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☆ New Trump co-defendant's plea delayed while he seeks Florida lawyer
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Carlos De Oliveira (L), personal aide to former US President Donald Trump, arrives at the James L. King Federal Courthouse in Miami, Florida, on July 31, 2023. Carlos De Oliveira — the new co-defendant in the Trump classified documents criminal case — appeared in Miami federal court Monday morning, but had the entry of his plea postponed to give him time to hire a local Florida lawyer. De Oliveira was ordered free on a $100,000 signature bond by Magistrate Judge Edwin Torres at the brief hearing after Torres read out the four charges facing the defendant. De Oliveira's failure so far to get a Florida lawyer mirrors the difficulties that Trump had hiring a local attorney for the case. Nauta had his arraignment twice postponed because of the same issue.

Persons: Carlos De Oliveira, Donald Trump, James L, Carlos De Oliveira —, —, De Oliveira, Edwin Torres, Torres, Donald Trump's Mar, Walt Nauta, De, Trump, Nauta Organizations: King, Trump Locations: Miami , Florida, Miami, Florida, Lago, Palm Beach , Florida

☆ New York woman sentenced in 'catfish' extortion bid of CEO
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

At her sentencing Wednesday, Blackwood was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release for the attempted shakedown, which spanned six months in 2022. A New York woman was sentenced to time already served in jail for cyberstalking in a case where she was accused of " catfishing " a mystery high-profile CEO of a publicly traded corporation. Prosecutors in a court filing said Blackwood tried to extort the victim by threatening to "falsely tell the world" that the man "has sex with a minor." Blackwood also ramped up pressure on the victim in late April 2022 by "using Twitter to tweet veiled threats at the Victim," prosecutors wrote. "For many months, the defendant kept the Victim suffering from the constant fear that his life would be ruined.

Persons: Furman, Blackwood, Jess Furman, Sakoya Blackwood, —, Blackwood's, Michael Tremonte, Tremonte, Ms Organizations: US Marshals Service, Manhattan Federal, Manhattan U.S, Bronx, Prosecutors, Harvard, CNBC Locations: Manhattan, United States, Jamaica, New York, Brooklyn, cyberstalking

☆ Mozambique ex-finance minister denied bail in New York over $2 billion 'tuna bond' scandal
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-14 | by ( Michelle Caruso-Cabrera | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Judge Nicholas Garaufis denied the defendant's request for bail, deeming Chang a flight risk. the judge asked Chang's lawyer, Adam Ford. Hinting at his future defense, Chang's lawyer stated that although his client's signature is on the loan documents, it doesn't indicate he knew about the fraud. Judge Garaufis responded "I'm asking because I understand you have a master's degree from the University of London." Chang's lawyer stated that given the significance of the proceedings, it would be helpful for his client to have an interpreter.

Persons: Manuel Chang, Chang, Judge Nicholas Garaufis, Adam Ford, Ford, Hiral Mehta, Garaufis, Chang's, Judge Garaufis Organizations: Credit Suisse, UN, Prosecutors, Three Credit Suisse, University of London Locations: Brooklyn, South Africa, Mozambique, Manhattan, United States, Portuguese

☆ Elizabeth Holmes now has a shorter prison sentence, but she'll still owe victims $452 million along with her former Theranos partner. She might never have to fully pay up.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

A federal court ordered Elizabeth Holmes and Sunny Balwani to pay $452 million. Defendants hit with such orders to pay victims may see it come out of any eventual wages they earn. So how will Holmes and her former business partner Sunny Balwani navigate a $452 million restitution order? Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes arrives at federal court with her partner Billy Evans on November 18, 2022. According to the restitution order, Holmes and Balwani are responsible for $125 million in restitution to Murdoch, $40 million to Walgreens, and $14.5 million to Safeway.

