LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. prosecutors on Wednesday [8-29-18] asked a judge for more time to decide whether to retry former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort on 10 criminal charges that a jury deadlocked on last week. Wednesday was Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s deadline to decide but the government said that Manafort lawyers’ request for […]
Category: Legal
8/29/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A second Trump Organization employee discussed a potential immunity deal with the federal prosecutors who charged Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, according to people familiar with the matter. That employee ultimately did not receive immunity after prosecutors in the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New […]
8/29/2018
LEGAL/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “White House counsel Don McGahn’s office is just one floor up from the Oval, but it might as well be miles away. In recent months, the president has sometimes gone days — or longer — without having substantial conversations with McGahn as their relationship has grown increasingly strained, according to […]
8/29/2018
LEGAL/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “White House Counsel Don McGahn will be leaving his position in the fall, shortly after the confirmation (hopefully) of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court. I have worked with Don for a long time and truly appreciate his service! “ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 29, 2018 9:30 […]
8/29/2018
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “White House counsel Don McGahn, whose relationship with President Donald Trump has been strained by the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, is set to leave the job in coming weeks. Trump announced on Twitter on Wednesday [8-29-18] that McGahn would step down after the U.S. […]
8/29/2018
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump surprised Donald F. McGahn II, the White House counsel, on Wednesday [8-29-18] by abruptly announcing that Mr. McGahn will be leaving his job this fall, effectively forcing the long-anticipated exit of a top adviser who has cooperated extensively in the investigation into Russian election interference. The president made the […]
8/28/2018
LEGAL/SOCIAL MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday [8-28-18] unblocked some additional Twitter users after a federal judge in May said preventing people from following him violated individuals constitutional rights. U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald in Manhattan ruled on May 23 that comments on the president’s account, and those of other government […]
8/28/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Lawyers for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort said on Tuesday [8-28-18] that they would seek to move his second trial, scheduled to start next month, out of Washington, D.C., due to concerns that a jury from the Democratic stronghold would be biased. Their request for a change of venue […]
8/27/2018
LEGAL/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The man identified these days as President Trump’s lawyer seems vaguely familiar. It’s in the way he feigns genuine laughter. How he clasps his hands. How he widens his eyes, as if he’s just been handed a birthday cake with a firecracker for a candle. He is, of course, Rudolph […]
8/25/2018
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UNION: “A U.S. federal judge on Saturday [8-25-18] rejected key elements of President Donald Trump’s May executive orders that would make it easier to fire federal employees and reduce their ability to bargain collectively. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, said in a court order […]
8/25/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/NEW YORK/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A week that began with bad news closed with worse news for President Donald Trump. According to the New York Times, the Manhattan district attorney’s office is currently investigating the Trump Organization. In particular, they are examining the source of the payment to porn star Stormy Daniels, and […]
8/25/2018
LEGAL/MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Michaels Cohen’s attorney clarified the record, saying his client does not know if President Trump knew about the Trump Tower meeting (out of which came nothing!). The answer is that I did NOT know about the meeting. Just another phony story by the Fake News Media!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 25, […]
8/24/2018
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “‘Think Allen Weisselberg,’ a person who knows Donald Trump well told me a few days ago. Even as news was breaking about the president’s personal attorney’s stunning, Trump-implicating, plea-deal admission that he had arranged hush-money payments to an ex-Playboy playmate and a porn star, it was a reminder to not lose […]
8/24/2018
LEGAL/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “He’s one of the longest-serving employees in Donald Trump’s family real estate business. Through triumphs, scandals and bankruptcies, he was there. Allen Weisselberg was handling the books when Fred Trump ran the company in the early 1970s. He was handling them when his son Donald made his mark with Trump Tower in […]
