LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A federal judge in Los Angeles has rejected a request by the adult film actress Stormy Daniels to restart her lawsuit there against U.S. President Donald Trump and his longtime lawyer Michael Cohen. In an order dated Tuesday [6-19-18], U.S. District Judge James Otero said the amount of media attention in […]
Category: Legal
6/19/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A Guatemalan woman who was separated from her 7-year-old son after crossing the border from Mexico last month filed a new lawsuit on Tuesday [6-19-18] challenging the Trump administration’s practice of splitting up immigrant families even when an adult claims asylum. The suit, filed in federal court in Washington, demands the immediate […]
6/19/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Michael Cohen took aggressive steps to collect on a multimillion-dollar debt in October 2016, at the time he was seeking to come up with $130,000 to pay a former adult-film star for agreeing to keep quiet about an alleged sexual encounter with Donald Trump. The debt stemmed from a loan to […]
6/15/2018
CALIFORNIA/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Calling for an end to the ‘media circus’ that has engulfed his numerous legal cases, Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s longtime personal fixer, has asked a judge in California to keep his adversary, the lawyer Michael Avenatti, from speaking about him in the news media. In a motion filed on Thursday […]
6/15/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen has indicated to family and friends he is willing to cooperate with federal investigators to alleviate the pressure on himself and his family, according to a source familiar with the matter. Cohen has expressed anger with the treatment he has gotten from the […]
6/15/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A judge on Friday [6-15-18] sent longtime Republican political operator and businessman Paul Manafort to jail pending trial after a charge of witness tampering, the latest episode in a slow fall from grace of a man who was President Donald Trump’s campaign chairman in 2016. Manafort, a target of Special Counsel […]
6/14/2018
LEGAL/TRUMP FAMILY: “The New York state attorney general’s office on Thursday [6-14-18] sued President Donald Trump, three of his children and the family’s foundation, accusing the charity of wide-ranging illegal conduct including coordinating with Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign. The lawsuit, filed in state Supreme Court in Manhattan, calls Mr. Trump’s foundation ‘little more than an […]
6/14/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Rudy Giuliani insisted Wednesday [6-13-18] evening that Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, would not flip on his ex-boss by cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe. ‘I checked into this last night. It’s not so,’ Giuliani told Laura Ingraham of Fox News. The former New York […]
6/13/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s longtime personal fixer, will soon be parting from the lawyers who are representing him in a potentially damaging and wide-ranging federal investigation into his business dealings, according to two people familiar with the case. Mr. Cohen has not yet been approached by the prosecutors conducting the inquiry […]
6/12/2018
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special counsel Robert Mueller’s office is asking federal Judge Dabney Friedrich for an order that would lock down documents shared with the Russian company Concord Management and Consulting, because of the potential for the information to be shared with foreign nationals and intelligence officials still working to sow discord in the […]
6/8/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Prosecutors have filed a new indictment against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort that also names as a defendant Konstantin Kilimnik, a close business colleague of Manafort’s who prosecutors have said has close ties to Russian intelligence. The indictment includes two new charges against both Manafort and Kilimnik: a count of […]
6/8/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal judge said U.S. President Donald Trump should publicly file his objections to findings of a court-appointed special master reviewing documents seized in a probe of the business dealings of his longtime personal lawyer, Michael Cohen. In an order issued on Friday [6-8-18], U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood in […]
6/7/2018
LEGAL/MIKE PENCE/SPORTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Colin Kaepernick’s legal team is expected to seek subpoenas for President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and other campaign officials relating to the quarterback’s collusion case against the NFL, a source familiar with the ongoing grievance process has told CNN. The new move intends to explore NFL owners’ ties with […]
6/6/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “The adult-film actress Stormy Daniels on Wednesday [6-6-18] accused her former attorney Keith Davidson of colluding with President Donald Trump’s onetime lawyer and fixer, calling Davidson a ‘puppet’ for Trump who ‘hatched a plan’ to put a lid on reports of his infidelities. Daniels made the complaint in a lawsuit […]
