A bombshell report revealed Monday that under the first Trump administration, the FBI appeared to have issued a “stand down” order to New York Police Department investigators regarding their criminal probe into Jeffrey Epstein, an order that came just five days after the disgraced financier’s arrest in 2019.
The existence of the supposed directive was revealed by law professor and legal scholar Ryan Goodman, who found it buried within the Justice Department’s recent release of around 3.5 million files on Epstein.
“The directive applied to NYPD’s Special Victims Unit – the group specially trained and equipped to handle sex crimes and child abuse cases,” Goodman wrote in a report published Monday in Just Security, a non-partisan law and policy journal.
Can the FBI order the NYPD to stand down? Do they have to follow the order?
Because if that’s true I’m going to have to go back and see if Biden’s DOJ actually DID witch hunt Trump. I was under the assumption that his felony convictions were brought by the state of New York, through a grand jury of actual people and the convictions were rendered by a jury of actual people and that it was ALL New York. No federal government involved. Can anyone comment on that?
Why would Biden go after Trump? I can’t think of any motivation.
Every accusation…
I have no idea. It’s Trump what do you expect? He’s the most beloved person in the world who is simultaneously the most victimized.
Anyway, my question was more about CAN the federal government force this or is it more of a professional courtesy kind of a thing?