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☆ Judge in E. Jean Carroll trial warns Trump about social media comments
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Lauren Del Valle | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

New York CNN —The judge overseeing a civil battery and defamation trial for columnist E. Jean Carroll against Donald Trump warned the former president’s counsel on Wednesday about comments their client made on social media about the case. Carroll’s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, outside the presence of the jury, flagged to federal District Judge Lewis Kaplan a post Trump made on his social media site Truth Social earlier Wednesday about the lawsuit. Trump has denied the allegations. Judge Kaplan warned Trump’s attorney Joe Tacopina that the statement and any further statements about the case could open Trump up to “a new source of potential liability.” Tacopina said he would ask his client to refrain from any further comments about the case. Carroll is suing Trump for battery and defamation, alleging that he raped her at Bergdorf Goodman in the spring of 1996 and then defamed her years later when she went public with the allegations.

Trump's Truth Social posts blasting E. Jean Carroll may be "tampering" the jury, the judge warned. Judge Kaplan pointed out that Trump had, for years, dodged taking a DNA test that would help determine the merits of Carroll's allegations. "It's as if you just told me yesterday was the Fourth of July," Judge Kaplan said. Judge Kaplan called Trump's Truth Social posts "a public statement that seems entirely inappropriate" and warned it may cross the line into "tampering" with the case. In an October 2022 post on Truth Social, Trump wrote: "This 'Ms.

On Wednesday, the judge said Mr. Trump’s out-of-court statements seemed “entirely inappropriate” and suggested Mr. Trump might be trying to influence members of the jury. “I will speak to my client and ask him to refrain from any further posts regarding this case,” Mr. Tacopina said. Mr. Tacopina said the day before that he did not yet know whether Mr. Trump would take the witness stand. Judge Kaplan said that he wanted an answer this week, adding that not knowing was an “imposition” on security and court staff. Ms. Carroll wrote that he pushed her against a dressing room wall, pulled down her tights, opened his pants and then forced himself upon her.

☆ Judge seals filings over whether billionaire Democratic donor is bankrolling E. Jean Carroll's rape lawsuit against Trump
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

E. Jean Carroll's rape lawsuit against former President Donald Trump goes to trial next week. A federal judge sealed documents related to whether billionaire Reid Hoffman funded Carroll's suit. Alina Habba, an attorney representing Trump in the lawsuit, told Insider she would oppose the decision. On April 13, Habba asked Judge Kaplan (who is not related to Carroll's lawyer) again to delay the trial and reopen the discovery process in the case. Trump's attorneys haven't yet said whether the former president will attend the trial, and Judge Kaplan isn't forcing him to.

[1/2] U.S. President Donald Trump rape accuser E. Jean Carroll arrives for her hearing at federal court during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., October 21, 2020. There, he called Carroll's rape claim a "Hoax and a lie" for promoting her memoir, and maintained that she was "not my type!" Carroll first sued Trump for defamation in November 2019, five months after he first denied her rape claim. She has long accused Trump of stalling, and U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan has rejected multiple efforts by Trump to delay Carroll's case. Last year, Trump refused to let his Trump Organization concede wrongdoing in a New York criminal tax fraud case, which ended in a conviction that is being appealed.

[1/2] Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the National Rifle Association (NRA) annual convention in Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S., April 14, 2023. Kaplan said Trump has no obligation to show up or testify, and his lawyers, who said Trump "wishes to appear," can renew the request if he doesn't. The judge also noted that Trump, the Republican front-runner in the 2024 presidential campaign, is planning a New Hampshire campaign stop on April 27, which would be the trial's third day. Carroll, 79, has accused Trump, 76, of raping her in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in Manhattan in late 1995 or early 1996. Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; editing by Jonathan OatisOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Companies Trump Organization Inc FollowNEW YORK, April 19 (Reuters) - Donald Trump wants to attend next week's trial involving the writer E. Jean Carroll, who has accused him of rape, but may not because of security issues his appearance would cause, his lawyer said on Wednesday. In a letter to U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan federal court, Trump's lawyer Joe Tacopina said that while Trump "wishes to appear at trial," the judge should instruct jurors not to hold it against the former president if he stays away. Trump is also the front-runner for the Republican nomination in the 2024 presidential campaign. On the day of Trump's plea, the southbound FDR Drive was closed for Trump's motorcade to the criminal court. Trump has until Thursday to advise whether he plans to attend at all.

