Recall: it was the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the SDNY that originally put the screws to Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen. That investigation is ongoing and all indications are that Cohen has been singing like a bird in a Merry Melodies cartoon.
Additional Trump-affiliated marks have been made into juridical hay by the SDNY through grants of immunity.
At the top of the list is Allen Weisselberg, the Trump Organization’s chief financial officer and the treasurer of the Trump Foundation. Just further down is David Pecker, the CEO of American Media, the company that controls the National Enquirer–as well as Dylan Howard, American Media’s chief content officer.
In sum, several shoes have fallen and a probably exponential number of secrets have been spilled related to the Trump family’s business dealings because of the work done by the SDNY’s investigators.
Now that Whitaker will be in charge of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), however, the SDNY’s investigations–and all they’ve uncovered over the past two years–hang in the easily-ruptured balance of whether the dogged Trump loyalist considers them prudent at all.