District Attorney Alvin Bragg had previously cited Cohen’s impaired credibility as a reason for not bringing the case against Trump that his predecessor Cyrus Vance and his deputy, Mark Pomerantz, had wanted to bring (which involved a fraud on banks by overstating Trump’s net worth). [read post]

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National/Federal Biden Transition Elevates Former Facebook Exec as Ethics Arbiter Politico – Alex Thompson and Theodoric Meyer | Published: 10/1/2020 Joe Biden’s transition team named Jessica Hertz, until recently a Facebook executive focused on government regulations, as its general counsel and charged her with navigating conflicts-of-interest and other ethical issues for the Biden administration-in-waiting, a move that drew immediate fire from the left. [read post]