6/6/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Adult film actress Stormy Daniels on Wednesday [6-6-18] launched a new lawsuit against her former attorney, Keith Davidson, as well as President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, saying the two men ‘colluded’ and ‘acted in concert’ to ‘manipulate’ Daniels and to benefit Trump. The lawsuit, filed in the Superior Court […]
6/5/2018
LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “White House press secretary Sarah Sanders refused again on Tuesday [6-5-18] to correct her August statement that President Donald Trump wasn’t involved in drafting a misleading statement about his son’s meeting with a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower…A day earlier, Sanders referred questions on the matter to the President’s outside counsel. The President’s […]
6/5/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The special counsel’s office has accused former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort of attempting to get witnesses to lie for him in court, and they’ve asked the judge to send him to jail as he awaits his trial, according to a filing in DC District Court Monday [6-4-18] night. One […]
6/5/2018
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A judge ruled Tuesday [6-5-18] that President Donald Trump can be deposed in a defamation lawsuit brought last year by Summer Zervos, a former contestant on ‘The Apprentice’ who says Trump kissed and groped her after she appeared on the show. Zervos is one of more than a dozen women who have […]
6/5/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A federal judge on Tuesday [6-5-18] ordered U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, to respond by Friday [6-8-18] to the government’s bid to revoke or revise his release and set a June 15 hearing on the matter, according to a court filing. Special Counsel Robert Mueller said in […]
6/5/2018
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A recently published letter from President Donald Trump’s attorneys claiming that the president could not have obstructed the federal investigation into ties between his campaign and Russia is deeply flawed, 14 prominent law professors and legal scholars said Monday [6-4-18] in a pointed rebuttal sent to top lawyers at the White […]
6/4/2018
JAMES COMEY/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Donald Trump and his lawyers are staking out a vision of an unrestrained and all-powerful presidency in a staggeringly audacious defense of his actions related to the Russia probe already shared with special counsel Robert Mueller. The assertions made by Trump’s former lawyer John Dowd and Jay Sekulow, who […]
6/4/2018
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday [6-4-18] said he had committed no wrongdoing but has the ‘absolute’ power to pardon himself, echoing sweeping arguments put forth by his lawyer Rudy Giuliani on Sunday [6-3-18]. The remarks come as U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the […]
6/1/2018
DEMS/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Michael Avenatti, the lawyer for Stephanie Clifford, the pornographic film actress who says she had a sexual encounter with President Trump, has sought help for his legal battle against Mr. Trump from leading Democratic operatives. Mr. Avenatti contacted an official in the network of liberal groups led by David Brock, while someone […]
5/31/2018
LEGAL/MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump said on Thursday [5-31-18] that he planned to issue a pardon to Dinesh D’Souza, a conservative author, commentator and filmmaker, and was strongly considering commuting the sentence of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich of Illinois, a Democrat. Flexing his clemency power as he and his team face multiple criminal […]
5/30/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A lawyer for U.S. President Donald Trump’s longtime personal attorney, Michael Cohen, on Wednesday [5-30-18] accused adult film actress Stormy Daniels’ lawyer of leaking Cohen’s bank records to the press, calling it a ‘drive-by shooting of my client’s rights.’ The comments by Cohen lawyer Stephen Ryan regarding Daniels’ lawyer, […]
5/30/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “A lawyer for U.S. President Donald Trump’s longtime personal attorney, Michael Cohen, on Wednesday [5-30-18] accused adult film actress Stormy Daniels’ lawyer of leaking Cohen’s bank records to the press, calling it a ‘drive-by shooting of my client’s rights.’ The comments by Cohen lawyer Stephen Ryan regarding Daniels’ lawyer, Michael Avenatti, […]
5/29/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “hen it comes to President Trump’s legal health and welfare, few recent events have borne as much potential risk as the extraordinary raids that federal agents conducted last month on Michael D. Cohen, his longtime lawyer and fixer. Seizing boxes of documents and about a dozen cellphones, iPads and computers, […]
5/25/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A Russian oligarch who was questioned by special counsel Robert Mueller and recently sanctioned by the US visited President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen in Trump Tower during the presidential transition in January 2017, according to video reviewed by CNN and a person familiar with the matter. The January 9, […]
5/25/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, lost a bid on Friday [5-25-18] to have certain criminal charges filed against him by Special Counsel Robert Mueller dismissed. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who is presiding over Manafort’s case in Washington, said in a ruling that she will not […]
