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☆ Scott Perry’s texts reveal details about efforts to overturn Trump’s loss in 2020
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Katelyn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

I read it just as you dictated,” according to court records. The disclosure of the texts illuminate more of the behind-the-scenes discussions as Trump used powerful allies across the federal government to challenge the 2020 election results. The Washington Post has made public the full court document, and Politico also reported on the text messages. John Rowley, an attorney representing Perry, called the disclosure of the text messages this week “unfortunate.”“The communications reflect his efforts to understand real-time information about the 2020 election. Howell confidentially reviewed more than 2,000 documents Perry had sought to keep from investigators after they seized his cell phone last summer, including the text messages.

Persons: Scott Perry, Donald Trump’s, DOJ’s Jeffrey Clark, Clark, Perry texted Clark, “, ” Perry, Perry, Clark’s, Justice Department official’s, ” Clark, Trump, Mike Pence, Beryl Howell, Howell, John Rowley, ” Rowley, Howell confidentially Organizations: CNN, Justice Department, Trump, DOJ, Republican, DC Circuit, Washington Post, Politico Locations: Michigan, Georgia

☆ Governments race to regulate AI tools
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-19 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +7 min

ITALY* Investigating possible breachesItaly's data protection authority plans to review artificial intelligence platforms and hire AI experts, a top official said in May. ChatGPT became available to users in Italy in April after being temporarily banned over concerns by the national data protection authority in March. The country's privacy watchdog said in June it had warned OpenAI not to collect sensitive data without people's permission. SPAIN* Investigating possible breachesSpain's data protection agency said in April it was launching a preliminary investigation into potential data breaches by ChatGPT. It has also asked the EU's privacy watchdog to evaluate privacy concerns surrounding ChatGPT.

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☆ Rudy Giuliani files new legal challenge to Georgia election interference case
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( Marshall Cohen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Rudy Giuliani has filed a new legal challenge against the criminal charges he’s facing in Georgia over his attempts to subvert the 2020 presidential election. And he faces defamation suits from Dominion and Smartmatic, voting technology companies that he falsely said rigged the 2020 election. In a separate case, a judge ruled that he defamed two Georgia election workers, and a jury will decide what he owes damages. Georgia election workers want another $100,000 in attorneys’ feesThe Georgia election workers who won a defamation lawsuit against Giuliani for his bogus fraud claims in the 2020 election say they are entitled to another $104,000 in attorneys’ fees stemming from the discovery disputes that arose in the case. Last month, Howell determined that Giuliani had lost the lawsuit brought by Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss after he failed to provide information sought in subpoenas.

Persons: CNN — Rudy Giuliani, Scott McAfee, Giuliani, Fani Willis, Willis, “, Beryl Howell, Howell, Ruby Freeman, Shaye Moss Organizations: CNN, Trump, Fulton, “, New, New York City, Dominion, Giuliani Locations: Georgia, Fulton County, New York

☆ Rudy Giuliani keeps telling judges he's broke, but won't share financial statements and took a private jet to his Georgia booking
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-03 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Rudy Giuliani keeps saying he's broke and can't pay legal bills. Giuliani, US District Judge Beryl Howell wrote, provided only "a sliver of the financial documents required to be produced" for the lawsuit. Since the dawn of time, people have made up excuses to avoid doing things they do not want to do," Smartmatic's lawyers wrote. According to Smartmatic, Giuliani has provided shifting and slippery answers to questions about whether he can afford them. AdvertisementAdvertisement"So far, Giuliani's financial position tends to be whatever is most convenient for Giuliani," Smartmatic's lawyers wrote.

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REUTERS/Dustin Chambers/File Acquire Licensing Rights Read moreWASHINGTON, Aug 30 (Reuters) - Donald Trump's former lawyer Rudy Giuliani is liable for defaming two election workers in Georgia, a U.S. judge in Washington said on Wednesday. Judge Beryl Howell issued the order as a sanction against Giuliani for failing to turn over electronic records sought by the two election workers, Wandrea "Shaye" Moss and her mother Ruby Freeman, in the case. The judge's order means Giuliani will have to pay damages for spreading false vote-rigging claims against the pair following the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Giuliani will face a civil trial in Washington, D.C. federal court to determine how much he will have to pay. Reporting by Katharine Jackson in Washington; editing by Ismail Shakil and Chizu NomiyamaOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump's, Dustin Chambers, Beryl Howell, Giuliani, Moss, Ruby Freeman, Katharine Jackson, Ismail Shakil Organizations: New York City, REUTERS, Thomson Locations: Fulton, Atlanta , Georgia, U.S, WASHINGTON, Georgia, Washington, Washington ,

