NEW YORK — A lawyer for Donald Trump has called for an independent review of the Manhattan district attorney’s office over its yearslong investigation of the former president, claiming prosecutors there have “weaponized” the office.
Joe Tacopina said in a letter dated Friday, and released Monday, to New York’s Department of Investigation that District Attorney Alvin Bragg, his predecessor Cyrus Vance Jr. and some senior staff had engaged in misconduct in their “patently political prosecution” of Trump.
Among the concerns Tacopina cited is a book by Mark Pomerantz, a former prosecutor with the office who quit last year and published a book criticizing Bragg for not pursuing Trump aggressively enough. The book has “irreparably tainted” the investigation, he said.
