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☆ Trump's big NY fraud verdict won't come until next week: source
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-31 | by ( Laura Italiano | Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A verdict in Trump's NY fraud trial won't come until February, a source told Business Insider. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementThe verdict in the New York attorney general's sprawling civil fraud lawsuit against Donald Trump and his family company won't come until early February, a source familiar with the timing told Business Insider. In their closing argument at the trial, Trump's attorneys raised Constitutional issues that indicate they will almost certainly bring the case to the US Supreme Court if they need to.

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☆ A man robbed a bank days after being found not guilty of robbing a different bank, prosecutors say
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-25 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Read previewA man recently declared innocent of bank robbery robbed a different bank within days of the verdict, according to federal prosecutors. Mohamed Worku, 31, is accused of bank robbery and theft after silently handing a demand note to a teller at an Illinois Citibank on January 22, court documents show. Less than a week earlier, Worku was found not guilty in a strikingly similar case dating back to December 2021. Prosecutors have now said that on Monday, three days after his acquittal, Worku handed a Citibank teller a note that read: "Please give me the money. AdvertisementA note allegedly written by Mohamed Worku and shown to an Illinois Citibank employee on January 22, 2024.

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☆ Trump lawyers ask for a mistrial in $250 million fraud case, accuses law clerk of 'co-judging'
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Trump's lawyers asked for a mistrial in their civil fraud trial in New York. AdvertisementThe mistrial filings — from Trump's lawyers Alina Habba, Christopher Kise, and Clifford Roberts — included quotes from the court transcript in which the lawyers first complained about Greenfield. Judge Arthur Engoron talks with his principal law clerk Allison Greenfield during the fraud trial for former President Donald Trump at New York Supreme Court. A summary judgement decision from Engoron — which Trump lawyers complain came less than a week before the trial — has already largely ruled in the attorney general's favor. After the ruling, Trump's lawyers can take it up with an appeals court, which will decide whether to let the trial stand.

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New York CNN —Donald Trump Jr. returned to the witness stand Monday to give his family’s side of the story in the New York attorney general’s civil fraud trial against Donald Trump. portfolioTrump lawyer Cliff Robert spent most of the day asking Trump Jr. to walk through nearly the entire portfolio of the Trump Org. Faherty also asked Trump Jr. about Trump International Hotel Waikiki ditching the Trump name and rebranding. “Welcome back, I feel like I’m at a reunion here, the Trump trial reunion,” Engoron said as she was sworn in. In addition to Trump Jr., Trump attorneys have said they are likely to call back Eric Trump and the former president, both of whom also previously testified.

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Ron DeSantis' appointees is dragging its feet in providing requested documents to Disney in a lawsuit over who has design and construction powers over the company’s sprawling theme park resort in central Florida, Disney said in court papers. The new DeSantis appointees claimed the “eleventh-hour deals” neutered their powers, and the district sued the company in state court to have the contracts voided. Disney has filed counterclaims which include asking the state court to declare the agreements valid and enforceable. Disney also is seeking from DeSantis’ office and several state agencies internal communications, including text messages and emails, and documents. DeSantis and the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District have asked a federal judge to throw out Disney’s First Amendment lawsuit, calling it meritless.

Persons: Walt, Ron DeSantis, Disney, ” Disney, DeSantis, Mike Schneider Organizations: Walt Disney, Florida Gov, Disney, Central, Improvement, “ Productions Locations: ORLANDO, Fla, Florida, Central Florida

Navalny, 47, now faces a transfer to a "special regime" prison colony, the harshest grade in Russia's penal system, with the prospect of staying there until he is in his mid-70s. Daniel Kholodny, a TV technician who worked for Navalny, was sentenced to eight years in jail in August as part of the same trial. "For all of us - their colleagues and friends - this is constant pain," Navalny aide Leonid Volkov posted on X, formerly Twitter. The Kremlin has tried to portray Navalny as politically irrelevant, and Putin makes a point of never speaking his name. Moscow has cast him as an extremist and, without providing evidence, as a puppet of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.

