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Mr. Trump posted a picture of her with Senator Chuck Schumer, accusing her of partisanship and saying she was “running this case against me.”Though the order is limited, Mr. Trump violated it twice in less than a week. Mr. Cohen spent two days on the stand testifying that Mr. Trump had lied about the value of his properties. Mr. Cohen spoke calmly and confidently as he recounted Mr. Trump’s obsession with his net worth. Mr. Cohen said he had not, prompting Mr. Trump and one of his lawyers, Alina Habba, to throw their hands up in victory. Outside the courtroom, Mr. Trump declared that Mr. Cohen had been “proven to be a liar.”Trump took the stand unexpectedly.

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☆ Judge in Trump NY fraud trial extends gag order to lawyers, says office has received 'hundreds' of threats since trial started
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

"The threat of, and actual, violence resulting from heated political rhetoric is well-documented," Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron wrote in a fiery court order Friday afternoon. Trump has violated that gag order twice since the trial began last month. They have been "falsely accusing her of bias against them and of improperly influencing the ongoing bench trial," Engoron wrote. Violating the gag order "shall result in serious sanctions," he added. He has fined Trump a total of $15,000 for twice violating the gag order that was imposed early in the case.

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The judge overseeing Trump's fraud trial imposed a partial gag order on Trump's lawyers. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe judge overseeing former President Donald Trump's fraud trial in New York expanded an existing gag order to bar Trump's lawyers from commenting on confidential communications between the judge and his staff. Judge Arthur Engoron's wider gag order came after Trump's lawyers made what the judge characterized as "on the record, repeated, inappropriate remarks" about his law clerk. They "falsely [accused] her of bias against them and of improperly influencing the ongoing bench trial," Engoron wrote. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe previous gag order already barred Trump and his co-defendants from spoken or online statements attacking Engoron's law staff.

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☆ Trump unleashes new attack on the legal system after his sons take the stand
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Things grew heated when Amer apparently succeeded in undermining Eric Trump’s claims that he had little to do with his father’s financial statements. “I understand we had financials as a company,” Eric Trump said. Eric Trump replied: “It appears that way, yes.”In essence, both Trump sons are arguing that despite running the company, they knew nothing about its financial statements. In a bizarre passage of the trial, Trump attorney Chris Kise insisted: “I’m not a misogynist. CNN legal analyst Shan Wu said that neither the testimony of Eric Trump nor the strategy of attacking court personnel seemed like a smart approach.

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☆ Furious fraud trial judge accuses T lawyer of misogyny, threatens wider gag order, after law-clerk snipe
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

A defense lawyer's late afternoon snipe about a law clerk sparked drama at the Trump fraud trial. The blowup came when Trump lawyer Christopher Kise snarked "ask your law clerk first," to the judge. AdvertisementAdvertisementHearing her referenced with derision yet again, the typically affable judge hit the figurative roof, as Eric Trump watched, blank-faced, from the witness stand. "If you keep referring to my principal law clerk, I will consider expanding the gag order to include you and your attorneys." "I have an absolute right, an absolute unfettered right, to get advice from my principal law clerk," as with anyone on his three-member staff, he said.

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☆ Furious fraud trial judge accuses Trump lawyer of misogyny, threatens wider gag order, after law-clerk snipe
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

A defense lawyer's late afternoon snipe about a law clerk sparked drama at the Trump fraud trial. The blowup came when Trump lawyer Christopher Kise snarked "ask your law clerk first," to the judge. The temper-flaring, accusations, and judicial threats were sparked in the Manhattan courtroom by a wise-crack comment from Trump lawyer Christopher Kise, who was raising a routine objection during late-afternoon testimony by Eric Trump. AdvertisementAdvertisementHearing her referenced with derision yet again, the typically affable judge hit the figurative roof, as Eric Trump watched, blank-faced, from the witness stand. "If you keep referring to my principal law clerk, I will consider expanding the gag order to include you and your attorneys."

