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, […]
Category: Legal
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 […]
8/8/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump says that the criminal trial of his former campaign aide, Paul Manafort, has nothing to do with him. But jurors in a Virginia courtroom heard his name repeatedly on Tuesday [8-7-18]. Trump’s name, his 2016 campaign and his inauguration came up several times during the trial’s […]
8/8/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Star government witness Rick Gates ended three days of testimony on Wednesday [8-8-18] after admitting he lied, stole money and cheated on his wife, as lawyers for U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort attacked his character. Manafort lawyer Kevin Downing got in a final shot in federal court […]
8/7/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/NEW YORK/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Throughout President Trump’s term, it has sometimes seemed as if the world chronicled in the tabloids has invaded the corridors of power in Washington. Mr. Trump’s alleged affairs with a pornographic film star and a former Playboy bunny have become national news, joined by figures from publications typically more […]
8/7/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Prosecutors in the Paul Manafort trial are evoking a world of swaggering fraud, concealed millions and personal betrayal that allegedly festered in the lives of two big-time political operatives at President Donald Trump’s side for crucial moments of his 2016 general election campaign. In potentially the key moment of Manafort’s […]
8/7/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Rick Gates was just an intern when he first crossed paths with Paul Manafort. Years later Mr. Gates went to work for him, rising to become right hand man to Mr. Manafort, once a powerful force in Republican politics who more recently had turned his sights to lucrative opportunities abroad. […]
8/7/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Kevin Downing, the lead defense lawyer, began cross-examination Tuesday [8-7-18] by hammering at Mr. Gates’s credibility, demanding an exact accounting of when he lied to the government and pleaded guilty to the charge of doing so. Mr. Gates seemed to struggle to articulate that timeline, prompting Judge T. S. Ellis […]
8/7/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Rick Gates, the star witness in the federal case against ex-Trump campaign adviser Paul Manafort, on Tuesday [8-7-18] acknowledged having an extramarital relationship in London while working for Manafort as the defense accused him of leading a ‘secret’ and ‘second’ life. For the last two days in court, Gates has testified that […]
8/7/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/NEW YORK/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Federal prosecutors in New York are examining whether U.S. President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, committed tax fraud in relation to his taxi-medallion business, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. Cohen, who was Trump’s personal lawyer, has not been charged with any crime. The Federal Bureau […]
8/7/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “The star witness in the trial against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort faced tough questioning on cross-examination on Tuesday [8-7-18] about a ‘secret life’ that included an extramarital affair and stealing funds from his former boss. Rick Gates, who served as a right-hand man to Manafort in his political […]
8/6/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special counsel Robert Mueller’s star witness, Rick Gates, finally took the stand on Monday [8-6-18], incriminating his former boss Paul Manafort in multimillion-dollar tax evasion, bank fraud and hiding offshore accounts, while also admitting to stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars during a decade on Manafort’s payroll. On the […]
8/6/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Rick Gates, the key prosecution witness in the tax and fraud trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, testified Monday [8-6-18] he had committed crimes alongside and at the direction of his former partner — and had also stolen from Manafort himself. In stunning testimony at Manafort’s trial on […]
8/6/2018
LEGAL/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The legal fund aimed at helping President Trump’s associates with fees related to the Russia investigation raised more than $200,000 through the end of June, mostly from a trio of longtime Trump allies, according to new tax filings reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. Half of that money came from California real-estate […]
8/6/2018
LEGAL/MILITARY/TRANSGENDER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A U.S. court on Monday [8-9-18] ruled the Trump administration could not enforce an updated policy barring certain transgender people from serving in the U.S. military, becoming the second court in the country to rule against the government since it unveiled the policy in March. Trump announced on March 23 that he […]
8/6/2018
BUSINESS/LABOR/LEGAL/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “New York on Monday [8-6-18] filed a lawsuit seeking to compel the Trump administration to turn over more information about a pilot program allowing employers to resolve violations of federal overtime and minimum wage laws without penalties. According to the lawsuit, filed against the U.S. Department of Labor by New York […]
8/6/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Rick Gates, a longtime business associate of U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, on Monday [8-6-18] testified at trial that he helped Manafort file false tax returns and hide his foreign bank accounts. Gates is expected to be the government’s star witness in its case against […]
8/4/2018