☆ Rudy Giuliani liable for defaming Georgia election workers, hit with sanctions by judge
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-30 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Howell blasted Giuliani for "willful ... misconduct," and "slippery" statements in failing to turn over the requested information as part of the legal process known as discovery. A federal judge on Wednesday issued a default judgment against former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and ordered him to pay sanctions of nearly $133,000 in a civil conspiracy lawsuit by two Georgia election workers he had claimed mishandled ballots in the 2020 presidential contest. The women had sued Giuliani in 2021 with claims of defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and civil conspiracy. "Given the willful shirking of his discovery obligations in anticipation of andduring this litigation, Giuliani leaves little other choice," Howell wrote. Howell also ordered Giuliani to compel two of his companies to pay another $43,684 to the women for the same conduct.

Persons: Giuliani, Ruby Freeman, Wandrea, Howell, Beryl Howell, ArShaye Moss, Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Freeman, Moss Organizations: Washington , D.C, Trump, Giuliani Communications, Giuliani Partners, Giuliani Locations: U.S, Washington ,, Georgia, Atlanta

☆ Rudy Giuliani loses defamation lawsuit from two Georgia election workers
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-30 | by ( Katelyn Polantz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —A federal judge has determined Rudy Giuliani forfeits the defamation lawsuit from two Georgia election workers against him, a decision that could lead to significant penalties for the former Donald Trump attorney. Giuliani has been struggling financially, buried under 2020 election legal proceedings, a new criminal case against him in Georgia related to efforts to overturn the election and other matters. He has pleaded not guilty to the criminal charges in Georgia and has been released from jail on bond. Late last month, Giuliani conceded that he made defamatory statements about Freeman and Moss and that he didn’t contest their accusations that he had smeared them after the 2020 election. Georgia election officials have debunked Giuliani’s accusations of fraud during the ballot counting.

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☆ Rudy Giuliani, who keeps telling courts he's broke, just got hit with a $132,000 bill from a judge
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-30 | by ( Sonam Sheth | Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Rudy Giuliani automatically lost a defamation lawsuit brought by two election workers in Georgia. The judge said the "cloak of victimization" Giuliani wears in public won't fly in her courtroom. A jury will decide how much he will pay in damages to the election workers, in addition to the sanctions. AdvertisementAdvertisementGiuliani had broadcast false rumors that accused Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Wandrea' ArShaye Moss of fraud, and they sued him for defamation. He's also on the hook for another $43,684 in fees associated with his businesses' failure to hand over discovery evidence in the case.

Persons: Rudy Giuliani, Giuliani, Beryl Howell didn't, Howell, Ruby Freeman, Wandrea, ArShaye Moss, Freeman, Moss, He's, Ted Goodman, Goodman Organizations: Service, New York, New, US, Southern, of, FBI Locations: Georgia, Wall, Silicon, New York, Georgia's, of New York

☆ Hollywood's AI ambitions won't be stopped by a new copyright ruling
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-21 | by ( Nathan Mcalone | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

But a recent copyright ruling likely won't have an impact on the studios' AI ambitions. The judge ruled AI couldn't be the sole author of an artistic work, but that's not what studios want. He was pushing the boundaries by seeing whether the court would grant copyright to an AI as the sole author of an artistic work. But that's not how Hollywood studios are using AI and it's not what they're planning. But frankly, the tech just isn't good enough yet for AI to be the sole author of a work.

Persons: couldn't, shouldn't, Stephen Thaler, Beryl Howell, Howell, Thaler, — Organizations: Hollywood, US, Thaler, Machine

☆ AI-generated art can't by copyrighted, federal judge rules, with potential consequences for Hollywood studios
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-21 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Plaintiff Stephen Thaler sued the US Copyright Office to try and have his AI system listed as the creator of an artwork. But a federal judge ruled against him, because "human authorship is a bedrock requirement of copyright." A federal judge ruled that a piece of art generated by AI can't be copyrighted, a decision that could have consequences for Hollywood studios. In Friday's ruling, US District Judge Beryl Howell upheld the Copyright Office's decision to reject Thaler's copyright application. But if studios can't gain copyright protections over any work produced by AI, that could temper such ambitions.

