(Bloomberg) -- Former President Donald Trump remains under criminal investigation in Manhattan, District Attorney Alvin Bragg said in an interview, pushing back on recent press reports that followed two high-profile departures from the case.

“It’s open, it’s active, we have a great team in place of dedicated career prosecutors working every day,” Bragg said on Thursday. “We’re exploring evidence that’s not been previously explored. We will leave no stone unturned.”

The future of the investigation, which has produced tax-fraud indictments of the Trump Organization and its longtime chief financial officer but not yet Trump himself, was called into question after a pair of senior-level prosecutors tapped by Bragg’s predecessor to lead the case resigned in February. One of the two, Mark Pomerantz, said in a resignation letter shared with the media that the case had been “suspended indefinitely.”

Bragg, 48, on Thursday denied that the case had been suspended. “It’s very much ongoing,” he said.

‘Grave Failure of Justice’

The criminal investigation is separate from a civil probe being led by New York Attorney General Letitia James, who on Thursday sought to hold Trump in contempt for failing to respond to subpoenas. James’s investigation is more likely to lead to a lawsuit rather than charges. 

Pomerantz and Carey Dunne, who led the investigation of Trump under former District Attorney Cyrus Vance, both resigned less than two months after Bragg took office in January. In his resignation letter, Pomerantz described a sharp disagreement with Bragg over whether to charge Trump with “numerous felony violations” for providing false statements about his finances to banks, counterparties and the press.

“I fear that your decision means that Mr. Trump will not be held fully accountable for his crimes,” Pomerantz wrote to Bragg. “I have worked too hard as a lawyer, and for too long, now to become a passive participant in what I believe to be a grave failure of justice.”

The suggestion that Bragg was abandoning the case against Trump raised a fresh political headache for the new district attorney, who was already facing fierce criticism over rising crime in New York City. 

Bragg said the team of people now leading the effort, headed by Assistant District Attorney Susan Hoffinger, was fully capable of carrying it forward. Vance turned to corporate law firm partners to lead the probe, with Dunne from Davis Polk & Wardwell and Pomerantz from Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison, and then consulted with still other outside lawyers about the case as late as December.

In contrast to that approach, Bragg said any charging decisions under him would be made in-house. “We’ve got a strong team in place and we’re relying on that team,” he said. 

Some press reports had suggested the investigation faced a deadline to charge Trump this month before a grand jury expired this month. But Bragg denied that was an issue.

“As anyone who has worked on criminal cases in New York knows, New York County has grand juries sitting all the time,” he said. “There is no magic at all to any previously reported dates.”

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