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As President Donald Trump’s legal team continued its will-he-or-won’t-he dance this week on a sit-down interview with special counsel Robert Mueller, a federal judge in Washington issued a tome on why Mueller’s appointment was rock-solid in the first place. Chief Judge Beryl Howell’s decision is not entirely novel; it falls […]
8/3/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Paul Manafort’s longtime bookkeeper testified Thursday [8-2-18] that Mr. Manafort and an associate appeared to use documents that inaccurately inflated their firm’s income to obtain bank loans, a central allegation in the prosecution by special counsel Robert Mueller’s office. Heather Washkuhn also testified that even though she kept close tabs on […]
8/3/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Paul Manafort’s accountants testified against the former Trump campaign chairman on Friday [8-3-18], telling jurors that loan amounts were fudged to help him on his taxes and that he did not disclose his financial stake in foreign companies. Testimony from the financial professionals who worked for Manafort are making up […]
8/3/2018
COURTS/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “An accountant for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort admitted at Manafort’s tax- and bank-fraud trial Friday [8-3-18] that she filed tax returns she thought contained false information and that she may have committed a crime in doing so. Accountant Cindy Laporta said she had a sense that what Manafort and […]
8/3/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “An accountant for U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort testified on Friday [8-3-18] that she knew an accounting treatment for a loan was wrong when preparing Manafort’s tax return. The accountant, Cynthia Laporta, said the accounting treatment involved the 2014 tax year. ‘I very much regret it,’ she […]
8/3/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “An accountant for U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort testified on Friday [8-3-18] that she prepared his tax returns despite her concerns about the propriety of classifying money he transferred from overseas as loans. U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis asked the accountant, Cynthia Laporta, whether she was […]
8/2/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A day after describing in detail how millions of dollars in payments from Ukrainian oligarchs enabled Paul Manafort to live in luxury through 2014, federal prosecutors outlined on Thursday [8-2-18] how his financial fortunes reversed so sharply in subsequent years that he made his Manhattan condominium available on Airbnb. Witnesses […]
8/2/2018
LEGAL/LOBBYING/MICHAEL COHEN/NUCLEAR ENERGY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A major donor to President Trump agreed to pay $10 million to the president’s then-personal attorney if he successfully helped obtain funding for a nuclear-power project, including a $5 billion loan from the U.S. government, according to people familiar with the matter. The donor, Franklin L. Haney, gave the contract to […]
8/2/2018
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/ROGER STONE/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “An aide to Roger Stone, a former adviser to Donald Trump, must turn over documents and testify before the grand jury hearing evidence in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, a federal judge ruled Thursday [8-2-18]. At the same time, Mr. Mueller is negotiating the terms of a possible interview […]
8/2/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Prosecutors on Thursday [8-2-18] pressed their bank and tax fraud case against Paul Manafort, presenting testimony and documents to try to prove U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman deceived his lead bookkeeper and a bank about his finances. On the trial’s third day, the prosecution pivoted away from describing Manafort’s […]
8/1/2018
LEGAL/LOBBYING/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The mandate given to Robert S. Mueller III and his team was broad: to investigate not just Russian election interference but also any related crimes they might unearth. So when this group of seasoned prosecutors began rooting around Washington, they pounced on a ripe target — lobbyists taking millions […]
8/1/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Prosecution questioning Wednesday [8-1-18] of the former manager of a luxury men’s clothing boutique Paul Manafort frequented, Alan Couture in New York, revealed an intriguing and mysterious development: someone apparently forged invoices from the store. Seeking to establish just how expensive Manafort’s tastes were, Manafort’s team got Maximillian Katzman—the store’s […]
8/1/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Prosecutors on Wednesday [8-1-2018] introduced into evidence dozens of business, loan and tax-preparation records seized last year from the Virginia condominium owned by Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman now on trial on tax and bank-fraud charges. An FBI agent, Matthew Mikuska, testified that he and about 14 […]
7/31/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Paul Manafort’s trial on financial fraud charges opened on Tuesday [7-31-18] with an effort by his defense team to deflect blame to the government’s star witness in the case, Rick Gates, Mr. Manafort’s longtime political consulting partner. The defense strategy pits the credibility of Mr. Manafort, a former campaign chairman for […]
7/31/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. prosecutors raised the possibility on Wednesday [8-1-18] that an expected star witness may not testify against President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort even as the judge tried to rein in their portrayal of Manafort’s lavish lifestyle. Testimony in the second day of Manafort’s trial, the first stemming from […]