8/24/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A juror who voted to convict Paul Manafort and who is also a supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump has some advice for Trump if he is considering whether to pardon his former campaign chairman: don’t do it. Paula Duncan is so far the only juror to speak out since Manafort […]
8/24/2018
LEGAL/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A former Trump World Tower doorman who says he has knowledge of an alleged affair President Donald Trump had with an ex-housekeeper, which resulted in a child, is now able to talk about a contract he entered with American Media Inc. that had prohibited him from discussing the matter with anyone, according […]
8/24/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Federal prosecutors have granted immunity to Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg in a probe involving President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday [8-24-18]. Weisselberg was called to testify before a federal grand jury earlier this year, the Journal said. Cohen, who arranged […]
8/23/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “When Paul Manafort’s jury of 12 Northern Virginians couldn’t reach a unanimous agreement on 10 criminal charges, it was because of one juror. A photocopied version of the jury’s original handwritten verdict form, released Thursday [8-23-18] by the federal court, confirms that Manafort’s jury hung 11-to-1 on 10 counts of foreign banking […]
8/23/2018
ETHICS/LEGAL/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “After one day where truth and facts triumphed, America is back to its alternative realities. The convictions of two close associates of President Donald Trump in a mind-bending double-header drama in two cities on Tuesday [8-21-18] were a moment of clarity in the legal morass that has thickened around the White […]
8/23/208
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The one juror who prevented a conviction of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort on all 18 criminal charges did not trust any of the witnesses and exasperated other members with her reasoning, a juror in the trial told Reuters. The comments from Paula Duncan, the only juror so far to […]
8/23/2018
LEGAL/MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “The chief executive of the publisher of the National Enquirer was granted immunity by prosecutors investigating payments arranged by U.S. President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, to silence two women who said they had sex with Trump, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday [8-22-18]. Another AMI executive, […]
8/23/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Federal prosecutors reached an immunity deal with the tabloid executive David J. Pecker, a key witness in their monthslong investigation into payments during the 2016 campaign to two women who said they had affairs with Donald J. Trump, according to two people familiar with the investigation. Mr. Pecker is the chairman […]
8/23/2018
LEGAL/PARDONS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Amid a series of high-profile pardons and commutations by President Trump in recent months, his personal lawyers cautioned against even considering clemency for former aides under investigation by the special counsel until the inquiry was over, one of the lawyers, Rudolph W. Giuliani, said on Thursday [8-23-18]. Mr. Trump agreed […]
8/22/2018
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump and his aides moved quickly Wednesday [8-22-18] to insulate themselves from the legal firestorm encircling the White House by writing their own version of reality and attacking anybody who contests it. In the president’s alternate universe, the campaign violations his former attorney pleaded guilty to are ‘not a crime’; […]
8/22/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump asserted Wednesday [8-22-18] that former attorney Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to violations of campaign law which aren’t crimes. ‘Michael Cohen plead guilty to two counts of campaign finance violations that are not a crime,’ Mr. Trump tweeted. ‘President Obama had a big campaign finance violation and it was easily […]
8/22/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Trump on Wednesday [8-22-18] slammed his former longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen for striking a plea deal with federal prosecutors admitting to campaign finance violations and implicating the president…At the same time, the president tweeted in support of ex-campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who was found guilty on eight tax and […]
8/22/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Michael Cohen walked into a courthouse in Manhattan on Tuesday [8-21-18] and told a federal judge under oath that he committed a felony and that his former client, President Donald Trump, directed him to do so. In that moment, Cohen upended a months-long strategy by Trump to undermine the investigation […]
8/22/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A former adviser to the Trump campaign issued a grim warning Wednesday [8-22-18] night to President Donald Trump and his supporters: The President could be months away from facing impeachment because of his former lawyer Michael Cohen…Cohen pleaded guilty to eight felony counts Tuesday that included tax fraud, false statements to a […]
