A vote by the grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump on whether or not to indict him likely won't come until late April at the earliest.
Former President Donald Trump speaks with reporters on his plane after a campaign rally at Waco Regional Airport in Texas, March 25, 2023. is scheduled to consider other matters next week before taking a previously scheduled two-week hiatus, a person familiar with the matter said Wednesday. That means a vote on whether or not to indict the former president likely wouldn’t come until late April at the earliest.
In a statement released through a lawyer, Trump said: “I HAVE GAINED SO MUCH RESPECT FOR THIS GRAND JURY.” The district attorney’s office is legally prohibited from publicly discussing the grand jury process, but witnesses and their attorneys aren’t bound by the same secrecy rules, and some have spoken out. On March 20, the grand jury heard from a witness favorable to Trump.
“Even in a situation where there’s an investigative grand jury, usually the prosecutor doesn’t start the process until they’re ready to move forward with it,” said Klein, a former public defender in Manhattan. In general, he said, prosecutors like to keep proceeding steadily so that grand jurors don’t lose the thread of what they’ve heard, or speculate about why there are hiatuses.
Trump’s former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen, who has testified as a key prosecution witness, paid porn actress Stormy Daniels $130,000 through a shell company he set up and was then reimbursed by Trump, whose company logged the reimbursements as legal expenses. If the Manhattan grand jury’s schedule holds, that panel wouldn’t return to the Trump matter until April 24. That’s five days after Trump’s longtime finance chief Allen Weisselberg is slated to be released from jail for his role in a unrelated tax fraud scheme involving fringe benefits from Trump’s company.
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