☆ Trump again asks to delay the E. Jean Carroll rape case — this time to probe billionaire Reid Hoffman's support for the litigation
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( Ashley Collman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Trump's lawyers asked to delay the E. Jean Carroll battery and defamation trial a month on Thursday. It is unclear how much of Reid's money granted through his nonprofit was used by Kaplan Hecker & Fink for the Carroll case. Seth Wenig/APOn Tuesday, Trump's lawyers asked the judge for a one-month delay to allow the "media frenzy" around his arrest to die down. Judge Kaplan has also complained about numerous attempts to delay the case in the past. But that litigation has been in limbo while appeals courts weigh in on whether Trump can even be sued in that case.

☆ Trump lawyers say accuser in E. Jean Carroll rape-defamation case got funding from LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Attorneys for Donald Trump on Thursday accused writer E. Jean Carroll's lawyers of deliberately failing for months to disclose that LinkedIn co-founder and major Democratic donor Reid Hoffman helped fund her rape-defamation case against the former president. Trump's lawyers said that on Wednesday, Carroll's attorneys disclosed that Hoffman was the "primary backer" of that nonprofit group, American Future Republic. In her deposition, Carroll noted that her suit was a contingency case, meaning her attorneys only get paid if she wins the case. That funding came in September 2020, nearly a year after Carroll filed a complaint against Trump in state court, her lawyer noted. Carroll's team also challenged Trump's lawyers' requests for last-minute changes to the trial schedule.

Prospective jurors, they added, "will have the breathless coverage of President Trump's alleged extra-marital affair with Stormy Daniels still ringing in their ears if [the] trial goes forward as scheduled." Those charges concerned Trump's alleged concealment of a $130,000 hush money payment to buy Daniels' silence before the 2016 election about the porn star's alleged affair with him, which he denies. She is also suing Trump for battery over the alleged encounter, which Trump has also said never happened. The 79-year-old also sued Trump for defamation in November 2019 over his similar denial of her rape claim five months earlier. The case is Carroll v Trump, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No.

☆ Food inflation to weigh on MENA growth this year - World Bank
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-06 | by ( Lisa Barrington | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Average year-on-year food inflation across 16 MENA economies between March and December 2022 was 29%, which was higher than the headline inflation of 19.4% year-on-year during that period, the World Bank said. "Bold policies are needed in a region where young people make up more than half of the population," said World Bank MENA Vice President Ferid Belhaj. The World Bank sees GDP per capita growth, a proxy for living standards, slowing to 1.6% in 2023 from 4.4% in 2022. "Close to one out of five people living in developing countries in MENA is likely to be food insecure this year," said World Bank MENA Chief Economist Roberta Gatti. The World Bank forecast 3.1% growth across the region in 2024.

☆ Trump rape defamation trial postponed, judge rejects E. Jean Carroll cases consolidation
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-20 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

E. Jean Carroll visits 'Tell Me Everything' with John Fugelsang in the SiriusXM Studios on July 11, 2019 in New York. A spokesman for Carroll's attorney, Roberta Kaplan — who is not related to the judge — declined to comment on the order. Judge Lewis Kaplan also denied a joint request by lawyers for Trump and Carroll to consolidate her two pending civil lawsuits against Trump into a single trial. Carroll's second suit, filed late last year, also alleges defamation and makes a legal claim of battery against Trump for the alleged rape itself. Trump during a deposition by Carroll's lawyers mistook a photo of Carroll for his ex-wife, Marla Maples.

