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Cohen, now a vocal Trump critic, said the real estate company stopped paying his bills after he began cooperating with several investigations. In a 5-0 decision, the Appellate Division in Manhattan said a trial judge erred in dismissing Cohen's lawsuit. The court said it was unclear whether Cohen's legal fees mounted because he had been a Trump Organization employee, which would entitle him to reimbursement. The fees kept growing, and the Trump Organization has paid some of them, court papers show. Michael Cohen and Justice Cohen are not related.

☆ Meet Donald Trump's children with Ivana Trump, Marla Maples, and Melania Trump
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( Business Insider | Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Donald Trump has five children between two of his former wives and his current wife Melania Trump. Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, and Ivanka Trump are children with his first wife, Ivana Trump, who died on July 14. Getty Images/Joe CorriganNow a father of five, Donald Trump Jr. was 12 when Ivana Trump and Donald Trump Sr. divorced. In 2001, a year after he graduated from college, Donald Trump Jr. went to work for his dad for the second time. He told New York magazine that Donald Trump Jr. is like his mentor and Ivanka Trump is like his second mother.

☆ How a conviction in Trump Org's upcoming trial could bar Trump from federal contracts, even for Secret Service
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-23 | by ( Laura Italiano | Dave Levinthal | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

A ban could end his 'exorbitant' billing of Secret Service agents who protect him at his resorts. Add to that the recent news that the Trump Organization had billed the Secret Service more than $ 1.4 million to stay at Trump properties during the former president's time in office. At the Trump Organization headquarters in Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue, the cars, apartments and tuition were considered part of Weisselberg's $940,000-a-year income, prosecutors allege. Secret Service a tough targetWatchdogs concede that Trump's Secret Service billing is a tough target. Barring the unlikelihood of a cash-free solution — Trump letting the Secret Service "stay at our properties for free," as Eric Trump once promised, or forgoing Secret Service protection voluntarily, as Richard Nixon did — Trump's Secret Service spigot may well remain open, watchdogs acknowledge.

☆ Trump SPAC stock jumps after Google adds Truth Social to Play Store
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Jack Stebbins | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

The Truth social network logo is seen displayed behind a woman holding a smartphone in this picture illustration taken February 21, 2022. Shares of Digital World Acquisition Corp ., the company aiming to take former President Donald Trump's media company public, jumped during after-hours trading after Google added the Truth Social app to its Play Store. Google reinstated Parler, a platform similar to Truth Social, to the Play Store in September after the app was substantially modified to comply with Google's policies. DWAC's private investors were set to provide $1 billion to Trump Media upon the merger's completion. Meanwhile, a whistleblower from within Trump Media, William Wilkerson, has provided the SEC with internal documents.

☆ Digital World Acquisition Corp prepares merger-delay vote as Trump Media exec warns company will fail
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-10 | by ( Jack Stebbins | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

The former US President announced his intention to create a new social media platform after he was banned from Facebook and Twitter last year. The company is also dealing with the fallout from a Trump Media executive's whistleblower complaint to federal regulators. A senior vice president at Trump Media, William Wilkerson, filed a whistleblower complaint alleging securities violations in August. Trump Media recently announced that the company was exploring legal action against the SEC for delaying the deal. "If they don't come with the financing I'll have it private," Trump said to supporters in an early-October rally in Michigan.

☆ U.S. Congress unveils stopgap bill to avert shutdown, aid Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Richard Cowan | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

A Tuesday evening Senate procedural vote is designed to speed action once Democrats and Republicans put the finishing touches on legislation. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell urged his fellow Republicans to vote against the temporary funding bill because of the Manchin provision, Politico reported. And I would hope my friends would look at it that way," Manchin said in an interview with CNN, referring to the inclusion of his permitting reforms in the temporary funding bill. The last time Congress allowed funding to lapse was in December 2018, when Democrats balked at paying for then-President Donald Trump's U.S.-Mexico border wall. Following a record, 35-day impasse and partial government shutdown, Trump found ways to circumvent Congress to some degree, but the wall never was completed.

☆ U.S. Congress to press ahead on stopgap government funding bill
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Richard Cowan | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

The bill would set $12.3 billion in new funding to help Ukraine turn back Russia's invasion, House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Rosa DeLaura said in a statement. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell urged his fellow Republicans to vote against the temporary funding bill because of the Manchin provision, Politico reported. SPENDING BILL STILL EXPECTED TO PASSEven if Tuesday's procedural vote fails, House and Senate leaders are expected to switch gears to promptly pass the spending bill by their Friday midnight deadline. The last time Congress allowed funding to lapse was in December 2018, when Democrats balked at paying for then-President Donald Trump's U.S.-Mexico border wall. Following a record, 35-day impasse, Trump found ways to partially circumvent Congress, but the wall never was completed.