5/25/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A trial date for U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, for alleged financial crimes been postponed to July 24 in the Eastern District of Virginia District Court, according to a court filing on Friday [5-25-18]. The judge said the cause of the postponement from July 10 was ‘owing to […]
5/24/2018
CONGRESS/FBI/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s chief of staff and a White House lawyer representing the president in the Russia investigation were present on Thursday [-5-24-18] at the start of two classified meetings requested by members of Congress to review sensitive material about the F.B.I.’s use of an informant in the inquiry. The two men left […]
5/24/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Stormy Daniels’ lawyer has renewed efforts to depose President Donald Trump in the porn actress’ legal fight to invalidate a confidentiality agreement she signed days before the 2016 presidential election, according to court documents filed Thursday [5-24-18]. Attorney Michael Avenatti argues that U.S. District Judge S. James Otero should reconsider […]
5/23/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UKRAINE: “U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, received a secret payment of at least $400,000 to arrange talks between Trump and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko last year, the British Broadcasting Corp reported on Wednesday [5-23-18]. The payment was arranged by intermediaries acting for Poroshenko who wanted to open a back […]
5/23/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A New York federal judge has postponed to next week a hearing in the case brought by President Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen to limit prosecutors’ review of documents seized from his home and office. The hearing, which had been scheduled to take place Thursday [5-24-18], is expected to […]
5/23/2018
ATTORNEY GENERAL/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The man aspiring to be the new face of the resistance is a practicing Sikh who likes to call attention to his turban and happens to have jurisdiction over 20 of President Donald Trump’s properties, including Bedminster. New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal says he sees an opening in the […]
5/22/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A New York taxi kingpin and business partner of President Donald Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen has agreed to cooperate with the government, The New York Times reported Tuesday [5-22-18]. The Times said the agreement for Evegny ‘Gene’ Freidman would allow him to avoid jail time and would have him work with […]
5/22/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A significant business partner of Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s personal lawyer, has quietly agreed to cooperate with the government as a potential witness, a development that could be used as leverage to pressure Mr. Cohen to work with the special counsel examining Russian interference in the 2016 presidential […]
5/22/2018
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Special counsel Robert Mueller has no-commented his way through more than a year of the Russia probe. But he’s recently picked up an unwelcome spokesman of sorts: Rudy Giuliani. For better or worse, Donald Trump’s newest personal lawyer has in his first month on the job claimed to relay […]
5/18/2018
ETHICS/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Donald Trump’s fresh acknowledgment this week that he reimbursed his lawyer Michael Cohen more than $100,000 in 2017 is raising red flags with ethics experts about why the President withheld information from the public about those payments last year. Trump’s financial disclosure report released on Wednesday [5-16-18] — covering all of […]
5/17/2018
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump and his allies ramped up their pressure campaign against special counsel Robert Mueller on Thursday [5-17-18] — the one-year anniversary of his sprawling investigation — as they seek to discredit the probe that shows no signs of wrapping up soon. Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor […]
5/16/2018
DEMS/GOP/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Six months after the June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower between Trump campaign officials and a self-described Kremlin informant, an intermediary contacted Donald J. Trump’s office asking for a follow-up, according to documents released on Wednesday [5-16-18] by a Senate committee…The follow-up overture is one of the kernels of new information contained […]
5/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Within hours of opening an investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia in the summer of 2016, the F.B.I. dispatched a pair of agents to London on a mission so secretive that all but a handful of officials were kept in the dark. Their assignment, which has not been previously […]
5/16/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump acknowledged for the first time that he repaid his lawyer Michael Cohen more than $100,000 for expenses Cohen incurred during the 2016 presidential election, according to a financial disclosure form released Wednesday [5-16-18]. The document did not explicitly state what the payments were for. But Trump’s lawyers have […]
