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- senior Manhattan courts reporter for @CourthouseNews -- contact newyork @courthousenews .com --- Part Time Punk DJ monthly on @TheLotRadio
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New York Attorney General Tish James to make “major announcement” tomorrow morning.
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(SDNY) - Manhattan Shake Shack manager sues NYPD unions for defamation over last summer's false allegations of poisoning officers with bleach contaminated milk shakes last summer.
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SDNY Judge dismisses Roy Moore's defamation suit against Sacha Baron Cohen because Moore signed a waiver and also Cohen is protected by the First Amendment.
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Thousands at George Floyd memorial in Brooklyn chant “You Are Not Alone” as his brother Terrence takes the mic.
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SDNY judge denied Ghislaine Maxwell's renewed bid to released on bail. In docket entry for the sealed opinion, "the Court concludes that the Government has met its burden of persuasion that the Defendant poses a flight risk and that pretrial detention continues to be warranted."
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incoming SDNY complaint: Eddy Grant brings copyright lawsuit against Donald Trump and his campaign. Unclear yet if it's for "Electric Avenue" or "Baby Come Back" or another track.
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New York State Court Judge Engoron has granted partial summary judgment to the New York attorney general, finding that Donald J. Trump is liable on top fraud count of NYAG business fraud lawsuit.
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Palestine benefit punk show in Brooklyn, Saturday night.
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Giuilani-linked businessman David Correia sentenced to one year and one day in prison for Fraud Guarantee scheme with Lev Parnas
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Jury CONVICTS actor Jonathan Majors on two domestic assault charges in split verdict
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MANHATTAN (CN) — A New York jury wasted little time before reaching a unanimous guilty verdict on Friday, convicting Colorado businessman Tim Shea on counts of fraud and conspiracy for his role in the sham charity We Build the Wall.
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Neil Young "in good conscience cannot allow his music to be used as a 'theme song' for a divisive, un-American campaign of ignorance and hate."
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Steve Bannon We Build The Wall trial in Manhattan criminal court has been pushed back to September.
"See you back here in May," Steve Bannon told reporters last year.
May 2024 is now just a week away, Bannon is set to face trial before Justice Juan Merchan, the same judge overseeing Donald Trump's criminal trial.
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Manhattan DA Cy Vance announced his office's prosecution of Amy Cooper, of the Central Park bird watcher incident, for falsely reporting an incident in the Third Degree.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James
@NewYorkStateAG
vows to sue the Trump administration if the coronavirus vaccine in development is withheld from the state of New York once complete.
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RIP Germs bassist Lorna Doom, seen here in this timeless punk photo.
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Good morning from Manhattan criminal court, where Donald Trump’s longtime money man, Trump Org CFO Allen Weisselberg, is expected to plead guilty this morning to criminal charges related to a tax evasion scheme. The case against Trump Org is set to go to trial in October.
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FBI agent testifying Tuesday afternoon for cell site analysis in SBF fraud trial, highlights cellphone pings placing Sam Bankman-Fried at Midtown Italian restaurant Osteria La Baia, for a dinner with
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Eric Adams.
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“There is not a single person in the United States — not the president and not anyone else — whose job description includes slandering women they sexually assaulted,” attorney Roberta Kaplan wrote in the opening salvo of a 45-page brief.
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"See you back here in May," Steve Bannon told reporters last year.
May 2024 is now just a week away, Bannon is set to face trial before Justice Juan Merchan, the same judge overseeing Donald Trump's criminal trial.
“See you back here in May,” Steve Bannon tells reporters after a short 5-minute hearing Thursday morning, which set a May 2024 trial date for his ‘We Build The Wall’ fraud case in New York State court.
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"I’ve never seen such a clause, in 21 years of being a judge," Judge Hellerstein says of the the home confinement agreement drafted the probation office for Michael Cohen.
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Judge Hellerstein finds the jailing of Cohen to be retaliatory and orders him to be released back to home confinement by 2:00 pm Friday.
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New York finds ‘We Build The Wall’ founder Tim Shea GUILTY on all three criminal counts.
@CourthouseNews
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Rudy Giuliani Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing hits the SDNY bankruptcy court docket.
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New York Attorney General Tish James brings The People of the State of New York
@NewYorkStateAG
lawsuit against The Trump Organization, Inc. et al - currently unavailable in the docket.