8/22/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The jury in the trial of Paul Manafort would have convicted the former Trump campaign chairman on all 18 criminal charges if not for one juror who had questions about the reasonable doubt standard of guilt, a juror told Fox News on Wednesday [8-22-18]…The jury on Tuesday [8-21-18] found Manafort […]
8/22/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “For 16 or so hours after Tuesday’s [8-21-18] double-barreled bombshell news, President Trump couldn’t even publicly say Michael Cohen’s name. That was the first signal he had been wounded by his former fixer’s guilty plea. He said he felt badly for Paul Manafort, his former campaign manager who had […]
8/22/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump on Wednesday [8-22-18] praised his just-convicted former campaign chairman for refusing to ‘break’ and cooperate with federal prosecutors investigating Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, expressing appreciation for the personal loyalty of a felon found guilty of defrauding the United States government. In a series of tweets the […]
8/22/2018
GOP/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Twenty-four hours after one of the most damaging days for Donald Trump’s presidency, the Republican wall of support around him shows no signs of crumbling. Though some GOP senators expressed discomfort with the the plea deal reached by Trump lawyer Michael Cohen and the guilty verdict rendered on former Trump campaign […]
8/22/2018
DEMS/GOP/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Mounting legal problems confronting President Trump and the GOP are rattling the political map nationwide, forcing Democratic and Republican candidates alike to rethink election strategies just weeks before the midterm. And the debate around impeachment — or as many Democrats prefer to frame it, the ‘culture of Republican corruption’ in […]
8/22/2018
CAMPAIGN FINANCE/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday [8-22-18] he found out only after the fact about payments his then-lawyer Michael Cohen made to silence two women who said they had had affairs with Trump, adding that the money came from him and not his campaign..Cohen, in pleading guilty to eight […]
8/22/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “After 19 tumultuous months in office, President Trump is being squeezed by legal assaults on two fronts, each of which could imperil his White House tenure. How those cases intersect is at the heart of the high-stakes legal threat, and the answer may rely on one man — Michael […]
8/22/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A large number of counts, ten, could not even be decided in the Paul Manafort case. Witch Hunt!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 22, 2018 8:34 am […]
8/22/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I feel very badly for Paul Manafort and his wonderful family. ‘Justice’ took a 12 year old tax case, among other things, applied tremendous pressure on him and, unlike Michael Cohen, he refused to ‘break’ – make up stories in order to get a ‘deal.’ Such respect for a brave man!” […]
8/22/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “If anyone is looking for a good lawyer, I would strongly suggest that you don’t retain the services of Michael Cohen!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 22, 2018 7:44 am […]
8/22/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “The White House pushed back forcefully on Wednesday [8-22-18] against suggestions that a plea deal struck by President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen implicated Trump in a crime…Cohen on Tuesday [8-21-18] pleaded guilty to eight criminal charges of tax evasion, bank fraud and campaign finance violations. He told a […]
8/22/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/PARDONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “U.S. President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen would not accept a presidential pardon, his attorney said on Wednesday [8-22-18], a day after Cohen pleaded guilty to eight criminal charges and said he acted at the direction of Trump. In a round of television interviews, Cohen’s attorney, Lanny Davis, said […]
8/21/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort has been found guilty on eight counts of financial crimes, a major victory for special counsel Robert Mueller. But jurors were unable to reach a verdict on 10 charges, and Judge T.S. Ellis declared a mistrial on those counts. Manafort was found […]
8/21/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Michael Cohen’s lawyer on Tuesday [8-21-18] asked why President Donald Trump isn’t also facing criminal charges over the hush payments that his client pleaded guilty to executing. Lanny Davis — who is representing Cohen, Trump’s longtime personal lawyer — lashed out in a statement after Cohen struck a plea deal on […]
8/21/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Lanny Davis, the attorney representing President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen, said Tuesday [8-21-18] his client has information on Trump that would interest special counsel Robert Mueller in his investigation…Cohen pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court Tuesday to eight criminal counts and admitted he acted to keep […]
