Lawsuits, civil court proceedings
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Legal drama continues to rock Journey as founding band member Neal Schon has sent yet another cease-and-desist letter — this time to keyboardist Jonathan Cain's wife.
A New York judge declined to dismiss the state attorney general’s suit against the former president and called his lawyers’ filing frivolous.
A New York state judge has denied a request to quash a $250 million lawsuit against former president Donald Trump, three of his children and his company, the Trump Organization.
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A Manhattan judge on Friday scolded Donald Trump’s lawyers as he denied their bid to dismiss a lawsuit accusing the former president and his company of a yearslong fraud scheme.
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Excerpts of videotaped testimony shows Trump hurl insults at writer E. Jean Carroll, who said he raped her
She initially sued Trump for defamation after he mocked her claims that he sexually assaulted her in late 1995 or early 1996 after they had a chance meeting in the department store and she agreed to help him pick out lingerie for a friend.Trump has repeatedly denied the encounter took place, calling her allegations a complete con job and saying shes not my type. No pictures
In allowing E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit to move forward, Judge Lewis Kaplan upheld the legality of New York’s Adult Survivors Act.
Ex-president Donald Trump faces two defamation lawsuits by E. Jean Carroll, who accuses him of raping her in a New York City department store decades ago.
Ruling made in second case brought against former president by writer who alleges he sexually assaulted her in Bergdorf Goodman
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The fact that Trump denies the writer’s allegations does not enter into the analysis at this stage of the case, judge says
In October, Donald Trump sat for a deposition at Mar-a-Lago with Roberta Kaplan, an attorney for magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll, who has accused the former president of raping...
The excerpts reveal a contentious battle between Trump and lawyer Roberta Kaplan.
Trump called Carroll, who has accused him of sexual assault, a "nut case" and claimed that she said it was "very sexy to be raped."
Donald Trump had claimed in a dismissed lawsuit that Hillary Clinton and others tried to rig the 2016 presidential election in her favor.
In a blistering filing, U.S. District Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks accused Trump of a "pattern of abuse of the courts" for filing frivolous lawsuits for political purposes, which he said "undermines the rule of law" and "amounts to obstruction of justice."
New York Attorney General Letitia James' office used court filings to show that Trump contradicted previous sworn testimony about his involvement in Trump Org.
Donald Trump's lawyer says the former president is willing to provide a DNA sample to be compared against stains on the dress of a woman who is accusing him of raping her over a quarter century ago.
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A federal judge on Wednesday rejected Donald Trump's offer to provide a DNA sample as part of a defamation lawsuit filed against him by E. Jean Carroll, a writer who said the former U.S. president raped her in the mid-1990s.
Judge Lewis A. Kaplan rejected the 11th-hour offer by Trump’s legal team to provide a DNA sample to rebut claims E. Jean Carroll first made publicly in a 2019 book.
The writer E. Jean Carroll is just one of many women who have accused former President Donald Trump of sexual assault or misconduct. Trump denies the claims.
Attorneys for Donald Trump want to ban from his upcoming civil rape trial the "Access Hollywood" tape in which he bragged about how celebrities can molest women.
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Donald Trump doesn’t want the jury at his upcoming New York civil rape trial to see the tape — in which he bragged about assaulting women — when the trial starts on April 25.
Donald Trump's long-loyal daughter and her husband Jared Kushner have been subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury.
The Justice Department said that plaintiffs should be allowed to sue Trump for damages over speech that he claimed was protected by immunity.
Former President Donald Trump has asked for a months-long delay before the start of the New York attorney general's $250 million civil fraud trial against him, his three eldest children and the Trump Organization.
The man, Carlton Huffman, 39, said he had sought anonymity in his lawsuit against Mr. Schlapp, a powerful activist, out of fear of potential retaliation by Trump supporters.
Donald Trump is being investigated for a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 presidential election against Hillary Clinton.
District Judge Lewis Kaplan rejected a request from Trump’s team to disallow the tape and the testimony from the two women, Natasha Stoynoff and Jessica Leeds, who separately accused the former president of assaulting them in late 1970s and early 2000s.
A yearslong probe into a hush money scheme involving former President Donald Trump and adult film star Stormy Daniels has led to him being indicted by a Manhattan grand jury for his alleged role in the scheme, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.
An excerpt from a notorious “Access Hollywood” tape in which Donald Trump seems to brag about sexually assaulting women will be allowed into evidence at his upcoming trial.
Kaplan also rejected Trump's bid to exclude testimony from two other women who claimed he sexually assaulted them. One, Jessica Leeds, said Trump groped her while seated beside her on a 1979 flight to New York from Texas.