Persons: Stephen Thaler, Thaler, Beryl Howell, Howell, David Slater Organizations: US, Office, Hollywood, The Hollywood Locations: Hollywood

An AI (Artificial Intelligence) sign is seen at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, China July 6, 2023. Only works with human authors can receive copyrights, U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell said on Friday, affirming the U.S. The Copyright Office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Monday. The Copyright Office has also rejected an artist's bid for copyrights on images generated through the AI system Midjourney, despite the artist's argument that the system was part of their creative process. Howell agreed with the Copyright Office and said human authorship is a "bedrock requirement of copyright" based on "centuries of settled understanding."

Persons: Aly, Beryl Howell, Stephen Thaler, Thaler, DABUS, Ryan Abbott, Howell, Blake Brittain, Alexia Garamfalvi, Conor Humphries Organizations: Artificial Intelligence, REUTERS, United, Washington , D.C, District, Autonomous, Copyright, Thomson Locations: Shanghai, China, United States, U.S, Washington ,, United Kingdom, South Africa, Australia, Saudi Arabia, Washington

☆ A federal judge wondered if Elon Musk was trying to 'cozy up' to Trump by trying to inform him about a search warrant into his social media account
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

In January, federal prosecutors obtained a search warrant to obtain information from Trump's personal Twitter account. Twitter's legal team argued that it needed to inform Trump of the warrant. The judge asked if this was a result of Twitter owner Elon Musk trying to "cozy up" to Trump. News of the search warrant broke on August 9, though it was not clear at the time what data, Smith and his team were working to obtain. Twitter's team simply said it has "no interest other than litigating its constitutional rights"Howell ended up fining Twitter $350,000 for taking too long to comply with the warrant.

Persons: Trump, Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Jack Smith's, Smith, Beryl Howell, Howell excoriated, Howell, Twitter's, Musk Organizations: Twitter, Trump, Service, US, Prosecutors, Truth Locations: Wall, Silicon, .

☆ Federal Judge asks if Elon Musk was trying to 'cozy up' with former President Trump during criminal probe
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( Jonathan Vanian | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

At the time, Twitter wasn't complying with the warrant, citing various legal arguments and its desire to notify Trump about the probe. Tesla CEO Elon Musk purchased Twitter late last year and soon reinstated Trump's account after the ex-president was kicked off the site in January 2021 following the Capitol riot. Twitter, now known as X, eventually sent Smith's team the necessary data related to Trump's Twitter account on Feb 9, and was then fined $350,000 as part of a so-called contempt sanction. Trump was indicted earlier this month on charges related to attempting to overturn his loss to President Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election. The former president now faces 91 felony charges across four criminal cases.

Persons: Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Donald Trump's, Beryl Howell, Jack Smith, Howell, Smith's, Trump, Joe Biden Organizations: SpaceX, U.S, NASA's, Kennedy Space, Twitter, District, Trump

☆ Donald Trump will appear Thursday in the DC federal courthouse – the same place over 1,000 US Capitol rioters have faced justice
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Tierney Sneed Hannah Rabinowitz Katelyn Polantz | Tierney Sneed | Hannah Rabinowitz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Trump is scheduled to appear before a magistrate judge on four criminal charges related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. More than 1,000 Trump supporters who participated in the Capitol breach have also gone through the motions of a first appearance hearing that the former president will go through himself. Bill HennessyMetropolitan and US Capitol police officers are regularly seen in the building, often to appear as witnesses. But Chutkan’s sentences for January 6 rioters stand out as notably tough among the district court’s, according to data provided by the Justice Department. The defendant in that case, she remarked, “did not go to the United States Capitol out of any love for our country.