8/21/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In two courtrooms 200 miles apart on Tuesday [8-21-18], President Trump’s almost daily attempts to dismiss the criminal investigations that have engulfed his White House all but collapsed. Mr. Trump has long mocked the investigations as ‘rigged witch hunts,’ pursued by Democrats and abetted by a dishonest news media. […]
8/21/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s former lawyer, made the extraordinary admission in court on Tuesday [8-21-18] that Mr. Trump had directed him to arrange payments to two women during the 2016 campaign to keep them from speaking publicly about affairs they said they had with Mr. Trump. Mr. Cohen acknowledged […]
8/21/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, was convicted on Tuesday [8-21-18] in his financial fraud trial, bringing a dramatic end to a politically charged case that riveted the capital. The verdict was a victory for the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, whose prosecutors introduced extensive evidence that […]
8/21/2018
CALIFORNIA/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/LEGAL/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A federal grand jury on Tuesday [8-21-18] indicted California GOP Rep. Duncan Hunter and his wife on charges of improperly using hundreds of thousands of campaign funds to pay for personal expenses, including family vacations and dental work. Hunter is also accused of filing false campaign reports and wire fraud. The […]
8/21/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump briefly slammed the investigation into Russian interference during the 2016 campaign during his rally in West Virginia on Tuesday [8-21-18], hours after his campaign chairman Paul Manafort was convicted on charges stemming from that investigation…Trump largely avoided the topic of the investigation during the first […]
8/21/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court Tuesday [8-21-18] to eight criminal counts, admitting that ‘in coordination and at the direction of a candidate for federal office’ he acted to keep information that would have been harmful to the candidate and the campaign […]
8/21/2018
CALIFORNIA/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/LEGAL/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. Representative Duncan Hunter, a Republican of California, was indicted on charges that he and his wife used hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign funds to pay for vacations, video games and other personal expenses and filed false campaign finance reports, federal officials said on Tuesday [8-21-18]. Hunter, who was […]
8/21/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “An attorney for Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer who pleaded guilty in New York on Tuesday [8-21-18] to campaign finance violations and other charges, said Trump directed Cohen to commit a crime. ‘Today he stood up and testified under oath that Donald Trump directed him to commit […]
8/21/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Federal charges against former Trump attorney Michael Cohen contain no allegation of wrongdoing against President Donald Trump and demonstrate a “pattern of lies and dishonesty” by Cohen over a long period, a counsel for the president said on Tuesday [8-21-18]. Cohen pleaded guilty earlier on Tuesday to campaign finance violations […]
8/21/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “White House counsel Don McGahn’s 30 hours of conversations with special counsel Robert Mueller’s team have unnerved President Donald Trump, who didn’t know the full extent of McGahn’s discussions, two people familiar with his thinking said. The meetings only add complications to the already-fraught relationship between the President […]
8/21/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was convicted on Tuesday [8-21-18] of eight counts of financial wrongdoing, giving Special Counsel Robert Mueller a victory in the first trial arising from his investigation of Russia’s role in the 2016 U.S. election. After almost four days of deliberations, a 12-member jury found […]
8/29/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team wants to review emails between Paul Manafort and one of his former lawyers — messages that would typically be protected by attorney-client privilege. Manafort’s emails are a special case, Mueller’s team argued in a court motion Wednesday [8-29-18]. Attorney-client privilege doesn’t apply when the client enlists […]
8/20/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “After three full days of deliberations, the jury in the trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort still has not returned a verdict. Jurors will return Tuesday [8-21-18] at 9:30 a.m. ET. Manafort is charged with 18 counts of tax evasion, bank fraud and hiding foreign bank accounts in […]
8/20/2018
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump ‘has got a real problem’ after the latest revelations regarding White House counsel Don McGahn’s interviews with special counsel investigators, according to John Dean, who served in the same role for President Richard Nixon. CNN has reported McGahn’s lawyers did not give Trump’s lawyers a full debriefing on […]
8/20/2018
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A pivotal figure in the Watergate investigation, John W. Dean, was dragged back into the limelight on Sunday [8-19-18] with President Trump’s defense of the current White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II. On Saturday [8-18-18], The New York Times published an article online about Mr. McGahn’s extensive cooperation with the […]