7/31/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Prosecutors accused former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort of being a ‘shrewd’ liar who orchestrated a global scheme to avoid paying taxes on millions of dollars, in opening statements that kicked off Manafort’s trial on Tuesday [7-31-18]. Manafort lived an ‘extravagant lifestyle’ fueled by ‘secret income’ that he earned from his […]
7/31/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A jury was sworn in Tuesday [7-31-18] for the trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, with opening statements on deck in the first case that special counsel Robert Mueller’s team is bringing to trial. The 12-person jury selected for Manafort’s trial includes six men and six women. There are […]
7/31/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Prosecutors and defense attorneys selected a 12-member jury on Tuesday [7-31-18] to weigh the fate of Paul Manafort, U.S. President Donald Trump’s former 2016 campaign chairman, in the first trial to arise out of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe. The jury of six men and six women will hear testimony […]
7/30/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The criminal trial of Paul Manafort that opens in Virginia Tuesday [7-31-18] is just one part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s sprawling Russia probe — but its verdict could have an outsized impact on Mueller’s work. A conviction against Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, who is fighting major bank and […]
7/30/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, said Monday [7-30-18] that he’s not sure collusion with Russia would be considered a crime. But legal experts have repeatedly said that anyone found collaborating with Russia on the 2016 election could be charged with other crimes, such as conspiracy — and special […]
7/29/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “After a week of revelations that suggest Michael Cohen may have turned on Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, the President’s current lawyer, argued that Trump’s former attorney wasn’t credible and has ‘lied all his life.’ That’s a stark reversal from what Giuliani once said about Cohen, whom he described as truthful […]
7/30/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Paul Manafort on Tuesday [7-31-18] will become the first of President Donald Trump’s former aides to go on trial, accused of bank and tax fraud by federal investigators probing Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Despite a focus on financial crimes, the trial could yield politically damaging headlines […]
7/29/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump’s allies sought to discredit his former attorney, Michael Cohen, after a week of escalating clashes that raised the question of how much Mr. Cohen may be prepared to divulge about his former boss. Rudy Giuliani, Mr. Trump’s lawyer, called Mr. Cohen a ‘pathological manipulator’ and ‘a liar’ […]
7/29/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Paul Manafort, the veteran Republican political operative and lobbyist who helped run President Trump’s 2016 campaign, is scheduled to go to trial on financial fraud charges starting on Tuesday [7-31-18] in United States District Court in Alexandria, Va. The main points to be aware of: It is the first trial stemming […]
7/29/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team will take President Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort to court in Alexandria, Va., on Tuesday [7-31-18], in a trial with implications reaching far beyond the immediate charges ranging from tax evasion to bank fraud. The outcome of the trial, which is expected to last three […]
7/27/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A furious President Donald Trump and his allies are launching a campaign to undermine the credibility of Trump’s former personal lawyer and confidant, Michael Cohen, in response to Cohen’s dramatic public turn against his longtime patron. Trump, who has privately fumed about Cohen for days, trashed his former lawyer […]
7/27/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Immigrant advocacy groups are gearing up to track down more than 400 parents who were separated from their children and deported without them. The challenge is so daunting that government attorneys have bristled every time it’s come up in court. And now a number of nonprofit groups say they’re prepared to join […]
7/27/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A federal judge expressed skepticism on Friday [7-27-18] at a request for a gag order from the former personal lawyer for U.S. President Donald Trump against the lawyer for adult film actress Stormy Daniels, who is suing the president. At a hearing in Los Angeles, U.S. District Judge S. James Otero […]
7/27/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Michael Avenatti, the attorney representing porn actress Stormy Daniels in her lawsuits against President Donald Trump, now also represents three other women who claim to have had affairs with Trump who say they were paid to stay silent about. The Associated Press reported Thursday that Avenatti announced his new clients […]
7/26/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Allen Weisselberg, a longtime financial gatekeeper for President Donald Trump, has been subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury in the criminal probe of Mr. Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, according to people familiar with the investigation. Mr. Weisselberg is considered a witness in the investigation, the people said. It […]
7/26/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Allen Weisselberg, a longtime financial gatekeeper for President Donald Trump, has been subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury in the criminal probe of Mr. Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, according to people familiar with the investigation. Mr. Weisselberg is considered a witness in the investigation, the people said. It […]
