Bragg Manhattan DA charges tfg? Hush money. tfg “INDICATED!” - CONVICTED!!

[RTH10260]

Did the former guy attempt to run his company thru a back channel?

'Uh-oh': Manhattan DA’s Office seeks Melania Trump emails in hush money case

Alex Henderson
June 27, 2023

Between special counsel Jack Smith's 37-count federal prosecution for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg Jr.'s 34-count prosecution for New York State, former President Donald Trump is facing 71 felony counts. And his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results are the focus of two separate criminal investigations: one by Smith and DOJ, the other by Fulton County, Georgia DA Fani Willis.

According to Associated Press reporter Michael R. Sisak, the Manhattan DA's Office is seeking "e-mails exchanged among Trump Organization employees and the White House" as well as "e-mails between Trump's wife, Melania, and Rhona Graff, a longtime company executive."

Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, former senior adviser to Melania Trump and author of the 2020 book "Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship With the First Lady," responded to AP's reporting on Twitter.

Wolkoff tweeted, "Melania Trump used several email addresses, texts, and Signal to communicate with me and others while working in the White House and prosecutors want to see them."

Sherrilyn Ifill, former President of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, saw Wolkoff's tweet and posted, "Uh-oh."

At issue in Bragg's case are alleged hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels in 2016. Bragg alleges that Trump falsified the Trump Organization's business records.

According to Michael Cohen —Trump's former personal attorney and fixer and a witness in Bragg's case — and Daniels, Trump had an extramarital affair with Daniels and paid her hush money to keep quiet. Trump has been trying to get Bragg's case moved to federal court, while Bragg is fighting that effort and is arguing that the case needs to remain in New York State.



https://www.alternet.org/trump-hush-money-2661927816/

[raison de arizona]

JUST IN: Federal judge in NY *denies* Trump effort to bring Manhattan-based charges into federal court.

The case has been remanded back to state court.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap ... 43.0_1.pdf

[raison de arizona]

FELONIOUS TRUMP: Surprising turn in former president’s rape case

When a jury found the former president liable for sexual assault, who could have known the case might contribute to a felony conviction?

Now the two cases are becoming a little less separate, as the New York Attorney General’s office requests records from the discovery portion of the Carroll case to help solidify a felony conviction in the hush money case.

Ahead of the jury trial, Trump was forced to sit for a deposition, in which he was asked a series of questions about his shopping activities, as well as about other women he’d been accused of sexually assaulting.

The public has seen transcripts of some portions of this deposition, and they’re rather damning — such as the portion where he mistakes his victim — who he claims is “not [his] type” — for one of his ex-wives.

Now, the question is raised whether the deposition will turn out to be equally damaging for Trump in another case.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg believes that there’s information that will help his case, and is asking Judge Lewis Kaplan, who presided over the completed rape case and will preside over Carroll’s separate defamation case against Trump, if he can obtain that material without violating the protective order in the case.

“As demonstrated by the publicly released excerpts of the deposition shown at trial in Carroll v. Trump…we believe the full transcript and video recording of the deposition are relevant and material to our proceedings, The People of the State of New York v. Donald J, Trump….Therefore, the People respectfully request that Your Honor apprise us as to whether Kaplan Hecker & Fink, LLP [Carroll’s attorneys] may comply with the People’s trial subpoena or if the Protective and Confidentiality Order in Carroll v. Trump precludes such compliance.”

https://washingtonpress.com/2023/07/27/ ... rape-case/

[Gregg]

One of the better side effects of the pile of crap Trump is standing in right now is the various trials are generating all kinds of juicy content, depositions and testimony that Trump is going to be held to. How many times can he sit down and tell consistent stories under oath besides how many times can he do it without saying something that will hurt him somewhere else.

