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Mr. Manafort, 75, was an adviser for Bob Dole’s presidential campaign in 1996 and managed the Republican convention that year. He was brought on to Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign in the spring as the candidate was facing an effort to deprive him of the delegates necessary to become the nominee at the convention. Mr. Manafort’s involvement with Mr. Trump’s campaign was relatively short-lived. Later, Mr. Manafort was ensnared in the investigation by Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, into ties between Mr. Trump’s campaign and Russian officials. Mr. Trump praised him for not cooperating with the government investigation and pardoned Mr. Manafort at the end of his presidential term.

Persons: Manafort, Bob Dole’s, Trump’s, Robert S, Mueller III, Trump, Mr Organizations: Republican, Trump, Washington Post, Republican Party Locations: Russian, Ukraine

☆ Republicans Call on NPR’s C.E.O. to Testify About Political Bias
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-01 | by ( Benjamin Mullin | More About Benjamin Mullin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

NPR declined to comment, but Ms. Maher may have a scheduling conflict. According to an agenda of NPR’s upcoming board of directors meeting, Ms. Maher is scheduled to convene with NPR’s board all day on May 8. Mr. Berliner’s essay has generated vociferous pushback from many employees at NPR, who say that many of his points were factually inaccurate. In one post, from 2018, Ms. Maher called Mr. Trump a “racist”; another from 2020 showed her wearing a hat with the logo of the Biden campaign. NPR has said that Ms. Maher, the former chief executive of Wikimedia, wasn’t working in news at the time she made the posts, and added that she was exercising her First Amendment right to free expression.

Persons: Maher, Uri Berliner, Berliner, Hunter, Tony Cavin, NPR’s, Robert S, Mueller III, hewed, Donald J, Trump, Biden Organizations: NPR, Trump, Wikimedia

☆ Release of Hur Report Underlines Perils of the Special Counsel’s Job
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-09 | by ( Glenn Thrush | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The man Mr. Garland tapped for the job, Robert K. Hur, has not been quite as cautious. On Thursday, Mr. Hur, 50, a former Justice Department official in the Trump administration, dropped a 345-page political bomb into the middle of the 2024 campaign, the final report summing up his investigation. The Hur report underlines the challenges of deploying special counsels, which are intended to shield prosecutors from political meddling, but often result in the release of negative information about high-profile targets who have been cleared of criminal wrongdoing. It also showed the complicated balance of the job — navigating a polarized environment that leaves little option but to expansively explain the rationale for any decision. Mr. Hur is no stranger to high-wire investigations and legal conflict.

Persons: General Merrick B, Garland, Biden’s, Robert K, Hur, Trump, Biden, Donald J, Mr, Rod J, Rosenstein —, Rosenstein, Robert S, Mueller III Organizations: Justice Department Locations: Russia

☆ Crypto Influencers and ‘Degenerates’ Flock to Sam Bankman-Fried’s Trial
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( David Yaffe-Bellany | More About David Yaffe-Bellany | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A parade of powerful legal minds has gathered over the last three weeks at the criminal trial of Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced cryptocurrency mogul. A prolific YouTuber with a channel devoted to crypto, Taco, 39, has become an unlikely staple in the crowd of lawyers, reporters and curious observers who line up every morning before sunrise to get a seat at Mr. Bankman-Fried’s trial in downtown Manhattan. “Everyone talks about how important crypto is to them,” Taco said. “But then they don’t go to any events.”Taco declined to reveal his real name, citing privacy concerns. But he said he felt compelled to show up for “technically sort of like the trial of the century.”

Persons: Sam Bankman, Damian Williams, Robert Mueller III, Donald J, Taco, Bankman, regaling, ” Taco, I’m, ” Organizations: Trump, Mr Locations: Manhattan

Mr. Smith is not the first special counsel to investigate Mr. Trump. Mr. Smith, by contrast, faces no such limits given that Mr. Trump is no longer in office. Mr. Mueller said little when faced with a barrage of falsehoods pushed publicly by Mr. Trump and his allies about him and his investigative team. During Mr. Trump’s arraignment in Miami in June, Mr. Smith sat in the gallery, closely watching the proceedings. Some in the courtroom suggested he stared at Mr. Trump for much of the hearing, sizing him up.

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Mr. Cohen has said that the Trump Organization initially paid these bills but halted payments after he agreed to cooperate in the investigations. Mr. Cohen was once a close ally of Mr. Trump — a trusted lieutenant whose job it became to clean up his boss’s messes. Soon afterward, Mr. Cohen paid Ms. Daniels $130,000 to keep silent. The legal pressure placed a strain on his relationship with Mr. Trump, and the men had a falling out. In April, Mr. Trump filed his own lawsuit against Mr. Cohen, accusing the former fixer of betraying his confidences and “spreading falsehoods about him.” That lawsuit, filed in federal court in Florida, was not part of the settlement talks.