5/16/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump’s newly filed financial disclosure notes a payment connected to an adult-film actress who alleged a relationship with him more than a decade ago. The payment is documented as a reimbursement to attorney Michael Cohen of between $100,001 and $250,000 for expenses in 2016. The Wall Street Journal previously […]
5/16/2018
ETHICS/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump acknowledged for the first time that he repaid his attorney Michael Cohen for a payment of at least $100,001 made to a ‘third party’ in 2016, according to ethics disclosures signed by the president that were released by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics on Wednesday. Cohen made […]
5/13/2018
BUSINESS/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “When Michael Cohen came knocking after the 2016 election, touting himself as the president’s lawyer, a man who could decipher the new administration, Ford Motor Co. said no. So did Uber Technologies Inc. He managed to notch AT&T Inc. and Novartis AG . And Squire Patton Boggs, a law and lobbying […]
5/11/2018
BUSINESS/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Randall L. Stephenson, AT&T’s chief executive, said on Friday [5-11-18] that the company had made a ‘big mistake’ by hiring President Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, to advise on the telecommunications giant’s deal to buy Time Warner. ‘Our company has been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons these last […]
5/11/2018
DEMS/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/PHARMA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A key Democratic senator is joining at least one other lawmaker Friday [5-11-18] in requesting that pharmaceutical giant Novartis turn over documents relating to President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen. Sen. Patty Murray of Washington state, the top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, has sent a […]
5/10/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, abruptly resigned from his law firm after weeks of tensions over his public comments. Mr. Giuliani took a leave of absence last month from the firm, Greenberg Traurig, one of the nation’s largest, to represent Mr. Trump. But the firm announced on Thursday [5-10-18] […]
5/10/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Rudy Giuliani, who last month joined the team of lawyers representing President Donald Trump in the Russia investigation, resigned from his law firm on Thursday [5-10-18], citing the ‘pressing demands’ of the special counsel probe. Mr. Giuliani said last month that he would take a ‘temporary leave of absence’ from […]
5/10/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s new attorney, Rudy Giuliani, told CNN on Thursday [5-10-18] that Trump ‘wasn’t aware’ his longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen pitched his access to the President to potential clients following the 2016 election and landed lucrative consulting deals as a result…One Republican strategist described Cohen’s pitch as follows: ‘I […]
5/10/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Michael Cohen served loyally as Donald Trump’s right-hand man for more than a decade, taking care of anything and everything the New York real estate baron needed to get done. On November 8, 2016, Cohen’s stock suddenly soared: He was now the personal attorney to the President-elect of the United States, with […]
5/10/2018
BUSINESS/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “From its origins as a conduit to pay hush money, Essential Consultants LLC has evolved into a nexus in federal investigations buffeting the Trump administration. Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, set up the Delaware limited liability company to pay former adult-movie actress Stephanie Clifford, professionally known as Stormy Daniels. […]
5/9/2018
LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “An attorney for porn star Stormy Daniels said on Wednesday [5-9-18] he has more evidence of ties between a Russian oligarch sanctioned by the United States and a payment to U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, and questioned other companies’ dealings with Cohen’s firm. In two television interviews, Daniels’ attorney, […]
5/9/18
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA/TREASURY/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “The Treasury Department’s Inspector General is investigating whether confidential financial information related to President Donald Trump’s longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen might have been leaked, IG spokesman Rich Delmar confirmed Wednesday [5-9-18]. The probe was launched after Michael Avenatti, lawyer to adult film star Stormy Daniels, distributed a document claiming that AT&T, […]
5/9/2018
BUSINESS/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Novartis AG was drawn into Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of suspected Russian meddling in the U.S. presidential election after paying $1.2 million to a consulting firm led by Donald Trump’s lawyer. The Swiss drugmaker said Wednesday [5-9-18] that it had a one-year agreement with attorney Michael Cohen’s firm that began […]
