“Please control your client,” the judge chastened the lawyer of the former president, according to Politico. Trump, who is currently facing 91 criminal charges in addition to civil lawsuits andongoing legal disputesregarding his eligibility to run for president again in 2024, was allowed to spe...
“The buck stopped with him,” said Andrew Amer, a lawyer for the attorney general’s office, saying that Trump was responsible for the conduct Trump Org. executives Allen Weisselberg and Jeff McConney participated in to inflate his assets. “Mr. Trump was certainly in the loop to review ...
The money was paid out of the personal funds of Trump’s now-estranged lawyer, Michael Cohen, who then said he was reimbursed by the Trump Organization and also paid extra bonuses for a total that eventually rose to $420,000. Cohen pleaded guilty to federal charges in 2018 that the pay...
Donald Trump's lawyers have asked a New York judge to suspend an $83.3 million defamation verdict against the former president, saying there was a “strong probability” that it would be reduced on appeal, if not eliminated.
Trump then took the stand. Kevin Wallace, a lawyer from the attorney general's office, kicked off the questioning by asking Trump about a trust he established to manage his assets before he entered the White House. When he left office in 2021, he took control of the trust, only to relin...
Donald Trump on Monday asked the federal judge overseeing the criminal case involving the 2020 presidential election to dismiss the charges brought against him, arguing in a series of filings that he was, in part, engaging in constitutionally protected speech and his prosecution is politically ...
“I’m worth billions of dollars more than the financial statements,” he said Monday on the stand, telling a state lawyer, “You go around and try and demean me and try and hurt me, probably for political reasons.” His testimony had gotten off to a c...
Judge Arthur Engoron “snapped” at Trump lawyer Jesus Suarez just 15 minutes into a three-hour cross-examination for asking redundant questions during the former president’s fraud trial, according toABC News. "I see why this is going to take two or three hours. Some questions be...
a federal judge on tuesday denied michael cohen's request to be released early from prison, saying u.s. president donald trump's former personal lawyer and fixer should accept the consequences of his crimes rather than invoke the coronavirus pandemic to justify his fre...
Another major misstep occurred in the form of defense lawyerSusan Necheles’ cross-examination of Daniels. Necheles went to considerable lengths to suggest that Daniels had changed her story over time and had been motivated by money when she agreed to keep her story quiet in the run-up to ...