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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums🤬 CY VANCE was the DA in Robert Hadden's 2014 Sexual Assault Plea Deal
(Or, yet another reason why I don't trust Manhattan Judge Cy Vance to handle Trump's tax return case)
Four sexual assault victims say Cy Vance spared pervy Columbia doctor jail time due to campaign donations
By STEPHEN REX BROWN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
OCT 22, 2017
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nydailynews.com/new-york/sex-assault-victims-da-spared-doctor-jail-due-donations-article-1.3581481%3foutputType=amp
Robert Hadden, the gynecologist accused of sexually abusing patients, accepted a plea deal and avoided jail time.
For over a year, four women struggled to understand why a demented Columbia University gynecologist was allowed to plead guilty to assaulting only some of them without serving any jail time.
Now, following questions about Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr.'s investigations into the Trump SoHo development and Harvey Weinstein, they think they know why: They believe the prosecutor was compromised by campaign donations.
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Hadden was represented by Isabelle Kirshner, whose firm and partners have donated $42,000 to Vance since 2008. Kirshner, of Clayman & Rosenberg, donated $250 the same day she submitted a motion opposing the prosecutors' plan to use evidence from patients whose assaults fell outside the statute of limitations, CBS News reported Saturday.
She also donated $1,000 to Vance two months after Hadden was sentenced.
MORE.....
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This is a prior part of the story today of Evelyn Yang's outing of Robert Hadden.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/09/09/us/columbia-university-ob-gyn-robert-hadden/index.html
SEPT 9, 2020
New York gynecologist charged with six federal sex abuse counts
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CY VANCE IS Corruptable.
In Hadden, Trump Soho, & Weinstein cases, Vance's past failure to prosecute Jared & Ivanka leaves me doubtful that he will fairly handle any upcoming tax case of Donald Trump.
The State should ask for Trump's tax case be given to another Judge.
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🤬 CY VANCE was the DA in Robert Hadden's 2014 Sexual Assault Plea Deal (Original Post)
Budi
Sep 2020
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In 2017, D.A. Vance ovrruled his staff after a visit from a top donor: Trump attorney Marc Kasowitz.
Budi
Sep 2020
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Budi
(15,325 posts)1. In 2017, D.A. Vance ovrruled his staff after a visit from a top donor: Trump attorney Marc Kasowitz.
Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. Were Close to Being Charged With Felony Fraud
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.propublica.org/article/ivanka-donald-trump-jr-close-to-being-charged-felony-fraud/amp
2017
New York prosecutors were preparing a case. Then the D.A. overruled his staff after a visit from a top donor: Trump attorney Marc Kasowitz.
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There was no doubt that the Trump children approved, knew of, agreed to, and intentionally inflated the numbers to make more sales, one person who saw the emails told us. They knew it was wrong.
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In 2010, when the Major Economic Crimes Bureau of the D.A.s office opened an investigation of the siblings, the Trump Organization had hired several top New York criminal defense lawyers to represent Donald Jr. and Ivanka
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...But in 2012, Kasowitz donated $25,000 to the reelection campaign of Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., making Kasowitz one of Vances largest donors. Kasowitz decided to bypass the lower level prosecutors and went directly to Vance to ask that the investigation be dropped.
MORE....
CY VANCE should recuse from any case against Trump & frankly, should be fired.
still_one
(92,187 posts)2. Vance jr. needs tp be replaced. He should not be the person investigating trump's tax returns.
Vance cannot be trusted to do his job
Budi
(15,325 posts)3. Exactly. He's accepted bribes for leniency (so it appears) & to hand him....
..another opportunity to muck up Trump's tax case is infuriating.
Hadden, Trump Soho & Weinstein cases were his & he dropped the ball on all of those big ones.
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