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NEWS: Florida woman Aimee Harris, who stole and sold Ashley Biden’s diary, sentenced to one month in prison followed by three years of supervised release.
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"Since the order was already packaged and waiting for pickup when Officers Strawberry Shake, Vanilla Shake and Cherry Shake arrived at the Shake Shack, Mr. GILLIAM and the other Shake Shack employees could not have “dosed”
the milkshakes after they arrived," the complaint states.
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Result of the ruling: the judge canceled all of the Trump defendants’ business certificates in New York, and ordered that within 10 days, they must recommend no more than three potential independent receivers to manage the dissolution of the canceled LLCs.
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one hundred people on the line for the Michael Cohen v. William Barr teleconference.
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Jury in New York federal court finds Lev Parnas guilty on all six criminal counts in connection with a scheme to make illegal campaign contributions.
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Harvey Weinstein has been sent back to Rikers Island hours after
@ReuvenBlau
reported Weinstein was being kept in a private room with VIP perks inside Bellevue Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit on a floor away from all other detainees.
“Your article was pretty much the reason,” Weinstein’s longtime spokesperson, Juda Engelmayer, told
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“Mr. Cohen was never given a chance to say ‘if this is it, I’ll sign’," U.S. District Judge Hellerstein says.
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"Nevertheless, Defendant 'Police Sergeant When Did You Add the Bleach' stated to Plaintiff 'you put three of my cops in the hospital.'"
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Nearly right out the gate, Judge Alvin Hellerstein asserts that it was his understanding that Cohen and his attorney were never given a chance to negotiate their objections to the terms of the BOP agreement.
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Judge Gorenstein quickly demanded Okoumou take the tape off in order to proceeed with hearing. Stopped short of hearing any explanation for the tape’s significance.
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Quinn Emanuel withdrawing as counsel for Steve Bannon in the 'We Build the Wall' fraud case at SDNY.
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pretrial conference tomorrow morning at SDNY for the Roy Moore v. Sacha Baron Cohen defamation suit, stemming from the "Who Is America" segment where Cohen's ex-Mossad agent Erran Morad character uses a pedophile-detecting wand on Moore.
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Jessica Leeds testified in the E. Jean Carroll trial today, recalling Trump sexually assaulting her on flight in late 1970s, and several years later seeing him at fundraising dinner where he recognized her and called her "the cunt from the airplane."
"And Trump stands there and stares at me, and he says, ‘I remember you. You’re the cunt from the airplane.’”
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Jonathan Majors dissuaded ex from going to doctor, unsealed texts show.
@CourthouseNews
The Marvel star told his then-girlfriend that going to see a doctor "will lead to an investigation" even if she made up a cover story for her injuries.
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“He may confined to his own home….but he remains a prisoner in his home," Hellerstein says, opening a conversation with Cohen's attorney Danya Perry about the "contours" of restraints and what he should be allowed to do in home confinement.
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Seagrams liquor heiress Clare Bronfman was sentenced to six years and nine months in prison on Wednesday in connection with her role as the longtime financier for the controversial executive-development group NXIVM.
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Hellerstein orders: “I make the finding that the purpose of transferring Mr. Cohen from furlough and home confinement to jail is retaliatory..." 1/2
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SDNY judge finds attorney Steven Donziger guilty on six counts of contempt after unusual bench trial.
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Good morning from Manhattan federal court for day 5 of the 2nd E. Jean Carroll-Trump civil defamation trial.
Trump's motorcade arrived this drizzly morning and he's entered the courthouse, where he's expected to testify this afternoon.
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New York Attorney General
@NewYorkStateAG
brought a civil lawsuit at SDNY today against NYPD to "end the pervasive use of excessive force and false arrests by the New York City Police Department (NYPD) against New Yorkers in suppressing overwhelmingly peaceful protests."
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“If I find that this is retaliatory, shouldn’t he be restored to the condition he was?” Judge Hellerstein asks.
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98-year-old Marshall Allen leading the Sun Ra Arkestra, Christmas night at Bowery Ballroom, final night of Yo La Tengo Hanukkah 2022.
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SDNY judge rejects Trump’s motion to the substitute the United States as the defendant in defamation suit against him brought by writer E. Jean Carroll, who says Trump raped her before he was president.
