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 […]
Category: Legal
4/26/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Donald Trump said Thursday [4-26-18] that attorney Michael Cohen ‘represented me’ by cutting a deal with porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016, after the president previously said he didn’t know about the ‘hush money’ payment. Trump also tried to distance himself from Cohen, who is currently under federal criminal investigation related […]
4/25/2018
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Rudy Giuliani isn’t wasting time as Donald Trump’s newest lawyer. Hired late last week as the president’s top personal attorney, Giuliani held his first meeting on Tuesday 4-24-18] with special counsel Robert Mueller in a bid to jump-start talks on whether Trump will even be called in for an interview as part […]
4/20/2018
LEGAL/NEW YORK/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “New York state lawmakers on Friday [4-20-18] introduced legislation to give the state’s attorney general and other local prosecutors the power to bring criminal charges against people pardoned by U.S. President Donald Trump.The bill is intended to close what New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman called a loophole in state law […]
4/20/2018
COURTS/DEMS/LEGAL/NEW YORK/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Democratic National Committee opened a new legal assault on President Trump on Friday [4-20-18] by filing a lawsuit in federal court alleging that the organization was the victim of a conspiracy by Russian officials, the Trump campaign and WikiLeaks to damage Hillary Clinton’s presidential run. The 66-page lawsuit, filed in […]
4/19/2018
ANDREW MCCABE/FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Justice Department’s internal watchdog referred its finding that former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe had misled investigators to federal prosecutors to determine whether he should be charged with a crime, according to people familiar with the matter. The inspector general concluded in a report released last week that Mr. McCabe […]
4/20/2018
LEGAL/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani isn’t the only new addition to President Donald Trump’s legal team. Former federal prosecutors Jane and Marty Raskin have also joined the team, Jay Sekulow, a counsel to the president, announced on Thursday [4-19-18]. The Raskins are a husband-and-wife duo with a Florida-based law firm, Raskin […]
4/19/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former New York City mayor and longtime friend of President Trump, will join the president’s legal team in an effort to ‘quickly’ resolve the special counsel investigation into Russian election interference and possible ties to Trump associates. Mr. Trump will also bring on Jane Serene Raskin and […]
4/18/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “The tabloid news company American Media Inc. agreed to let a former Playboy model out of a contract that had kept her from talking freely about an alleged affair with Donald J. Trump. The settlement agreement, reached on Wednesday [4-18-18], ends a lawsuit brought by the model, Karen McDougal, and […]
4/18/2018
FBI/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Lawyers for President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen have asked a federal judge to consider four candidates to review material seized by the FBI that may be protected by attorney-client privilege, rather than let prosecutors look at it first. In a Tuesday [4-17-18] night letter to U.S. District Judge Kimba […]
4/10/2018
FBI/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “The F.B.I. agents who raided the office of President Trump’s personal lawyer on Monday [4-9-18] were looking for records about payments to two women who claim they had affairs with Mr. Trump, and information related to the publisher of The National Enquirer’s role in silencing one of the women, several people […]
4/10/2018
FBI/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Federal prosecutors in New York asked the Trump Organization, President Donald Trump’s flagship company, for records relating to a $130,000 payment to a former adult-film actress as part of an investigation into Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, according to a person familiar with the matter. The request came in connection with […]