Donald Trump simply employed one of many nation’s high trial attorneys, Joe Tacopina, to go after a former Manhattan prosecutor for allegedly defaming him, TMZ has realized.
In his first order of biz as 45’s new authorized eagle, Tacopina fired off a letter Monday to lawyer Mark Pomerantz, claiming Pomerantz falsely acknowledged Trump was “responsible of quite a few felony violations” and that it was a “grave failure of justice to not maintain [Trump] accountable by the use of prison prosecution.”
Pomerantz’s statements appeared in his 2022 resignation letter to Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg, which Tacopina says was later leaked to the New York Occasions.
In his letter, Tacopina’s notably incensed Pomerantz is about to publish a ebook, “The Individuals vs. Donald Trump,” which, Joe believes, will comprise much more libelous remarks about DT.
That is why Tacopina’s issuing a authorized risk to Pomerantz, writing … “I strongly admonish you to take these subsequent phrases critically: When you publish such a ebook and proceed making defamatory statements in opposition to my shopper, my workplace will aggressively pursue all authorized treatments in opposition to you and your ebook writer, Simon & Schuster.”
Tacopina added, “Belief me, I’ll zealously use each attainable authorized useful resource to punish you and your writer for the unimaginable monetary hurt that you’ve got induced my purchasers to undergo.”
As we reported, the Manhattan D.A. has performed an ongoing 2-year probe into the Trump Group’s enterprise practices.
Pomerantz was one of many senior prosecutors on the case earlier than he resigned, allegedly after Bragg would not let him pursue a prison indictment in opposition to Trump.
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Up to now, Bragg’s investigation has led to the latest conviction of Allen Weisselberg, former CFO of the Trump Group who pled responsible and was sentenced to five months behind bars for varied monetary crimes.
Bragg has expressed concern Pomerantz’s upcoming ebook might derail his investigation into the forty fifth president, who introduced his 2024 run for the White Home in November. Tacopina says within the letter Trump is main all potential candidates in the latest polls.
We have reached out to Pomerantz for remark … to this point no phrase again.