E Jean Carroll can use tape of former president boasting of touching women’s genitals without consent in New York trial
A federal judge on Friday said that E. Jean Carroll, in her defamation case against former President Donald Trump, can use as evidence the testimony of two other sexual assault accusers as well as the "Access Hollywood" tape, in which he bragged about being able to grope women.
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Manhattan Federal Court Judge Lewis Kaplan found the "Access Hollywood" tape, in which Trump bragged that his fame gave him license to grope women, was relevant to the case.
Manhattan district attorney expected to file criminal charges against ex-president for $130,000 payment to adult film star in 2016
The first of two defamation trials scheduled for next month regarding E. Jean Carroll's claim that Donald Trump raped her will be delayed indefinitely, a federal judge said Monday.
Trump has devoted his entire career to avoiding consequences. He's very good at it — but maybe not good enough
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Trial date in New York civil fraud case ‘written in stone’, judge tells Trump
Yahoo News spoke with several current and former prosecutors to help break down the strengths and weaknesses of the potential case being brought by the Manhattan district attorney.
A U.S. judge on Tuesday denied Donald Trump's bid to throw out E. Jean Carroll's defamation claim from next month's high-profile trial over whether Trump raped the former Elle magazine columnist in the mid-1990s.
Read more about Trump's legal worries extend far beyond charges in New York on Devdiscourse
On a historic and unprecedented day for America, former president Donald Trump will be arrested and arraigned at a Lower Manhattan courthouse on criminal charges relating to a hush money payment made to adult film star Stormy Daniels.
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Even if Trump decides not to attend the trial, it is likely that significant portions of his October, 2022 deposition will be watched by the jury
Trump sues his former lawyer Michael Cohen for more than $500 million
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A U.S. judge on Thursday said Donald Trump's defamation trial over whether he raped a writer in the mid-1990s will begin as scheduled on April 25, rejecting the former president's bid for a delay but letting him learn more about how his accuser is paying her legal bills.
Trump was expected to have answered questions on Thursday, unlike a previous deposition in which he invoked the 5th Amendment more than 400 times.
Reid Hoffman, a billionaire and critic of Donald J. Trump, is backing E. Jean Carroll’s suit against the former president.
Donald Trump on Thursday faced questions under oath from lawyers for New York Attorney General Letitia James as part of the state’s civil-fraud case against him. Photo: Seth Wenig/AP
Former President Donald Trump asked a judge to delay a columnist's assault and defamation trial set to being later this month after learning that a billionaire who has donated to Democratic causes has paid for some of the accuser's legal fees.
Trump's latest attempt to mandate that potential jurors supply their names, job information, and 38 other pieces of information on written questionnaires was denied by US District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan on Friday
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Donald Trump will not learn the identities of jurors expected to decide at an upcoming civil trial whether the former president defamed the writer E. Jean Carroll, who also claims Trump raped her.
A federal judge on Monday shot down Donald Trump’s bid to delay his trial on allegations he sexually assaulted and defamed advice columnist E. Jean Carroll that’s set to begin next week.
The trial is about to start. It’s a nightmare for him.
Trump and E. Jean Carroll, who accused him of rape, faced a deadline to tell the judge about their attendance plans for the upcoming trial.
Former president denies allegations he sexually assaulted columnist nearly 30 years ago
Attorney Joe Tacopina is trying to get the judge in Jean Carroll case to revisit an issue he already decided.
The writer suing Donald Trump for allegedly raping her nearly 30 years ago told jurors at a civil trial today that the former US president sexually assaulted her and defamed her by lying about it.
Also, Tacopina noted, there was no record that Carroll had any injuries, sought out a doctor or therapist, asked the store about surveillance video or even wrote about the alleged attack in her diary.It all comes down to Do you believe the unbelievable he asked in his opening statement.Jurors are also expected to hear from two other women who say they were sexually assaulted by Trump.
Jury selection and opening statements began Tuesday in E. Jean Carroll's defamation lawsuit against former President Donald Trump.
During opening statements, a lawyer for E. Jean Carroll described a “brutal attack.” Trump’s lawyer said the accusation is a “sick story.”
E. Jean Carroll and two other women will testify in the battery and defamation trial against former President Donald Trump to show Trump's pattern of alleged violent behavior, Carroll's attorney told jurors during opening statements on Tuesday.
Jean Carroll's accusation that Donald Trump raped her was not a "he said, she said" dispute, a lawyer representing the writer told jurors on Tuesday as a civil trial over the former U.S. president's conduct nearly three decades ago got under way.
Jury selection was completed Tuesday with opening arguments scheduled to follow in the civil trial on rape charges against former President Donald Trump.
