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Hey everyone, Ellie here. Happy Friday. Just want to take a moment to thank you all for your fantastic

support for my new book, Untouchable,

how powerful people get away with it. I've heard from so many of you who've picked it up and read it,

and I love hearing your responses to it. It's very satisfying and it means a lot.

As always, send me your questions, thoughts, or comments to letters atcafe.com. And now here's this week's

note. The headline, according to Mark Pomerantz, should be something like this.

Bold prosecutor was about to nail Trump, but clueless weak-kneed DA killed the case.

Pomerantz, the former federal prosecutor and longtime criminal defense attorney who came out of retirement to work on the Manhattan DA's investigation of Donald Trump's business and finances, has been on a media whirlwind, spinning a tale about how he would have taken down the big guy he really, really woulda, if only the newly elected district attorney, Alvin Bragg,

had let him at it. We need to read past the top banner here. On closer examination,

Pomerant's narrative is a dubious one, riddled with inconsistencies and self-aggrandizing

post hoc bravado. Over the past few weeks, a spate of former prosecutors

and high-profile legal experts from across the ideological spectrum have called Pomerant's

out for his dishonesty and for violating fundamental ethical and practical tenets of prosecution.

I concur. Before we dig in some disclosures, weigh them as you will.

Bragg is a personal friend and a former colleague of mine at the SDNY. I like and deeply respect him.

I don't know, Pomerantz. Before this matter blew up, I'd heard his name kicking around as a defense

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