Trump, his company and his former CFO and wage court fights over subpoena compliance.
“Our review of the Office’s records reflect that, of the federal forfeiture money that the Office helped collect, approximately $5,000 was spent on expenses incurred relating to the investigation of Donald J. Trump or the Trump Organization,” Bragg wrote Jordan in a terse letter dated March 31. MORE
Off Topic Aside Note:
Just found out whom the other New Runner is on the Presidential Ticket.
Tim Scott from Carolina.
FOX News had a report with Brit Fume and Room 222 America is Awful Jessica Tarlove.
Tarloves very FIRST comment on Tim Scotts Qualifications:
His Grandfather was a Cotten Picker so therefore he would get her vote if she were of that party, but she is not.
sounds like misappropriation of funds to me
sort of like what he’s charging Trump with
but his offense doesn’t have expired statute of limitations
sounds like he needs to be indited
and there’s probably a few more zeroes involved than he says
time to look at his books
what else is he doing?
Remember when deblasio’s wife couldn’t account for the 800 plus million dollars that warren wilhelm gave her? They play fast and fancy with public monies in nyc
If Alvin Bragg is Bill Cosby’s Fat Alvin (Hey, hey, hey its fat Alvin) who is Mush Mouth, it must be Mumbles himself, the Reverend Al Sharpton.
I take umbrage, UMBRAGE, with this site’s usage of a beloved childhood cartoon character to portray this miscreant NYC DA
…. UMBRAGE I TELL YOU!
(I may have to seek
resuscitationsrespirations for my pain & suffering)sarc/off
Since I have the classes attention
I hold before you a rapidly spinning wheel
Does it move? And How?
Geoff,
It was FAAAAT ALBERT! HEY HEY HEY!
That’s the problem with taking/using anything from the FedGov, there are so damned many strings attached. And the FedGov ties you up with every one of them.
Now it would be Fat Alvin.
Pong
Sarah and those posts are trip wired.
Say there Fat Alvin, what you’re doing looks like election interference to me.