5/8/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A company created by Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, received $500,000 in 2017 from an investment fund linked to a Russian oligarch, according to a person familiar with the matter. Separately, AT&T Inc. said it made payments to Mr. Cohen’s company in 2017 for ‘insights’ into the administration at a […]
5/8/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A shell company that Michael D. Cohen used to pay hush money to a pornographic film actress received payments totaling more than $1 million from an American company linked to a Russian oligarch and several corporations with business before the Trump administration, according to documents and interviews. Financial records reviewed by […]
5/7/2018
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Lawyers advising President Donald Trump in the Russia investigation hope to decide whether he should testify by May 17, the one-year anniversary of the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller, Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani said Monday [5-7-18]. Mr. Trump’s legal team has long been divided on whether he should agree […]
5/4/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump said Friday [5-4-18] that his lawyer Rudy Giuliani will ‘get his facts straight’ and praised him as a ‘great guy,’ two days after the former New York City mayor stunned the White House and the president’s legal team with remarks about payments to an adult film star […]
5/6/2018
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s legal team is striking a more combative tone with Robert Mueller, suggesting publicly that the president may decline to cooperate with the special counsel’s prosecutors. That tougher stance comes as the Mueller probe already faces a time crunch because of the approaching midterm elections. Rudy Giuliani, the former […]
5/6/2018
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Rudolph W. Giuliani, reeling after a chaotic first week as President Trump’s lawyer, tried again on Sunday [5-6-18] to straighten out his client’s story. But Mr. Giuliani raised new questions about whether Mr. Trump had paid hush money to other women and suggested the president might invoke the Fifth Amendment to […]
5/4/2018
LEGAL/NRA/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump sought to reassure National Rifle Association members at their 2018 annual meeting Friday [5-4-18] that their Second Amendment rights are safe in the midst of a national conversation on gun law reform…Trump also urged the crowd not to become ‘complacent’ heading into the midterm elections as he […]
5/4/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump undercut his attorney, Rudolph W. Giuliani, on Friday [5-4-18], and said the former New York mayor will eventually get the facts right regarding a payment to a pornographic actress who said she had an affair with Mr. Trump. ‘And virtually everything said has been said incorrectly, and it’s […]
5/4/2018
LEGAL/RUDY GUILIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump publicly undermined his attorney Rudy Giuliani on Friday [5-4-18], saying the former New York City mayor had only a loose grasp of the Stormy Daniels business when he spoke about it earlier this week. A clarifying statement from Giuliani issued four hours later did little to illuminate […]
5/3/2018
LEGAL/RELIGION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump celebrated the National Day of Prayer by announcing a White House initiative that he said would underpin policies recognizing the ‘vital role’ of religion in the country. ‘America is a nation of believers,’ he said. Shortly before the Rose Garden event Thursday [5-3-18], Trump acknowledged reimbursing his personal attorney […]
5/3/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “President Trump on Thursday [5-3-18] directly contradicted his earlier statements that he knew of no payment to Stormy Daniels, the pornographic film actress who says she had an affair with Mr. Trump. Mr. Trump said he paid a monthly retainer to his former lawyer and fixer, Michael D. Cohen, and […]
5/3/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUDY GUILANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump hatched with Rudy Giuliani the high-risk plan to disclose on live television that he had reimbursed his longtime attorney for buying a porn actress’s silence, leaving senior aides in the White House and the rest of his legal team stunned. Mr. Giuliani, the former New York City […]
5/3/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Trump’s new legal team made a chaotic debut as Rudolph W. Giuliani, who was tapped recently to be one of the president’s lawyers, potentially exposed his client to legal and political danger by publicly revealing the existence of secret payments to Michael D. Cohen, the president’s personal lawyer. After […]
5/3/2018
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump and Robert Mueller look ready to go to war. It was always theoretically possible that the Russia investigation could end with the President and the special counsel on either side of a constitutional showdown. But a breakneck sequence of events over the last two days may have made the […]
5/3/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump and his aides are ‘panicking,’ the attorney for porn actress Stormy Daniels said Thursday [5-3-18] afternoon, and are ‘just making it up as they go along’ as they deal with Trump’s mounting legal challenges. Rudy Giuliani, who joined the president’s legal team last month, disclosed Wednesday [5-2-18] […]
