People vs. Donald Trump

An Inside Account

Mark Pomerantz, To Be Confirmed Simon & Schuster

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9781398526426
• eBook ISBN:
  9781398526440
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: Law Biographies
• Index: Law

A fascinating inside account of the attempt to prosecute former US president Donald Trump.
 
Mark Pomerantz was a retired lawyer living a calm suburban life when he accepted an offer to join the staff of the district attorney of New York County in February 2021. His brief: to work on the investigation of former president Donald Trump and the Trump Organisation.
 
Over the next year, Pomerantz interviewed potential witnesses, scrutinised financial records and learned everything he could about Trump’s business practices. He finally gathered enough evidence to support the view—held by many of his colleagues on the case—that Trump should be indicted for a number of financial crimes. But that indictment never happened. This book explains why.
 
In People vs. Donald Trump, Pomerantz tells the story of his unprecedented investigation, why he and his colleague Carey Dunne resigned in protest when Manhattan’s district attorney refused to act, and why he believes Donald Trump should be prosecuted. He draws from a lifetime of legal experience to tell a devastating and frequently entertaining story of how prosecutors think, how criminals act, and how the American justice system works—and sometimes doesn’t work. It is a cautionary tale that explores how Trump manages to dance between the raindrops of accountability, and how others might bring him to justice.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Introduction
• Chapter One: Outside Counsel
• Chapter Two: Sworn In
• Chapter Three: The “Zombie” Case
• Chapter Four: Meeting Michael Cohen
• Chapter Five: The “Zombie” Case Returns to the Grave
• Chapter Six: SCOTUS Speaks at Last
• Chapter Seven: Working with the Attorney General
• Chapter Eight: Allen Weisselberg’s Free Apartment
• Chapter Nine: Diving into the Financial Statements
• Chapter Ten: Cy Vance Will Not Run for Reelection
• Chapter Eleven: Enterprise Corruption
• Chapter Twelve: Eureka!
• Chapter Thirteen: Indictment
• Chapter Fourteen: Boiling the Ocean
• Chapter Fifteen: Moving Toward a Decision
• Chapter Sixteen: The “Summit Meeting” and Cy’s Decision
• Chapter Seventeen: Friction and Difficulty
• Chapter Eighteen: The Looming End of the Investigation
• Chapter Nineteen: A “Little Piece of Justice”
• Chapter Twenty: “Hail Mary” Pass
• Chapter Twenty-One: Leaving DANY
• Chapter Twenty-Two: What Happened?
• Chapter Twenty-Three: Now What?
• Author’s Note
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Notes and References
• Index
• Copyright