Carroll came forward with her story in 2019, alleging that Trump sexually assaulted her in the 1990s.
More than a dozen women publicly accused former President Trump of sexual assault and harassment. E. Jean Carroll's lawsuit is the first to go to trial.
Donald Trump's legal team is expected to attack the credibility of former Elle magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll, as a civil trial resumes over her claim that the former US president raped her and lied about it.
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Amid emotional testimony Wednesday, the 79-year-old insisted she wasn’t there to settle a political score.
Trump's lawyer Joe Tacopina said he would tell Trump to stop. But concern about social media influencing the trial resurfaced after Trump's son Eric tweeted on Wednesday afternoon about Reid Hoffman, the billionaire LinkedIn co-founder and prominent Democratic donor helping fund Carroll's case.
E. Jean Carroll, who filed a defamation suit against Trump, is pressed in cross-examination about why she did not come forward sooner about the alleged assault.
Carroll testified in her lawsuit against Trump on Wednesday and Thursday.
During the defense's cross-examination of E. Jean Carroll, Trump's attorney asked the writer why she "did not scream" when she was "supposedly raped."
"She's a very determined, very fierce witness. Her story is consistent," former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance said on Saturday.
Jurors in the New York rape trial heard this week of how Trump’s alleged attack led to pain behind the public self
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The first bombshell trial Donald Trump faces in his hometown got underway in Manhattan last week, where writer E. Jean Carroll accused the former president in a disturbing account of raping and sexually assaulting her more than 25 years ago.
Jessica Leeds was giving evidence to a civil trial.
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E. Jean Carroll concluded three days of testimony Monday in her civil rape case against Donald Trump, defending her reasons for staying silent and telling a Manhattan jury that her road to the witness stand was long and painful.
Before columnist’s third day of testimony, judge denies Trump request for mistrial
Former President Donald Trump's defense lawyer Joe Tacopina cross-examined writer E. Jean Carroll in the trial over her rape allegation against Trump.
Lawyers for accuser E Jean Carroll played about 30 minutes of excerpts from the former president’s video statement.
Lawyers for accuser E Jean Carroll said they could finish presenting their case on Thursday.
Donald Trump won't attend any of E. Jean Carroll's civil rape trial, the former president's lawyers confirmed to a Manhattan federal judge Tuesday.
A woman has told a court that Donald Trump molested her with what seemed like “40 zillion hands” on an airline flight in the late 1970s — years before writer E Jean Carroll says the former president sexually assaulted her at a Manhattan department store.
Trump has given sworn deposition testimony, and excerpts could be played for the jury.Jessica Leeds, 81, of Asheville, North Carolina, told jurors at a civil trial arising from Carrolls lawsuit that Trump grabbed her chest and ran his hand up her skirt as they sat side by side in first class on a New York City-bound jet.
Carroll alleges Trump raped her in a New York City department store in the 1990s and then defamed her when she took her story public years later.
Writer E. Jean Carroll says the former US president raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in the mid-1990s
A jury overseeing the civil rape trial against Donald Trump heard video clips of the former president getting questioned by E. Jean Carroll's lawyers.
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Asked if he had affairs while married, Mr Trump said: “I don’t know”
Jury also hears testimony from former magazine reporter who says she was assaulted by former president
Attorneys for E. Jean Carroll and Donald Trump rested their respective cases in the battery and defamation trial against the former president in Manhattan federal court on Thursday evening.
Written transcripts of Mr Trump’s evidence had also previously been made public, but not the recording itself.
Carol Martin corroborates E Jean Carroll’s account of aftermath of alleged rape, and judge keeps door open to Trump appearance
Read more about Trump calls accuser a 'nut job' in recording played for jury on Devdiscourse
Trump — sued for battery and defamation stemming from an alleged rape — has said repeatedly that Carroll was "not my type."
Judge says former president can request to testify if he changes his mind
No one would choose this ordeal just because she hates Trump.
A video deposition of former President Donald Trump shows him sneering at accusations of writer E. Jean Carroll as "ridiculous" and "disgusting."
Former president shown pointing to photograph of writer who accuses him of rape and saying ‘That’s my wife’
Joe Tacopina’s outdated tactics have won freedom for accused killers and rapists, but will they work in E Jean Carroll case?
The jury hearing a columnist's claims that she was raped by Donald Trump in the 1990s is likely to have wide latitude in deciding the merits of the civil allegations against the former president when it begins deliberations as early as Tuesday.
Witnesses in E. Jean Carroll's lawsuit accusing Donald Trump of rape and defamation accused the former president of assaulting them, too, as they testified.
By extending the deadline for Trump to appear in court, Judge Lewis Kaplan took away Trump's ability to claim there was bias against him.
