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☆ Michael Cohen: A challenging star witness in Donald Trump's hush money trial
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-12 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Michael Cohen, former attorney for Donald Trump, leaves after attending the Trump Organization civil fraud trial in New York State Supreme Court in the Manhattan borough of New York City on Oct. 24, 2023. Now Michael Cohen is prosecutors' biggest piece of legal ammunition in the former president's hush money trial. There is his tortured history with Trump, for whom he served as personal attorney and problem-zapper until his practices came under federal investigation. That led to felony convictions and prison for Cohen but no charges against Trump, by then in the White House. Those arrangements, which Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office portrays as a multipronged scheme to keep information from voters, are now under a microscope at Trump's hush money trial.

Persons: Michael Cohen, Donald Trump, Cohen, Trump, Richard Serafini, Loyalist, Cohen's, dings, Alvin Bragg's, reimbursements, Stormy Daniels, Daniels Organizations: Trump Organization, Court, Reuters, Trump, FBI, National Enquirer, Manhattan Locations: New York, Manhattan, New York City, Florida

☆ Trump trial resumes after infamous Cohen phone call tape is played for jury
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-03 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Former U.S. President Donald Trump attends the first day of his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments at Manhattan Criminal Court on April 15, 2024 in New York City. The lawyer, Keith Davidson, negotiated six-figure hush money deals for porn star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal ahead of the 2016 presidential election. On the night Trump won that election, Davidson texted the Enquirer's then-editor in chief, "What have we done?" But he added that he and the top editor, Dylan Howard, understood at the time that "our activities may have in some way assisted the presidential campaign of Donald Trump." Jurors heard a recording of Trump saying asking Cohen, "So what do we got to pay for this — 150?"

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☆ Old, unused, and 'twisty' — meet the obscure NY election-conspiracy law that just might get Trump convicted
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-27 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Attorneys specializing in state election law believe the statute has never been prosecuted. Jeenah Moon-Pool/Getty ImagesTwo highly respected law professors specializing in New York election law said the same. "I think it's very smart of prosecutors to use this state law, whether it's been used before or not," said Jeffrey M. Wice, who teaches state election law at New York Law School. Related storiesThese same three "underlying crimes" — using state election law, federal election law, and state tax law — were again given equal prominence here in a February 15 decision by Merchan. "You're having an underlying crime within an underlying crime to get to that felony," Connor told BI.

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☆ Trump thought hush money was risky because 'It always gets out,' National Enquirer exec testifies. In this case, Trump was right.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-23 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

"It always gets out," Pecker testified Trump told him. "It always gets out," Trump explained of his hesitancy, according to the trial's first witness, former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker. Advertisement"I think the story should be purchased and you should buy it," Pecker told jurors, describing what he told Trump about McDougal's accusations during a June, 2016 phone call. But Trump wanted nothing to do with the McDougal payoff, Pecker said Tuesday, his second day on the witness stand. But Trump is now on trial for a second hush-money payment that prosecutors say has Trump's fingerprints all over it — the payment to Daniels.

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☆ Hush-money judge repeatedly bench-slaps Donald Trump's lawyer over gag violations: 'You're losing all credibility!'
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-23 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

"You're losing all credibility," the judge railed when Blanche insisted Trump was "careful" online. "You're losing all credibility," New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan angrily told the lawyer, Todd Blanche. It was at this point that the judge accused Blanche of "losing all credibility." Blanche's arguments at Tuesday's hearing, in defense of Trump's posts, fell roughly into three categories. Blanche's third argument was that reposting attacks on trial witnesses that were originally made by others was somehow exempt.

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☆ Trump trial set to pick final alternate jurors for hush money case
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-19 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Former U.S. President Donald Trump appears ahead of the start of jury selection at Manhattan Criminal Court on April 15, 2024 in New York City. The New York criminal hush money trial of Donald Trump is poised to get its final five alternate jurors Friday after a full 12-person panel and one alternate were seated a day earlier. Judge Juan Merchan anticipates opening arguments in the Manhattan Supreme Court trial to begin Monday. Trump has said that he would testify in the hush money trial. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee has fumed that the trial is a "scam" and a "witch hunt" aimed to damage his electoral chances against President Joe Biden.