Persons: Elizabeth Holmes, Sunny Balwani, Rupert Murdoch, Holmes, Daniel Richman, Evan Gotlob, Saul Ewing, Billy Evans, Justin Sullivan, Justice Department's, It's, Balwani, Insider's, Murdoch, Gotlob, There's Organizations: Morning, News Corp, Walgreens, Safeway, Forbes, Federal, Office, Columbia Law School, Justice, US, Prosecutors Locations: California, Arizona, Manhattan, Boston, Northern California

☆ Prince Harry seeks up to $400,000 in phone-hacking lawsuit
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Sam Tobin | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/2] Britain's Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, departs the Rolls Building of the High Court in London, Britain June 7, 2023. REUTERS/Toby Melville/File PhotoLONDON, June 30 (Reuters) - Prince Harry is seeking damages of up to 320,000 pounds ($405,000) from Britain's Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), court documents released on Friday revealed as the trial of the royal's phone-hacking lawsuit nears its end. MGN, owned by Reach (RCH.L), is fighting the lawsuit and says there is no evidence for the accusations. The publisher argues Harry should receive no more than 37,000 pounds, even if he wins on all 33 articles, according to the documents released on Friday. MGN said Harry should receive a maximum of 500 pounds in damages for that one incident.

Persons: Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, Toby Melville, MGN, Harry, Green, Sam Tobin, Philippa Fletcher Organizations: Court, REUTERS, Britain's Mirror Group, Daily, Sunday, MGN, Reach, Buckingham, Thomson Locations: London, Britain, Harry's

☆ 'Rust' armorer accused of handing off cocaine after shooting
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Andrew Hay | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

June 30 (Reuters) - The armorer for the movie "Rust" allegedly transferred cocaine to an unnamed person to dispose of evidence on the day the film's cinematographer was shot dead in 2021, special prosecutors said as they sought protection for a witness. Prosecutors last week charged Gutierrez-Reed, 25, with an additional charge of tampering with evidence over the alleged transfer of narcotics. "Like everything else with the state's case and investigation, it's full of sound and fury, but signifying nothing," Bowles said in a statement. Gutierrez-Reed is the only person still facing charges for Hutchins' death after prosecutors dismissed charges against Baldwin and reached a plea agreement with first assistant director Dave Halls. In the Thursday court filing, prosecutors requested the witness’ identity be protected, saying the person feared being blacklisted from the film industry.

Persons: Hannah Gutierrez, Reed, Halyna Hutchins, Gutierrez, Alec Baldwin, Jason Bowles, Bowles, Friday, Hutchins, Baldwin, Dave Halls, Andrew Hay, Aurora Ellis Organizations: Prosecutors, Thomson

☆ US Supreme Court sidesteps 'acquitted conduct' cases for now
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( John Kruzel | Industry Insight | Corporate Attorneys Don T Want To Pay Law Firms For Chatgpt When They Could Use It Themselves | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

The justices turned away appeals in cases that would have given them an opportunity to prohibit the consideration of "acquitted conduct" in sentencing decisions in criminal cases. Sentencing Commission, a bipartisan panel responsible for crafting U.S. criminal sentencing policy, before addressing the issue. The commission in January proposed amending federal sentencing guidelines to prohibit judges from considering a defendant's acquitted conduct with only narrow exceptions. Numerous criminal defendants have asked the justices to revisit a 1997 Supreme Court ruling that said a jury's verdict of acquittal does not prevent a sentencing judge from considering conduct underlying an acquitted charge. Some current and former Supreme Court justices have questioned whether judges should be permitted to extend a defendant's prison sentence based on acquitted conduct.

Persons: Sonia Sotomayor, Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett, John Kruzel, Nate Raymond, Will Dunham Organizations: U.S, Supreme, U.S . Sentencing, U.S . Justice Department, Liberal, Constitution's, National Association of Criminal Defense, Thomson Locations: Boston

They claim senior editors and executives at MGN knew about and approved of the wrongdoing. MGN, owned by Reach (RCH.L), is fighting the lawsuit, saying there was no evidence for the accusations. The claimants want the judge to rule on whether Morgan and other senior figures were involved in unlawful acts. MGN's failure to call Morgan and other journalists "leaves enormous holes, we say fatal holes, in the defendant's case," he said. At the start of the trial in May, MGN did admit on one occasion a private investigator had been engaged to unlawfully gather evidence about him.