Persons: Donald Trump, Trump, Jack Smith, Barrett, Beryl Howell, ” Howell, “, ”, CNN Trump, ” Trump, Guy Reffitt, Nancy Pelosi, Trump's, Bill Hennessy, Christopher Owens, Reggie Walton, Dustin Thompson, ” Thompson, Royce Lamberth, Alan Hostetter, Hostetter, Tanya Chutkan, didn’t, ” Chutkan Organizations: CNN, Capitol, Trump, Prosecutors, Boys, ”, Bill Hennessy Metropolitan, US Capitol, ” Metropolitan Police, Justice Department, United States Capitol Locations: Washington, DC, York, Manhattan, Florida, United States

(Reuters) - Two Georgia election workers suing Rudy Giuliani for defamation asked a U.S. judge on Tuesday to decide the lawsuit in their favor, arguing that the former New York mayor and personal lawyer for Donald Trump forfeited the case by allegedly failing to preserve important evidence. Lawyers for the pair asked a Washington, D.C. federal judge to levy “severe” sanctions against Giuliani, including a default judgment finding Giuliani liable for defamation. Attorneys for Giuliani and the election workers did not immediately return requests for comment. Ted Goodman, a political adviser to Giuliani, said the evidence requests were “deliberately overly burdensome” and sought information aimed at embarrassing and intimidating Giuliani. Lawyers for the election workers said in a court filing that those efforts collapsed after Giuliani did not agree.

Persons: Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump, Moss, Ruby Freeman, Giuliani, Ted Goodman, Freeman, Beryl Howell, Andrew Goudsward Organizations: Reuters, New, U.S, District, Moss, Thomson Locations: Georgia, New York, Washington

WASHINGTON, April 20 (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge in Washington on Thursday denied former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo's bid to block his extradition to Peru, where he faces corruption charges. His lawyers had filed for an emergency stay earlier in the day to block his extradition, which was planned for Friday. "His emergency motion to stay is denied," U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell said in an order on Thursday. In her ruling, Howell said Toledo "has long been afforded substantial process" in the U.S. courts to contest his extradition. Howell, citing various legal factors, also said Toledo had failed to "demonstrate entitlement" to a stay of his extradition.

☆ Former Trump adviser Stephen Miller appears at D.C. federal court where Jan. 6 grand jury meets
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-11 | by ( Rebecca Shabad | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Former Trump adviser Stephen Miller arrived Tuesday at the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., and was seen entering the area where the grand jury tied to special counsel Jack Smith's Jan. 6 investigation meets. The grand jury is investigating the role former President Donald Trump played in the Jan. 6 riot and efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. His appearance at the federal court comes after a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Meanwhile, Trump on Monday filed an appeal in federal court in an effort to block former Vice President Mike Pence from testifying before the federal grand jury. It's unclear when Pence would appear before the grand jury in Washington, a source familiar with the matter said last week.

☆ Ex-Trump lawyer appears before grand jury as U.S. probes swirl
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-24 | by ( Sarah N. Lynch | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Corcoran and his attorney Michael Levy entered the federal courthouse in Washington and went to the third floor, where the grand jury typically meets. Attorneys for Trump did not respond to a request for comment on the court order compelling Meadows and other former aides to testify. At that June meeting, the lawyers handed over a single envelope containing 38 documents with classified markings. Corcoran is one of multiple Trump attorneys who have been summoned to appear before the grand jury. Tim Parlatore, another attorney, voluntarily testified before the same grand jury in December to explain the steps Trump's legal team took to comply with the May 2022 subpoena.

☆ Judge declines Trump's bid to stop ex-aides from testifying before grand jury in Jan. 6 probe
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-24 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

President Donald Trump is seen on a screen speaking to supporters during a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results by the U.S. Congress, in Washington, January 6, 2021. A federal judge ordered ex-President Donald Trump's former aides, including his ex-chief of staff Mark Meadows, to testify before a grand jury in Washington, D.C., investigating Trump's efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss ahead of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, NBC News reported Friday. In a sealed order, U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell ruled against Trump's bid to block his aides from speaking to the grand jury on the grounds of executive privilege, people familiar with the matter told NBC. Trump is expected to appeal the ruling, which was filed in secret because it involves grand jury matters, according to NBC. Trump is also facing a legal threat in Georgia, where a Fulton County grand jury is investigating efforts by him and his allies to interfere in the 2020 election in that state.

