President Donald Trump may be in the clear when it comes to collusion with Russia and obstruction of justice, but authorities are looking into a whole host of other potential wrongdoing — most of them in his hometown.

"The fact is that most of the locus of where Trump commits these acts was in New York, in Manhattan," said Victoria Bassetti, a fellow at NYU Law School's Brennan Center for Justice.

For starters, Trump's longtime attorney and fixer, Michael Cohen, has admitted making hush-money payments to two women who allegedly had affairs with Trump, directly implicating him. That investigation, and one looking into the finances of Trump's inaugural committee, is being led by federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York, based in Manhattan. And just about everyone agrees that could spell trouble for Trump.

"The Southern District of New York is as serious as a heart attack, and there are many cases that are still going on," Gov. Andrew Cuomo opined on WAMC Radio's The Roundtable with Alan Chartock.

"It's famously independent, famously very well-resourced, famously aggressive," Bassetti said about the Southern District of New York. "Then you've got the New York state attorney general, who is newly in office and who was elected, amongst other things, saying that she wanted to intensely investigate President Trump."

That would be Letitia James, who this month subpoenaed two banks that provided loans to the Trump Organization.

Meanwhile, under an agreement with James's predecessor, Trump's charity organization, the Trump Foundation, agreed to dissolve, but the office's lawsuit is ongoing.

Meanwhile:

  • State financial regulators this month subpoenaed the Trump Organization's longtime insurance broker.
  • Another state agency is reviewing potential tax fraud described in a lengthy New York Times investigation.
  • And a defamation lawsuit filed by former Apprentice contestant Summer Zervos, who says Trump forcibly groped her, could force Trump to sit for a deposition under oath.

The Justice Department has a policy that a sitting president can't be indicted, but that doesn't preclude the possibility Trump could be charged after leaving office, which Democrats hope will be after the 2020 election.