5/3/2018
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Rudy Giuliani may have added to the legal headaches of his new law client and old friend, President Donald Trump, when he drew a link Thursday [5-3-18] between a hush money payment to a porn actress and the potential fallout if her allegations of a tryst with Trump had gone public […]
5/3/2018
FBI/JAMES COMEY/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former FBI Director James Comey defended the bureau on Thursday [5-3-18] after Rudy Giuliani compared FBI agents to ‘stormtroopers’ over last month’s raid on President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen…The term ‘stormtroopers’ originated during World War I to describe German assault troops, but it’s also been applied to enforcers of […]
5/3/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump on Thursday [5-3-18] said his longtime lawyer was reimbursed for a payment he made to a former adult film star to keep her quiet about an alleged sexual encounter with Mr. Trump. The president said the agreement with Stephanie Clifford, known professionally as Stormy Daniels, was made […]
5/3/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “…despite already having signed a detailed letter admitting that there was no affair. Prior to its violation by Ms. Clifford and her attorney, this was a private agreement. Money from the campaign, or campaign contributions, played no roll in this transaction.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 3, 2018 6:00 am […]
5/3/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “…very common among celebrities and people of wealth. In this case it is in full force and effect and will be used in Arbitration for damages against Ms. Clifford (Daniels). The agreement was used to stop the false and extortionist accusations made by her about an affair,……” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May […]
5/3/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Mr. Cohen, an attorney, received a monthly retainer, not from the campaign and having nothing to do with the campaign, from which he entered into, through reimbursement, a private contract between two parties, known as a non-disclosure agreement, or NDA. These agreements are…..” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 3, 2018 5:46 am […]
5/3/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump said on Thursday [5-3-18] his personal lawyer was paid back through a monthly retainer, not campaign funds, for the $130,000 given to adult-film star Stormy Daniels to stop ‘false and extortionist accusations’ she made about a sexual encounter with him. Trump, who in April told reporters he did […]
5/3/2018
LEGAL/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Rudy Giuliani’s cable rollout as a member of President Donald Trump’s legal team, and the torrent of statements he made Wednesday [5-2-18] night, caught many in the White House offguard and flat-footed, highlighting the continued chaotic nature of the President’s communications strategy. Giuliani told CNN Thursday [5-3-18] he and Trump are […]
5/2/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “President Trump reimbursed Michael D. Cohen, his longtime personal lawyer, for a $130,000 payment that Mr. Cohen has said he made to keep a pornographic film actress from going public before the 2016 election with her story about an affair with Mr. Trump, according to Rudolph W. Giuliani, one of […]
5/2/2018
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump plans to hire Emmet T. Flood, the veteran Washington lawyer who represented Bill Clinton during his impeachment, to replace Ty Cobb, the White House lawyer who has taken the lead in dealing with the special counsel investigation, who is retiring, according to two people briefed on the matter. In […]
5/2/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Ty Cobb, the top White House lawyer representing President Donald Trump in the Russia investigation, is leaving his role at the end of the month, the White House said Wednesday [5-2-18]. Mr. Cobb will be replaced on the legal team by Emmet Flood, according to a person familiar with the […]
5/2/2018
GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The House Republican duo targeting senior leaders at the Justice Department have a new demand for Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein: They want to see an unredacted copy of the memo he sent to whom detailing the scope of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. The same lawmakers are […]
5/2/2018
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Can a president be forced to testify? While the Supreme Court has never definitively ruled on the subject, the answer appears to be yes. The question was tested during the Watergate scandal in 1974, when justices held unanimously that a president could be compelled to comply with a subpoena for tapes […]
5/2/2018
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Lawyer Emmet Flood, who advised President Bill Clinton in impeachment proceedings, will assist President Donald Trump with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 election, replacing Ty Cobb, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said on Wednesday [5-2-18]. The latest lawyer shuffle comes as the question of whether Trump […]