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☆ Trump kid says the darnedest things: Donald Trump, Jr. gives guarded, sometimes flip, testimony at fraud trial
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Donald Trump, Jr., was well-spoken, but guarded during 90 minutes of testimony on Wednesday. He cracked a couple of jokes and protected his father during week 5 of the Trump civil fraud trial. Eric Trump testifies next, with Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump scheduled for next week. Donald Trump, Jr., jokes he "should have worn makeup" while photographed at the defense table in the Trump civil fraud trial in New York. Ivanka Trump was once a defendant in the AG case, along with Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., and Eric Trump.

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☆ Michael Cohen dropped one big bombshell, but his testimony at the NY fraud trial was eclipsed by Trump
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Michael Cohen finished testifying Wednesday, his second day on the stand at Trump's NY fraud trial. "No I did not," Cohen protested from the witness stand, in one of the rare moments that his voice rose to meet Habba's volume. Just after the lunch break, Trump was suddenly summoned to take the witness stand by the judge. Engoron found Trump's testimony – in which he swore under oath that he'd meant Cohen, not the clerk, was "partisan" – was "not credible." AdvertisementAdvertisementAnd Trump's testimony, not Cohen's, wound up the big story of the day.

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Companies Trump Organization Inc FollowNEW YORK, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Donald Trump's former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen testified on Tuesday that he manipulated the values of the former U.S. president's real estate properties to match "whatever number Mr. Trump told us." Testifying as a key witness in New York Attorney General Letitia James' civil fraud case against Trump, Cohen said Trump tasked him and other former Trump Organization executives with doctoring financial statements to boost the value of the company's holdings and secure better real estate premiums. Speaking to reporters outside the courtroom when the trial ended for the day, Trump called Cohen a "disgraceful fellow." During about a half hour of cross-examination on Tuesday, Cohen - a disbarred lawyer - rattled off case law to support an objection by the attorney general to a question by Trump lawyer Alina Habba. James is seeking at least $250 million in fines, a permanent ban against Trump and his sons Donald Jr and Eric from running businesses in New York and a five-year commercial real estate ban against Trump and the Trump Organization.

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[1/2] Former U.S. President Donald Trump attends the Trump Organization civil fraud trial, in New York State Supreme Court in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S., October 24, 2023. Cohen, who cut ties with Trump five years ago, will undergo more cross-examination by Trump's lawyers determined to undermine his credibility. Cohen testified on Tuesday that Trump "arbitrarily" inflated the value of the Trump Organization's real estate assets to secure favorable insurance premiums. James is seeking at least $250 million in fines, a permanent ban against Trump and his sons Donald Jr and Eric from running businesses in New York and a five-year commercial real estate ban against Trump and the Trump Organization. Reporting by Jack Queen and Luc Cohen in New York; Editing by Noeleen Walder and Bill BerkrotOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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☆ Inside the courtroom as Donald Trump is forced to take the stand, is fined and then storms out
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Jeremy Herb | Lauren Del Valle | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Engoron asked Trump if he would like to be on the witness stand. Trump didn’t hesitate, pushing back his seat at the defense table instantly to stand and walk into the witness box. Once Trump was on the stand, Engoron put on his lawyer hat and launched into a calm interrogation of the former president, reading back what Trump had told reporters outside the courtroom only hours earlier. “You and Cohen,” Trump said. “We won this trial,” Trump said before leaving the hallway.

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☆ Trump aims to discredit Michael Cohen as ex-lawyer testifies in New York fraud trial
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Trump doubled down Wednesday during a mid-morning break, saying Cohen "went to jail for lying" and branding him "a totally discredited witness." In his first day on the stand, Cohen had accused Trump of directing him and another Trump Organization executive to falsely inflate the values of his assets on financial statements. But Trump's attorney Alina Habba grilled Cohen on cross-examination, highlighting his 2018 guilty plea on charges including lying to Congress. Cohen, Trump's once-loyal aide, is now a star witness against him in James' trial in Manhattan Supreme Court. Judge Arthur Engoron, who will deliver verdicts in the no-jury trial, has already found Trump liable for fraud and ordered the cancellation of the defendants' New York business certificates.