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Judge Arthur Engoron in his bombshell decision also canceled the New York business certificates of Trump, the Trump Organization, and the other defendants, including two of his sons, in a lawsuit by the state Attorney General's Office. The defendants in the case include Trump, his sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, former Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg, company executive Jeff McConney, and Trump Organization entities. Engoron also ordered sanctions of $7,500 for five attorneys who represented the Trump defendants for making frivolous and previously rejected arguments in court filings. In the fourth criminal case, Trump is charged with falsifying business records related to a 2016 hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels. Even after Engoron appointed an independent financial monitor for the Trump Organization last year, "defendants have continued to disseminate false and misleading information while conducting business," the judge wrote.

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A judge vacated the felony murder convictions in 2020, after testing found the towel was free of blood. The two men filed a federal wrongful conviction lawsuit against Lee, eight police investigators and the town of New Milford. U.S. District Court Judge Victor Bolden ruled in July that there was no evidence Lee ever conducted any blood tests on the towel, and a summary judgement was issued against him. Under the settlement, which must still be approved by the General Assembly, Birch and Henning would each receive $12.6 million, Attorney General William Tong's office said. Simpson murder trial, in which he questioned the handling of blood evidence.

Persons: —, Henry Lee, Ralph “ Ricky ” Birch, Shawn Henning, Everett Carr, Lee, Victor Bolden, Birch, Henning, William Tong's, Lee . Lee, ”, Blood, Henry C, Simpson, JonBenet, Scott Peterson, Laci, Phil Spector, Spector Organizations: General, University of New, Lee, of Criminal, Forensic Sciences Locations: HARTFORD, Conn, New Milford, Hartford, New Milford . U.S, Birch, JonBenet Ramsey, Colorado

☆ Trump exaggerated his net worth by as much as $3.6 billion a year, New York's Letitia James now alleges
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

More than 100 motions, exhibits were filed Friday in NY's civil business-fraud case against Trump and his company. Attorney General Letitia James is now alleging Trump's net-worth exaggerations topped $3.6 billion a year. And that $3.6 billion overstatement "is still a conservative estimate of the extent of the inflation," lawyers for Attorney General Letitia James claim in the filing. That figure exceeds — by a long stretch — the $2.2 billion that James' office used just last week as an example of how much Trump could exaggerate the value of his empire in annual statements of net worth. The New York attorney general alleges that Donald Trump and senior Trump Organization management inflated his net worth in annual financial filings by $3.6 billion a year.

Persons: Trump, Letitia James, Donald, James, Donald Trump, Arthur Engoron, Donald Trump , Jr, Eric Trump Organizations: Service, Trump, New, senior Trump Organization Locations: Wall, Silicon, New York, Manhattan

☆ Trump raped E. Jean Carroll, and there's no need for a 2nd jury to say that, judge rules
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-06 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

An earlier jury already settled that Trump raped Carroll, a judge ruled. US District Judge Lewis Kaplan wrote that the question of whether Trump raped Carroll was settled in a separate trial earlier this year. Advertisement Advertisement Watch: Jury finds Trump sexually abused and defamed E. Jean CarrollThat trial was for Carroll's second lawsuit against Trump. The jury used the New York state penal law standard to determine whether Trump "raped" or "sexually abused" Carroll. Trump is appealing the verdict in the earlier Carroll trial and has argued that a second trial would be unfairly duplicative.

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☆ Trump bid to delay $250 million New York fraud trial is 'completely without merit,' judge says
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-06 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

A New York judge on Wednesday rejected Donald Trump's request to delay his sweeping civil fraud trial, calling the former president's request "completely without merit." The order keeps the case on track to become Trump's first trial since he left the White House in 2021. Engoron's rebuke came one day after James asked the judge to sanction Trump and others in the case for repeatedly putting forward the same failed legal arguments. James asked the judge to issue a combined $10,000 fine to all the defendants, and another collective fine of $10,000 on their lawyers. Late last month, James asked Engoron to grant partial summary judgment against Trump, pointing to what she called a "mountain of undisputed evidence" backing up her allegations.

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☆ Trump raped E. Jean Carroll, and there's no need for a 2nd jury to waste time on that, judge rules
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-06 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

☆ 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.