Persons: Prince Harry's, Piers Morgan, David Sherborne, MGN, Morgan, Prince Harry ", Sherborne, Mr Morgan, Duke of Sussex, Duke, Sussex, Michael Holden, Ed Osmond Organizations: Group, Daily, Sunday, MGN, Reach, London's, Thomson Locations: British

Representatives for Hermes and Rothschild did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the decision. Hermes said in a filing in March that Rothschild continued to market his NFTs after the jury's verdict. Rothschild told the court that Hermes' request went "far beyond what is appropriate in a case, like this one, that involves artistic expression." Rakoff largely granted Hermes' request, but decided not to order Rothschild to transfer the tokens out of an "abundance of caution" for 1st Amendment concerns. The case is Hermes International v. Rothschild, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, No.

Persons: Hermes, Mason Rothschild's, Birkin, Jed Rakoff, Rothschild's, Rakoff, Rothschild, Sonny Estival, Gerald Ferguson, Deborah Wilcox, Oren Warshavsky, Rhett Millsaps, Christopher Sprigman, Mark McKenna, Rebecca Tushnet, Lex Lumina, Jonathan Harris, Adam Oppenheim, Harris St, Laurent, Wechsler Read, Blake Brittain Organizations: Hermes, Constitution, . Rothschild, Southern, of, Baker, Hostetler, Thomson Locations: Manhattan, U.S, . Rothschild , U.S, of New York, Washington

☆ We just learned the identities of the 2 bail guarantors keeping George Santos out of jail
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

A judge has unsealed the identities of George Santos's mysterious bail sponsors. A third bail guarantor never came forward, a judge wrote. Additional identifying information in the bond documents remains sealed. US Magistrate Judge Anne Shields allowed them to be bail sureties anyway because they "agreed to be personally responsible" for Santos. If anything, Seybert wrote, Santos has drawn even more attention to their identities — giving more reason to make them public.

Persons: George Santos's, They're, Santos's, —, Gercino Antônio dos Santos, Elma Santos Preven, Santos, haven't, Anne Shields, Shields, Joanna Seybert, Davis Wright Tremaine, Ghislaine Maxwell —, Jeffrey Epstein, he'd, Joseph Murray, Seybert, Goldman Sachs, Murray, George Santos, Lokman Vural, Getty Images Murray, you'll, Defendant's, Seth Wenig, Samuel Bankman, Lewis Kaplan, who's, Kaplan, Larry Kramer, Andreas Paepcke, Kramer, Paepcke Organizations: Service, Congressional, US, World Trade Center, Citigroup, Goldman, Baruch College, New York University, Anadolu Agency, Getty Images, AP, Stanford University Locations: New York, Washington, York, Brazil, Central Islip , New York, Central Islip

☆ Rep. George Santos' mystery bail backers to be revealed at noon
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

U.S. Rep. George Santos leaves the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York in Central Islip, New York, May 10, 2023. The secret identities of Republican Rep. George Santos' bail backers in his federal criminal case are set to be revealed Thursday at noon ET. "That risk is further heightened by the fact that the very crimes Rep. Santos has been charged with involve abusing the political process for personal gain," the Times noted. A consortium of news outlets, including NBC News, followed suit, arguing, "Rep. Santos cannot overcome the presumption of openness" afforded by the First Amendment and federal common law. The judge noted that Santos can move to modify the conditions of his bail if his remaining guarantors decide to back out.