☆ Trump's ex-chief of staff Mark Meadows and other top aides must provide more testimony for January 6 investigation, judge rules
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-24 | by ( Oma Seddiq | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Mark Meadows and other Trump aides were ordered to offer more testimony to a grand jury investigating January 6. A federal judge dismissed Trump's claims of executive privilege in a sealed order last week. Some of them had appeared before the grand jury but declined to answer certain questions about their interactions with Trump, ABC reported. His legal team is expected to appeal Howell's order compelling his aides' testimony, according to ABC. Corcoran was previously ordered to provide more testimony for the investigation after a federal judge rejected his claims of attorney-client privilege.

☆ Federal Judge Concludes Trump Likely Misled Lawyers on Documents
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-22 | by ( C. Ryan Barber | Sadie Gurman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

WASHINGTON—A federal judge found that special counsel Jack Smith ’s team presented convincing evidence that President Donald Trump misled his own lawyers about his retention of classified documents after leaving the White House, according to people familiar with the decision. Judge Beryl Howell made that finding Friday in a sealed decision siding with federal prosecutors in their bid to bypass attorney-client privilege claims raised by one of Mr. Trump’s lawyers, Evan Corcoran , and compel him to provide more testimony. Judge Howell wrote that prosecutors had made a “prima facie showing that the former president had committed criminal violations,” the people said.

☆ Trump appears to lose appeal of key ruling in criminal probe of classified records stored at Mar-a-Lago
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-22 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

The legal team of former US President Donald Trump, led by M. Evan Corcoran, arrives at the Brooklyn Federal Courthouse. Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday appears to have lost an appeal of a bombshell ruling in the criminal investigation of classified records he stored at Florida residence Mar-a-Lago after leaving the White House, NBC News confirmed Wednesday. The decision will likely force one of his lawyers to testify to a federal grand jury in the criminal probe. Normally, attorneys cannot be compelled to testify against their clients due to attorney-client privilege, which protects their communications. A docket entry in the sealed appeals court case believed to be Trump's indicates that the appeals court rejected Trump's bid, and ordered the parties to comply with Howell's ruling.

☆ Judge Rejects Attorney-Client Privilege Claim by Trump Attorney in Mar-a-Lago Inquiry
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-17 | by ( C. Ryan Barber | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Special counsel Jack Smith’s team has prevailed in a push to extract more grand jury testimony from a lawyer for Donald Trump, according to people familiar with a sealed court decision, which could help advance the investigation into the handling of classified documents found at the former president’s South Florida home. In that decision Friday, Chief Judge Beryl Howell rejected attorney-client privilege claims that the lawyer, Evan Corcoran, raised on behalf of Mr. Trump during a January appearance before a federal grand jury in Washington. The ruling came a week after a closed-door hearing in which Mr. Smith’s team urged Judge Howell to invoke the so-called crime-fraud exception to bypass the privilege claims and compel Mr. Corcoran to provide more testimony.

☆ A judge ordered Trump's lawyer to give more testimony in Mar-a-Lago classified documents probe: report
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-17 | by ( Oma Seddiq | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A federal judge ordered Trump's lawyer to provide more grand jury testimony in the Mar-a-Lago case. The DOJ is investigating whether Trump potentially mishandled classified documents. The judge rejected Trump's lawyers claims of attorney-client privilege. The ruling compels Corcoran to provide additional testimony before the grand jury investigating the classified documents case — one of at least four major ongoing criminal inquiries involving Trump. Georgia's Fulton County is also investigating Trump and his allies' efforts to overturn the state's 2020 elections results.

☆ Trump attorney ordered to testify in documents case, reports say
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-17 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

WASHINGTON, March 17 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday ordered an attorney for Donald Trump to give additional testimony before a grand jury investigating the former U.S. president’s handling of classified documents, according to media reports. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell ordered attorney Evan Corcoran to testify after he invoked attorney-client privilege during a prior grand jury appearance in January and refused to answer investigators’ questions about his communications with Trump, according to CNN, the Washington Post and other media outlets. Trump, who is seeking the Republican nomination for president in 2024, has accused the Justice Department of conducting a "witch hunt" against him. Special Counsel Jack Smith is investigating Trump for the unlawful retention of national defense information at his Florida estate and he is also investigating whether Trump tried to obstruct the criminal probe. In her ruling, Howell agreed with prosecutors that there were grounds for a "crime-fraud exception" to attorney-client privilege, according to the reports.

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