5/2/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Trump lawyer / fixer / organizer of Playboy model (alleged) mistress payoffs Michael Cohen graces the cover of the National Enquirer this week, pictured looking hangdog and droopy under the headline ‘PAYOFFS & THREATS EXPOSED: TRUMP FIXER’S SECRETS & LIES!’ It’s a particularly uncomfortable display, given that the Enquirer is owned […]
5/2/2018
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TWITTER: “President Donald Trump suggested Wednesday [5-2-18] morning that questions by special counsel Robert Mueller’s team about whether he obstructed justice amount to a ‘setup & trap…’ Trump’s tweet comes after the New York Times published a leaked list of questions Mueller would like to ask the President, several of which were […]
5/1/2018
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team has given President Trump a list of questions for an interview, and the president—should he agree to sit for questioning—is in for the toughest exam of his life. By providing the president’s legal team with advance notice of these questions, Mueller has made clear that he […]
5/1/2018
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump has insisted he is eager to make the case to the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, that he has done nothing wrong. But the questions that Mr. Mueller wants to ask show why the president’s lawyers have countered that an interview would be a minefield for Mr. Trump. […]
5/1/2018
IVANKA/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “She was in Bedminster, New Jersey, with President Donald Trump the rainy May 2017 weekend when he decided to fire FBI Director James Comey. She was a passenger on the plane flying home from the G-20 conference in Germany the next month, strategizing about how to manage the fallout of her brother […]
4/30/2018
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel investigating Russia’s election interference, has at least four dozen questions on an exhaustive array of subjects he wants to ask President Trump to learn more about his ties to Russia and determine whether he obstructed the inquiry itself, according to a list of the […]
4/27/2018
HILLARY CLINTON/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Russian lawyer who met with Trump campaign officials in Trump Tower in June 2016 on the premise that she would deliver damaging information about Hillary Clinton has long insisted she is a private attorney, not a Kremlin operative trying to meddle in the presidential election. But newly released emails show […]
4/27/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has lost his lawsuit claiming that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and special counsel Robert Mueller exceeded their authority in charging him with alleged crimes that he says have nothing to do with the 2016 campaign. A judge said Friday [4-27-18] that Manafort […]
4/27/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign manager indicted on tax and lobbying charges, lost his bid Friday [4-27-18] to restrict special counsel Robert Mueller through a civil lawsuit. The order dismissed a civil case Mr. Manafort had brought alleging that the Justice Department had exceeded its authority in establishing […]
4/26/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “President Trump distanced himself from his longtime lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, on Thursday [4-26-18], saying that a federal criminal investigation was focused on Mr. Cohen’s business dealings and had nothing to do with his legal representation of the president. The president acknowledged that Mr. Cohen represents him in connection with […]
4/26/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The bully president has been taking it on the chin from coast to coast. First, in the Southern District of New York, he has been fighting for a special protocol that would permit him and his lawyer, Michael Cohen, to review — before the government can — the materials of […]
4/26/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump distanced himself from his longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen on Thursday [4-26-18], hours before a judge ruled that documents seized from Cohen by the FBI should be reviewed by an independent court-appointed official.The appointment of former judge Barbara Jones as a ‘special master,’ to review the documents […]
4/26/2018
FBI/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In the 15 months since Donald Trump shut him out of a White House job, Michael Cohen, the president’s personal lawyer, has made a show of publicly dining with a vocal Trump critic, the billionaire Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban. After lunch at Freds restaurant in New York in April […]
4/26/2018
FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump acknowledged for the first time Thursday 4-26-18] that his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, is representing him with regards to legal matters involving Stormy Daniels, the porn star who says she had an affair with Trump. On Cohen, the President both solidified his link with Cohen on the […]
4/26/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Michael Cohen, the longtime personal attorney for President Donald Trump, filed court papers Wednesday [4-25-18] indicating he would assert his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination regarding his involvement in a hush money deal involving porn star Stormy Daniels and the President. Cohen cited FBI raids of his residence, office and hotel […]