When President Donald Trump made claims of Democratic vote-rigging in the Los Angeles election, his top appointed prosecutor in the city took to the cameras to validate those beliefs while hinting his office may never be able prove that kind of grand conspiracy.
The Justice Department has launched no new criminal cases connected to how the city administered last week’s contest, according to a source familiar with the matter, even as the president said on social media last week that such an investigation was underway.
The agency’s leaders have been quick to tout the potential for fraud prosecutions. Front and center in the current media cycle is First Assistant US Attorney Bill Essayli, the Trump appointee leading the Los Angeles US Attorney’s Office.
“We’re doing the work, we are doing the best we can in the circumstances, I expect people will be charged,” Essayli said this week on “The Glenn Beck Program,” where he was asked whether the department had seen a scale of fraud that would have changed the results.
“We are looking for any sort of wide-scale conspiracies,” Essayli said, while promoting the department’s tip line. “Right now, I would say, our investigations lean into more individual actors.”