7/26/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When federal judge Dana Sabraw gave orders to reunite separated families by certain dates, he made his demands clear: These were ‘firm deadlines,’ he warned. ‘Not aspirational goals.’ That was weeks ago, before an earlier deadline in the case. Fast forward to Thursday [7-26-18], and US officials are scrambling to reunite hundreds […]
7/26/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “About a month before Michael Cohen released his recording of a sensitive conversation he had with Donald Trump, the President’s longtime attorney and adviser was agonizing over the silent treatment he was getting from his former boss…Federal prosecutors were bearing down on him over his business dealings, some involving […]
7/25/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL CHOEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Lanny J. Davis’s client list, like his quintessentially Washington career as an all-purpose lawyer, lobbyist, crisis consultant and television-talker, is lengthy, international — and more than occasionally contradictory. Mr. Davis has represented Harvey Weinstein and Penn State, a Ukrainian oligarch with links to President Trump’s indicted former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, […]
7/25/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Just before Election Day, when The Wall Street Journal uncovered a secret deal by the National Enquirer to buy the silence of a former Playboy model who said she had an affair with Donald J. Trump, his campaign issued a flat denial. ‘We have no knowledge of any of this,’ Mr. […]
7/25/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “President Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, escalated his dispute with the president on Tuesday [7-24-18] by releasing a secret recording of a conversation in which Mr. Trump appears to have knowledge about hush money payments to a former Playboy model who said she had an affair with […]
7/25/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump said on Wednesday [7-25-18] that it is ‘so sad’ that his longtime personal attorney recorded their private conversations, suggesting that audio released Tuesday [7-24-18] has been doctored to exclude ‘positive things’ that he was ‘presumably’ saying…In an interview with POLITICO, Davis scoffed at the president’s suggestion about the […]
7/25/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump blasted his former attorney Michael Cohen on Wednesday [7-25-18], the morning after CNN aired the audio of a recording Cohen made of the two…In the audio aired first on CNN’s ‘Cuomo Prime Time,’ Trump and Cohen can be heard discussing how they would buy the rights to […]
7/25/2018
LEGAL/MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Michael Cohen and the publisher of the National Enquirer forged an alliance over the years, looking out for the interests of Donald Trump and each other. Now, federal investigators are examining those ties as part of a wide-ranging probe into Mr. Cohen’s personal business dealings and his self-described role as […]
7/25/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “On Tuesday [7-24-18] night at 9 sharp, any pretense that Michael Cohen might still be in President Donald Trump’s camp ended. That’s the moment when the previously secret recording of a 2016 conversation between Trump’s personal fixer and the then-presidential candidate aired on CNN’s ‘Cuomo Prime Time.’ The recording, in which […]
7/25/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “What kind of a lawyer would tape a client? So sad! Is this a first, never heard of it before? Why was the tape so abruptly terminated (cut) while I was presumably saying positive things? I hear there are other clients and many reporters that are taped – can this be […]
7/25/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday [7-25-18] expressed disbelief that his longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen would have taped conversations with him, a day after an audio recording of a conversation between the two men was aired on U.S. television. A lawyer for Cohen, Lanny Davis, released the recording of Trump […]
7/23/2018
CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration gave its first indication Monday [7-23-18] of how many parents separated from their children may have already been deported: More than 460. In a status update on the ongoing court-ordered family reunifications filed Monday, the government said 463 parents of separated children aged five and older are indicated as […]
7/23/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A U.S. judge on Monday [7-23-18] delayed the criminal trial of President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort until next week, and made public the identity of five witnesses granted immunity to testify. U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III also said the office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller […]
7/23/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Twelve audio recordings seized from U.S. President Donald Trump’s onetime personal attorney, Michael Cohen, were turned over to federal prosecutors on Friday [7-20-18], according to a filing in federal court in Manhattan on Monday [7-23-18]. They include a recording of a conversation between Cohen and Trump two months before the […]
7/23/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia, has granted the request for five witnesses to testify with immunity in the criminal trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. US District Judge T.S. Ellis is also ordering special counsel Robert Mueller’s team to tell Manafort’s team the nearly 30 witnesses it is […]
7/22/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump’s lawyers have waived attorney-client privilege on his behalf regarding a secretly recorded conversation he had in September 2016 with his former longtime lawyer Michael Cohen in which they discussed payments to an ex-Playboy model who says she had an affair with the President, according to sources familiar with […]
7/21/2018
