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New York (AFP) - A key selling point of Donald Trump's 2016 presidential run was that he was a businessman, not a politician. But his corporate empire -- which served as proof to many voters of his economic bonafides -- is now in jeopardy after a judge ruled Tuesday that the former president, his sons and the Trump Organization had engaged in "persistent and repeated fraud." The ruling stemmed from a fraud case brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James, which still must go to trial Monday. In a partial victory for James, Judge Arthur Engoron found there had been a systemic overvaluat...
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New York (AFP) - A civil trial over allegations that Donald Trump and his sons fraudulently overvalued the net worth of company assets by billions of dollars is scheduled to last three months, a New York judge said Friday. Judge Arthur Engoron had already determined the non-jury trial would begin October 2 in Manhattan. Preliminary headings were set for the end of September. In an order made public on Friday, the judge specified that the trial would run until December 22. New York State Attorney General Letitia James on Friday again sent the state Supreme Court hundreds of pages of documen...
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New York (AFP) - "I can't get a fair trial in New York!" fumed Donald Trump when he learned he was being indicted by a Manhattan grand jury, as though he knew his hometown -- where the former US president built his fortune -- would always be hostile to its controversial son. When Trump was elected to the White House in 2016, his surprise win was received poorly in Manhattan, with protesters chanting "New York hates Trump!" At the time, The New York Times and the BBC reported on Trump's love for the metropolis that did not love him back, saying the real estate magnate "hates being hated" by the...
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New York (AFP) - Nine days after Donald Trump announced he was about to be arrested over a hush-money payment to a porn star, the world still awaits what would be one of the most famous police mugshots in history. The Republican former US president, who has never been shy about grabbing the limelight, sent newsrooms in the United States and beyond into a spin on March 18 when he announced he was three days away from being brought before a New York judge. Trump, it turned out, had bad information or was simply guessing, and his equally baseless claim a week later that the case had been dropped...
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New York (AFP) - Republican George Santos admitted to hamming up his life story and is under investigation in America and Brazil, but he still went to Capitol Hill this week for his swearing in. The 34-year-old has defied calls to stand down and if rebel Republicans hadn't repeatedly blocked the election of House Speaker then Santos would be a Congressman by now. For some experts, the lawmaker-elect from New York is an example of what politicians think they can get away with today in the deeply polarized United States. "There is no getting around the fact that Mr. Santos's con game is a manif...
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San José (United States) (AFP) - Fallen US biotech star Elizabeth Holmes was sentenced Friday to just over 11 years in prison for defrauding investors with her Silicon Valley start-up firm. The Theranos founder had been convicted on four felony fraud counts in January for persuading investors that she had developed a revolutionary medical device before the company flamed out after an investigation by The Wall Street Journal. The closely watched case became an indictment of Silicon Valley, and US federal prosecutors had sought a 15-year jail term for Holmes. She was sentenced to 135 months. US...
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Philadelphia (AFP) - Therapist Jacqueline Smythe fears her rights as a woman will be on the line if Republicans win back control of the US Congress during Tuesday's midterm election. Three days before the vote, Smythe, 30, was gathered with thousands of other supporters of the Democratic Party of President Joe Biden at a rally in Philadelphia, where the Declaration of Independence was signed. She voiced fears that her personal independence will be stripped back in the case of a Republican victory. "We don't have Roe v Wade anymore," she told AFP, referring to the 1973 case enshrining the right...
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Barcelona (AFP) - Colombian superstar Shakira inched closer to standing trial in Spain for tax fraud after a Barcelona court dismissed an appeal from the singer, in a ruling made public Thursday. Prosecutors accuse the 45-year-old "Hips don't Lie" songstress of defrauding the Spanish tax office out of 14.5 million euros ($15.5 million) on income earned between 2012 and 2014. Prosecutors say she moved to Spain in 2011 when her relationship with FC Barcelona defender Gerard Pique became public but maintained official tax residency in the Bahamas until 2015. Her defence team argues she moved to S...
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New York (AFP) - Former US President Donald Trump has paid a $110,000 fine for obstructing a major tax evasion investigation led since 2019 by New York state authorities, a spokesperson announced Friday. Trump was ordered April 25 by New York state's Supreme Court to pay $10,000 a day for as long as he refused to provide accounting and tax documents as part of a civil investigation by the Attorney General of the state, Letitia James, against the Trump Organization family business. "On May 19, Donald Trump paid the attorney general's office $110,000," a spokesperson for James's office said. Ja...
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New York (AFP) - New York state Attorney General Letitia James on Thursday asked a judge to hold former president Donald Trump in contempt for failing to turn over documents related to her investigation of possible fraud in the Trump family's business dealings. Since 2019, James has pursued a civil probe into the former president and the Trump Organization, and has sought to question the 75-year-old for months. In February, a judge ordered Trump and his children Don Jr and Ivanka to submit to questioning under oath. So far, that order is under appeal. But Trump was also ordered to turn over a...
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