DOJ’s Slush Fund May Cost Todd Blanche the Attorney General’s Office

The Counsel

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News, Politics

4.7 • 861 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2026

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Elie Honig is a former Assistant U.S. Attorney and co-chief of the organized crime unit at the Southern District of New York, where he prosecuted more than 100 mobsters, including members of La Cosa Nostra, and the Gambino and Genovese crime families. He went on to serve as Director of the Department of Law and Public Safety at New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice. He is currently Special Counsel at Lowenstein Sandler and a CNN legal analyst. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Some follow the noise.
0:03.3	Bloomberg follows the money.
0:05.4	Because behind every headline is a bottom line.
0:09.3	Whether it's the funds-fueling AI or crypto's trillion-dollar swings,
0:13.8	there's a money-side to every story.
0:16.5	And when you see the money-side, you understand what others miss.
0:22.3	Get the money-side of the story., you understand what others miss. Get the money side of the story.
0:25.3	Subscribe now at Bloomberg.com.
0:31.9	Hey, everyone, Ellie here wishing you a happy Wednesday.
0:41.5	So in just a few days on May 31st, we will hit an anniversary, the two-year anniversary of a big legal event that happened, May 31st, 2024.
0:44.7	Does anyone remember what that is?
0:46.3	Take a second.
0:46.9	We'll turn it into a little trivia.
0:49.2	I'll let you think about it.
0:50.5	I'll give you a hint.
0:52.0	This was an event.
0:53.3	This was happening in the news that we
0:55.1	covered intensely here at Cafe and in this podcast and certainly on air on CNN. And it still has
1:02.8	reverberations today. The answer, of course, is that is the day that Donald Trump was convicted,
1:08.2	was found guilty by a jury in the New York State
1:11.3	hush money prosecution, May 31st, 2024. I'll always remember the moment because for the,
1:17.1	however long it was, four, five, six weeks leading up to the verdict, I was involved in our
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