Trump’s lawyers trolled after subpoenaing Jeremy Rosenberg for secret trial: ‘I’m keeping the $15’

Donald Trump’s lawyers were harassed by a random man in Brooklyn after mistakenly subpoenaing him for the former president’s secret trial.

In a filing Tuesday by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, prosecutors revealed that Mr. Trump’s lawyer, Todd Blanche, attempted to subpoena the former district attorney overseeing the investigator into the racketeer Jeremy Rosenberg in March to seek records related to Republican presidential candidate Michael Cohen’s former lawyer.

However, it turned out that Mr. Blanche had made an embarrassing mistake: sending the subpoena to a Brooklyn man also named Jeremy Rosenberg.

Although the man has the same name as the former prosecutor’s office investigator, he has no connection to the criminal case against the former president.

Following the mistake, Mr. Rosenberg decided to have a little fun with Mr. Trump’s lawyers — and told them he would keep the money they sent him.

“I have no case for you,” the Brooklynite replied, apparently perplexed, according to a filing from the former president’s legal team.

He added: “PS – The phone number you provided has been disconnected.

“PPS, I’m keeping the fifteen dollars,” he added, referring to the money Mr. Trump’s lawyers had sent him to help pay for sending the documents.

Mr. Blanche had complained earlier this week that the man he believed to be former investigator Mr. Rosenberg had shown a “casual and dismissive approach” to his subpoena “despite extensive experience in the criminal justice system that should have instilled in him respect for this process and the rights of a criminal accused.”

But in reality, Mr. Trump’s lawyers simply served court papers on the wrong person, prosecutor Matthew Colangelo wrote.

“People think the defendant served the wrong person,” Mr. Colangelo said in a court filing.

“People spoke with Mr. Rosenberg’s attorney, who informed people that Mr. Rosenberg had not in fact received a subpoena, that Mr. Rosenberg had not corresponded with Mr. Rosenberg’s attorney defense and that Mr. Rosenberg had no connection with the Brooklyn address where the subpoena was allegedly served,” he added.

Mr. Trump is scheduled to go on trial April 15 on charges of falsifying business records to conceal payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels and others to prevent them from going public days before the presidential election. 2016 their alleged affairs.

Mr. Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records, each punishable by up to four years in prison.

It is the first time a U.S. president will face trial and is one of four criminal trials he faces as he campaigns to retake the White House in November.

In recent days, the former president has made several failed attempts to have the charges against him dropped — the latest coming Tuesday when a state appeals court judge rejected his attempt to delay the trial while he fought the gag order in the case.

When the trial begins, Mr. Trump’s lawyers plan to ask Mr. Rosenberg for all records of communications he had with Mr. Cohen from February 2021 to next May.

Mr. Rosenberg, who previously prosecuted Trump ally Steve Bannon, was suspended in June last year as an investigator for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg over his contacts with Mr. .Cohen.

A police source said The New York Post at the time Mr. Bragg’s office was investigating how Mr. Rosenberg shared communications regarding Mr. Cohen with the office.

Mr. Cohen’s lawyer, Lanny J. Davis, insisted that interactions between him, Mr. Rosenberg and Mr. Cohen were “always professional and focused on Mr. Cohen’s personal safety.”