Persons: George Santos, Santos, Joanna Seybert, Joseph Murray, Murray, Seybert, Republican Party's Organizations: Rep, Eastern, of, Republican Rep, Santos, The New York Times, U.S, Times, NBC, Justice Department, Republican, NBC News, CNBC Locations: U.S, of New York, Central Islip , New York, New York, NBCUniversal

☆ Judge blames George Santos for personally feeding 'media frenzy' into his mysterious bail sponsors before making their names public
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

A federal judge disclosed the identities of George Santos's bail sponsors: His dad and aunt. Santos was personally responsible for giving reasons to unseal their names, a judge wrote. He personally fueled the "media frenzy" cited to keep their identities private, according to the judge. US District Judge Joanna Seybert commented on Santos's conduct in an order issued on Tuesday and unsealed on Thursday, along with the bail sponsors. Santos personally fed that frenzy by speaking to members of the media following his May arraignment in federal court on Long Island, Seybert wrote in her ruling.

Persons: George Santos's, Santos, —, George Santos, Joanna Seybert, Gercino Antônio dos Santos, Elma Santos Preven, Joseph Murray, Seybert, Defendant's, you'll, Anne Shields, Shields, Lokman Vural, Santos's, Suretors, he'd Organizations: Service, Republican, Congressional, US, Defendant, Congress, Anadolu Agency, Getty Locations: York, Long, Central Islip

NEW YORK, June 22 (Reuters) - George Santos's father and aunt were identified on Thursday as the guarantors of the indicted U.S. representative's $500,000 bail, after Santos fought unsuccessfully to keep them anonymous. The House of Representatives' Ethics Committee also wanted the names, to determine whether Santos violated congressional rules on gifts. Seybert called it "disingenuous" to suggest that Santos' father and aunt might be endangered, noting that they came forward to offer help after the congressman's high-profile arraignment and expressed no concerns about guaranteeing bail. "My family & I have made peace with the judges decision to release their names," Santos posted on Twitter. Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Alistair Bell and Daniel WallisOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: George Santos's, Santos, Gercino dos Santos, Elma Preven, George Santos, Joanna Seybert, Defendant's, Jonathan Stempel, Alistair Bell, Daniel Wallis Organizations: YORK, U.S, Republican, Representatives, Twitter, Thomson Locations: York, Central Islip , New York, New York

☆ Trump hush-money prosecutors say the Access Hollywood tape will feature 'prominently' in their case
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

In the deposition, Trump describes the Access Hollywood tape dropping just days before the 2016 election. Prosecutors say the tape "features prominently" in their case, which alleges that Trump falsified business documents to hide a $130,000 payment to porn actress Stormy Daniels. Trump's deposition in the Carroll case fills 209 pages of transcript, only 98 pages of which have been made public. "For example, defendant testified during his deposition about his statements captured on what is known as the Access Hollywood tape," the filing says. "The Access Hollywood tape, released publicly in October 2016 during the course of defendant's campaign for President, features prominently in the People's case," the filing says.

Persons: Jean Carroll, Trump, —, Donald Trump's, Stormy Daniels, Daniels, Carroll, Defendant, Natasha Stoynoff, Jessica Leeds, Attorney Alvin Bragg, Melania Trump Organizations: Service, Prosecutors, Manhattan, Attorney

☆ U.S. judge appears skeptical of Bankman-Fried's push to dismiss charges
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Luc Cohen | Thomson Reuters | Reports On The New York Federal Courts. Previously Worked As A Correspondent In Venezuela | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan expressed his concerns at a hearing where Bankman-Fried's lawyers sought to dismiss at least 11 of 13 charges their client faces. He had asked Kaplan to dismiss six of the 13 charges because the Caribbean country did not consent, and five more because they rested on an invalid legal theory. The judge also said Bankman-Fried appeared to lack standing to invoke an extradition treaty between the two countries to get those charges - including bank fraud and bribing Chinese officials - dismissed. Prosecutors have said their charges did not rely on that theory because Bankman-Fried schemed to take his victims' money. Separately, Kaplan denied Bankman-Fried's request to force prosecutors to review some of FTX's files.

