Southern District of NY remains on the case, despite Mueller investigation's end.
In what was known as the Mafia Commission Trial, which ran for most of 1985 and 1986, Giuliani indicted the heads of New York's"Five Families" under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. Giuliani's efforts led to the imprisonment of bosses of the Genovese, Colombo, Lucchese, Bonanno and Gambino crime families.
Comey, who served as the Manhattan U.S. attorney briefly in the early years of then-President George W. Bush's administration, is perhaps best remembered for prosecuting Martha Stewart for securities fraud and obstruction of justice as a result of a stock trading scandal. But also prominent was his, the founder of now-defunct cable giant Adelphia Communications Corp., for bank, wire and securities fraud.
More recently, under former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who was fired by Trump along with dozens of other U.S. attorneys early in his presidency, the office prosecuted New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on public corruption charges. He was initially sentenced to 12 years in prison and ordered to pay out more than $7 million in forfeiture and fines.
The office's distinguished history gives it"a kind of street credit in the prosecution world that does give them some sense of independence from the Department of Justice," said Roland Riopelle, a former assistant U.S. attorney in the office. In addition to its prosecution of Cohen for a litany of crimes — including a pair of campaign-finance violations for hush payments he says he made to two women at Trump's direction shortly before the 2016 election to keep them from talking about alleged affairs with the then-presidential candidate that Trump has denied — the office is probing the Trump Organization and Trump's
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