☆ U.S. Congress scrambles to pass stopgap bill to keep government funded
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Richard Cowan | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell urged his fellow Republicans to vote against the temporary funding bill because of the Manchin provision, Politico reported. Republicans have been angry at Manchin after he helped Democrats pass a bill this summer addressing climate change and lowering some healthcare costs. SPENDING BILL STILL EXPECTED TO PASSEven if Tuesday's procedural vote fails, House and Senate leaders are expected to switch gears to promptly pass the spending bill by their Friday midnight deadline. The last time Congress allowed funding to lapse was in December 2018, when Democrats balked at paying for then-President Donald Trump's U.S.-Mexico border wall. Following a record, 35-day impasse, Trump found ways to partially circumvent Congress, but the wall never was completed.

"One of the best defenses to this matter is to delay, delay, delay." New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks during a press conference in New York on Sept. 21, 2022. "The core of that argument is the financial statements that were relied upon by these banks were marked as non-audited financials," Levin said. They know how to read these financial statements." "It's going to be very difficult to overcome some of that," Levin said of the inflated financial statements.

☆ New York AG's fraud civil suit against Trump hits him right in the ego
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( Michael Conway | Michael Conway Was Counsel For The House Judiciary Committee In The Impeachment Inquiry Of President Richard Nixon In In That Role | He Assisted In Drafting The Committee'S Final Report To The House In Support Of The Three Articles Of Impeachment Adopted The Committee. Conway Is A Graduate Of Yale Law School | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

New York Attorney General Letitia James’ civil lawsuit filed Wednesday alleging “persistent fraud” by the Trump Organization devastates Donald Trump’s manufactured self-image as a billionaire businessman. James’ civil lawsuit strikes Trump at the two places he is most vulnerable: his ego and his money. James’ lawsuit meticulously lists fraudulent valuations for Trump Tower, Mar-a-Lago, 40 Wall Street, numerous Trump golf courses and, importantly, Trump’s cash assets. Second, James has sued not only Donald Trump but also Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, Ivanka Trump, Allen Weisselberg (the former chief financial officer of the Trump Organization) and multiple Trump business entities. All are accused of engaging in a criminal conspiracy to defraud lenders and insurers by inflating Trump’s net worth.

☆ Trump-linked SPAC faces new pressure from investors as merger hangs in the balance
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Jack Stebbins | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

The social media app will be developed by Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG). If it falls apart, it would mean a lot less money for Trump Media, even if it did end up going public through a merger with DWAC. The negotiation is an attempt to shift risk to DWAC and Trump Media, which owns Truth Social. Representatives for DWAC and Trump Media didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. Trump founded Trump Media and Technology Group and its platform Truth Social after he was banned from Twitter following the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

☆ Video platform Rumble to go public after successful SPAC vote
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-15 | by ( Jack Stebbins | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

The Rumble video platform logo on a laptop computer arranged in Hastings on Hudson, New York, U.S., on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2021. Shareholders of the special purpose acquisition company Cantor Fitzgerald Acquisition Corp. VI voted Thursday to take the video platform Rumble public. The blank check company set to take it public is led by Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick. The Rumble vote comes soon after shareholders of a SPAC seeking to take Trump Media and Technology Group public failed to approve a deadline extension for the deal. Shares of Cantor Fitzgerald Acquisition Corp.

☆ Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump, and Donald Trump, Jr. have all been deposed by NY's attorney general's office — now what?
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-10 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Donald Trump was deposed Wednesday by the NY attorney general's office — after promising to plead the Fifth. So what's next for the Trumps, the Trump Organization and James' three-year investigation? The lawsuit will seek steep financial penalties for an alleged decadelong pattern of playing fast and loose with the assessed values of Trump Organization properties. The Trump Organization probe is the third time the former president has been in the AG's crosshairs. Why did the AG insist on a deposition in this current, Trump Organization case?

☆ Legal problems galore await Trump now that he's lost reelection — and, soon, his presidential immunity
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-06 | by ( Dave Levinthal | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

"What the Biden Justice Department will do is let the Justice Department be the Department of Justice," Biden said during an ABC News forum when asked what he'd do about the evidence accumulated during the Mueller investigation. Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesAccusations of campaign-finance violationsThe most notable Trump campaign money drama of the moment is a doozy. It involves a complaint filed this summer by the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center that alleges the Trump campaign "disguised" nearly $170 million worth of campaign spending "by laundering the funds" through companies led by Brad Parscale, his former campaign manager, or created by Trump campaign lawyers. The Trump campaign has denied wrongdoing. They include accusations of illegal solicitation of a foreign national by Donald Trump Jr. and failure to publicly disclose campaign debts stemming from municipal police bills the Trump campaign refuses to pay.

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