Persons: Sam Bankman, District Judge Lewis Kaplan, FTX, Kaplan, Fried, Mark Cohen, Marco Bello, Christian Everdell, Bankman, Abinaya, Luc Cohen, Jason Neely, Elaine Hardcastle, Jonathan Oatis Organizations: YORK, U.S, District, Alameda Research, REUTERS, Supreme, Prosecutors, Thomson Locations: U.S, Manhattan, Bahamas, Caribbean, United States, Alameda, Nassau, Bankman, Bengaluru, New York

☆ Guatemala court sentences journalist to 6 years in prison for money laundering
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-14 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

GUATEMALA CITY, June 14 (Reuters) - A Guatemalan court on Wednesday sentenced Jose Zamora, a well-known journalist whose work has criticized successive governments, to six years in prison for money laundering in a case rights groups have branded an attack on free speech. Zamora was also issued a 300,000 quetzal ($38,339) fine, the court said. He was arrested in July last year during a crackdown on prosecutors, judges, human rights activists, journalists and opposition officials. According to the attorney general's office, Zamora allegedly received $38,461 to finance his media outlet, which was not regularly deposited into the banking system. The rights group is "very concerned" that Guatemala's prosecutors' office is investigating journalists and columnists from elPeriodico who covered Zamora's case, Goebertus added.

Persons: Jose Zamora, Zamora, Alejandro Giammattei, Juanita Goebertus, Goebertus, Sofia Menchu, Sarah Morland, Brendan O'Boyle, Bill Berkrot Organizations: GUATEMALA CITY, elPeriodico, Rights, Thomson Locations: GUATEMALA, Zamora's, Guatemala, Americas

☆ A sushi chain is suing a teen who licked a soy sauce bottle for nearly half a million dollars. His lawyer argues the teen never meant for footage of the incident to go viral.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-10 | by ( Lina Batarags | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

In a viral video, the teen was licking a soy sauce bottle and touching sushi. It's not an isolated incident: Sushi terrorism is on the rise. Food and Life Companies, which owns Akindo Sushiro, is worth $363.8 billion. Akindo Sushiro operates 610 branches in Japan and employs more than 47,000 people across full-time and part-time roles. A spokesperson for Akindo Sushiro declined Bloomberg's request for comment.

Persons: —, Akindo Sushiro, Insider's Aaron McDade, Sushiro Organizations: Service, Food, Life Companies, NHK, Japan's, China Morning Post Locations: Japan, Osaka, China

☆ Santos asks court to reverse order to reveal his bail backers' identities in criminal fraud case
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., asked a federal court Friday morning to reverse a judge's order to reveal the identities of the people who guaranteed the $500,000 bond in his criminal fraud case. An attorney for Santos, the scandal-plagued freshman congressman who is charged with multiple financial crimes, argued that the backers' identities should remain private because of concerns that they will be attacked and harassed as a result of the "media frenzy" surrounding the case. But Murray said that "countervailing factors" support keeping the bail backers' identities under wraps. He said that Santos, his staff and others have been subjected to "hateful attacks" through the case. He added that if the other two backers' identities are released, they are likely to decide "that they shall have to withdraw from, serving as suretors."

Persons: George Santos, Santos, Joseph Murray, Murray, Anne Shields, Shields, Judge Shields Organizations: Rep, Republican, Democratic, Capitol, Santos, The New York Times Locations: Washington, Long

☆ George Santos says the people backing up his bond are family members who will bail on him if their names are publicly released
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( Kelly Mclaughlin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Santos' lawyer asked a federal judge not to release the names of the people backing Santos' bond. Santos' lawyer says family members would likely abandon Santos if their names are made public. In a court filing in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York, attorney Joseph Murray asked District Court Judge Joanna Seybert to block the names of Santos' guarantors from being released. Murray said that Santos and his staff have faced a "media frenzy and hateful attacks" since Santos was indicted. Insider is among a coalition of news organizations seeking the names of the bond suretors.

