Fox News Digital was informed by a reliable source that the committee may request the appearance of Bragg, Mark Pomerantz, and Carey Dunne.
After the unprecedented indictment of former President Trump, the House Judiciary Committee is “seriously considering” issuing subpoenas for Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg and two prosecutors who left his team last year to testify before Congress, according to a source who spoke with Fox News Digital about the situation.
On Tuesday afternoon in Lower Manhattan Criminal Court, Trump entered a not guilty plea to 34 charges of first-degree forgery related to business documents. “Hush money,” as it is commonly known, was allegedly paid to potential witnesses in order to silence them before the 2016 presidential election.
Ohio Republican and House Oversight Committee head Jim Jordan has been pressing Bragg and his staff for information since last week. Bragg was summoned to appear before Congress days before a former President of the United States was indicted and imprisoned for the first time in American history.
The House Judiciary Committee is “seriously” contemplating issuing subpoenas for Bragg and the two former lawyers, Mark Pomerantz and Carey Dunne, to appear before the committee, according to a source who spoke with Fox News Digital on Wednesday night.
Pomerantz claimed in a letter from last year that the probe into Trump would be placed on hold “forever” after Bragg took office as district attorney in January 2022.
The inquiry was led by Bragg, who had succeeded Cyrus Vance as Manhattan’s district attorney. After Bragg expressed uncertainty about filing charges against Trump in February 2022, Pomerantz and Dunne decided to leave the firm.
After Pomerantz left, he published a tell-all novel about the ongoing probe. It seemed like there was evidence in the novel to support a case against Trump.
Pomerantz was formerly an of counsel at the New York company Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison before joining the Manhattan District Attorney’s office. He left his previous position a year ago to join Vance’s group and assist in their investigation of Trump’s finances.
The firm employs Robert Schumer. He is Chuck Schumer’s sibling, the Senate’s majority leader. Pomerantz supported Hillary Clinton for POTUS in 2016.
Dunne was the district attorney’s office’s chief counsel before taking over the Trump probe. He took his case to the Supreme Court and won, allowing him to see Trump’s tax returns.
There has been discussion of subpoenaing Bragg, Pomerantz, and Dunne to appear after Trump’s unprecedented confessions and arrest in front of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.
On Tuesday, during Trump’s hearing before interim trial judge Juan Merchan, the accusation was read aloud in court. Trump faces 34 charges of grand larceny for allegedly stealing business documents from the New York State Supreme Court.
According to Bragg’s claims made during the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump “repeatedly and fraudulently falsified New York business records to hide criminal behavior that kept damaging information from voters.”
If convicted, the former US president and present GOP frontrunner for the 2024 presidential election faces a maximum sentence of 136 years in prison.
Trump was cleared of wrongdoing in 2019 by prosecutors in New York’s Southern District, who had been considering filing charges related to his payouts to adult film actress Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal. The Federal Election Commission will no longer investigate this matter after the year 2021.
The court has stated his desire for a speedy resolution to the matter. The lawsuit is scheduled to return to the same Lower Manhattan court on December 4, 2023.
The government is pushing for a January 2024 trial start date, right in the middle of the Republican presidential elections. Trump’s legal team is doing everything it can to delay that day.
According to Trump, who has requested a review of the DA, the probe and accusations amount to “political persecution and election interference at the highest level in history.”