CAITLIN OCHS
Rightwing provocateur Steve Bannon turned himself in Thursday morning to the Manhattan district lawyer's workplace, the place he's anticipated to face felony costs of monetary fraud.
Native prosecutors try to nail him for crimes that former President Donald Trump had already pardoned. Nonetheless, that presidential Get Out of Jail card solely utilized to a earlier federal case that needed to be dropped. The DA operates at a state degree and doesn’t must abide by that pardon.
Bannon should flip over his passport and is scheduled to be arraigned at 2:30 p.m., based on a supply aware of the case. That individual stated the DA’s case is being dealt with by two prosecutors within the workplace’s financial crimes bureau: assistant district attorneys Daniel Passeser and Michael Frantel.
The U.S. Structure ensures that an individual can't be prosecuted twice for a similar crime, an idea referred to as “double jeopardy.” Nonetheless, New Yorkers fed up with rampant corruption throughout the Trump administration sought to create a loophole of kinds in 2019, permitting the state to pursue felony costs on an area degree that weren’t being addressed on the federal one.
The Manhattan DA’s workplace has taken the identical method with different Trump World associates. Final 12 months, it introduced a felony cyberstalking case towards one other one that’d beforehand acquired a Trump pardon: Ken Kurson, a former newspaper editor who’s shut with Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Earlier this 12 months, Kurson took a plea deal for unlawfully spying on his ex-wife.