Persons: Santos, —, George Santos, representative's, Joseph Murray, Joanna Seybert, Anne Shields —, Santos —, Defendant, Murray, Seybert Organizations: Service, Court, Eastern, of, Prosecutors Locations: of New York

☆ Elizabeth Holmes owes $452 million along with her former Theranos partner. She might never have to fully pay up.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-04 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

☆ Michael Cohen has 'zero confidence' that Trump will comply with a new protective order in the hush-money case
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-22 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Michael Cohen has "less than zero confidence" Trump will obey a protective order in the hush-money case. This latest development in the hush-money prosecution comes six weeks after Trump was arraigned on 34-counts of falsifying business records. Lawyers for Trump declined to comment on the protective order or Cohen's comments. It's also routine for judges to ask the defendant to acknowledge, in court, that a protective order has been issued, Saland said. Trump's words have already created a stir in the hush-money case, she added.

Persons: Michael Cohen, Trump, Cohen, It's, —, Donald Trump, Juan Merchan —, Attorney Alvin Bragg, Stormy Daniels, Daniels, she'd, Melania, it's, Jeremy Saland, Saland, Catherine McCaw, McCaw, Ruby Freeman, Bragg Organizations: Trump, Service, Prosecutors, Truth, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Manhattan, Attorney, Trump Organization Locations: Manhattan, Georgia

☆ A DoJ official said forced labor was 'heinous conduct' after a Louisiana man was jailed for making minors bake and sell brownies 7 days a week
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-20 | by ( Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A Louisiana man was jailed for forcing minors to work long hours baking and selling brownies. The Department of Justice said Friday that Darnell Fulton was sentenced to 35 years in prison. A DoJ official said forced labor was "heinous conduct" and would not be tolerated. He was jailed Friday for 35 years for crimes including conspiracy to commit forced labor. "This sentence demonstrates the Justice Department's commitment to standing up for the survivors of forced labor schemes.

Companies UBS Group AG FollowMay 1 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to examine how difficult it should be for financial whistleblowers to win retaliation lawsuits against their employers as the justices took up a long-running case involving Switzerland's UBS Group AG (UBSG.S). A Supreme Court ruling in favor of UBS could significantly curtail financial whistleblower lawsuits because it is often difficult for plaintiffs to prove a defendant's motives. Robert Herbst, a lawyer for Murray, said the 2nd Circuit decision ignored the text of the whistleblower law, adding that he looked forward to arguing the case before the Supreme Court. A UBS spokesperson said, "We expect the court will uphold the 2nd Circuit's decision." The Supreme Court is due to hear the case in its next term, which begins in October.

WASHINGTON, April 28 (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge on Friday denied Google's motion to dismiss a Department of Justice antitrust case focused on advertising technology. "I'm going to deny the defendant's motion to dismiss," Judge Leonie Brinkema said in a federal court in Virginia. It also said that the government's estimate of Google's ad exchange as having "more than 50%" of the market fell short of the 70% needed to allege market power. Google's motion is the company's latest effort to end costly, time-consuming antitrust lawsuits. It also asked a federal court in Washington to dismiss claims in a 2020 lawsuit filed by the government.

☆ Donald Trump: Michael Cohen has ruined my reputation
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday filed a more than $500 million lawsuit in federal court against Michael Cohen, accusing his ex-lawyer-turned-nemesis of ruining his reputation by repeatedly "spreading falsehoods." In the suit, Trump, through his lawyers, alleges that his former fixer Cohen breached his attorney-client relationship and profited off trashing the ex-president. Cohen, who has become one of Trump's harshest critics, "appears to have become emboldened and repeatedly continues to make wrongful and false statements about" Trump, the suit alleges. The lawsuit comes on the heels of Trump's historic indictment by a Manhattan grand jury on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Cohen did not immediately respond to a request for comment by Insider on Wednesday.

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