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☆ Trump trial: Full jury chosen for New York hush money case
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-18 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Former US President Donald Trump sits in the courtroom at Manhattan criminal court in New York, US, on Thursday, April 18, 2024. Jeenah Moon | ReutersA full jury of 12 people was seated Thursday at the New York criminal hush money trial of former President Donald Trump. "The whole world is watching this New York scam," Trump said. Trump has denounced the trial as a political "witch hunt" and complained that it keeps him off the campaign trail. Former President Donald Trump visits a bodega in the Harlem neighborhood of upper Manhattan where a worker killed a man who had assaulted him in 2022, on April 16, 2024 in New York City.

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☆ Trump is about to face trial on criminal hush money charges. Here's what to know
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-11 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks from the hallway outside a courtroom where he is attending a hearing in his criminal case on charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star, in New York City on March 25, 2024. Michael Cohen, former attorney for Donald Trump, arrives to the New York Courthouse on March 13, 2023. In 2018, Cohen pleaded guilty to campaign finance charges related to hush money payments made to two women before the 2016 election. Trump has voluntarily attended numerous hearings in the hush money case and his other criminal cases, generating waves of mainstream media attention that his regular campaign events no longer muster. Former U.S. President Donald Trump sits with his lawyer Susan Necheles in the courtroom at a hearing in his criminal case on charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star, in New York City on March 25, 2024.

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☆ Manhattan DA and Trump's hush-money defense intensify war over his attacks on judge's daughter
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-01 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The defense, meanwhile, accused the judge's daughter of having a financial stake in the case. AdvertisementDonald Trump's defense lawyers and his Manhattan hush-money prosecutors intensified their war over his gag order on Monday, with prosecutors calling the GOP frontrunner's ongoing attacks on the judge's daughter "reprehensible" and "dangerous." In seeking to expand the gag order, prosecutors are trying "to further restrict President Trump's constitutionally protected speech," the defense wrote. Merchan has yet to say if he will weigh revising or clarifying the gag order. The judge's daughter did not immediately return a request for comment.

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☆ Trump prosecutor asks court to tighten gag order, citing 'dangerous' social media posts
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-01 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Donald Trump's "extreme and deliberate provocations" in his hush money trial are aimed to undermine the case, the Manhattan district attorney said Monday as he urged a judge to strengthen a gag order on the former president. Alvin Bragg said in a blistering filing in New York Supreme Court. Bragg's request came after Trump, in numerous social media posts, targeted Judge Juan Merchan's adult daughter over her work for a Democratic political firm. Merchan last week imposed a gag order that bars Trump from speaking about likely witnesses and other figures, but does not explicitly prohibit criticism of the judge or his family. Bragg's office asked the judge on Thursday to "clarify or confirm" that the order protects the court's family.

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☆ Trump shares video with image depicting Biden tied up in the back of a pickup truck
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-30 | by ( Megan Lebowitz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Former President Donald Trump shared a video on social media Friday that included an image of President Joe Biden bound and restrained in the back of a pickup truck. The 20-second video, which Trump indicated was taken Thursday in Long Island, New York, shows a truck emblazoned with "Trump 2024" and a large picture depicting Biden tied up and lying on his side. When reached for comment on the image in the video, Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said, "That picture was on the back of a pick up truck that was traveling down the highway." Biden campaign spokesman Michael Tyler slammed Trump for posting the video. Trump faces four criminal indictments for charges related to allegations of election interference, mishandling classified documents and falsifying business records related to hush money payments.

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☆ Defense asks hush-money judge to let Trump continue verbally attacking the judge's daughter
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-29 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Trump and Manhattan prosecutors are arguing over the scope of this week's hush-money gag order. AdvertisementLawyers for Donald Trump made an extraordinary request in his hush-money case on Friday: they want state Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan to affirm that Tuesday's gag order lets Trump continue verbally attacking the judge's progressive daughter. Their motion, if allowed, would ask the judge to "direct that defendant immediately desist from attacks on family members." The next step in this battle over Trump's hush-money gag order is now in Merchan's court, so to speak. Alternately, he could expand or clarify the gag order to protect family members, and deny further motions on the topic.

