Tag Archives: Trump Organization

New York AG: Our Trump Org Case Is “Ready For Trial”

CBS News reports: New York Attorney General Letitia James’ office says it is ready to proceed with a trial stemming from its $250 million lawsuit claiming former President Donald Trump, two of his children and his company engaged in widespread fraud. “The case is ready for trial,” wrote Kevin Wallace, senior enforcement counsel for the office, in a filing Monday. …

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NYT: Michael Cohen To Settle Suit Against Trump Org

The New York Times reports: Michael D. Cohen, the longtime fixer to Donald J. Trump, who was set to go to trial next week against his former boss’s company in a dispute over legal fees, is expected to settle his lawsuit with the Trump Organization, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. Mr. Cohen’s lawsuit, filed in 2019, …

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Ivanka Dismissed From NY Lawsuit Against Trump Org

Politico reports: A New York state appeals court on Tuesday dismissed Ivanka Trump from the New York state attorney general’s civil fraud case against former President Donald Trump, the Trump Organization and three of his adult children. The court ruled that legal claims against Ivanka Trump were too old because she left the family business to advise her father in …

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ANALYSIS: Trump Made $82 Million From Ireland And UK Properties He Relentlessly Promoted While In Office

The watchdog group CREW reports: Donald Trump made $82.5 million from his businesses in Ireland and Scotland while serving as president, according to a CREW analysis of his tax returns. All of this revenue came with extraordinary conflicts of interest, mixing Trump’s personal financial interests with the national interests of the United States. Trump raked in over one billion dollars …

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Feds Subpoena Docs On Trump’s Foreign Business Deals

The New York Times reports: Federal prosecutors overseeing the investigation into former President Donald J. Trump’s handling of classified documents have issued a subpoena for information about Mr. Trump’s business dealings in foreign countries since he took office, according to two people familiar with the matter. It remains unclear precisely what the prosecutors were hoping to find by sending the …

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Former Trump Org CFO May Face Perjury Charge

The New York Times reports: One of Donald J. Trump’s longtime lieutenants, Allen H. Weisselberg, was recently released from the notorious Rikers Island jail complex after pleading guilty to a tax fraud scheme. Yet Mr. Weisselberg’s legal troubles are far from over. The Manhattan district attorney’s office is now considering a new round of criminal charges against Mr. Weisselberg, 75, …

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TODAY: Trump To Be Deposed Again NY Fraud Case

ABC News reports: Former President Donald Trump is scheduled to return to New York City Thursday to sit for a second deposition as part of New York Attorney General Letitia James’ $250 million civil fraud lawsuit, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News. Trump previously sat for an hourslong deposition in August, prior to James filing her lawsuit that …

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Trump Claims Trump Organization Doesn’t Legally Exist

The Insider reports: Donald Trump, his real-estate company and his three eldest children have filed an extraordinary, nose-thumbing response to the $250 million fraud lawsuit filed by New York Attorney General Letitia James in September, stating that “Trump Organization” is branding shorthand — not a legal entity — so it can’t be sued. “To the extent a response is required, …

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Trump Withdraws Frivolous Suit Against New York AG

ABC News reports: Less than a day after receiving a warning from a federal judge, former President Donald Trump has withdrawn his lawsuit against New York Attorney General Letitia James. The withdrawal came in a brief document filed Friday morning with U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks, who late Thursday warned Trump’s legal team that the lawsuit appeared to verge on …

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Trump Organization Fined Maximum $1.6M In NY Case

The New York Times reports: Former president Donald J. Trump’s family real estate business was ordered on Friday to pay a $1.6 million criminal penalty for its conviction on tax fraud and other charges, a stinging rebuke and the maximum possible punishment. The sentence, handed down by a judge in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, caps a lengthy legal ordeal …

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Former Trump Org CFO Sentenced To Five Months

Forbes reports: Allen Weisselberg, the Trump Organization’s longtime chief financial officer, was sentenced to five months in state prison on Tuesday after pleading guilty to criminal tax fraud for evading taxes for years by taking gifts and other off-the-books compensation from former President Donald Trump’s family business. Weisselberg, who was taken into custody on Tuesday immediately after being sentenced, is …

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Manhattan Jury Finds Trump Org Guilty Of All Charges

Forbes reports: The Trump Organization has been found guilty of criminal tax fraud, a jury declared Tuesday, after prosecutors accused former President Donald Trump’s company of evading taxes by paying executives through gifts and off-the-books compensation. Trump was not directly charged in the case, but prosecutors tried to implicate him in the scheme at trial by providing evidence that showed …

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Judge Rants At Trump Org Lawyers For Shady Motions

CNN reports: Judge Juan Merchan reprimanded lawyers for the Trump Corporation for filing motions and new exhibits late Sunday night that they want to introduce Monday morning when they question Mazars accountant Donald Bender, telling them he will no longer accept any motions from the attorneys. Defense attorneys had submitted 18 exhibits to the prosecution around midnight. “It’s inconsiderate at …

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Trump To Testify In NY AG’s Trump Org Fraud Lawsuit

The Insider reports: Donald Trump will personally take the stand in Manhattan next year to defend his real-estate and golf-resort empire from New York Attorney General Letitia James’ $250 million fraud lawsuit, which seeks to bar his family from doing business in the state. The revelation came on Tuesday as lawyers for Trump and the attorney general’s office clashed heatedly …

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DOJ To Announce Special Counsel For Trump Probes

The New York Times reports: Attorney General Merrick Garland will announce on Friday that he is appointing a special counsel to take over two major criminal investigations involving former President Donald J. Trump, including his role in events leading up to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and his handling of sensitive government documents. The announcement, which a senior …

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Former Trump Org CFO: I Kept Two Sets Of Books

The New York Daily News reports: Allen Weisselberg, former chief financial officer at the Trump Organization, testified Thursday in Manhattan Supreme Court that he kept a handwritten list detailing the brazen tax fraud he committed in his top drawer at Trump Tower. During his first full day on the witness stand, the convicted 75-year-old talked about keeping two sets of …

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Trump Signs New Deal With Saudi Real Estate Outfit

The New York Times reports: The Trump family has struck a deal with a Saudi-based real estate company to license its name to a housing and golf complex that will be built in Oman, renewing a swirl of questions about former President Donald J. Trump’s mixing of politics and business just as he appears poised to announce a third presidential …

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Trump Appeals Order For Trump Org Assets Monitor

Bloomberg News reports: Former President Donald Trump appealed a judge’s decision to have an independent monitor review many of his company’s business activities until New York Attorney General Letitia James’s lawsuit alleging fraudulent asset valuations is resolved. New York state Judge Arthur Engoron last week granted James’s request for such a monitor as part of an order blocking the Trump …

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NY AG Wins Fight For Monitor To Oversee Trump Org

Axios reports: A judge on Thursday sided with New York Attorney General Letitia James in her bid for an independent monitor to oversee the Trump Organization’s preparation of financial statements amid pending review of a civil lawsuit. “This court will appoint an independent monitor, to be paid by defendants, for the purpose of ensuring compliance with this order,” New York …

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Juror Excused From Trump Org Trial: He Makes Me Sick

The Insider reports: A man summoned for jury duty in the New York criminal tax-fraud trial of former President Donald Trump’s international real-estate company was excused by a judge Thursday after saying the former commander in chief made him sick to his guts. The then-prospective juror, a middle-age man, told Justice Juan Manuel Merchan of the New York Supreme Court …

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