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SDNY Judge Victor Marrero orders Trump administration and USPS to settle an order with class action plaintiffs by Sept. 25th, mandating that the Postal Service take certain actions to ensure the timely delivery of their absentee ballots in the upcoming national elections.
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"and it's retaliatory because of his desire to exercise his First Amendment rights to publish a book and to discuss anything about the book or anything else he wants on social media and with others.” 2/2
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Judge Furman, shedding a morsel of his abundant patience to this point in the trial, tells Avenatti directly it seems like he's "trying to blame your own lack of preparing a defense case on me.”
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Retired top FBI counterintelligence agent Charles McGonigal arrives to Manhattan federal court on Tuesday, where he’s expected to plead guilty to helping a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin evade financial sanctions.
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Trump's NJ-based attorney Alina Habba had previously been withdrawn from representation in the NYAG case, purportedly to keep the Trump Org separate and apart from her role as general counsel to Trump’s Save America Political Action Committee, but she's arguing his case today.
“The value is what someone is willing to pay. The Trump properties are Mona Lisa properties.”
This might be the first time Alina Habba is presenting in court in front of her client, Trump. She's bringing the same fire that she displays while speaking on rightwing news outlets.
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Attorneys for Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. at remote conference this morning in Manhattan Supreme Court on motions to quash subpoenas by
@NewYorkStateAG
at first hearing since accounting firm Mazars USA dropped Trump.
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NY jury finds Trump Payroll Corporation guilty on all eight counts as well.
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Ghislaine Maxwell will be sentenced this morning in Manhattan federal court for her indispensable role in recruiting and grooming underage girls for sex abuse by pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein. She faces up to 55 years in prison.
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Judge Engoron to Donald Trump's criminal lawyer Ron Fischetti, who is getting fairly heated and furious - “Your client can claim [the Fifth amendment] 500 times like his son did.”
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"There are six hundred and some odd documents in this case…I don’t remember any point in which Letitia James criticized Donald Trump’s viewpoints," Judge Engoron responds to Habba's viewpoint discrimination claim. "Am I missing something there?"
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MANHATTAN (CN) - Former president Donald Trump and his adult children Don Jr. and Ivanka Trump must sit for a deposition in the civil investigation into the Trump Organization’s finances led by New York Attorney General Letitia James, a New York state supreme court judge ruled.
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Judge Furman denies Avenatti's formal motion for acquittal, noting the government has introduced "ample evidence" that would support a conviction the two counts.
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Trump Organization tax fraud trial in Manhattan criminal court heads to closing arguments this morning.
Lawyers for Trump Corporation and Trump Payroll Corporation will make their closing summations first, followed by a lengthy closing argument from the Manhattan D.A.'s office.
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"The degree of complete uncertainty" as to whether Avenatti has a defense case is "just astonishing to me," Judge Furman remarks.
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Jen Shah leaving the Manhattan federal courthouse on Jan. 6, after being handed a 6.5 year prison sentence for a decade-long telemarketing fraud that preyed on the elderly.
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NY Judge sentenced Harvey Weinstein to 23 years for criminal sex act and rape in the third degree.
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SDNY Judge Jesse Furman rips the Trump admin's now-rescinded exclusion of New Yorkers from the DHS trusted travelers program, and vacates the decision.
@CourthouseNews
story to come.
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Following SDNY hearing on Donald Trump's bid to have hush money case transferred to federal court.
Upon Judge Hellerstein's demand for witness testimony today, Trump's lawyers have called current Trump Org Chief Legal Officer Alan Garten for questioning this afternoon.
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after hearing 30 minutes of arguments, Judge Oetken denied Fruman’s request for bail modifications.
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Convicts on one count of assault in third degree and one count of harassment in the 2nd degree; clears him on one count of aggravated harassment and a separate assault charge under a different intent statute.
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“It has nothing to do with public safety; it’s nothing more than political retribution.”
@NewYorkStateAG
on the DHS order barring New Yorkers from enrolling in Global Entry and other traveler programs.
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Former cryptocurrency billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried, SBF, will be back in Manhattan federal court tomorrow morning for sentencing on guilty convictions on all seven counts that went to trial.
Feds want a 40-50 year sentence; his lawyers asked for less than 7 years: 63-78 months.
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Manhattan Supreme Justice Cohen denies two individual NRA members' motion to intervene in the New York Attorney General's suit seeking to dissolve the NRA.
