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Former President Donald Trump will be ordered to comply with New York Attorney Gen. Letitia James‘ civil investigation into the Trump Organization‘s financial practices, U.S. District Judge Brenda Sannes ruled as she dismissed Trump’s appeal on Friday. The ruling comes a day after James’ subpoenas of Trump and his two children, Ivanka Trumpand Donald Trump Jr., were upheld in a New York state appeals court. Trump had argued that James’ investigation was “in bad faith and without a legally sufficient basis.” Sannes disagreed, referencing former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen‘s 2019 testimony that T...
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New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) asked a state court on Thursday to hold former President Donald Trump in civil contempt after claiming that he refused to comply with a court order that required him to turn over documents by March 31 as a part of her investigation into the Trump Organization‘s financial practices. If Trump continues to resist handing over the documents, James’ office asked that he be ordered to pay a $10,000 per day fine. James’ office alleged that Trump “did not comply at all” with the subpoena. The court filing said that March 31 was a date agreed upon by both par...
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Disgraced former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) released an ad against the state’s Attorney General Letitia James (D) suggesting that he was the victim of a political attack referencing the sexual misconduct allegations that drove him to resign from his position last year. An investigation conducted by James’ office found that he had sexually harassed 11 women. The cases were dropped following a district attorney’s decision to decline prosecution in a case dealing with an accusation of groping from a former aide, which was the most serious case against Cuomo. The others, which included accusat...
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The Republican National Committee has agreed to cover up to $1.6 million of former President Donald Trump’s personal legal bills. The first payments of $121,670 were made in October — and publicly reported last month to the Federal Election Commission — to the firm of Trump’s lawyer Ronald P. Fischetti. “As a leader of our party, defending President Trump and his record of achievement is critical to the G.O.P.,” said Emma Vaughn, R.N.C. spokeswoman, in a statement. “It is entirely appropriate for the R.N.C. to continue assisting in fighting back against the Democrats’ never-ending witch hunt a...
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Melissa DeRosa, a top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-New York), resigned Sunday. Her departure came not long after the state’s Attorney General Letitia James (D) released a report that confirmed Cuomo sexually harassed 11 women in his office. DeRosa, who has worked with the governor since 2013, has been widely recognized as Cuomo’s most important adviser, especially after she became a prominent figure nationwide when she was seated next to him throughout the pandemic briefings last year. “It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve the people of New York for the past 10 years,” she said...
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Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former attorney, chased after and filmed a Trump fan who cursed him out in Central Park. Cohen posted the video to his Twitter. In the video, Cohen ran alongside the jogger and told her, “Let’s make you famous,” in response to her giving him the middle finger. Prior to that, Cohen alleges that the woman unleashed a “barrage of F bombs” at him while he was strolling through the park: “[She] runs at me screaming profanities and sticking her middle fingers in my face.” “I removed my cell phone from my pocket, caught up to her, and recorded her.” Cohen also claims tha...
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Wayne LaPierre, CEO of the National Rifle Association, frequently retreated to a Hollywood producer’s $1.8 million yacht, Illusions, after receiving threats in the wake of the Sandy Hook and Parkland mass shootings, which took place in 2012 and 2018, respectively. LaPierre’s use of the yacht owned by Stanton McKenzie as a refuge was revealed on Monday during a NRA bankruptcy proceeding in Texas, when a New York prosecutor challenged the filing. During the court proceeding, Assistant Attorney General Monica Connell argued that LaPierre’s use of the yacht was a conflict of interest, seeing as th...
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Charlotte Bennett, former aide to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D), told investigators during a four-hour Zoom call on Monday that he has a “preoccupation with his hand size.” Bennett is one of seven women who have accused the governor of sexual harassment. Debra Katz, Bennett’s lawyer, said that the 25-year-old former aide also turned over “contemporaneous records, as well as other examples of documentary evidence” against Cuomo. In a statement, Katz also commented on Cuomo’s “preoccupation with his hand size and what the large size of his hands indicated to Charlotte and other members of his s...
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New allegations surfaced on Friday against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D), claiming that his administration covered up the COVID-19 nursing home death toll. Over 13,000 people have died from COVID-19 in New York state nursing homes during the pandemic, but the state reported a much lower number to the public. One of the governor’s top aides, Melissa DeRosa, admitted that the administration withheld death toll data in order to avoid an investigation by the Trump Justice Department. In DeRosa’s words, when the data was requested by the Justice Department, “basically, we froze.” “We were in a pos...
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The National Rifle Association (NRA) said that it has become aware of a “significant diversion of its assets” in a 2019 990-tax form. This public filing lists organization assets and liabilities on one of its first pages and breaks down employee compensation later in the document.The nonprofit tax-exempt organization’s 2019 filing states that CEO Wayne LaPierre and five former executives received “excess benefits.” The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) uses the term to describe nonprofit entity’s executives use an internal business organization funds to enrich themselves. “The National Rifle Asso...
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