Federal prosecutors in Manhattan this past week appeared to be barreling forward on a collision course with President Trump.
Federal investigations such as Southern District's are secret, and any discussion of who future targets might be is necessarily speculative, but the charging documents from that office contain some strong hints that the Trump Organization and its executives could be the targets.
A reimbursement of campaign expenses by a private company alone could have put the Trump Organization in jeopardy, as private businesses are forbidden from contributing to campaigns.
"Charges against the Trump Organization seem like a way of addressing through one path what you might not be able to address through a different path," Sandick agreed.
"You have the fraudulent contract with Cohen. And then you have the fact that they used corporate money to reimburse a campaign contribution. So that looks like a couple different crimes to me. That's one thing you could do is you could indict the Trump Organization and possibly the unnamed executive, and then in that indictment you just make all of the facts public and you name the president as an unindicted co-conspirator."
What may be tricky is figuring out what part of the Trump Organization to charge, since it's composed of many different entities operating under a single name.
On the other hand, it's unclear how many employees the Trump Organization has, and thus could be affected, since much of their work seems to be in the area of licensing the Trump name, according to Sandick.
https://news.yahoo.com/unable-indict-president-manhattan-federal-prosecutors-may-focus-trump-organization-100041480.html
Federal investigations such as Southern District's are secret, and any discussion of who future targets might be is necessarily speculative, but the charging documents from that office contain some strong hints that the Trump Organization and its executives could be the targets.
A reimbursement of campaign expenses by a private company alone could have put the Trump Organization in jeopardy, as private businesses are forbidden from contributing to campaigns.
"Charges against the Trump Organization seem like a way of addressing through one path what you might not be able to address through a different path," Sandick agreed.
"You have the fraudulent contract with Cohen. And then you have the fact that they used corporate money to reimburse a campaign contribution. So that looks like a couple different crimes to me. That's one thing you could do is you could indict the Trump Organization and possibly the unnamed executive, and then in that indictment you just make all of the facts public and you name the president as an unindicted co-conspirator."
What may be tricky is figuring out what part of the Trump Organization to charge, since it's composed of many different entities operating under a single name.
On the other hand, it's unclear how many employees the Trump Organization has, and thus could be affected, since much of their work seems to be in the area of licensing the Trump name, according to Sandick.
https://news.yahoo.com/unable-indict-president-manhattan-federal-prosecutors-may-focus-trump-organization-100041480.html
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