So far this year SDNY, which is now led by former Apollo Global Management chair Jay Clayton, has brought fewer criminal cases than at any time in at least a decade and the pace of its public announcements has slowed significantly.
This account of its operations is based on conversations with more than two dozen current and former SDNY prosecutors, criminal defence lawyers and others affected by its cases, and data analysis by the FT.
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The workings of SDNY are an important window into the functioning of the US judicial system in Trump’s second term. Given the high-profile cases it takes on, SDNY will be a vital test of the level of political interference from the administration into prosecutions.
They also provide a barometer for the enforcement of white-collar crime — an area where SDNY plays a vital international role given how much of global finance flows through its territory.
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Don’t start defending our legal system because trump is making it worse, it was already fucked and needed replaced when Obama was still president.
Like, people know Rudy Ghoulani worked for SDNY 40 years ago…
Right?
He pushed out the Italian mob so the Russians could fill the gap in the Mafia circles. Which led to them owning trump and having him run for president.
We can’t just go back to 2015 and pretend the same thing won’t happen, we need to actually fix how our government works and keep paying attention even when things seem to be going alright
100%. Jackasses at SDNY have been letting rich white collar criminals do whatever the hell they want for years, them saying Trump is turning their office into a joke is like saying Saudi Arabia acquiring EA is going to destroy that company’s respect for artists and really is a leopard’s eating faces moment.