Carroll's lawyer said in a court filing that "we continue to object to Mr. Trump's public statements about evidence the Court held to be inadmissible at trial."
The former president is being sued by E. Jean Carroll.
The former US president Donald Trump is being sued by a magazine columnist who claims he raped her in a department store dressing room.
Former President Trump will not testify at his civil trial centered around a rape allegation by writer E. Jean Carroll after his lawyers did not meet a judge-mandated deadline on Sunday to request that he testify. Trump’s legal team previously insisted he would not testify or show up to the proceedings, even after the former…
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The six men and three women who will determine whether Trump raped Carroll inside Bergdorf Goodman in the mid-1990s and defamed her when she came forward decades later have much to consider when they get to the jury room.
Lawyers for E. Jean Carroll and Donald Trump presented more than four hours of closing arguments on Monday.
Donald Trump sexually abused magazine writer E. Jean Carroll in the 1990s and then defamed her by branding her a liar, jurors decided today.
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Jurors on Tuesday will begin deliberating whether Donald Trump raped writer E. Jean Carroll more than two decades ago and then defamed her by claiming she made up the story.
Trump "has an M.O." — targeting women in "semi-public" places and "grabbing" their genitals, Carroll's attorney said in closing arguments. Trump's lawyer said Carroll's story "is a lie."
Mr Trump’s lawyers told jurors the case was ‘outrageous’
If Donald Trump is found liable for committing a sexual assault and assessed heavy damages, it will be a political earthquake.
Trump denies those claims as well. Kaplan did not specify the amount of money jurors should award Carroll in compensatory and punitive damages.
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Former US president Donald Trump argues that claims of rape made against him are ridiculous and made up
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New York court hears closing arguments in civil case in which E Jean Carroll alleges former president raped her nearly 30 years ago
They include the unusual step of keeping jurors anonymous from both the public and lawyers. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Writer E. Jean Carroll said the verdict that found former President Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming her is a win for every woman who “suffered because she was not believed.” “I filed this lawsuit against Donald Trump to clear my name and to get my life back. Today, the world finally knows the truth. This…
Trump's legal team did not call any witnesses during the trial, and Trump himself did not testify in court during the trial.
Trump was accused of sexually assaulting E. Jean Carroll in a department store in 1996
Readers react to the jury’s decision.
The jurors who found that former President Trump sexually abused author E. Jean Carroll in the mid-1990s were advised to remain anonymous “for a long time.” CNN reported that U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan informed the jurors that they could now identify themselves if they wish after they were dismissed, but advised them not to.…
The writer was awarded $5 million total in damages.
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Juror 77, a Bronx native who works in security, remained on the panel despite an attempt by Carroll’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan to have him booted from the trial after he said he got his news from right-wing podcaster Tim Pool.
Jurors in the E. Jean Carroll case against Donald Trump found him liable of sexual abuse -- and not rape -- likely because they expected hard evidence, experts say.
E. Jean Carroll’s lawyers tried to exclude the man, who listened to podcasts by the provocateur Tim Pool. He remained on the jury that found the ex-president liable.
Trump is scheduled for a deposition on May 24 regarding lawsuits filed by former FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page against the Justice Department and...
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Former President Donald Trump is appealing a New York jury’s verdict awarding $5 million to a magazine columnist after the jurors concluded Trump had sexually abused her in the 1990s and defamed her last October.
Former US president Donald Trump is appealing against a New York jury’s verdict awarding five million dollars (£4 million) to a magazine columnist after the jurors concluded he had sexually abused her in the 1990s and defamed her last October.
He made several disparaging comments about Ms Carroll in a televised town hall
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Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday appealed a New York jury's verdict in a civil case that he sexually abused and defamed writer E. Jean Carroll.
As anticipated, former US president Donald Trump is appealing an NYC court's conviction he abused and defamed writer E Jean Carroll.
A federal judge has blocked former President Trump from being questioned under oath as scheduled later this month in lawsuits brought by two former FBI staffers. Former FBI agent Peter Strzok and former FBI attorney Lisa Page filed lawsuits after Strzok was fired and Page resigned from their positions in 2018 following the revelation of…
Donald Trump can never escape this ruling.
Jonathan Freedland and Guardian US columnist Margaret Sullivan discuss how the media should now cover a 2024 presidential candidate who has been impeached twice, indicted by a federal court, and who was this week found to have sexually abused the advice columnist E Jean Carroll
Was the jury able to get to the truth of the matter?