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Inconceivable that the government would break into a lawyer’s office (early in the morning) – almost unheard of. Even more inconceivable that a lawyer would tape a client – totally unheard of & perhaps illegal. The good news is that your favorite President did nothing wrong!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 21, 2018 […]
7/20/2018
LEGAL/MEDIA/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Bill Shine, a former co-president of Fox News hired this month as President Trump’s communications chief, brought conservative credentials and heavy baggage with him into the White House. President Trump embraced the former and ignored the latter. Mr. Shine, now struggling to limit the damage from Mr. Trump’s performance on Monday [7-16-18] with […]
7/20/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI//LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Trump’s longtime lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, secretly recorded a conversation with Mr. Trump two months before the presidential election in which they discussed payments to a former Playboy model who said she had an affair with Mr. Trump, according to lawyers and others familiar with the recording. The F.B.I. […]
7/20/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “MIchael Cohen taped a conversation in person with Donald Trump in which the two men discussed buying the rights to a former Playboy Playmate’s story that she had an affair with Mr. Trump more than a decade ago, according to people familiar with the matter. The conversation, between the then-GOP presidential […]
7/20/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/ICE/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Attorneys for the U.S. government were due in court on Friday [7-20-18] to update a federal judge on efforts to reunite some 2,500 immigrant children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border as part of a crackdown on illegal immigration. The government has six more days to comply with the reunification […]
7/18/2018
DEMS/JARED/KUSHNER/LEGAL/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Democratic National Committee tried and failed three times to serve Jared Kushner with a lawsuit at his Manhattan apartment and was turned away by a US Secret Service agent when it attempted to deliver the packet to the White House senior adviser’s Washington, DC, home, according to court filings. After consulting with […]
7/18/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/NEW YORK/TRUMP BUSINESS: “New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday [7-18-18] opened the door to a possible criminal case against the Donald J. Trump Foundation with a statement from his counsel that Cuomo was prepared to provide a criminal referral if asked. ‘At Governor Cuomo’s direction, the state stands ready to provide the Attorney […]
7/17/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A federal judge in Virginia on Tuesday [7-17-18] denied a motion by former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort to move a trial set to start next week from the Washington suburb of Alexandria to the city of Roanoke, Virginia. Manafort had requested a change of venue on the grounds that […]
7/16/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/HHS/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal judge in San Diego is temporarily blocking the government from deporting recently reunited immigrant families, the latest ruling to go against the Trump administration as it rushes to reunite more than 2,500 children with their families. Judge Dana Sabraw gave the Trump administration a week to file a written objection […]
7/13/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election indicted 12 Russian intelligence officers on Friday [7-13-18] for hacking the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton presidential campaign. The indictment came just three days before President Trump is planning to meet with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia […]
7/12/2018
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “In the end, the arrest at an Ohio strip club of Stephanie Clifford, the pornographic film star who said she had an affair with Donald J. Trump before he became president, was quickly resolved because of one fact: she was not a regular employee of the club. Ms. Clifford, who performs under […]
7/12/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Paul Manafort arrived at the jail in Alexandria, Virginia — the William G. Truesdale Adult Detention Center — Thursday [7-12-18] morning, according to a spokesperson for the Alexandria Sheriff’s Office. A mugshot released by the sheriff’s office shows an unsmiling Manafort with graying hair and light facial stubble four weeks after the […]
7/11/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/HHS/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A day after dozens of parents were reunited with children who had been separated at the U.S.-Mexico border by immigration officials, the U.S. government faces a looming deadline to match another roughly 2,000 children with parents. The struggle to track and match parents with children under five suggests meeting a July 26 […]
7/11/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort has been able to review evidence and is being treated like a ‘VIP’ in jail, prosecutors said on Wednesday [7-11-18], arguing against Manafort’s efforts to postpone his trial on fraud charges. In a filing to a Virginia federal judge overseeing one of […]
7/10/2018
LEGAL/LOBBYING/MICHAEL FLYNN/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former national security adviser Mike Flynn has a new job: He has joined a global lobbying and investment advisory firm. As he awaits sentencing for lying to federal investigators, he is going into business with Washington lobbyist Nick Muzin and his New York partner Joey Allaham with a new firm called […]
7/10/2018
