NEW YORK (AP) — The two prosecutors in charge of the Manhattan district attorney’s criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump and his business dealings suddenly resigned Wednesday, throwing the future of the probe into question just as pressure was building on Trump on several legal fronts.

A spokesperson for District Attorney Alvin Bragg confirmed the resignations of Carey Dunne and Mark Pomerantz, top deputies who had been tasked with running the investigation on a day-to-day basis. Both started on the Trump probe under former District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., and Bragg asked them to stay when he took office in January.

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

“We are grateful for their service," Bragg spokesperson Danielle Filson said. She declined to comment further, saying the investigation is ongoing.

The New York Times, citing sources, reported that the grand jury investigation had stalled, 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 ever been charged with a crime.

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

Messages seeking comment were left for Dunne and Pomerantz.

Trump did not immediately respond to the news. In a telephone interview, his lawyer Robert Fischetti said: “I'm a very happy man. In my opinion, this investigation is over."

EXCLUSIVE: Pete Buttigieg accepted $250,000 and gifts from mayoral campaign donors who were later awarded $33million in city contracts, raising concerns of 'pay to play' as Transportation Secretary doles out $210billion in infrastructure plan

• Documents obtained by DailyMail.com reveal former South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg's campaign took a total of $253,750 from 23 companies
• Company executives were then awarded a combined $33,310,426 in city contracts from the Board of Public Works whose members Buttigieg appointed
• Buttigieg, 40 - now the US Transportation Secretary - will oversee $210billion in discretionary grants under the new bipartisan infrastructure bill
• But government watchdogs say the Democrat's pattern of donations and contracts as mayor could present the appearance of a 'pay to play' scandal
• 'This is alarming, and very concerning, because this is the swamp personified,' Taxpayers Protection Alliance president David Williams told DailyMail.com

• Transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg's top political donors received millions of dollars in city contracts after giving thousands to his campaigns while he was mayor of South Bend, Indiana.

Buttigieg's political action committees took money from 23 companies who then got jobs from South Bend's Board of Public Works whose members he appointed, documents obtained by DailyMail.com reveal.

On two occasions, the former presidential candidate received donations the same day the companies were awarded contracts.

Other city contractors gifted the mayor cigars, alcohol and golf trips.

The companies, their executives and spouses donated a total $253,750 to Buttigieg's campaigns, and received a total of at least $33,310,426 in city contracts between 2011 and 2019.

US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg's pattern of donations and contracts during his time as South Bend, Indiana mayor raises concerns over the billions of dollars he can dish out under the bipartisan infrastructure bill.

‘Alarming’: Donors to Buttigieg’s campaigns ‘got $33 million in contracts’

The investigation showed that Buttigieg's political action committees got money from 23 companies "who then got jobs from South Bend's Board of Public Works." Sometimes those donations and contracts happened on the same day.

The investigation said the companies, or their executives and their spouses, turned over $253,750 to Buttigieg's campaigns, and then got "at least $33,310,426" in city contracts between 2011 and 2019.

The Daily Mail reported: "Government watchdogs say the pattern of donations and contracts could present the appearance of a 'pay to play' scandal – and raises concerns over the $210 billion earmarked in the bipartisan infrastructure bill for Buttigieg to dish out in discretionary grants as transport secretary, part of a $1.2 trillion budget."

In fact, David Williams of Taxpayers Protection Alliance, told the publication, "The pattern of contracts and donations appears to be a huge conflict of interest. This really doesn't bode well for the secretary of transportation when he has access to almost $1.2 trillion in infrastructure money. 'This is alarming, and very concerning, because this is the swamp personified. You don't have to be a Rhodes Scholar to look at this and think that something's wrong here."

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BREAKING: Trudeau Backs Down, Revokes Emergencies Act

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BREAKING: Trudeau Backs Down, Revokes Emergencies Act

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The calls (primarily on the left) for punishment to Russian people within America is depraved, horrible, and I condemn in the strongest possible terms.

It's astonishing to see the same logic used for Japanese internment repeated in real time.