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☆ Judge in NY fraud trial threatens Trump with sanctions again, saying the ex-president's latest comments were a 'blatant' violation of the gag order
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Grace Eliza Goodwin | Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The judge in Donald Trump's New York fraud trial has threatened the former president with sanctions again. He verbally attacked a law clerk in what the judge called a "blatant" violation of his gag order. "This judge is a very partisan judge," Trump was quoted by the AP as saying, "with a person who is very partisan sitting right beside him, perhaps even more partisan than he is." Engoron's principle law clerk, Allison Greenfield, sits some three feet to the judge's right. The gag was necessary, the judge explained at the time, because Trump had repeatedly "disparaged" the law clerk on social media, falsely calling her "Schumer's girlfriend."

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NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Cohen returned to the witness stand Wednesday in his ex-boss Donald Trump's civil business fraud trial as the former president's defense team tried to undermine the credibility and question the motives of his onetime personal attorney turned adversary. She tried to suggest that Cohen had angled unsuccessfully for a job in Trump’s White House — Cohen insisted he never sought one — and asked whether he had “significant animosity" toward Trump. Cohen is a key witness in New York Attorney General Letitia James’ civil case against Trump. Cohen is also expected to be an important prosecution witness in a criminal trial scheduled for next spring in which Trump is accused of falsifying business records. That case is one of four criminal prosecutions Trump faces in New York, Florida, Georgia and Washington.

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☆ What Michael Cohen said about his testimony and why it matters in the Trump fraud trial
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Jeremy Herb | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

New York CNN —An apparent backtrack by Donald Trump’s ex-lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen threw the New York civil fraud trial into more chaos Wednesday afternoon. But after lunch, Cliff Robert, another Trump attorney, pressed Cohen further on his congressional testimony, and Cohen had a different response, saying that the testimony was not false. “The witness just admitted that we won the trial,” Trump told reporters in the hallway. “And the judge should end this trial immediately.”The New York attorney general’s lawyers asked Cohen in follow up questions to clarify his response. New York Attorney General Letitia James downplayed Cohen’s significance to her case against Trump in comments to reporters at the conclusion of Cohen’s two-day testimony.

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☆ Trump's lawyers demand fraud trial stopped because of a COVID-19 risk — but none are wearing masks in court
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Trump's fraud trial began week 4 on Tuesday after skipping Monday due to a courtroom COVID outbreak. An unmasked Trump watched as his lawyers asked the trial be halted due to the risk of infection. The AG's office is, meanwhile, insisting that all notification and quarantine rules have been followed. A spokesperson for the AG's office told reporters in a statement, "As always, the Attorney General's Office has followed and complied with CDC guidelines. Our office properly notified the court and defendants' counsel, and the court decided to proceed with trial today.

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☆ Trump attorney calls Micheal Cohen a liar in bizarre 'cross' fire: 'You're not on your podcast'
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

"You're not on your podcast," the lawyer, Alina Habba, snapped at Cohen at one point. "You're not on 'Mea Culpa,'" Habba continued, naming Cohen's podcast, which routinely targets Trump with vitriol. AdvertisementAdvertisement"No speeches," Engoron warned, noting that as a lawyer, Habba must ask questions, not make statements. But in that half hour, she called Cohen a liar and perjuror in multiple questions – "so you have lied under oath numerous times, Mr. On his way out of court for the day, Trump paused before the hallway news cameras and called Cohen a "disgraced felon."

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☆ Trump's lawyers demand fraud trial be stopped because of a COVID-19 risk — but none are wearing masks in court
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Trump's fraud trial began week four on Tuesday after skipping Monday due to a COVID-19 outbreak. An unmasked Trump watched as his unmasked lawyers asked the trial be halted due to the risk of infection. The AG's office is, meanwhile, insisting that all notification and quarantine rules have been followed. AdvertisementAdvertisementA spokesperson for the AG's office told reporters in a statement, "As always, the Attorney General's Office has followed and complied with CDC guidelines. Our office properly notified the court and defendants' counsel, and the court decided to proceed with trial today.