[RTH10260]

Trump’s Full Deposition, Transcripts in E. Jean Carroll Case Ordered to be Turned Over to Manhattan DA
Prosecutors in Manhattan are seeking to use the footage of Trump being deposed to show how he 'dealt with allegations of a sexual nature'

Published 08/03/23 12:20 PM ET|Updated 08/03/23 01:20 PM ET
Kayla Gallagher

A federal judge has ordered that former President Donald Trump's full deposition, interview transcript, and any related materials from E. Jean Carroll's sexual assault case lawsuit filed against him be turned over to the Manhattan District Attorney's office.

Prosecutors in Manhattan are seeking to use the footage of Trump being deposed to show how he "dealt with allegations of a sexual nature."




https://themessenger.com/politics/trump ... nhattan-da

https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/sta ... 77249?s=20

Adam Klasfeld @KlasfeldReports
E. Jean Carroll's legal team can turn over Trump's full deposition, transcript and related exhibits in that case to the Manhattan DA — not only the publicly released sections, a federal judge ruled.

Doc https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap ... .196.0.pdf
5:28 PM · Aug 3, 2023

► Show Spoiler

[Reality Check]

The end of a great week for OSG.

[Gregg]

And so begins his undoing, for from here on out he's going to hsve to keep his stories straight over multiple cases and in multiple records.

[Ben-Prime]

And so begins his undoing, for from here on out he's going to hsve to keep his stories straight over multiple cases and in multiple records.

Because courts can do what insurance companies and tax assessors in various jurisdictions have not -- keep public track of conflicting statements made over 'the course of doing business'. Woot woot woot!

[Kendra]

I haven't seen a link yet, but reporting on air is that the judge will not recuse himself.

[Reality Check]

And so begins his undoing, for from here on out he's going to hsve to keep his stories straight over multiple cases and in multiple records.

He cannot even keep his stories straight in the same case much less multiple cases. E.g., in the stolen documents case he claimed he had declassified documents that the FBI had planted during the search.

[Sam the Centipede]

And so begins his undoing, for from here on out he's going to hsve to keep his stories straight over multiple cases and in multiple records.

He cannot even keep his stories straight in the same case much less multiple cases. E.g., in the stolen documents case he claimed he had declassified documents that the FBI had planted during the search.

And Trump isn't even constructing those multiple stories in the approved alternative defenses manner of "it didn't happen, if it did happen, I didn't do it, if I did it it wasn't intentional, if it was intentional it wasn't malicious, if it was malicious it wasn't serious, if it was serious, … etc. etc."

[chancery]

I haven't seen a link yet, but reporting on air is that the judge will not recuse himself.

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/ ... ng-nyc.pdf

[Rolodex]

Trump had been trying to get this Hush Money case moved from state to federal court. He keeps being refused because, as it turns out, paying hush money to Stormy Daniels isn't really an official act of a president. He just dropped his appeal for removal to federal court - he knew it was a loser (at least the lawyers do). It's scheduled for March 25, 2024, but the judge says it's likely to be postponed so as not to conflict with his DC J6 case.

The charges have to do with falsifying business records, although we call it the hush money case - so many to keep track of and this one's been flying under the radar for a while.

https://themessenger.com/politics/trump ... eral-court

[Volkonski]

Maybe Trump wants the trial to be televised.

Trump drops bid to move NY hush money case to federal court in sudden twist

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-ba ... press.coop

At the time of publication, the reason the former president’s counsel moved for a voluntary dismissal of the appeal was unclear.

The decision to do so means Trump will proceed in state court as he defends himself against 34 charges of falsifying business records, which revolve around hush money deals made with former adult film star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal. The women were paid a combined $280,000 to cover up allegations of an affair.

Trump’s filing Tuesday came one day before his lawyers were due to submit their argument in writing to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals as to why Trump’s case should be moved.

Trump’s lawyers previously indicated they wanted to move courts to raise various federal defenses to the indictment and argue it was an impermissible act of state hostility against a federal official.

A move to federal court would have broadened the jury pool to include prospective jurors outside of deep-blue Manhattan.

It also would have doomed chances of the trial being televised, a matter that remains an open question as the case moves ahead in state court.

The Hill has reached out to Trump’s legal team for comment.