8/20/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The jury weighing more than a dozen bank and tax fraud charges against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort failed to return a verdict after its third day of deliberations on Monday [8-20-18], leading the defense team to sound a note of optimism after the weekslong trial. The 12-member jury, which […]
8/20/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The jury in the bank and tax fraud trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort ended its third day of deliberations on Monday [8-20-18] without reaching a verdict. The judge said the jury would reconvene on Tuesday [8-218-18] morning. The case is the first to go to […]
8/19/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Federal prosecutors are focused on over $20 million in loans obtained by U.S. President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen from taxi businesses owned by him and his family, the New York Times reported on Sunday [8-19-18]. The loans are part of an investigation into whether Cohen committed bank and tax […]
8/19/2018
LEGAL/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The failing @nytimes wrote a Fake piece today implying that because White House Councel Don McGahn was giving hours of testimony to the Special Councel, he must be a John Dean type ‘RAT.’ But I allowed him and all others to testify – I didn’t have to. I have nothing to hide……” […]
8/18/2018
LEGAL/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I allowed White House Counsel Don McGahn, and all other requested members of the White House Staff, to fully cooperate with the Special Counsel. In addition we readily gave over one million pages of documents. Most transparent in history. No Collusion, No Obstruction. Witch Hunt!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 18, 2018 […]
8/18/2018
LEGAL/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I allowed White House Counsel Don McGahn, and all other requested members of the White House Staff, to fully cooperate with the Special Councel. In addition we readily gave over one million pages of documents. Most transparent in history. No Collusion, No Obstruction. Witch Hunt!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 18, 2018 […]
8/17/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In a break with convention, President Donald Trump weighed in on a criminal trial as the jury considered a verdict on Friday [8-17-18], calling the tax and bank fraud case against Paul Manafort ‘very sad’ and lauding his former campaign chairman as a ‘very good person.’ A federal court jury […]
8/16/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Special Counsel’s Office has almost three times the number of exhibits it wants to show a jury in Paul Manafort’s next criminal trial compared with what it used in his Virginia case. The evidence for the two trials largely doesn’t overlap, according to a court filing Thursday [8-16-18] from Manafort’s […]
8/16/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The jury in the trial of former Donald Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort did not reach a verdict after its first full day of deliberations. Just before 5 p.m. ET, jurors sent a note to Judge T.S. Ellis with four questions, including one asking him if he could ‘redefine’ for them […]
8/16/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump has insisted that Paul Manafort’s federal trial has nothing to do with him, and his name has made only cameo appearances during the trial. Which is why courtroom observers were startled on Thursday [8-16-18] morning to hear the presiding judge, T.S. Ellis III, ask a ‘Mr. Trump’ if […]
8/16/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Greg D. Andres looked like any ordinary guest at the Westin hotel here, standing near the valet in flip-flops and a white Notre Dame boxing T-shirt, waiting for a Postmates delivery from Shake Shack. The moment would be unremarkable save for Mr. Andres’s role as the lead prosecutor for the special […]
8/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The jury in the bank and tax fraud trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort ended its first day of deliberations on Thursday [8-16-18] without reaching a verdict but with several questions, including how to define ‘reasonable doubt.’ The six men and six women considered the charges against […]
8/15/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Jurors are set to begin deliberating Thursday [8-16-28] morning whether to convict President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort of bank fraud and tax evasion. The high-stakes prosecution of Manafort by special counsel Robert Mueller’s team reached its conclusion with Wednesday’s closing arguments — with prosecutors accusing Manafort of […]
8/15/2018
CHILDREN/DHS/HHS/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Department of Health and Human Services is not taking responsibility for unaccompanied minors once they’re placed with sponsors, according to a Senate subcommittee report released Wednesday [8-15-18], an issue the subcommittee’s Republican chairman called an ‘incredibly difficult issue’…The report found that Health and Human Services had failed to establish rules to […]
