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A former Manhattan prosecutor has revealed that the District Attorney's office once considered filing racketeering charges against former President Donald Trump.
Mark Pomerantz, who resigned in protest last year after DA Alvin Bragg decided not to seek an indictment against Trump, detailed his case against the former president's alleged corrupt business practices in his upcoming book, People vs. Donald Trump.
According to excerpts given to the New York Times and The Daily Beast, Pomerantz said his colleagues dug into all of Trump's businesses, including his real estate empire, for-profit university and his family's charitable foundation.
'In my career as a lawyer, I had encountered only one other person who touched all of these bases: John Gotti, the head of the Gambino organized crime family,' Pomerantz wrote.
He added that in order to refute claims that Trump wasn't lying because he 'believed his own "hype,''' prosecutors would have to 'show, and stress, that Donald Trump was not legally insane.'
The Manhattan District Attorney's office was working to bring up racketeering charges against Donald Trump (pictured) for alleged business corruption, according to a former prosecutor
Mark Pomerantz, who resigned in protest last year after DA Alvin Bragg decided not to seek an indictment against Trump, compared the former president to notorius Gambino crime boss John Gotti (pictured) a characterization slammed by Trump's attorneys
Pomerantz said that as the DA's office reviewed the case against the former president, they 'discussed whether Trump had been spewing bulls*** for so many years about so many things that he could no longer process the difference between bullshit and reality.'
The attorney said he asked his colleagues: 'Was Donald Trump suffering from some sort of mental condition that made it impossible for him to distinguish between fact and fiction?'
And in comparing Trump to the infamous mafia boss, Pomerantz wrote that the former president 'demanded absolute loyalty and would go after anyone who crossed him.'
He also claimed that Trump 'seemed always to stay one step ahead of the law.'
The characterization was met with outrage from Trump's legal team, with attorney Joe Tacopina threatening legal action against the former prosecutor if he publishes the book.
Tacopina told the Times that 'injecting the name John Gotti into this seems like just another desperate attempt by Pomerantz to sell books.'
While the book reiterates the allegations that Trump had fraudulently inflated his assets while conducting business in New York City, it mainly focuses on the turbulent journey Pomerantz went through to build the case that was ultimately never pursued while he was in the DA's office.
Pomerantz claimed his work to build a case against Trump lacked support after Braggs became DA in 2022, with the lawyer wanting to pursue an indictment despite adminitting to his new boss that they had only a 70 percent chance of success
The full details of the legal drama will be highlighted in Pomerantz new book, People vs. Donald Trump
While working under former DA Cyrus Vance Jr., Pomerantz had stepped out of retirement to lead the investigation.
Pomerantz noted that there were clear risks in pursuing money laundering charges against Trump.
Instead, Pomerantz wrote that New York's racketeering statute involving corruption 'was an ideal vehicle for prosecuting Donald Trump and the Trump Organization.'
Although Vance was allegedly behind the