Trump’s appeal followed a federal judge rejecting the former president’s effort to move courts, ruling the case was not sufficiently connected to Trump’s role as president.

Hush money by itself is legal, but prosecutors charged Trump over how he reimbursed his then-fixer, Michael Cohen, for making the payments to the women in 2017.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s (D) office — which opposed Trump’s effort to move to federal court — alleges Trump improperly deemed the reimbursements a legal retainer in an effort to hide damaging information from the public ahead of that year’s presidential election. Trump pleaded not guilty.

[RTH10260]

Manhattan’s District Attorney Is Quietly Preparing for a Trump Trial
As prosecutors navigate calendars and appeals, Alvin L. Bragg may take the former president’s first criminal case to trial. He has said that covering up a hush-money payment was a fraud on voters.

By Ben Protess, Jonah E. Bromwich and William K. Rashbaum
Jan. 25, 2024

Federal prosecutors have accused Donald J. Trump of plotting to subvert American democracy and mishandling nuclear secrets. But with those cases in limbo, state prosecutors in Manhattan are gearing up as though they will be the first to try the former president on criminal charges — for covering up a potential sex scandal.

The Manhattan district attorney’s office has begun to approach witnesses to prepare them for trial, including Michael D. Cohen, Mr. Trump’s former fixer, according to people with knowledge of the matter. He and at least two others involved in buying a porn star’s silence about her story of a tryst with Mr. Trump are expected to meet with prosecutors in the coming weeks.

With the potential trial drawing near, the district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, has also added one of his most experienced trial lawyers to the team assigned to prosecute Mr. Trump.

And in recent public appearances, Mr. Bragg has presented the loftiest possible conception of the case, casting it as a clear-cut instance of election interference, in which a candidate defrauded the American people to win the White House in 2016. Mr. Trump did so, the district attorney argues, by concealing an illegal payoff to the porn star, thus hiding damaging information from voters just days before they headed to the polls.

“The case — the core of it — is not money for sex,” Mr. Bragg said in a radio interview last month, objecting to news outlets’ longstanding characterization of it as a hush-money case. “We would say it’s about conspiring to corrupt a presidential election and then lying in New York business records to cover it up. That’s the heart of the case.”

With this rebranding, Mr. Bragg is trying to amplify the importance of his charges and draw a parallel with the highly consequential federal case in Washington, D.C., in which Mr. Trump is accused of seeking to overturn the 2020 election. That trial is scheduled to begin on March 4, three weeks before Mr. Bragg’s case, but appeals could push it into late spring or summer.



https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/25/nyre ... niels.html

[p0rtia]

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/01/nyre ... =url-share

Trump’s Former Finance Chief in Negotiations to Plead Guilty to Perjury

Allen H. Weisselberg would admit to lying on the stand during the former president’s civil fraud trial, according to people familiar with the talks.

By William K. Rashbaum, Jonah E. Bromwich and Ben Protess
Feb. 1, 2024Updated 4:28 p.m. ET

Allen H. Weisselberg, a longtime lieutenant to Donald J. Trump, is negotiating a deal with Manhattan prosecutors that would require him to plead guilty to perjury, people with knowledge of the matter said.

As part of the potential agreement with the Manhattan district attorney’s office, Mr. Weisselberg would have to admit that he lied on the witness stand in Mr. Trump’s recent civil fraud trial, the people said.

Mr. Weisselberg, the former chief financial officer at Mr. Trump’s family business, also would have to say that he lied under oath during in an interview with the New York attorney general’s office, which brought the civil fraud case.

The situation springs from a web of criminal and civil cases brought by the two agencies and would culminate a lengthy pressure campaign by the district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, whose prosecutors had sought Mr. Weisselberg’s cooperation as they investigated whether Mr. Trump committed electoral and financial crimes. Even without Mr. Weisselberg’s cooperation, they indicted Mr. Trump last year in the election-related case, which is scheduled for trial in late March.

