As Donald Trump fights a deluge of court actions, both criminal and civil, it has emerged a political action committee founded by Trump hired a well-known New York private investigator to help defend the former president.
Retired New York City Police Department captain, Sean Crowley, was retained by the Save America PAC to assist in two cases involving women who claim they had sexual encounters with Trump.
One of those cases centers on E. Jean Carroll, a writer who successfully sued Trump, saying he sexually assaulted her in a change room of a Bergdolf Goodman department store in the mid-1990s.
Trump and Carroll were back in court this week, as the writer for The Atlantic and Vanity Fair, is suing the former president in a separate case, alleging he defamed her when denied the allegations. Trump has countersued Carroll for deformation.
Crowley also worked on a case involving hush money payments made to adult film actress, Stormy Daniels, which led to Trump’s first criminal indictment last year. The Manhattan DA charged him with 34 counts of falsifying business records in connection with payments.
According to campaign finance filings, Crowley was paid $152,000 in April and May last year by Save America.
The filings list the payments for “research consulting” to Crowley’s firm, CTS Research & Investigation, which is located in a small Brooklyn storefront where he also works as an accountant.
Crowley once worked for former Angels pitcher Aroldis Chapman after his defection from Cuba and he helped solve a kidnapping of a teenage girl in 2015, he told the Staten Island Advance.
According to its website, CTS Research & Investigation specializes in intelligence gathering via covert investigations and surveillance, due diligence, and in-depth research.
“Since CTS was formed, Sean’s work and dedication has led to the successful conclusion of a countless number of cases, with those involved in wrongdoing being brought to justice and harmony in the lives of clients restored,” says the website.