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2:25 pm note signed by a foreperson in Jonathan Majors trial: “We the jury have reached a verdict”
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Michael Cohen leaving hearing at Manhattan federal courthouse.
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The Sun Ra Arkestra, outdoors, for free, in the summertime. (My favorite thing)
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Outside of the Manhattan DA’s office awaiting Steve Bannon’s arrival to surrender to New York prosecutors on Thursday morning.
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SDNY trial
#2
for Michael Avenatti resumes this morning.
The once high-profile California lawyer and Trump foe is charged with wire fraud and aggravated identity theft for allegedly ripping off two advance payments from his then-client Stormy Daniels's book deal.
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“He’s not being discriminated against based on race, is he? He’s not being discriminated against based religion, is he," Judge Engoron asks about Trump's claim to discrimination against a protected class.
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SDNY Judge J. Paul Oetken will be presiding over the appointment of a filter team to review potential attorney-client privileged materials seized from the offices of Rudy Giuliani and Victoria Toensing last week.
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Cohen's attorney
@LannyDavis
"Today he stood up and testified under oath that Donald Trump directed him to commit a crime by making payments to two women for the principal purpose of influencing an election."
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OK, it's for a Biden smear video that used "Electric Avenue".
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Avenatti wants to call a defense witness speak to Stormy Daniels’ alleged memory loss, delusional beliefs and “trance-like” behavior.
“She wasn’t in a trance, as far as I could tell, on the stand," Judge Furman responds. "Seems like a total side show.”
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NY AG v Trump Organization oral arguments in Manhattan Supreme Court today.
@CourthouseNews
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“This is nothing more than vindictive behavior by a lame-duck president trying to extract vengeance on those who oppose his politics,"
@NewYorkStateAG
says of Trump in a press release Friday evening.
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"If dissemination of the vaccine takes place in the twilight of a Trump Administration and the president wants to play games with people’s lives, we will sue and we will win,"
@NewYorkStateAG
said Friday.
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Manhattan criminal judge hastily dismissed Paul Manafort’s indictment on double jeopardy grounds.
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Trump lawyer who cussed out a veteran courts beat reporter just before the NY AG trial, ordered by judge this afternoon to apologize for disrespectful outbursts to two female attorneys.
EXCLUSIVE:
@Law360
learned Chris Kise, Trump's atty, was forced to apologize to 2 female attorneys after dismissive remarks during an off-the-record sidebar in AG's fraud trial.
Kise told the law clerk he didn't want to talk to her & questioned an AG atty's intelligence
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Prosecutors have called Adam Laxalt, the former Nevada state attorney general and co-chair of Trump’s campaign in the state, to testify in the Lev Parnas campaign finance trial.
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"In defendants’ world there is no objective truth even in the square footage of a New York City condominium, " NYAG attorney Andrew Amer argues in support of prosecution's motion for summary judgment against Trump. "Defendants have clearly stepped through the looking glass."
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OAG lawyer Kevin Wallace quotes former longtime Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau, speaking of Trump's bulldog mentor Roy Cohn, “A man is not immune from prosecution merely because a United States attorney happens not to like him.”
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New York Attorney General Tish James announcing federal lawsuit challenging the enforcement of ICE immigration raids at state courthouses.
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The next conference in Steve Bannon's Manhattan criminal case is scheduled for a Wednesday, when Trump's trial will not sit each week.
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"The Greasy Grifter," as he is colloquially referred to, is accused of bilking donors to the MAGA-adjacent We Build The Wall campaign that purported to raising funds to privately erect Donald Trump's promised wall along the Southern border.
Steve Bannon arrives to Manhattan criminal court to chants of “Greasy Grifter”
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Lev Parnas has elected not to testify in his own defense at his campaign finance trial.
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Kathleen Hanna and Johanna Fateman of Le Tigre filed a lawsuit at SDNY this afternoon, seeking a federal judge's declaration that "Deceptacon" does not infringe on copyrights to the 1961 doo-wop style novelty song "Who Put the Bomp (in the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)"
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“Just like the Nixon tapes years ago, we now have what I will refer to as the Trump Tapes.”
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Manhattan Supreme Judge DENIES Trump's motion to quash NYAG subpoenas.
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Fraud Guarantee partner and Giuliani affiliate David Correia is expected to enter a guilty plea this morning via video conference before SDNY Judge J. Paul Oetken.
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