As Donald Trump’s longtime finance chief, Allen Weisselberg helped spare the former president’s real estate empire from its last existential threat, staving off insolvency after casino bankruptcies and an airline failure in the 1990s. Now, after a recent jail stint for tax fraud, Weisselberg is front and center again — …
Read More »Lawyers to deliver closing arguments in trial of 2 police officers charged in Elijah McClain’s death
Lawyers will deliver closing arguments Tuesday in the trial of the first two police officers to be prosecuted in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, a Black man who was put in a neck hold and pinned down by officers in a Denver suburb before paramedics injected him with a powerful sedative. McClain …
Read More »Judge Grants Activist John Sullivan’s Request to Subpoena California Filmmaker for Jan. 6 Trial
A federal judge in Washington D.C. has approved Jan. 6 defendant John Earle Sullivan’s request to subpoena a California filmmaker who followed him around the Capitol and was filmed in the Rotunda giving him a hug and telling him, “We did it!” Mr. Sullivan’s defense attorney on Oct. 5 asked …
Read More »Trump Lawyers File Motion to Push Mar-a-Lago Documents Trial to November 2024
Former President Donald Trump’s legal team filed court papers Wednesday asking a judge to push the federal classified documents case back to “in or after mid-November 2024.” The trial on charges of allegedly mishandling classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago residence, which is among four criminal cases the Republican former president …
Read More »Disputed Oath Keepers Trial Testimony Warrants Reversal of Convictions, Attorney Says
An allegation that a key U.S. Capitol Police witness in the first Oath Keepers Jan. 6 trial gave false testimony on the stand warrants an immediate review of the case “compelling a reversal of the convictions,” a defense attorney told The Epoch Times. Attorney Brad Geyer, who represented Oath Keepers …
Read More »Donald Trump says he will be in courtroom for New York trial scrutinizing his business practices
NEW YORK (AP) — With control over some of his most prized real estate holdings in jeopardy, former President Donald Trump says he will make a rare, voluntary trip to court Monday for the start of a civil trial in a lawsuit that has already resulted in a judge ruling …
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