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☆ Trump claims first batch of reviewed White House documents are his personal property in likely sign of further legal battles
  + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Donald Trump is claiming several documents from his time in the White House are his personal property. The FBI seized thousands of documents during an August raid at Trump's Mar-a-Lago. The conflict likely signals further legal battles to come over the thousands of records yet to be reviewed in the DOJ's probe into whether Trump mishandled official White House records following his departure from office. Federal lawyers also rebuked Trump's allegation that the FBI took his personal records during the court-approved search earlier this year. "Personal records that are not government property are seized every day for use in criminal investigations.
☆ Trump aide Kash Patel appeared before a grand jury investigating the documents the former president was keeping at Mar-a-Lago, report says
  + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Trump aide Kash Patel appeared before a grand jury in the Mar-a-Lago case. He faces potential legal repercussions over Trump's retention of government records, CNN reported. The DOJ believes Trump may have broken the law by keeping government records after leaving office. According to CNN, Patel, who still works for Trump, spent several hours before the grand jury in Washington, D.C., on October 13. The DOJ believes that Trump and his aides may have obstructed its probe into the retention of the records.
☆ DOJ says it needs more money for the Jan. 6 probe. The next spending bill may be its last chance.
  + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Sahil-Kapur-Headshot.Jpg | Sahil Kapur | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +8 min
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration says it is in critical need of more money to bring the Jan. 6 rioters to justice. The Justice Department has told Congress that more than $34 million in funding is "critically needed" to fund the investigation. “The cases are unprecedented in scale and is expected to be among the most complex investigations prosecuted by the Department of Justice,” the Justice Department wrote to the legislative branch. Before they broke for recess, lawmakers involved in the talks told NBC News that the fate of the Justice request was still unsettled. I don’t have any problem giving the Justice Department the resources it needs to do that,” he said.
☆ Judge conducting special master review questions Trump's claim of privilege over White House documents: 'Where's the beef?'
  + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Trump's lawyers have claimed attorney-client or executive privilege over documents seized by FBI. A judge agreed to appoint a special master who can review documents to check for privileged info. The special master said there has been insufficient evidence of privileged information so far. Trump's lawyers also raised issues with finding a vendor to digitize thousands of documents so that they can be reviewed by Drearie. Judge Cannon extended the deadline to complete the special master review by December 16.
☆ Justice Department appeals appointment of special master in Mar-a-Lago documents case
  + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms | Dareh Gregorian | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +2 min
The Justice Department on Friday asked a federal appeals court to vacate an order appointing a special master to review documents seized during the FBI's search of former President Donald Trump's Florida estate — and to throw out Trump's legal challenge altogether. The 11th Circuit also blocked the special master and Trump's lawyers from being able to review those classified documents, citing the DOJ's national security concerns. The Justice Department also said that Trump's team has not provided any evidence the documents were wrongly seized or that the former president has any need for their return. Trump's team is scheduled to file its response in the case on Nov. 10. Trump's team had sought to allow the special master, federal Judge Raymond Dearie, to review the more than 100 documents taken from Mar-a-Lago that were marked classified.
☆ A Trump aide was caught on security camera moving boxes from a Mar-a-Lago storage room before and after the DOJ subpoenaed Trump for top-secret documents: NYT
  + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Walt Nauta, a longtime Trump aide, was seen moving boxes out from a storage room the FBI searched. Nauta was seen moving boxes before and after the DOJ demanded top-secret files be returned in May. Intrigue has swirled around what was kept in the storage room, and whether anything was removed from it before the DOJ searched Trump's property. The Times' piece dropped hours after The Washington Post reported that Trump himself explicitly directed employees to move boxes of White House documents from the storage room. After the raid, the FBI carted off 11,000 documents from Mar-a-Lago, including some that were marked "CLASSIFIED."
