Southern District of New York doesn't 'care about politics,' Preet Bharara says.
It was investigators in the Southern District of New York who prosecuted Trump's former longtime attorney Michael Cohen for a litany of crimes — including a pair of campaign-finance violations for hush payments he says he made to two women at Trump's direction shortly before the 2016 election to keep them from talking about alleged affairs with the then-presidential candidate. Trump has denied having any affairs.
Bharara, who was fired along with dozens of U.S. attorneys near the start of Trump's term despite the president earlier telling him he could stay in his position, also defended his office from Republican criticism surrounding its Trump-related investigations. Last week, Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDanielthat the latest SDNY probe was an"example of blue-state liberal prosecutors carrying out their vendetta against" Trump.
"The Southern District of New York has a lot of people in it whose mission is only to find crime, be able to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt if it's in the interest of justice to do it, and they're very aggressive, and they're very fearless and they're very independent," Bharara said."They don't care about politics. When I was there, we prosecuted Democrats and Republicans and it didn't matter who they were affiliated with.
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican former federal prosecutor, told ABC News during Cohen's hearing before the House Oversight Committee late last month that Cohen's cooperation with the office"would send a chill up my spine" if he worked at the White House.that late last year, Trump asked then-acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker whether Geoffrey Berman, the Trump-appointed U.S.
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