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Mimi Rocah

Mimi Rocah is a distinguished criminal justice fellow at Pace University Law School and previously served as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2001 to 2017.

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PUT HIM UNDER OATH

Acosta’s Epstein Excuses Are Nonsensical and Self-Serving

Three former prosecutors break down the labor secretary’s explanation of the cushy plea deal he cut.

Mimi Rocah

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ELUSIVE JUSTICE

Jeffrey Epstein Shouldn’t Expect to Wriggle Free Again

Feds in Florida cut an infamous sweetheart deal with the confessed billionaire sex predator. The ‘sovereign’ district of New York isn’t likely to do that.

Mimi Rocah

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NO EXONERATION

If Trump Weren’t President, He Would Already Be Charged

The Mueller Report contains a case against the president as strong as many we saw working as federal prosecutors.

Mimi Rocah

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WHOSE LAWYER?

Barr Looks Like He’s Trying to Protect Trump

The attorney general had neutral ways to relay what the special counsel found. Instead, he’s being coy. It’s hard not to infer bad reasons from how he’s acting.

Mimi Rocah

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FOLLOW THE EVIDENCE

Roger Stone’s Indictment Says Mueller Ain’t Done Yet

Matthew Whitaker says the investigation is ‘close to being completed.’ If true, why did the Special Counsel say so much about the Trump campaign and execute search warrants?

Mimi Rocah

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DUBIOUS HONOR

Trump’s Most Blatant Assault Yet on the Rule of Law

There have been questionable moves before. But the president’s reported lashing-out at his acting attorney general is truly problematic.

Matt Miller

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DANGER ZONE

The Worst Thing Manafort Could Do Is Lie to Mueller

As a cooperator, Trump’s ex-campaign chairman was dangerous to other targets. As a liar, he could be utterly destructive.

Barbara McQuade

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SDNY VS. POTUS

Feds Have Evidence on Trump. Will Whitaker Bury It?

Prosecutors won’t likely charge a sitting president, yet have implicated him in a criminal scheme to pay off Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal. What to do then? Go to Congress.

Mimi Rocah

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KISS THE RING

Trump Is Drawing Rosenstein Into a Loyalty Test

The president frames the deputy attorney general’s future around their ‘relationship,’ not faithfulness to the Constitution. This threatens Mueller, even if his boss isn’t fired.

Mimi Rocah

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BIG FISH

Manafort Is Now Existential Threat to Trump

There’s no other way to put it: the cooperation agreement with the president’s ex-campaign chief is stunning.

Mimi Rocah

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