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☆ Trump is using a loophole in his new gag order to rage against his hush-money judge's progressive daughter
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-27 | by ( Laura Italiano | Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Trump wasted little time exploiting that loophole Wednesday when he used his Truth Social account to take aim at both state Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan and the judge's progressive daughter, Loren Merchan. AdvertisementOn Tuesday morning, Trump "truthed" that the judge is a "certified Trump Hater" whose daughter is a "senior executive at a Super Liberal Democrat firm." AdvertisementBREAKING: Judge Merchan’s daughter, Loren Merchan, just BLOCKED ME on X and locked her account after I exposed her profile picture that has President Trump behind bars. The hush-money gag order also bars Trump from making statements about "the District Attorney's staff" or relatives of those staff members. A spokeswoman for Bragg declined to comment on Trump's attacks on the judge and his daughter.

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☆ Trump attends major hush money case hearing as he seeks trial delay
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-25 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

A combination photo shows adult film actress Stephanie Clifford, also known as Stormy Daniels speaking in New York City, and then- U.S. President Donald Trump speaking in Washington, Michigan, U.S. on April 16, 2018 and April 28, 2018 respectively. Donald Trump is attending a New York court hearing where his lawyers will try to push off his trial date on charges of falsifying business records in a scheme to silence women who say they had affairs with him. It's a hoax," Trump told reporters as he walked into the courtroom in Manhattan Supreme Court. Trump's attorneys have asked Judge Juan Merchan to either dismiss Bragg's indictment entirely or delay the trial for at least 90 days. Merchan is expected to set a new trial date during or following Monday's court proceedings.

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These tactics by defendant and defense counsel should be stopped," the DA's filing said, referring to Trump's attempts to further delay or derail the trial. In its filing Thursday, the DA's office called their arguments "a red herring." Federal prosecutors alleged Cohen paid the women off "in coordination with and at the direction of" Trump, who was not charged in the federal case. The former president has pleaded not guilty in the DA's case. A hearing on the matter is scheduled for Monday, when the judge could set a new trial date.

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The trial in the New York hush money case against former President Donald Trump has been delayed until the middle of April, Judge Juan Merchan ruled Friday. Merchan said the trial — originally scheduled to begin March 25 — would be pushed back 30 days from Friday. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg had previously said he would support the trial being delayed 30 days, into late April. He had made clear he wasn't interested in postponing the trial, as Trump's lawyers had requested. Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to the hush money payments to Daniels.

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☆ Trump hush money prosecutor tells judge he is OK with one-month delay of trial start
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-14 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg speaks during a news conference at his office in New York City on Feb. 22, 2024. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Thursday told a judge that he does not oppose postponing the start of the criminal hush money trial of former President Donald Trump by up to 30 days. The DA told Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan that his prosecution team is prepared to start Trump's trial on March 25 as currently scheduled. Another production of documents from federal prosecutors is due next week, Bragg said. Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said in a statement that Bragg agreed to a delay "after conceding serious discovery violations."

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☆ Trump's NY hush money trial may be delayed a month or more by a last-minute evidence feud: court docs
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-14 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Trump's felony hush money trial had been scheduled to begin March 25 in Manhattan. Talk of delay was triggered by federal prosecutors producing 73,000 pages of long-awaited evidence. AdvertisementDonald Trump's felony hush money trial, long scheduled to begin March 25, may be delayed by a month or longer due to federal officials' last-minute production of 73,000 pages of evidence concerning their 2018 prosecution of Michael Cohen. The defense has only dragged its feet in seeking the same evidence, prosecutors said. The assistant prosecutor blamed the late, ongoing evidence dump — and the resulting need for a delay — on federal prosecutors and the Trump defense.