Investigations are mounting, making it harder for the former president to spin his troubles as persecution by liberal elites
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Noelle Dunphy's 75-page suit cites audio recordings and accuses Giuliani, 78, in graphic detail of subjecting her to sexual assault and harassment throughout her employment, forcing her to engage in “violent sex” and attend work video conferences naked and work in short shorts he bought printed with an American flag.
"I think I was a little stunned that he used exactly the same language," lawyer Roberta Kaplan said in a recent interview.
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Author makes a filing in federal court in New York
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E. Jean Carroll says Trump continued to defame her after US$5-million verdict
The day after a jury found former president Donald Trump liable for defaming and sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll, awarding her $5 million in damages, Trump mocked her on air during a CNN town hall. That turned out to be a pretty stupid move, as Carroll has now filed a new defamation suit against Trump that’s asking for a quite a bit more money, per the New York Times.
Attorneys argue Juan Manuel Merchan should recuse himself due to conflict of interest from daughter’s work for leading Democrats
A New York appeals court on Tuesday signaled it was unlikely to grant Donald Trump's request to dismiss state Attorney General Letitia James' civil lawsuit accusing him, his family business and three of his children of a "staggering" fraud. The Appellate Division in Manhattan was considering Trump's appeal from a January lower court ruling allowing James to sue.
The former president has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts in Manhattan and is being investigated in Georgia over attempts to reverse the election results in that state.
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that E. Jean Carroll can file an amendment to her complaint against Donald Trump and request an award of an additional $10 million.
Donald Trump files suit against E. Jean Carroll for defamation for accusing him of rape when a civil jury only found that Trump sexually abused her.
Former President Donald Trump countersued writer E. Jean Carroll on Tuesday, claiming in a court filing that Carroll defamed him on television.
The 77-year-old is involved in a slew of cases - both criminal and civil - as he bids to become president again next year.
Donald Trump lost his bid to have accuser E. Jean Carroll’s open defamation lawsuit tossed out -- with a judge finding he can’t invoke presidential immunity.
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Maura and Patrick Derivan are being sued for €50,000 damages by Co Tipperary accountant Bobby Fitzgerald
A New York judge said Friday that Michael Cohen could subpoena the former president's son.
Donald Trump had previously claimed immunity as president, but the department's change in position removes a legal obstacle for Carroll. Trial is scheduled to begin at the start of the presidential primary season. Trump's spokesperson criticised move ‘as politically weaponiing the justice system.’
The terms of the settlement — which came just days before the case was set to go to trial — were not disclosed.
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Michael Cohen, the onetime personal lawyer and fixer for Donald Trump, has settled his lawsuit accusing the Trump Organization of failing to cover millions of dollars of legal bills he incurred over his work for the former U.S. president.
A judge ruled that the former president cannot claim that E Jean Carroll defamed him.
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Donald Trump’s legal team told a judge overseeing the election conspiracy case against him on Monday that prosecutors’ proposed protective order aimed at preventing the public disclosure of evidence is too broad and would restrict his First Amendment rights.
Former President Trump is increasingly enmeshed in a tangled web of legal troubles, facing state and federal probes across the country. Trump is a party in more than a half-dozen civil lawsuits and faces 78 criminal charges across three cases, ranging from an alleged hush money cover-up to his purported efforts to overturn the 2020…
District Judge Lewis Kaplan denied Donald Trump's fourth attempt to delay a defamation trial in New York.
Carroll, 79, first sued then-president Trump in 2019, and the case has been delayed several times already.
The federal judge in writer E. Jean Carroll's defamation lawsuit against former President Donald Trump has dismissed the latest effort by Trump's attorneys to delay a trial scheduled for January.
Former President Donald Trump has been accused of overstating his net worth by more than $2 billion, according to a court filing Wednesday by the New York attorney general's office.
The estimates came in newly unsealed court filings ahead of an October trial in which Trump and his business empire are accused of fraud.
Two Georgia election workers at the heart of the Fulton County charges win a court victory against Donald Trump's former lawyer. The former president may opt out of an in-person Sept. 6 arraignment, and his mug shot makes an appearance in a rival's campaign ad.
Trump ally, 79, loses judgment after spreading baseless claims and case will now go to trial to determine amount in damages
Trump went on – and on – about his marble bathrooms while being deposed in NY Attorney General Letitia James' fraud lawsuit, a new transcript shows.
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Penalty of €20,000 sought for repeating assertions which were rejected in civil suit over business practices
The request for sanctions came in a civil fraud lawsuit that Attorney General Tish James is pursuing against the Trump business empire.
The New York Attorney General requested sanctions for Trump after he reused rejected arguments in a filing.
A New York state appeals court judge on Thursday temporarily halted the scheduled Oct. 2 trial in New York Attorney General Letitia James' fraud lawsuit against Donald Trump and his family business, a spokesman for the court said.
Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson accused Donald Trump's ex-attorney Rudy Giuliani of groping her on the day of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
New York Attorney General Letitia James has accused Trump and others of systematic fraud and is suing the Trumps and the Trump Organization for $250 million.
Christopher Kise, Trump's lawyer, made the accusation at a hearing in a New York state court, just 10 days before the scheduled Oct. 2 trial. Justice Arthur Engoron is considering arguments by Trump, his sons Donald Jr. and Eric, and the Trump Organization that the case should be thrown out because there was no fraud, no one was harmed, and the claims are too old.
The lawsuit was the latest in a new strategy by Hunter Biden to strike back against Republican allies of Donald Trump.
Donald Trump and his family business were found liable for fraud in New York Attorney General Letitia James' civil lawsuit accusing the former US president of illegally inflating his assets and net worth.
A judge ruled Tuesday that Donald Trump committed fraud for years while building the real estate empire that catapulted him to fame and the White House.
The decision clears the way for Judge Arthur Engoron to preside over a non-jury trial starting Monday in Manhattan in New York Attorney General Letitia James’ civil lawsuit.
Decision clears way for Judge Arthur Engoron to preside over trial in lawsuit brought by New York’s attorney general
Donald Trump faces fresh legal danger today as a civil fraud trial against the former president and two of his sons begins in New York, threatening the Republican frontrunner's business empire as he campaigns to retake the White House with four criminal cases looming.
Donald Trump and his family business are set to face trial in New York today to determine how much they owe in penalties after a judge found they inflated the former US president's assets by billions of dollars to secure more favorable loan and insurance terms.
Donald Trump hit out at a "sham" trial as he stands accused of reaping more than $100m through fraud. He faces a potential $250m fine and could even lose Trump Tower.
The judge in Donald Trump's multi-million-dollar business fraud trial in New York City issued a partial gag order Tuesday, after the former president blasted the judge's law clerk in a post on social media.
A New York judge on Tuesday took the air out of a big statute of limitations win that former President Donald Trump claimed he had scored in the first hours of his civil business fraud trial. Trump’s legal team has argued that the time limit cuts off most of the case.
"I can't wait to see how long the judge puts up with Trump's steady stream of kvetching," says ex-prosecutor.
Former President Donald Trump has complained repeatedly that the civil trial in New York, where he’s accused of business fraud, does not have a jury – and the fate of the case is up to Judge Arthur Engoron.
While speaking to press on Wednesday, Letitia James warned former president Donald Trump that the "Donald Trump show is over."
"I have a thick skin, but it's really being pierced here," Judge Arthur Engoron said
Donald Trump's civil fraud trial will proceed next week after the former U.S. president lost a bid Friday to halt the proceedings while he fights a pretrial ruling that could strip him of Trump Tower and other marquee properties.
NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial will roll ahead next week after he lost a bid Friday to postpone it.
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York appeals judge declined Friday to halt Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial, rebuffing the former president’s request to postpone it while he fights a pretrial ruling that could strip him of control of such assets as Trump Tower
Judge Peter Moulton did not suspend the trial but delayed cancelling Trump’s business licences in New York.
Judge Arthur Engoron says why Donald Trump won’t get a jury trial. And a lawyer for Alex Jones says he will take the Fifth if forced to testify in Georgia.
Testimony in Trump's civil fraud trial in New York revealed a scramble to justify allegedly inflated valuations.
A federal judge said jurors at an upcoming defamation damages trial will be told that the former Trump lawyer intentionally tried to hide financial documents.
Michael Cohen, a key witness against former President Donald Trump, said, "I need to attend to a pre-existing medical condition."
Trump attorneys “engaging in stunts, games, and frivolous tactics in violation of New York State ethics rules"
Between court dates, depositions and gag orders, Donald Trump’s legal problems are defining how he campaigns.
A New York judge asked former President Trump to pipe down after he grew animated while a witness testified against him in his civil fraud trial.
Engoron issued a $5,000 fine against the former president for violating the gag order in Trump's New York business fraud case.
Judge warns of stiffer penalties, possibly including imprisonment, for future violations
Gag orders are used in cases of all kinds to prevent witness intimidation and jury tampering, but the former president is no ordinary defendant.
Donald Trump has been fined $10,000 after the judge overseeing his civil fraud trial found that the former US president violated a gag order in the case for a second time.
"Trump's lawyers were not well prepared for what happened today," says MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin.
A judge ruled Friday that Ivanka Trump must testify in person in Donald Trump's New York civil fraud trial.
