Yes, we know that when books of a political nature drop, publicists leak juicy bits of information to tease sales, and this is one of those juicy bits that make you ask, "What if…?" Former Manhattan District Attorney prosecutor Mark F. Pomerantz claims in his new book that while with the prosecutor's office, he once proposed charging Donald Trump with racketeering based on the number of apparently corrupt operations he was simultaneously heading.
According to the New York Times, Pomerantz writes that then DA Cyrus Vance, Jr. called the idea "bold" but others in the office were not enthusiastic about the idea. Pomerantz notes that Vance was convinced prosecutors could make a case for financial fraud for manipulating his financial statements, a lesser, more easily provable offense, and an investigation his successor in office, Alvin Bragg, dropped before recently reinvigorating it.