☆ Trump explicitly told employees to move boxes of White House documents to his Mar-a-Lago residence weeks before the FBI search, sources tell The Washington Post
  + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Donald Trump was subpoenaed in May for additional sensitive White House records in his possession. A Trump worker alleged that Trump then told employees to move boxes of documents, per a WaPo report. Prior to the FBI search, the Justice Department issued a subpoena on May 11, seeking additional sensitive documents that may still be in Trump's possession. The findings prompted the records agency to refer the matter to the Justice Department. Budowich also accused the Justice Department of leaking "misleading and false information to partisan allies in the Fake News" in his statement to The Post.
☆ Trump's legal team says that vendors don't want to work with them for special-master review because 'seasoned IT professionals' can't handle the government's 11,000 files and strict deadlines
  + stars: | 2022-09-29 | by ( Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Following the Mar-a-Lago raid, Trump asked for (and was granted) a special master to review government docs. The filing was in response to the government's filing on Tuesday, where the Department of Justice said that the vendors simply refused to be engaged by Trump's team. Following the raid, Trump's team sued the DOJ asking for a third party, or special master, to review the documents. On Tuesday, the DOJ asked special master Raymond Dearie for an additional day to turn over nonclassified documents in the investigation. Dearie, so far, has pushed back on several of Trump's legal team's claims in the case.
☆ The DOJ is pushing back against Trump's claim the FBI planted evidence at Mar-a-Lago, as he comes under pressure to provide evidence
  + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
The DOJ pushed back against Donald Trump's claim the FBI planted evidence. Neither Trump nor his attorneys have backed his planting claim with evidence. Trump, his allies, and some of his attorneys have for weeks in media interviews been pushing the conspiracy theory that evidence was planted at Mar-a-Lago. They have also not presented evidence for his claim that he declassified swaths of top secret documents retrieved by the FBI in the search. Trump's lawyers went to court to get the appointment of a special master in the case, which delayed the FBI's probe.
☆ Justice Department's fight with JetBlue and American Airlines heads to court
  + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Leslie Josephs | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +4 min
An American Airlines plane lands on a runway near a parked JetBlue plane at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on July 16, 2020 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The Justice Department heads to court in Boston on Tuesday in hopes of undoing a year-and-a-half-old pact between American Airlines and JetBlue Airways in the Northeast U.S. Last September, the Justice Department along with the attorneys general of six states and the District of Columbia sued to block the partnership, which was approved in the final days of the Trump administration. The antitrust trial will be a test for President Joe Biden's Justice Department, which has been tasked with taking a hard stance against threats to competition. Earlier this month, a federal judge denied the Justice Department's bid to block UnitedHealth's acquisition of Change Healthcare.
☆ Trump said he could declassify documents with his mind, but he may have also accidentally admitted to taking them 'intentionally,' NYT reporter says
  + stars: | 2022-09-24 | by ( Taiyler Simone Mitchell | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Former President Donald Trump said Presidents could declassify documents "even by thinking about it." Trump's claim may go against the idea that documents ended up in his home accidentally. "Because you're sending it to Mar-a-Lago, or to wherever you're sending it," Trump told Hannity on Wednesday. On a Friday episode of CNN New Day, Haberman fixated on Trump's phrase "you're sending it to Mar-a-Lago." Trump also claimed the FBI planted information in Mar-a-Lago during the August raid, but then seemingly undermined the allegation.
☆ Trump is stretching his declassification defense in the Mar-a-Lago case further still, making an argument his lawyers have gone nowhere near in court
  + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
The claim has been his chief argument in defense of accusations he mishandled the information and imperiled US national security. In a court appearance Tuesday, special master Raymond Dearie, the official assigned to review the documents, pushed Trump's lawyers to provide evidence for the declassification claim. But Trump's lawyers didn't, arguing that making the evidence public could damage their defense if the case came to trial. "As far as I'm concerned, that's the end of it," Dearie said, indicating that he was losing patience with the declassification claim. In a ruling Wednesday, an Atlanta appeals court reinstated the DOJ's access to the classified information, and dismissed the declassification argument as a "red herring" that did not exculpate Trump even if true.
