A New York state prosecutor charges a former close associate of Jared Kushner with cyberstalking less than a year after fmr. President Trump gave him a federal pardon for related alleged offenses.
Federal prosecutors said in a statement at the time that"Kurson used multiple aliases to file false complaints about two of the victims with their employer, post false negative reviews about one victim's professional conduct on crowd-sourced review websites and made unsolicited contact with two of the victims."J. Grassi / Patrick McMullan via Getty ImagesTrump pardonedThe president's pardon power, however, does not extend to state crimes.
In a statement Wednesday, Vance said,"We will not accept presidential pardons as get-out-of-jail-free cards for the well-connected in New York," adding,"Kurson launched a campaign of cybercrime, manipulation, and abuse from his perch at the New York Observer and now the people of New York will hold him accountable."Jan.
At the time of the federal charges, Kurson's attorney, Marc Mukasey, said,"The conduct alleged is hardly worthy of a federal criminal prosecution." Mukasey confirmed Wednesday that he is representing Kurson in the state case but said he is not commenting at this time.Tom Winter is a New York-based correspondent covering crime, courts, terrorism and financial fraud on the East Coast for the NBC News Investigative Unit.
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