The deal being negotiated would most likely not require Mr. Weisselberg, 76, to turn on his former boss. Although Mr. Weisselberg was involved in the action at the heart of that case — a hush-money payment meant to bury a potential sex scandal just before the 2016 election — prosecutors are not expected to call him as a witness. And the investigation that most required Mr. Weisselberg’s help, the district attorney’s inquiry into Mr. Trump’s finances, may no longer be a priority for prosecutors.

Although the potential agreement is unlikely to immediately affect Mr. Trump, it could strengthen Mr. Bragg’s hand before the former president’s trial. It could deter other witnesses in Mr. Trump’s circle from lying on the stand. And perjury charges could discredit Mr. Weisselberg, who has disputed details of the prosecution’s evidence in the case involving the 2016 election.

[Rolodex]

The wheels are falling off the trump train.

And the whole stupid thing about the hush money case is that that info would likely not have cost him the election. It certainly wouldn't now.

I thought I had it straight in my head, but help me out here.

We have business fraud case - brought by NYAG, Judge Engoron presiding.
This is different? Did Bragg (DA) bring his case just against Weiselberg and trump org and that sent Alan to jail? How is this case against trump different from the AG's case (currently pendiing).
And who brought the hush money case?

[p0rtia]

Bragg is the Manhattan DA. Merchan in the judge in this case.

This is the (previously known as) Hush Money Case. As I understand it, fuckhead is being nailed for election interference and falsification of records for writing off the payments to Stormy by getting Michael Cohen to pay her and then repaying Cohen by pretending he had him on retainer (that the falsification part) for the purpose of deceiving voters (election interference).

https://manhattanda.org/district-attorn ... d-j-trump/

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr. today announced the indictment of DONALD J. TRUMP, 76, for falsifying New York business records in order to conceal damaging information and unlawful activity from American voters before and after the 2016 election. During the election, TRUMP and others employed a “catch and kill” scheme to identify, purchase, and bury negative information about him and boost his electoral prospects. TRUMP then went to great lengths to hide this conduct, causing dozens of false entries in business records to conceal criminal activity, including attempts to violate state and federal election laws.

TRUMP is charged in a New York State Supreme Court indictment with 34 counts of Falsifying Business Records in the First Degree

[Volkonski]

Trump expected to attend NY hush money hearing Thursday, lawyer says

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/13/politics ... index.html

Former President Donald Trump is expected to attend Thursday’s hearing in the New York hush money criminal case, according to Steve Sadow, Trump’s lead attorney for the Georgia election subversion case.

Trump had considered traveling to Georgia on Thursday for a hearing in the criminal case brought by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis but is now planning to attend the hearing in New York, multiple sources familiar with the matter said.

Both hearings are scheduled to begin at 9:30a ET.

Initially, Trump was intrigued by the idea of traveling to Georgia if Willis was forced to take the stand and answer questions under oath about allegations she engaged in an improper romantic relationship with her top deputy, Nathan Wade, one of the sources told CNN.

A judge on Monday did not rule out the possibility that Willis will have to testify but made clear that is contingent on what other witnesses say first.

Trump’s advisers made the case that the New York hearing is more important as it is a criminal case that directly impacts him, according to a source familiar with internal discussions.

[Slim Cognito]

The thought that a United State's major political party's leader has to pick between two criminal hearings to attend on the same date/time will never not blow my mind.

[Frater I*I]

The thought that a United State's major political party's leader has to pick between two criminal hearings to attend on the same date/time will never not blow my mind.

Welcome to Earth v. 6.66....

[Reality Check]

Does anyone know if this will be televised or do we have to follow live xeets again?

[Reality Check]

Journalism in this country is so sloppy. I just looked at 4 or 5 articles on the hearing today on major outlets and not a single one of them bothered to include the time of the hearing or a link to any coverage.

[Suranis]

I'm sorry to agree, but it really is dogshit in your country.

[Reality Check]

Adam Klasfeld will be covering the hearing. He is now with @Just_Security. I guess The Messenger folded (Thank dog. It was awful IMO.)