☆ A federal appeals court allowed investigators to resume review of classified records seized from Trump's Mar-a-Lago home
  + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( Lauren Frias | C. Ryan Barber | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
A federal appeals court granted the DOJ's request to resume a review of classified materials seized from Mar-a-Lago. The ruling overturned Judge Aileen Cannon's decision that paused the review until a special master review. The decision appeared to embrace the DOJ's claims that a further delay in the review would hurt national security. "It is self-evident that the public has a strong interest in ensuring that the storage of the classified records did not result in 'exceptionally grave damage to the national security,'" the 11th Circuit judges wrote. The 11th Circuit panel included two Trump appointees — Judges Andrew Brasher and Britt Grant — along with Judge Robin Rosenbaum, an Obama appointee.
☆ Trump has failed to show he declassified docs seized from Mar-a-Lago, DOJ tells appeals court
  + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +5 min
The DOJ lawyers added that Trump "is now resisting" a request by a court-appointed special master for him to provide evidence that he declassified records that were seized. But in Tuesday's court conference, Dearie expressed skepticism toward Trump's lawyers about which, if any, of the seized Mar-a-Lago records had been declassified, NBC News reported. Unless Trump's lawyers could provide evidence to dispute that stance, "As far as I'm concerned, that's the end of it," Dearie said. Court documents also revealed that the FBI found four dozen empty folders marked "CLASSIFIED" during the raid. "Those notes could certainly contain privileged information," Trump's lawyers wrote.
☆ Trump's push for a special master in the Mar-a-Lago case is backfiring and exposing weaknesses in his defense
  + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Trump pushed hard for a special master to review the Mar-a-Lago documents, and got one. But the official, Judge Raymond Dearie, has expressed impatience with Trump's legal defense. The special master, Judge Raymond Dearie, has not done Trump any favors in his court appearances so far, exposing holes in the legal arguments presented by Trump's attorneys in court, and confronting their attempts to evade scrutiny. At a court hearing Tuesday, Dearie prodded Trump's attorneys over their refusal to present evidence to support Trump's claims that he declassified dozens of sensitive government that FBI agents seized at Mar-a-Lago. Some analysts have speculated that in seeking a special master, Trump is trying to put as many roadblocks in place to stall the DOJ as he can.
☆ Hundreds of prison and jail deaths go uncounted by the federal government, report finds
  + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms | Erik Ortiz | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +5 min
In addition, the law requires that states and federal agencies report in-custody death information to the attorney general, who must then study how the data can help reduce such deaths and provide the results to Congress. The information was due at the end of 2016, but the Senate report says it won't be completed until 2024. The subcommittee's chairman, Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., said in a statement that there were "shocking long-term gaps in federal oversight" of the law. The Justice Department didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. According to the most recent Justice Department data, 4,234 people died in state and federal prisons in 2019, a 6.6% decrease from 2018.
☆ Trump urges appeals court to reject DOJ bid to review classified Mar-a-Lago documents
  + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Kevin Breuninger Dan Mangan | Kevin Breuninger | Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +2 min
Lawyers for Donald Trump urged a federal appeals court Tuesday to reject a Justice Department bid to resume its review of documents marked classified that were seized from the former president's Florida home last month as part of a criminal investigation. The federal agents seized more than 100 documents bearing classified markings in that raid, the DOJ later revealed. Court documents also revealed that the FBI found four dozen empty folders marked "CLASSIFIED" during the raid. In a footnote, Trump's lawyers added, "The fact the documents contain classification markings does not necessarily negate privilege claims." "Those notes could certainly contain privileged information," Trump's lawyers wrote.
☆ The first special master hearing began with chaos as callers left unmuted sang America the Beautiful and told each other to shut up over garbled white noise
  + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
The first hearing in the DOJ's Trump probe involving the special master started on a chaotic note. All callers were left unmuted, and shouted over each other in the early minutes of the hearing. During the hearing, Dearie initially pushed back on some of the Trump team arguments. According to Politico reporter Kyle Cheney, participants who were left unmuted spoke simultaneously, causing havoc in the courtroom. During the hearing, Dearie seemed to agree with the government's assessment of which documents are classified, saying, "What business is it of the court?