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"She ignored the public trial right entirely. Scott Berry, Spearman's federal public defender, declined to comment, as did a Justice Department spokesperson. Five former federal judges -- four appointed by Democrats and one by a Republican -- said in interviews that Cannon’s errors likely reflect relative inexperience on the bench. A public trial also has been found to implicate First Amendment rights of freedom of assembly, speech and press. One of the pivotal Supreme Court cases on the right to a public trial is Waller v. Georgia.

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A defendant's right to a public trial is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution's Sixth Amendment. "She ignored the public trial right entirely. A public trial also has been found to implicate First Amendment rights of freedom of assembly, speech and press. Scott Berry, a federal public defender representing Spearman, declined to comment, as did a Justice Department spokesperson. LIMITED EXPERIENCEAs a judge, Cannon so far has presided over four criminal trials that resulted in jury verdicts.

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☆ Judge narrows case in Google antitrust suits brought by states and DOJ
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-04 | by ( Lauren Feiner | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

A federal judge narrowed the case that states and the Department of Justice can make in the antitrust trial against Google beginning in September, according to a newly-released decision. The cases both alleged that Google illegally maintained a monopoly by cutting off rivals from search distribution channels. The DOJ and a bipartisan group of AGs from 38 states and territories, led by Colorado and Nebraska, filed similar but separate antitrust suits against Google in 2020. In addition to the allegedly exclusionary contracts for search distribution, the states alleged that Google also violated antitrust law through its product to buy search ads and the way it designed its search results pages. But they will no longer be able to bring the claim that Google harmed competition by designing its search results to push down search engine competitors' results, the judge decided.

Persons: Sundar Pichai, It's, Amit Mehta, Mehta, Google's, Kent Walker, Phil Weiser Organizations: Department, Justice, Google, D.C, Department of Justice, DOJ, AGs, Colorado and, Federal Trade Commission, FTC, Street Locations: Rayburn, Washington ,, Colorado, Colorado and Nebraska

In this photo illustration, a visual representation of the digital Cryptocurrency Ripple is displayed on January 30, 2018 in Paris, France. Ripple's XRP token went up 68% in the last 24 hours, leading a wider rally of major-cap altcoins, as crypto traders digest a key ruling that could stifle U.S. regulator efforts to stamp out digital asset trading. All four tokens were recently singled out as securities in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's formal suits against popular crypto retail trading exchanges, including Binance and Coinbase . But the Thursday summary judgement from U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres calls that classification into question. Ripple maintained that its token is not a security — triggering ongoing confusion over which digital coins fall into which regulatory bucket.

Persons: Ripple's, Algorand's, Analisa Torres, Brad Garlinghouse, Renato Mariotti, Bryan Cave Leighton Organizations: U.S . Securities, Exchange, District, SEC, Labs, San, U.S . Southern, of New, U.S . Justice Department's Securities, Commodities Locations: Paris, France, San Francisco, U.S, of New York, Chicago

☆ XRP soars 61% after a judge says the cryptocurrency is not a security in a big win over the SEC
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-13 | by ( Matthew Fox | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

XRP soared as much as 61% on Thursday after a US judge said certain aspects of the sale of the token did not break federal securities laws. The SEC had sued Ripple for the sale of its XRP token in 2020 for the failure to register XRP as a security. US District Judge for the Southern District of New York Analisa Torres said the XRP token is "not necessarily a security on its face." But there are multiple facets of the ruling and it gets complicated depending on the type of sale of XRP. A motion for summary judgement filed by the SEC in its "aiding and abetting" allegations against Garlinghouse and Larsen was denied.

Persons: Brad Garlinghouse, Christian Larsen, of New York Analisa Torres, Torres, Garlinghouse, Larsen, bitcoin Organizations: SEC, Service, US, Southern, of, of New York, Twitter Locations: Wall, Silicon, of New

☆ Michigan man says posting a meme about pooping on company time led to him filing for bankruptcy after he was sued by his employer
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

When a Michigan man posted a meme about work to Facebook in 2019, a lengthy legal battled ensued. In the ruling, the court said Hidalgo would have to pay $150,000 to Roman Stone Works. The viral post about the firing led to online harassment of Roman Stone Works from supporters of Hidalgo. The Roman Stone Works Facebook page still receives comments related to the situation, including one as recently as two weeks ago. Roman Stone Works did not immediately respond to Insider's request to comment.

