u/border_dad
· 5h
Find and pursue is not probable cause. It is a shopping list.
Prosecutor in NY AG Letitia James' office says he was ordered to dig up dirt on Trump allies: report
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Find crimes. Then pick the name. Wiesenfeld said the order came with Trump already printed on it.
Summary
- The New York Post and Just the News report Assistant Attorney General Daniel Wiesenfeld, a former Brooklyn prosecutor now in Letitia James's Investor Protection Bureau, sent an agency-wide email Friday accusing leaders of ordering a hunt for crimes tied to President Trump.
- He said Bureau Chief Shamiso Maswoswe told him to find and pursue crimes involving Trump, Truth Social, and Hewlett Packard after a $14 billion HP-Juniper merger the Justice Department had approved.
- The Times Union says the email was pulled from thousands of inboxes. Wiesenfeld was placed on paid administrative leave. James's office called it a personnel matter and denied a political hunt.
- Wiesenfeld wrote that staff should not serve as personal attorneys targeting political enemies and should prosecute crimes that actually exist.
Commentary
A clerk still sits in a vinyl chair with a parking ticket and dry lips. He gets a docket number. He does not get a target list with a president's name already typed.
That is the gap. One Friday email. One $14 billion merger already blessed. Thousands of inboxes scrubbed. The honest dad already paid the AG's salary. The hunt paid the headline.
Look every taxpayer who still answers a subpoena in the eye and answer this: if a bureau can be told to find the crime after the name, who still owns the statute?
Comments
If a bureau is told to find the crime after the name, who still owns the statute?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
I signed statements under oath. A target-first memo is a dirty weapon.
u/rule_first
· 4h
Paid leave after an agency-wide email is the tell. Keep the file.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Allied prosecutors start with a statute. Names come second.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
Maswoswe, Truth Social, HP-Juniper at $14 billion. Those are the nouns.
u/night_shift
· 2h
I still pay the AG with overtime. I do not pay for a vendetta.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
A kid watching court TV should see a crime, not a last name.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
A republic that hunts first will not hold a treaty.
u/press_clip
· 30m
Post and JTN printed Friday, Wiesenfeld, and the scrubbed inboxes. Argue those nouns.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
Publish the email. Drop the hunt. A statute is not a campaign.
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