8/15/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Prosecutors urged jurors in the trial of Paul Manafort to focus on financial records and Manafort’s ‘lies’ — and to set aside personal feelings about a tainted star witness — as the government offered its closing argument on Wednesday [8-15-18]. Pushing back, lawyers for the former Trump campaign chairman argued that […]
8/15/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The evidence against Paul Manafort is ‘overwhelming,’ a prosecutor told jurors during closing arguments in his fraud trial on Wednesday, saying that he hid more than $16 million in income and fraudulently obtained $20 million in bank loans even though, as a trained lawyer, ‘Mr. Manafort knew the law.’ […]
8/15/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Paul Manafort had ‘a huge dumpster of hidden money’ abroad, a prosecutor said on Wednesday [8-15-18], urging a jury to convict U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chief on financial fraud charges based more on a paper trail of evidence than on the testimony of a former protege. […]
8/14/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “We’ve reached the end. Paul Manafort’s defense team has rested, presenting no evidence and calling no witnesses to testify, including President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman himself. Wednesday [8-15-18] morning, special counsel Robert Mueller’s team and Manafort’s defense lawyers will deliver their closing arguments — sure to be impassioned, detailed speeches […]
8/14/2018
LEGAL/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman declared Tuesday [8-14-18] that she ‘will not be silenced’ by President Donald Trump, remaining defiant as her public feud with her former boss appeared to shift to a possible legal battle. In an interview with The Associated Press, Manigault Newman, who is promoting her […]
8/14/2018
LEGAL/MEDIA/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s campaign said Tuesday [8-14-18] it has filed for arbitration, accusing Omarosa Manigault Newman, the former campaign aide and White House official, of breaching a 2016 nondisclosure agreement with the campaign. The move is the first legal action the Trump campaign has taken since Manigault Newman published a tell-all […]
8/14/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The defense rested its case Tuesday [8-14-18] morning in the trial against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort without calling any witnesses, setting the stage for closing arguments Wednesday [8-15-18] morning. Manafort spoke for the first time in court during the trial, saying he will not testify. Manafort told Judge T.S. […]
8/14/2018
LEGAL/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Trump campaign has filed a formal complaint against Omarosa Manigault Newman saying she breached a confidentiality agreement signed in 2016, in response to her newly released book and promotional tour…The move comes as the reality TV star’s explosive tell-all memoir is released, detailing her time at the White House and […]
8/14/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Attorneys for Paul Manafort rested their case on Tuesday [8-14-18] without calling any witnesses, including the former Trump campaign chairman himself, who told the judge he did not want to testify in his own defense against bank and tax fraud charges. The defense attorneys’ decision means that the closely watched case […]
8/14/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Paul Manafort’s lawyers declined Tuesday [8-14-18] to call any witnesses to defend him against charges of bank and tax fraud. Mr. Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, also told the judge that he did not want to testify, clearing the way for closing arguments from both sides and the start of […]
8/13/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TREASURY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Special counsel Robert Mueller’s prosecutors rested their case against Paul Manafort on Monday [8-13-18] afternoon after calling more than two dozen witnesses in their tax- and bank-fraud case against the former Trump campaign chairman. The final round of testimony from Treasury Department senior special agent Paula Liss lasted only five questions. […]
8/13/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Prosecutors rested their case Monday [8-13-18] afternoon in the trial against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. Prosecutor Greg Andres announced that the prosecution had finished witness presentation against Manafort after 10 days of testimony from 27 witnesses. The defense has not indicated if it will call any witnesses to the […]
8/13/2018
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal judge appointed by President Donald Trump ruled Monday [8-13-18] that special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe is constitutional and legitimate, rejecting an effort by a Russian company — accused of financing a massive political influence operation in the United States — to stamp out the ongoing investigation. Judge Dabney […]
8/13/2018
2016 ELECTION/JEFF SESSIONS/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A U.S. judge on Monday [8-13-18] backed Special Counsel Robert Mueller in the federal Russia investigation, allowing a case to proceed against a Russian company accused of helping fund a propaganda operation to sway the 2016 presidential election in Donald Trump’s favor. Judge Dabney Friedrich, in an opinion […]