☆ Judge rejects Fox motions, allows Dominion's $1.6 billion defamation suit to go to trial
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-31 | by ( Lillian Rizzo | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

A Delaware judge on Friday said Dominion Voting's $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox Corp. and its networks could go to trial in April. Judge Eric Davis of Delaware's Superior Court rejected Fox's arguments that it should bypass a trial since it's protected by the First Amendment. We look forward to going to trial," Dominion said late Friday afternoon. The former president, who was indicted Thursday in an unrelated criminal matter, has repeatedly made false claims about the election being rigged against him. The depositions of both Murdochs, as well as other Fox Corp. executives, are to be included in the trial, too.

☆ Fox, Dominion urge judge to rule in $1.6 billion defamation suit ahead of April trial
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-22 | by ( Lillian Rizzo | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

However, Fox and Dominion didn't close up their arguments on Tuesday and will meet in court Wednesday morning. (Trump's false claims of election fraud are at the center of multiple criminal probes.) Chairman Rupert Murdoch said some anchors parroted false fraud claims in the months following the election. Fox has consistently denied the claims it knowingly made false claims, and has argued it is protected by the First Amendment. These cases are often settled out of court or quickly dismissed by a court judge, but neither said has had such discussions, CNBC previously reported.

☆ Rupert Murdoch suggested Fox News hosts 'went too far' with election fraud claims
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-07 | by ( Lillian Rizzo | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Murdoch said in an email to Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott on Jan. 21, 2021, in an apparent reference to Fox News hosts Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham. Dominion has argued in its suit that Fox and its ring-wing cable TV channels and talent falsely claimed that its voting machines rigged the results of the 2020 election. The company points to Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch's testimony about being "kept awake at night" regarding ratings and competition following the 2020 election. Trump has repeatedly spread false claims that the 2020 election between him and now-President Joe Biden was rigged. Before then, Dominion and Fox will meet again in Delaware court on March 21 regarding their motions for summary judgement.

☆ Trump asks for the moon in NY attorney general fraud case, demanding more time despite strict warning from judge
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-03 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Lawyers for Trump say they can't meet their deadlines in the NY attorney general's fraud lawsuit. There are 16 defendants named in the attorney general's lawsuit, a number that includes Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Jr., Eric Trump, Ivanka Trump, and a dozen other executives and Trump Organization sub-entities. "The current schedule imposes significant hardship on Defendants," the Trump lawyers argued in a supplemental filing. "The Defendants' claimed hardship is self-inflicted," the attorney general countered in a filing last week, after the Trump lawyers first broached moving deadlines. The judge, too, has yet to rule on the Trump lawyers' request for more time.

☆ Judge could take months to decide case of Castro-era Cuban debt
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-06 | by ( Michelle Caruso-Cabrera | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

The trial ended last week, but it could be months before the judge, Sara Cockerill, renders judgement in the case of CRF vs Banco Nacional de Cuba & Cuba. Her decision is central to whether Cuba may finally be forced to pay back billions of dollars in unpaid debts. At one point the barrister for CRF cited a British property case regarding the lease of a fried fish shop. The question before the judge is of whether the fund has the right to sue Cuba. No matter how the judge rules, the Cuban government will still owe the money.

You feel like he's on a solo mission," Tania Daou-Alam, who lost her husband in the blast, told Reuters. Bitar went on to file his own charges against several top politicians, including former ministers allied to Hezbollah. Bitar, a devout Catholic from Akkar region of the north, has charged officials from across the sectarian spectrum including Shi'ites, Sunnis and Christians. "I said from the start 'the right person is in the right place'," he added, describing Bitar as just with no political affiliations. William Noun, who lost his brother in the blast, said of Bitar's move: "This is very much a judicial uprising".

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