☆ Trump rape case: A judge postponed one of E. Jean Carroll's defamation claims against the former president — but her sexual assault claim will still be heard in April
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-20 | by ( Ashley Collman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

One of E. Jean Carroll's defamation lawsuits against Donald Trump was postponed Monday. The DC Court of Appeals has yet to weigh in on whether Trump can even be sued in the case. After Trump loudly denied Carroll's allegations in statements to the press, calling her a liar and saying she was not his type, Carroll sued him for defamation. That lawsuit also includes claims for defamation for Trump's continued denials of her rape allegations after he left the White House. Trump's lawyers and the DOJ argue that his statements to the media about Carroll were part of his duties as president.

NEW YORK, March 17 (Reuters) - Former President Donald Trump and E. Jean Carroll have agreed to a single trial on whether Trump defamed the former Elle magazine columnist by denying he raped her in the mid-1990s. Carroll has been pursuing separate lawsuits over those statements, with the first scheduled for trial on April 10. Carroll sued again three years later after Trump called the rape claim a "hoax," "lie," "con job" and "complete scam" in a social media post. Both sides proposed asking that court on April 17 to defer any decision until the trial is over. The cases are Carroll v. Trump, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, Nos.

[1/3] Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a rally at Florence Regional Airport in Florence, South Carolina, U.S., March 12, 2022. Trump said his post was "clearly about" and merely repeated his formal response to the first lawsuit, and was therefore covered by "absolute litigation privilege" under New York law, dooming the defamation claim. Carroll's lawsuit also includes a battery claim under New York's Adult Survivors Act, which lets sexual abuse victims sue their attackers even if statutes of limitations have run out. A Washington appeals court is deciding whether Trump should be immune from Carroll's first lawsuit, but not her second, because he was acting as president when he spoke. The case is Carroll v. Trump, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No.

[1/2] Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a rally at Florence Regional Airport in Florence, South Carolina, U.S., March 12, 2022. Kaplan said Trump's offer would "almost certainly" delay a scheduled April 25 trial and unduly harm Carroll, who has long accused Trump of stalling. Joseph Tacopina, who joined Trump's legal team two weeks ago, and Carroll's lawyer Roberta Kaplan declined to comment. Carroll originally sought Trump's DNA to compare against a dress she said she wore when the alleged rape occurred. The second lawsuit came in November after Trump repeated his denial, using similar language, in a social media post the prior month.

☆ Trump rape case: Judge denies former president's last-minute offer to provide DNA
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-15 | by ( Ashley Collman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A federal judge denied Trump's last-minute offer to provide DNA in the rape case against him. Last week, Trump offered a sample to be tested against DNA found on E. Jean Carroll's dress. Last week, Trump's legal team made a last-minute offer to provide a DNA sample, just two months before the first trial is scheduled to start. Kaplan has previously complained about Trump's legal team holding up the case with delay after delay. Carroll's attorney, Roberta Kaplan (no relation to the judge), wrote in a letter to the court last week that the offer from Trump was a "bad faith" delay tactic.

☆ Trump rape case: After 3 years, the former president finally agrees to submit DNA. Here's why it could be too late.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-10 | by ( Ashley Collman | Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Trump is now willing to submit a DNA sample for his civil rape case in NY, new court papers say. Trump's sudden willingness to submit a DNA sample — something requested by his accuser for three years — was confirmed in court papers Friday. Carroll's lawyers said they planned to respond to Trump's DNA offer later Friday. A photo from the lab report that Donald Trump rape accuser E. Jean Carroll submitted in January, 2020 as part of her defamation lawsuit against the former president. Letting Trump's DNA into the case would be an 11th-hour roll of the dice for both sides.