Persons: Cohen, Robert S, Mueller, Trump, Stormy Daniels, Daniels, Cohen’s, Trump’s, Alvin L, Bragg Organizations: Trump Organization, Trump, Mr Locations: Manhattan, Florida

☆ Special Counsel Who Hunted for a Deep-State Conspiracy Presents Muted Findings
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( Charlie Savage | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

John H. Durham, the Trump-era special counsel who for four years pursued a politically fraught investigation into the Russia inquiry, told lawmakers on Wednesday that F.B.I. That approach echoed an appearance in 2019 before the same committee by Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel overseeing the investigation into possible ties between Russia and the Trump campaign. Mr. Durham retired after completing his report last month, and Senate Democrats have not invited him to testify. For years, Mr. Trump and his allies stoked expectations that Mr. Durham would find a conspiracy lurking in the origins of the Russia investigation and would prosecute high-level officials. But Mr. Durham developed only two peripheral cases, both of which ended in acquittals, while citing flaws in the F.B.I.’s early investigative steps he attributed to confirmation bias.

Persons: John H ., Durham, Robert S, Mueller III, Trump, Donald J, Trump’s, ’ Organizations: Trump, Democratic, Mr, Democrats Locations: John H . Durham, Russia, acquittals

☆ For Trump, the Show and the Campaign Must Trudge On
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( Shane Goldmacher | Maggie Haberman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

And by 2021, as investigations began into his efforts to thwart the transfer of power, he had come to see another campaign as a shield against prosecutions. Instead, Mr. Trump’s team tried to create the sense of a man still in power. They included former President Richard Nixon’s son-in-law; a former New York Police Department commissioner whom Mr. Trump pardoned in the final year of his presidency; and a former administration official whom Mr. Trump named as a representative to the National Archives. It was the National Archives that began the winding road that ended with Mr. Trump facing charges alleging that he had defied a subpoena and kept highly classified documents. The agency, which is in charge of preserving presidential records, spent most of 2021 trying to compel Mr. Trump to return boxes of materials that he had taken with him when he left the White House.

Persons: Robert S, Mueller III, Trump’s, Richard Nixon’s, Trump Organizations: New York Police Department, National Archives, Mr, White, Justice Department Locations: Miami, New York, Bedminster, New Jersey

☆ A judge just tossed out the Justice Department's bid to force Trump donor and casino mogul Steve Wynn to register as a foreign agent
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( C. Ryan Barber | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

In a 20-page opinion, Judge James Boasberg sided with Wynn's argument that the Justice Department lacked the power to force the disclosure of his alleged stint as a foreign agent of China. It was not immediately clear if the Justice Department would appeal. A Justice Department spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment. In a prepared statement, Wynn's lawyers Reid Weingarten and Robert Luskin said they were "delighted" by the dismissal of a Justice Department lawsuit they described as "ill-conceived." The Justice Department said Wynn agreed in 2017 to lobby on behalf of China in exchange for favorable treatment of his casino business in Macau.

☆ A judge rebuked Republicans over warnings of violence if an investigation into Trump 'doesn't go his way'
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( C. Ryan Barber | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

A federal judge said patriotism is not standing up for a man "who knows full well that he lost." Judge Amy Berman Jackson noted the recent increase in threats to law enforcement officials. Her comments came as she sentenced a Capitol rioter to more than seven years in prison. For one federal judge, that rhetoric merited a message of deterrence on Tuesday. At the sentencing of a Capitol rioter, Judge Amy Berman Jackson rebuked Republican leaders for "cagily predicting or even outright calling for violence in the streets if one of the multiple investigations doesn't go his way."

☆ New York Times: Trump vrea să își grațieze preventiv copiii și ginerele. Ce-l sperie pe președintele în exercițiu
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-03 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Președintele în exercițiu Donald Trump a discutat cu consilierii săi dacă să le acorde amnistie preventivă copiilor săi, ginerelui său și avocatului său personal Rudy Giuliani, scrie New York Times, citând două surse care au informații despre subiect. Dezvăluirea vine la o zi după ce tot NYT scrisese despre o discuție Trump - Giuliani, in care avocatul îi cerea președintelui să-i acorde amnistie preventivă. Donald Trump le-a spus consilierilor că este îngrijorat că Departamentul de Justiție din viitoarea administrație Biden va căuta să se răzbune pe el și să-i ancheteze pe cei trei copii ai săi mai mari - Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump și Ivanka Trump -, dar și pe soțul Ivankăi, Jared Kushner, care este consilier superior la Casa Albă, potrivit surselor NYT , citat de digi24. Donald Trump Jr. a fost investigat de consilierul special Robert S. Mueller III în legătură cu contactele pe care le-a avut cu rușii, care ofereau informații compromițătoare despre Hillary Clinton în campania electorală din 2016, însă nu a fost pus sub acuzare niciodată. Cotidianul mai scrie că nu e clar de ce este îngrijorat Donald Trump cu privire la Eric și Ivanka Trump, deși procurorul districtual din Manhattan, care investighează afacerile Trump Organization, a extins ancheta asupra scutirilor de impozit de milioane de dolari din facturi de consultanță, din care o parte pare că a ajuns în conturile Ivankăi Trump.

Persons: Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, Biden, Eric Trump, Jared Kushner, Robert S . Mueller, Hillary Clinton, Eric Organizations: New York Times, Albă, Trump Organization Locations: New, Manhattan

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