FBI/LEGAL/MICHAEL FLYNN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser who pleaded guilty in a case related to the Russian election collusion investigation, is eager to move to the sentencing phase and put his legal ordeal behind him, Flynn’s lawyer said at a hearing on Tuesday. Robert Kelner confirmed at the […]
7/9/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Michael Cohen, the President’s former fixer and ultimate loyalist, is sending a clear signal to President Donald Trump and his attorney, Rudy Giuliani, that ‘the truth is not you(r) or your client’s friend,’ according to sources with knowledge of Cohen’s thinking. Two sources familiar with Cohen’s thinking say he […]
7/8/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s attorney, Rudy Giuliani, said Sunday [7-8-18] that he isn’t concerned about Michael Cohen potentially cooperating with federal prosecutors…Giuliani also said that if Cohen tells the truth, ‘we’re home free.’ The comments follow an interview Cohen had with ABC News last week in which he suggested […]
7/6/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Paul Manafort does not want to visit court until his Virginia criminal trial and he waived his right to appear in court for any upcoming hearings in the Eastern District of Virginia, his attorneys wrote in a filing Friday [7-6-18]. No other hearings are currently scheduled before the district court until his […]
7/6/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/HHS/IMMIGRATION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration is asking a judge for more time to reunite families who cross the border illegally then seek asylum, saying in court documents that officials are still struggling to match some children with parents arrested at the border. A federal judge gave the government until Tuesday [7-10-18] to reunite […]
7/5/2018
FBI/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s embattled former personal lawyer Michael Cohen, who has dropped hints that he may cooperate with federal prosecutors investigating his former boss, has hired an attorney and PR man who led former President Bill Clinton’s public defense against multiple scandals in the 1990s. Lanny Davis, who spent countless hours […]
7/5/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Special counsel Robert Mueller’s prosecutors are urging a federal appeals court to reject former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s bid to be released on bail as he prepares for two criminal trials, including one set to begin later this month. In a filing Thursday [7-5-18], Mueller’s team urged the U.S. Court […]
7/2/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s longtime personal fixer, sat down with ‘Good Morning America’ for his first interview since federal agents raided his office in April, he said it was a step toward reaching his ultimate goal of ‘resolution.’ But as revealing as it was, the interview that aired […]
7/2/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/HHS/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Federal officials are struggling to reunite migrant children with their families despite a court deadline, and agencies do not have the resources or procedures to help thousands of children detained at the border back into the arms of their parents, according to a dozen current and former officials, advocates and experts. With […]
6/27/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A search warrant application unsealed on Wednesday [6-27-18] revealed closer links than previously known between President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort and a Russian oligarch with close ties to the Kremlin. In an affidavit attached to the July 2017 application, an FBI agent said he had reviewed tax returns for […]
6/26/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “More than a dozen states sued the Trump administration on Tuesday [6-26-18] over its separation of migrant children and parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, saying President Donald Trump’s order last week ending the breakups was illusory. In a complaint filed with U.S. District Court in Seattle, 17 states and the District of […]
6/25/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Lawyers for Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s former presidential campaign manager, said on Monday [6-25-18] they plan to appeal a judge’s decision to jail Manafort while he awaits a criminal trial in Washington later this fall. Judge Amy Berman Jackson in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia […]
6/25/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Michael Caputo was facing $130,000 in legal bills with no clear way to pay on the May morning that special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigators interviewed him about Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election. Mr. Caputo planned to liquidate his retirement savings and children’s college accounts, and said the size […]
6/22/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A federal judge on Friday [6-22-18] dealt another blow to U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, refusing to dismiss a money laundering charge brought against him by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson’s ruling was the latest setback for Manafort, whose charges stem […]
6/22/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The mother rushed toward her son the second he stepped off the jetway. Then she teared up. In the waiting area of Gate C14 at Baltimore Washington International Airport, she wrapped a blanket around him, cradled his head in her arms and wept. ‘I love you,’ she said in Spanish, between sobs. […]
6/20/2018
LEGAL/MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Federal authorities have subpoenaed the publisher of the National Enquirer for records related to its $150,000 payment to a former Playboy model for the rights to her story alleging an affair with Donald Trump, according to people familiar with the matter. The subpoena from Manhattan federal prosecutors requesting information from the publisher, […]