☆ Lindsey Graham called Trump a 'lying motherfucker' but added that he's 'a lot of fun to hang with': book
  + stars: | 2022-09-17 | by ( Yelena Dzhanova | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Sen. Lindsey Graham called Trump a liar but added that he's a "lot of fun to hang out with." Graham's remarks appear in an upcoming book about Trump written by two journalists. Other Trump allies, like White House strategist Steve Bannon, have also characterized Trump as a liar. In the same exchange, Graham said he's a "lot of fun to hang out with," per the book. Steve Bannon, Trump's former White House strategist, for example, said he'd often lie to get his way, as Insider's Joshua Zitser reported.
☆ Trump is under investigation for breaking these 8 federal laws
  + stars: | 2022-08-12 | by ( Camila Dechalus | Sonam Sheth | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +8 min
The DOJ is investigating if Trump violated three federal laws related to his handling of national security information. Soon after, it surfaced that the Justice Department is investigating whether Trump violated three federal laws related to his handling of national security information and classified documents. The House select committee running a parallel congressional investigation into the siege has sought to build the case that Trump violated at least five federal laws connected to his efforts to overturn the 2020 US election. Here's a breakdown of the eight federal laws that Trump may have violated:The Espionage ActThe DOJ is investigating if Trump violated a key facet of the Espionage Act relating to the removal of information pertaining to the US's national defense. Concealment, removal, or mutilation of recordsThere are two other laws Trump is suspected of violating in connection to his handling of government documents.
☆ Meet Sunny Balwani: Theranos No. 2 and ex-lover to Elizabeth Holmes was just sentenced to nearly 13 years
  + stars: | 2022-07-07 | by ( Sarah Jackson | Áine Cain | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani, Elizabeth Holmes' ex-boyfriend and former right-hand man at Theranos, was just sentenced to almost 13 years in prison. He was convicted in July on all 12 counts brought against him related to his time as Theranos' president and COO. Late last month, she was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison, with three years of supervised release. Meanwhile, Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani, who is Holmes' ex-boyfriend and Theranos' former president and COO, has also been convicted of fraud and handed a prison sentence. While Holmes was once lauded as the next Steve Jobs and deemed the world's youngest self-made female billionaire, Balwani has largely remained an enigma.
☆ The January 6 committee did not finish the job
  + stars: | 2021-01-06 | by ( Mattathias Schwartz | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +11 min
The legislation establishing it directed the committee to report on the entire set of "facts, circumstances, and causes" surrounding the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol. The January 6 committee report contains extensive documentation of forewarnings of violence that were percolating up from confidential sources, open-source analysts, and senior officials. On January 4, Senator Mark Warner, chair of the Senate intelligence committee, called the FBI's deputy director with his concerns. As the committee notes, a threat analyst noted a "tenfold uptick in violent online rhetoric targeting Congress and law enforcement." Looming over the January 6 committee's report is the report by the 9/11 Commission, which was far from perfect, but much more comprehensive and unsparing.
☆ Huawei claims US charges of stealing trade secrets are an attempt to 'irrevocably damage' its image
  + stars: | 2020-02-14 | by ( Saheli Roy Choudhury | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +4 min
Federal prosecutors announced Thursday new criminal charges against Huawei and two of its U.S. subsidiaries, which included racketeering conspiracy charges and a charge of plotting to steal trade secrets from American companies. The superseding indictment, announced in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, adds to previous charges filed against Huawei. The U.S. has been misusing its national power to oppress Chinese companies with no proof of any wrongdoing. "The U.S. has been misusing its national power to oppress Chinese companies with no proof of any wrongdoing. "It severely undermines the reputation and credibility of the U.S., as well as the interests of American companies," Geng added.
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