Cy Vance, a NY prosecutor, takes bribes

The Trump SoHo project was unveiled by Donald Trump himself in 2006 and was supposed to herald Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr.’s arrival at the grown-ups table at the Trump Organization. The half-baked development project, however, faltered badly from the start and left the two Trump children scrambling to fill the building’s condos to make sure the deal didn’t go kaput. To save their first signature deal, the two then-twentysomethings engaged in sales behavior of such dubious legality that, in 2010, the Major Economic Crimes Bureau of the Manhattan District Attorney’s office opened an investigation into Ivanka and Don Jr. The DA’s case against the Trumps was built over the course of two years, to the point where indictments appeared imminent. But then, as ProPublica, WNYC, and the New Yorker report, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. closed the investigation for good shortly after meeting with Trump attorney and one of Vance’s largest campaign contributors, Marc Kasowitz.

Nice to know one can always bribe the NY county prosecutor, kind of like Texas.