☆ Judge loses patience as Trump's lawyers ask for another delay in his rape trial: 'Things keep happening in this case involving your client'
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-07 | by ( Ashley Collman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Trump's lawyers asked a judge to push his rape trial from mid-April to early June. In October, Kaplan denied Trump's request to delay sitting for a deposition in the first lawsuit. Joe Tacopina was hired last month to represent Trump in the second trial, which is slated to start April 17. The first trial has an April 10 trial date but is in limbo due to a pending appeals court decision. He'll be ready for trial by the first week of June, Tacopina said, "come hell or high water."

☆ Trump's go-to attorney Alina Habba is withdrawing from E. Jean Carroll's rape claim. Last month, a federal judge sanctioned her $1 million for bad lawyering.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-01 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | Ashley Collman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Alina Habba is withdrawing from representing Donald Trump in E. Jean Carroll's rape claim. Habba told Insider she continues to be dedicated to Trump. The move comes two weeks after a federal judge in Florida sanctioned Habba and Trump in a separate case and fined them $1 million. In a statement provided to Insider, Habba told Insider she was dedicated to representing Trump in court. "While I appreciate the left-wing media's attempt to fabricate any story to fit their narrative, I am so happy to have Joe step in and assist," Habba told Insider.

☆ China's Covid wave drives up consumer interest in insurance after health system shortfalls
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-26 | by ( Evelyn Cheng | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

For people planning to spend more on that health category, 47% said in December they intend to spend more on health insurance. "This experience is also driving increased interest in commercial health insurance which could cover access to premium private providers," Lipson said. Anecdotes depict a public health system overwhelmed with people at the height of the wave, and long wait times for ambulances. Some of the players in China's health insurance industry include Ping An , PICC and AIA . Hospital fundingHowever, one of the barriers to improving China's public health system is its fragmented financing system, according to Qingyue Meng, executive director at Peking University's China Center for Health Development Studies.

“To the people of #NY03 I have my story to tell and it will be told next week,” Santos tweeted on Dec. 22. After images surfaced showing Santos dressed in drag, Santos insisted it was “categorically false” that he had ever performed as a drag queen. A Siena College survey released Monday showed many New York voters seem to agree with Stern’s assessment. Just 16% of New York voters said they viewed Santos favorably — including a mere 15% of Republicans. Additionally, 59% of New York voters said Santos should resign while just 17% said he should not.

☆ 'No Straight Lines' unearths the hidden history of queer comic books
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-23 | by ( Dan Avery | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +8 min

Independent Lens“No Straight Lines” also profiles Mary Wings, who is credited with publishing the first known queer comic book, “Come Out Comics,” in 1973. San Francisco, where Wings now lives, was home to many of the earliest LGBTQ comic books and strips — most of which were made by queer women. “Stuck Rubber Baby” was one of the first queer comics to get mainstream critical acclaim. His generosity of spirit and intellect brought this community together.”Cruse died of cancer in 2019, while “No Straight Lines” was still in development. “It’s very exciting.”“No Straight Lines” premieres on PBS’ “Independent Lens” Monday at 10 p.m.

☆ Trump claims lawsuits are a conspiracy to 'keep him busy' ahead of 2024. He's the one making lawsuits political, judges say.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-23 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Judges have repeatedly slammed Trump for using lawsuits "to advance a political narrative." "Keep Trump busy, because this is the way you defeat him, to keep him busy with litigation," Trump testified in the deposition, speaking in the third person. US District Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks said that Trump has a "pattern of misusing the courts to serve political purposes." Trump's lawyers have to deal with his 2024 runIn the Trump lawsuits that haven't been dismissed, those trials may need to be scheduled around his 2024 campaign events. A trial for Carroll's claims is set for April of this year, and James' lawsuit against Trump is on track for October.

☆ Metsola: Abuse and corruption in EU Parliament must be fixed immediately
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-20 | by ( Silvia Amaro | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailMetsola: Abuse and corruption in EU Parliament must be fixed immediatelyRoberta Metsola, president of the European Parliament, discusses the Qatar corruption scandal and plans to reform the EU Parliament.

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