8/13/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. prosecutors on Monday [8-13-18] rested their case against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort after 10 days of testimony alleging how he avoided taxes on at least $16 million of income and lied to banks to maintain an extravagant lifestyle once his work for pro-Kremlin politicians in Ukraine dried up. […]
8/12/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A week before the Trump presidential campaign announced that it had hired Paul Manafort, a Yankees ticket specialist alerted him that his annual season tickets would soon be arriving at his 43rd-floor apartment at Trump Tower in New York. ‘Will you and Kathy be attending opening day?’ the specialist […]
8/9/2018
COURT/IMMIGRATION/JEFF SESSIONS/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal judge on Thursday [8-9-18] erupted at the Trump administration when he learned that two asylum seekers fighting deportation were at that moment being deported and on a plane to El Salvador. DC District Judge Emmet Sullivan then blocked the administration from deporting the two plaintiffs while they are fighting […]
8/9/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A court-appointed official has finished reviewing which materials seized from U.S. President Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen can be used in a criminal investigation, according to a court filing on Thursday [8-9-18]. Lawyers for Cohen and Trump had said that some of the seized materials were protected by attorney-client privilege, […]
8/9/2018
2016 ELECTION/CALIFORNIA/LEGAL/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A New York federal judge has ordered Stormy Daniels’ defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump be transferred to a California federal court. Daniels, an adult film actress whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, offered her consent on Wednesday [8-8-18] to transfer the lawsuit despite having previously opposed the move by […]
8/9/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The judge in the trial of U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort expressed contrition on Thursday [8-9-18] to jurors for harsh commentary directed at prosecutors. ‘I may have made a mistake. It has nothing to do with your consideration in this case,’ U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis said […]
8/9/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The trial of Paul Manafort, U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, is expected to shift focus on Thursday [8-9-18] from his alleged tax evasion to bank fraud as the prosecution’s case heads into its final two days. Prosecutors are expected to call a series of bankers to the stand to […]
8/8/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Lawyers for Paul Manafort accused his longtime deputy Rick Gates of having four extramarital affairs and lying about them, a last attempt by the defense to undermine the credibility of the government’s star witness at the fraud trial of Mr. Manafort on Wednesday [8-8-18]. Kevin Downing, the lead lawyer for Mr. Manafort, […]
8/8/2018
IRS/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman being tried on federal tax and bank fraud charges, didn’t declare more than $16 million in income to the U.S. Treasury over a five-year span, an IRS revenue agent testified Wednesday [8-8-18]. The IRS revenue agent, Michael Welch, told jurors that a large chunk […]
8/8/2018
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Rudy Giuliani said Wednesday [8-8-18] that President Donald Trump’s legal team has responded to the special counsel, the latest effort in ongoing negotiations over a possible interview…Sekulow confirmed in a statement that the legal team ‘responded in writing to the latest proposal’ from the special counsel, but declined to […]
8/8/2018
CONGRESS/GOP/LEGAL/NEW YORK/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Rep. Christopher Collins, a Republican congressman from New York, was arrested Wednesday [8-8-18] and charged with participating in an insider-trading scheme to sell the shares of an Australian biotechnology company before the public disclosure of a failed drug trial. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan accused Rep. Collins, 68 years old, of tipping off […]
8/8/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Rick Gates wrapped up his testimony Wednesday [8-8-18] in the trial of his onetime friend and boss, former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, reiterating that the two men conspired to lie on their taxes and defraud banks. Mr. Gates admitted over three days to various crimes, including some he said he […]
8/8/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Rick Gates has finished three days’ worth of dramatic testimony in federal court against his former business partner, ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort — but not before defense lawyers caused a stir by pressing him for details on his past infidelity. A day earlier, Gates acknowledged having a single extramarital relationship […]
8/8/2018
BUSINESS/CONGRESS/GOP/LEGAL/NEW YORK/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Christopher Collins, a Republican U.S. congressman from New York who was one of President Donald Trump’s earliest supporters, was criminally charged on Wednesday [8-8-18] with taking part in an insider trading scheme involving an Australian biotechnology company on whose board he served. The indictment came as Collins, 68, was seeking a fourth […]