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The future of the criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump was thrown into question after the two prosecutors in charge resigned.

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The future of the Manhattan district attorney's criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump and his business dealings was thrown into question Wednesday when the two prosecutors in charge of the probe resigned.

Carey Dunne and Mark Pomerantz, the top two deputy district attorneys, resigned from their positions. Bragg asked them to stay when he took office in January, after they started on the Trump probe.

The office's former general counsel, Dunne, argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in a successful fight for Trump's tax records. Last year, Pomerantz was brought out of private practice to add his expertise in white collar investigations and had been involved in questioning witnesses before the grand jury.

Bragg spokesman Danielle Filson said they were grateful for their service. She said the investigation is ongoing.

According to the New York Times, the grand jury investigation had stopped with no sessions in the last month and that Dunne and Pomerantz quit after Bragg raised doubts about pursuing a case against Trump himself. No former president has been charged with a crime.

The nearly three-year investigation has only resulted in tax fraud charges against the Trump Organization and its finance chief, Allen Weisselberg, relating to lucrative fringe benefits such as rent, car payments and school tuition.

Messages were left for Dunne and Pomerantz.

The news was not immediately responded to by Trump. In a telephone interview, his lawyer said he was a happy man. I think the investigation is over.

The lawyer said it appeared that the D.A. had reviewed the case and signaled to his deputies he was not inclined to pursue an indictment.

The client has done nothing wrong, according to Fischetti.

The exit of a witness in the Trump case signals major issues with the investigation, according to a former Manhattan prosecutor.

An enormous amount of resources have gone into this investigation and its future is uncertain.

The resignations were likely to embolden Trump, a Republican who continues to tease another run for president in 2024, after several recent legal setbacks. Trump has railed against the New York probes as baseless and politically motivated, saying in a statement last week that Democratic prosecutors were spending historic amounts of time, energy and money trying to get Trump.

Legal challenges continue for Trump. A judge in New York ordered him to testify under oath in a parallel civil investigation focused on whether his company misrepresented asset values.

The investigation is ongoing and there is a robust team working on it, according to the office of the New York Attorney General.

The January 6 committee is continuing to investigate the insurrection, what role Trump played in inciting it, and whether he broke the law by trying to pressure state officials to throw out President Joe Biden's reelection victory. A special grand jury is expected to be seated in May and work for up to a year.

The Manhattan D.A.'s office began investigating Trump in the first half of the year, first looking at hush money paid to women on his behalf, and then looking into whether the president's company misled tax authorities about the value of its properties.

Bragg said he was proud of the continuity that Dunne and Pomerantz had brought in running the high-profile investigation as he took over the D.A.'s office from Vance, who declined to run for reelection after winning the battle over Trump.

Bragg said in a January 20 question-and-answer session that he thought the one continuity was the staffing.

They have been dedicated and we have been thinking about the kind of resources to continue the investigation in order to make decisions on the direction.

Bragg, limited by ethics rules from discussing the case in detail, said at the time that he was getting up to speed on the Trump investigation and that he would follow the facts.

Bragg said that it was a matter that he was aware of and paying attention to.

Weisselberg pleaded not guilty to charges that he collected and failed to pay taxes on more than 1.7 million off-the-books compensation.

Lawyers for Weisselberg and the Trump Organization filed papers to throw out the case. Weisselberg's lawyers argued that the D.A.'s office was targeting him because he wouldn't flip on the former president.

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Jim Mustian is a reporter for the Associated Press in New York.

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