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☆ Trump fights proposed hush-money trial gag, argues 'tens of millions of Americans' want to hear his views about the case
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-05 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

On Monday, Trump's lawyers filed papers opposing DA Alvin Bragg's request for a limited gag order. Advertisement"A restriction on President Trump's speech therefore inflicts a 'reciprocal' injury on the tens of millions of Americans who listen to him," it says. "American voters have the First Amendment right to hear President Trump's uncensored voice on all issues that relate to this case," it says. "President Trump's political opponents have, and will continue to, attack him based on this case," it adds. Advertisement"The People do not identify a single example where President Trump mentioned — let alone attacked or harassed — any juror by name," they add.

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☆ Manhattan D.A. seeks gag order on Trump ahead of hush money trial
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-26 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

The Manhattan District Attorney's Office on Monday asked a judge to impose a gag order on former President Donald Trump ahead of his upcoming trial on charges of falsifying business records related to a 2016 hush money payment to a porn star. Prosecutors want Trump barred from making public comments about witnesses jurors, trial prosecutors, members of the court staff, and any relatives of lawyers and court staff involved in the case. They also want him barred from directing others to make public statements any prospective juror or jurors in the trial. "And the need for such protection is compelling," Bragg's office said in its request, filed in Manhattan Supreme Court. Trump would be allowed to make public statements about Bragg under the proosed gag order.

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☆ Arizona won't extradite the accused SoHo killer to New York, blaming the DA for being soft on crime. NYC's murder rate is half of Phoenix's, Bragg's office says.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-22 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Arizona is refusing to extradite a suspect wanted in a murder case in New York City. But the murder rate in Phoenix is actually higher than in New York, according to police data. "Having observed the treatment of violent criminals in the New York area by the Manhattan DA there, Alvin Bragg," Mitchell said. In his response to Mitchell, Bragg's office, however, noted that the murder rate is actually higher in Phoenix than in New York. AdvertisementStill, whether Mitchell's concerns about extraditing the suspect to New York are justified, they will likely strike a chord with Bragg's critics.

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The vast majority — nearly $40 million — went to law firms working on his personal legal problems. But significant portions of their donations went to law firms defending Trump in civil cases involving his real-estate empire and its top executives, including Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, and Ivanka Trump. Only about $861,000 was spent on law firms working exclusively on political issues. Where there were gaps, we contacted law firms and individual lawyers who received money from the PACs. In 2021 and 2022 combined, Trump spent $16 million on legal fees through the Save America PAC.

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One of those cases, a civil trial in New York, threatens to cripple the former president's company, the Trump Organization . James is seeking $250 million in damages in the civil case. In July, the U.S. Department of Justice dropped a nearly three-year effort to protect Trump from civil liability in the suit. In May, three of Trump's children, Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, and Ivanka Trump, were dismissed as defendants from the case after Kaplan proposed that move. The payments were made shortly before the 2016 presidential election, in which Trump defeated Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

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☆ Trump counterclaim against E. Jean Carroll dismissed, DA can get deposition
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-07 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

A federal judge on Monday dismissed a defamation counterclaim by Donald Trump against the writer E. Jean Carroll in a pending lawsuit that accuses him of defaming her after she wrote that he had raped her. Bragg's office this May issued a subpoena for the videotape and transcript of the deposition Trump gave in Carroll's civil case last fall. Carroll's lawyers declined to comment Monday. The deposition Trump gave features an exchange he had with Carroll's lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, who asked him about the infamous "Access Hollywood" comment made years earlier. Roberta Kaplan, who is not related to Judge Kaplan, then asked him if was "true with stars that they can grab women" by their genitals.

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☆ Trump likely to face gag order after he targeted Pence, Jack Smith online, experts say
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-07 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

"I think a gag order is likely, I'm just not sure if it will be enforced," former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani told CNBC. "A lot of the judges that I've seen cover these types of political cases, they've been all bark, no bite," he said. Indeed, Trump's political operation has heavily featured the indictments in its fundraising pitches and in other campaign messages. "Maybe, but you have to be willing to enforce that gag order." "However, the need to protect that information does not require a blanket gag order over all documents produced by the government."

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