With Trump sitting feet away, Trump’s one-time lawyer and fixer described how he manipulated Trump’s financial statements – “reverse-engineering” them to hit an arbitrary net worth. We’re not worried at all about his testimony,” Trump said during a lunch break. The tense questioning is going to continue into Wednesday, as Habba hadn’t even started on the substance of Cohen’s testimony in the civil fraud trial. In the July 2014 letter submitting a bid to buy the Bills, Trump claimed his net worth was $8 billion. Before Engoron’s ruling, the state attorneys and Trump’s lawyers clashed over Michael Cohen’s testimony about the letter.

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The bulk of the Trump PAC money went to law firms that have defended Trump against a series of criminal charges or in civil lawsuits. “Well, if the little fish’s lawyer is being paid by the big fish that’s less likely to happen potentially.”The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment. That money is earmarked for political and campaign activities, not for legal expenses, according to the campaign. To help pay the legal fees, Trump’s political operation has also moved millions from his super PAC, MAGA Inc. Those concerns are amplified in court records filed by Smith’s team in the Mar-a-Lago case.

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The Justice Department charged Charles Edward Littlejohn, 38, of Washington, D.C., with stealing tax return information and giving it to two news outlets between 2018 and 2020. U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes said she was deeply troubled by his actions that affected Trump and thousands of other people. Littlejohn pleaded guilty to one count of unauthorized disclosure of tax returns and return information. The 2020 New York Times report found Trump paid $750 in federal income tax the year he entered the White House and no income tax at all some years thanks to colossal losses. The stories sparked calls for reform on taxes for the wealthy — and calls for investigations into the leaking of tax information, which has specific legal protections.

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☆ Former IRS contractor accused of stealing Trump’s tax returns pleads guilty
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-12 | by ( Holmes Lybrand | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —The former IRS contractor accused of leaking former President Donald Trump’s tax returns and stealing tax information on thousands of the wealthiest people in the US pleaded guilty in federal court on Thursday. Prosecutors say Charles Littlejohn of Washington, DC, sent Trump’s tax returns and other data to two media outlets that “published numerous articles describing the tax information they obtained from the Defendant.”Littlejohn pleaded guilty to the one count of disclosing tax information, which he was charged with in late September. The contractor’s crime affected so many individuals that prosecutors plan to create a public website to notify the victims of any developments in the case. Habba said Trump was opposed to the plea deal and called for the maximum sentence of five years in prison for Littlejohn. “Make no mistake, this was not acceptable.”A sentencing hearing has been scheduled for January 29.

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☆ Judge erupts at Trump's lawyers for wasting time with 'ridiculous' repetitive questions aimed at Trump Organization's ex-accountant
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-04 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The judge in Donald Trump's New York fraud case is not happy with the former president's lawyers. AdvertisementAdvertisementDonald Trump's lawyers sparred with the judge overseeing the ex-president's civil fraud trial in downtown Manhattan Wednesday, arguing for their right to ask repetitive questions. Suarez asked. Engoron asked. Engoron asked Bender whether his answer "would be the same for each year."

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NEW YORK (AP) — After a fiery first day of opening arguments, lawyers in Donald Trump's business fraud trial in New York will move on Tuesday to the more plodding task of going through years of his financial documents in what's expected to be a weekslong fight over whether they constitute proof of fraud. An accountant who prepared Trump’s financial statements for years was expected to be back on the witness stand for a second day. Trump, who spent a full day Monday as an angry spectator at the civil trial, was contemplating a return to court as well. The non-jury trial concerns six remaining claims in the lawsuit, and how much Trump might owe in penalties. James is seeking $250 million and a ban on Trump doing business in New York.

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☆ Analysis: New trial hits Trump's image as the ultimate winner
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-03 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

But the fraud case in New York threatens to shred Trump’s cherished self-image as an ultimate winner. Just so you know, my financial statements are phenomenal,” Trump said before the trial opened. “They’re hitting him where it hurts,” one source told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins about Trump’s decision to attend the trial on Monday. Trump’s bluster and political showmanship are proven to work, as his huge lead in the GOP presidential primary shows. But Trump’s legal fate in this and all the other cases will not be decided on campaign trails but in courtrooms.

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