The Times Union reports that a prosecutor in the New York attorney general’s office sent an agency-wide email to hundreds of colleagues Friday. In it, he claims that he had been instructed by his supervisor “to find and pursue crimes committed by specific individuals and organizations affiliated with Donald Trump,” according to a copy of the email obtained by the Times Union.
The prosecutor claimed his bureau chief, Shamiso Maswoswe, had directed him to target “Trump himself, Truth Social, Hewlett Packard (DOJ-approved merger) … without having a credible reason for targeting these organizations and individuals.”
Daniel Wiesenfeld, a former Brooklyn prosecutor who now works in James’ Investor Protection Bureau, said his boss instructed him “to find and pursue crimes” committed by Trump allies, according to a since-deleted email obtained by the Times-Union.
This is exactly what Lavrentiy Beria did for Stalin. Show me the man, and I’ll show you the crime.
This is Stalinism if true.
Bureau Chief Maswoswe
Wiesenfeld alleged in his email on Friday that Bureau Chief Shamiso Maswoswe specifically directed him to target “Trump himself, Truth Social, Hewlett Packard (DOJ-approved merger)… without having a credible reason for targeting the organizations and individuals,” the outlet reported.
The feds recently approved a $14 billion merger between Hewlett-Packard and Juniper Networks.
“I ask you that you not serve as Tish’s personal attorneys by targeting her political enemies,” he allegedly wrote. “Instead, I hope you choose to prosecute crimes and find the individuals accountable, rather than targeting individuals and then finding crimes.”
Weisenfeld asked that colleagues focus on prosecuting “rampant nonprofit homeless shelter fraud and antisemitic crimes in and around synagogues,” and accused James of wasting “significant public taxpayer dollars to target convenient public enemies,” Times-Union reported.
HOLY CRAP
Prosecutor in NY AG Letitia James’ office, says he was ordered by his boss Bureau Chief Shamiso Maswoswe to target Trump and groups associated with Trump, according to an email obtained by the Times-Union pic.twitter.com/0jbKAkpa1q
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