NEW YORK — One year ago this week, the Manhattan district attorney’s investigation into Donald Trump appeared to be dead in the water. The two leaders of the investigation had recently resigned after the new district attorney, Alvin Bragg, decided not to charge Trump at that point. Amid a fierce backlash to his decision — and a brutal start to his tenure — Bragg insisted that the investigation was not over. But a disbelieving media questioned why, if the effort was still moving forward, there we
Carey Dunne, a senior prosecutor who resigned in 2022 after Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg halted the grand jury presentation of the case against former President Donald Trump, outside court in Manhattan, Sept. 25, 2019.
For a time, their efforts were haphazard as they examined a wide range of Trump’s business practices, including whether he had lied about his net worth, which was the focus of the investigation when Bragg had declined to seek an indictment. But by last July, Bragg had decided to assign several additional prosecutors to pursue one particular strand that struck him as promising: a hush-money payment made on Trump’s behalf to a porn star during the final days of the 2016 presidential campaign.
The case has also exposed the district attorney to a wave of hostile and racist rhetoric from the former president and his supporters. Bragg, a career prosecutor, has received vivid death threats, including one that was mailed to the office last week. In a series of meetings early last year, Pomerantz and Dunne tried to convince Bragg that the case, which had been developed under Bragg’s predecessor, Cyrus Vance Jr., was solid. Bragg and his aides remained unconvinced, and soon after the district attorney decided to halt the grand jury presentation, Pomerantz and Dunne resigned.
Bragg and two of his office’s leaders — the head of investigations, Susan Hoffinger, and another top aide, Peter Pope — were not yet clear on a game plan. They issued a smattering of subpoenas and questioned some witnesses but did not appear to gain much traction. Kim Foxx, the state’s attorney in Cook County, Illinois, who is friendly with Bragg, said that prosecutors running for office are at a natural disadvantage when it comes to the cases they inherit.
In July, Bragg built up the Trump team, a sign of his growing confidence. Catherine McCaw, who had garnered attention for her role in the prosecution of Anna Sorokin, the con woman better known as Anna Delvey, joined. So did Rebecca Mangold and Katherine Ellis, prosecutors in the office’s Major Economic Crimes Bureau.
While Hoffinger and Steinglass were focused on the trial, Conroy continued to examine the legal theories underpinning the hush-money case. A chief skeptic of the previous Trump investigation, he was pushing the hush money one forward. At a meeting in their office in lower Manhattan — the same building where the new grand jury would soon start to meet — the prosecutors told him they wanted to start fresh, and Cohen was amenable.
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