Audrey Strauss, named the No. 2 federal prosecutor in Manhattan at the end of last week, inherits some of the most perilous remaining investigations into Trump now that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation has wrapped up. While Mueller’s 22-month probe delved into the Trump team’s possible
-- President Donald Trump appears to have weathered the Mueller probe. Now he has to contend with the Strauss investigation.
And so the focus of federal Trump investigations shifts north. The prosecution team, known formally as the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York and informally as SDNY, has already secured a guilty plea from Michael Cohen, Trump’s former personal lawyer, as part of a matter that was referred by Mueller’s office. SDNY is now pursuing several other probes of the president’s business and his inaugural committee.
Strauss, 71, worked her way up to a senior position in the office starting in 1976 and left in 1983 to do work related to the Independent Counsel’s Iran Contra probe. She rejoined the office last year as general counsel. In her new post, she will succeed Robert Khuzami, the veteran prosecutor who handled the Cohen case and has a long history of aggressively pursuing complex financial crimes.
SDNY, sometimes called the “sovereign district” for its independent streak, reports to the Justice Department in Washington, but Berman and Khuzami are empowered to take investigative steps and charge people without its approval, according to a person familiar with the matter. Cohen also told Congress that Trump regularly inflated or deflated the value of his assets to build up his public image or to get the best deals on insurance and taxes. He named three executives at the Trump Organization who he said were aware of the scheme, including Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg.
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