{"id":28219,"date":"2024-06-09T02:25:05","date_gmt":"2024-06-09T07:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=28219"},"modified":"2024-06-09T02:25:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T07:25:11","slug":"manhattan-da-agrees-to-testify-in-congress-but-likely-not-until-trump-is-sentenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=28219","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan DA agrees to testify in Congress, but likely not until Trump is sentenced"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg<\/a> agreed Friday to testify before what’s likely to be a hostile, Republican-controlled congressional subcommittee, but likely not until after former President Donald Trump<\/a> is sentenced in July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The House Judiciary Committee chairman, U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, wrote Bragg in late May after Trump’s conviction in his hush money trial<\/a>, accusing him of having conducted a \u201cpolitical prosecution\u201d and requesting his testimony at a hearing June 13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a reply letter, the Manhattan district attorney’s general counsel, Leslie Dubeck, said the prosecutor’s office was \u201ccommitted to voluntary cooperation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That cooperation, it added, including making Bragg, a Democrat, available to testify \u201cat an agreed-upon date.\u201d But the letter said the date picked by Jordan presented \u201cpresents various scheduling conflicts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It noted that the Trump prosecution is not yet finished. Trump, who was convicted of falsifying records to cover up hush money paid to a porn actor during the 2016 presidential campaign, is scheduled to be sentenced July 11<\/a>. Before then, prosecutors will be making recommendations to a judge about what kind of punishment Trump deserves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe trial court and reviewing appellate courts have issued numerous orders for the purpose of protecting the fair administration of justice in People v. Trump, and to participate in a public hearing at this time would be potentially detrimental to those efforts,\u201d the letter said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bragg’s office asked for an opportunity to discuss an alternative date with the subcommittee and get more information about \u201cthe scope and purpose of the proposed hearing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jordan has also asked for testimony from Matthew Colangelo, one of the lead prosecutors in the Trump case. Bragg’s office didn’t rule that out, but said in the letter that it would \u201cevaluate the propriety\u201d of allowing an assistant district attorney to testify publicly about an active prosecution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jordan, an Ohio Republican, has proposed withholding federal funding from any entity that attempts to prosecute a former president. He has also railed against what he’s described as the \u201cweaponization of the federal government.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His committee successfully battled before to get a deposition from one former prosecutor who worked on Trump’s case, Mark Pomerantz, over Bragg\u2019s initial objections. That deposition, however, yielded little, with Pomerantz declining to answer many questions on the grounds that doing so could potentially open him up to a criminal prosecution for disclosing secret grand jury testimony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg agreed Friday to testify before what’s likely to be a hostile, Republican-controlled congressional subcommittee, but likely not until after former President Donald Trump is sentenced in July. The House Judiciary Committee chairman, U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, wrote Bragg in late May after Trump’s conviction in his hush money trial, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[28918],"class_list":["post-28219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-manhattan-prosecutors-agree-to-testify-before-congress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28221,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28219\/revisions\/28221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}