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Judge rejects Ivanka Trump’s argument that she no longer lives in New York and has stepped down from her role at the Trump Organization
Donald Trump and his children are taking the stand this and next week at the $250 million civil fraud trial against the Trump family and their company in New York.
Donald Trump Jr. returned to the witness stand on Thursday. Legal analysts say it didn't go well.
Evidence submitted at trial shows that both sons signed statements certifying that they had provided accurate information to Mazars, the outside accounting firm that prepared the financial statements. Judge Arthur Engoron has already ruled that Trump, his two adult sons and the company fraudulently inflated asset values to win favorable financing terms.
D.C. court’s gag pause comes hours after New York judge in civil fraud trial expanded separate gag order
Judge Arthur Engoron issued a new gag order barring attorneys in the case from publicly discussing the judge's communications with members of his staff.
The New York judge overseeing former President Trump’s financial fraud trial on Friday extended a gag order issued in the case to Trump’s attorneys, barring them from making comments about his communications with his staff and saying the comments have spurred threats. Judge Arthur Engoron has already prohibited Trump from making public comments about his…
Engoron on Friday expanded the gag order to cover lawyers as well after a member of Trump's legal team, Christopher Kise, objected to the clerk passing notes to the judge during the trial. The order was issued after Trump's sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump testified this week.
Arthur Engoron forbids Trump’s lawyers from discussing ‘confidential communications’ between him and his staff
N.Y. judge widens Trump case gag order; limits in criminal case lifted
The judge presiding over Donald Trump’s $250 million civil fraud trial on Friday imposed a partial gag order on members of the former president's legal team after he said they made "on the record, repeated, inappropriate remarks" about his principal law clerk.
The trial will determine whether further actions are necessary and what punishment, if any Donald Trump may face
"If he is not careful he may walk himself right into a perjury charge," Glenn Kirschner said about the former president's son.
These lawyers have a nearly impossible task, which they're doing badly.
Former president’s testimony was reminiscent of his rallies – and Judge Engoron was having none of it
Legal analysts say Trump admitted that the intent in financial representations he made was to convince lenders to loan him money.
Trump shared a post on Truth Social calling for "citizen's arrest" of Letitia James, Judge Arthur Engoron.
Trump attorneys' motion for mistrial may have run afoul of the judge's gag order, analysts say.
Lawyers for Donald Trump have asked for a mistrial in the New York civil fraud case that threatens the former president’s real estate empire.
A New York appeals court temporarily blocked a gag order in former President Donald Trump's civil fraud trial that barred him from complaining about the judge's law clerk.
The gag order was first imposed after Trump disparaged the law clerk of the judge overseeing his civil fraud trial.
Judge David Friedman issued a stay of the gag order, in view of the "constitutional and statutory rights at issue."
A New York judge temporarily suspended a gag order barring Donald Trump from commenting on court staff in his $250 million civil business fraud trial.
The judge in Donald Trump 's civil fraud case denied his bid for a mistrial Friday, rejecting claims from the former president's lawyers that the proceedings are infected with political bias.
Justice Arthur Engoron rejected Trump's allegations that he and his law clerk are biased.
Judge Arthur Engoron rejected Trump’s lawyers’ claims that the proceedings are infected with political bias
A New York judge has denied former President Trump’s motion for a mistrial in his civil fraud case, rejecting the claim that the judge and his principal law clerk had “tainted” the trial with bias. Judge Arthur Engoron issued a scathing rebuke of Trump’s mistrial motion Friday afternoon, describing it as “utterly without merit.” He…
The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial said the former president’s motion for a mistrial is “utterly without merit,” denying his effort to be heard on the issue.
For a year, a special New York law has cleared the way for a wave of headline-grabbing lawsuits against famous men accused of sexual misconduct, including former President Donald Trump, hip hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs and the comedian and actor Russell Brand.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court appeared inclined Monday to reimpose at least some restrictions on Donald Trump’s speech in his landmark election subversion case. B ut the judges wrestled with how to craft a gag order that doesn’t infringe on the former president’s free speech rights or prevent him from defending himself on…
In testimony Tuesday, Jeffrey McConney linked Trump directly to the fuzzy math.
The New York State Adult Survivors Act window for victims of sexual abuse is closing on Thanksgiving with the state seeing over 2,600 claims.
The DOJ submitted court filings on Thursday arguing why a gag order must remain in place in the former president's election trial.
Donald Trump's company no longer prepares the sweeping financial statements that New York state contends were full of deceptive numbers for years, an executive testified Monday at the former president's civil fraud trial.
Donald Trump urged a New York appeals court to continue to pause the gag order against him in his civil fraud trial, saying that threats to the judge and his law clerk do not “justify” limiting the former president’s constitutional right to defend himself.
Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday urged New York City Mayor Eric Adams and former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to “fight” a state law that spurred thousands of sexual abuse cases to be filed in the last year — including lawsuits filed against both Democrats in November.
A New York appeals court Thursday reinstated a gag order that barred Donald Trump from commenting about court personnel after the former president repeatedly disparaged a law clerk in his New York civil fraud trial.
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A New York appeals court has reinstated a gag order that barred Donald Trump from commenting about court personnel after he disparaged a law clerk in his New York civil fraud trial.
Trump and his co-defendants agreed to enhanced monitoring after failing to disclose big transfers.
Appeals panel allows trial judge to prohibit former president from publicly criticizing court staff
Former President Donald Trump intends to appeal a ruling that upheld a gag order in his civil fraud trial in New York.
Former President Donald Trump's civil business fraud trial turned Tuesday to one of the topics that has vexed him most -- the value of his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida.
Trump's team did not act quickly enough — and even then "did not get the procedure right," legal analyst says.
"Any competent lawyer on the planet" would warn Trump against testifying, former prosecutor says.
Trump's undefeated in fending off state cases trying to nix him from the 2024 presidential ballot. But that winning streak in court could backfire. For one, there's no guarantee he will be running by next November. In fact, a Washington state district court judge dismissed a lawsuit trying to remove...
One expert witness for Trump's defense said he was paid $877,500 by the Trump Organization and Trump's Save America PAC.
NY AG says Trump's expert witnesses are helping her case against him
Shaye Moss said her life was “flipped upside down” when she became an epicenter of baseless accusations of mass election fraud in Georgia, taking the stand Tuesday as a witness in her defamation case against longtime Trump ally Rudy Giuliani. “I’m just this whole new messed up person,” she said. After the 2020 election, Giuliani…
Donald Trump admitted Tuesday he dodged testifying in own fraud trial because of a gag order banning him from commenting on court staff in his $250 million fraud trial.Trump took to Truth Social Monday to decry both Justice Arthur Engoron — who has said he has received credible death threats during ...
An attorney representing former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani on Tuesday blamed his client's age for his seemingly self-destructive decision to continue lobbing smears against defamed Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss.According to Politico's Kyle Cheney, U.S. District Court Chief Jud...
Trump loses "undue" bid to assert presidential immunity claim in E. Jean Carroll defamation suit
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After 10 weeks, 40 witnesses and bursts of courtroom fireworks, testimony wrapped up Wednesday in former President Donald Trump's civil business fraud trial. But a verdict is at least a month away.
New York appellate court shot down Trump's attempt to get rid of Judge Arthur Engoron's gag order.
Former Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen was back in court on Thursday for his ongoing case U.S. vs. Cohen, in which the ex-fixer argues that his case against former Attorney General Bill Barr, and the Trump government should be able to move forward. Among the issues cited is that Cohen was told by ...
The former president again claimed that the business fraud suit against him is "fake" and politically motivated.
The gag order bars Trump from commenting on the staff of the judge overseeing Trump’s civil fraud trial.
In rejecting the challenge Thursday, the appeals court said Trump didn’t use the proper legal vehicle to challenge the gag order and sanctions.
The gag order was initially paused by a judge on Nov. 16 when Trump appealed, but a panel of judges reinstated it two weeks later
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Donald Trump's civil business fraud trial has offered fresh insight into the former president's finances, his dealings with lenders and his aspiration to be an NFL owner, among other matters.
As the 2024 election approaches, the $148m judgment against a key Trump ally sends a message that falsehoods have consequences
The jury in federal court in Washington found that Giuliani owes the workers, Wandrea "Shaye" Moss and her mother Ruby Freeman, roughly $73 million to compensate them for the reputational and emotional harm they suffered and $75 million to punish the former Trump lawyer and one-time New York mayor for his conduct. "Today's a good day.
Former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani blasted President Joe Biden on his way out of court Friday afternoon after a jury awarded Georgia election workers $148 million in a defamation case over lies that Giuliani spread about them. (Dec. 15)
Donald Trump’s former top campaign lawyer Rudy Giuliani must pay $148 million to two 2020 Georgia election workers after promoting conspiracy theories about them, a federal jury in Washington determined.
Washington DC court awards significant damages to former election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss
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Former lawyer for Donald Trump and New York City mayor found liable for defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress and civil conspiracy
Former Trump lawyer, who has said he is in financial straits, must pay both punitive and compensatory damages to Ruby Freemen and Shaye Moss
A jury ordered Rudy Giuliani to pay $148 million to two former Georgia election workers for baselessly claiming they committed fraud in the 2020 presidential election, delivering a staggering legal and financial blow for the former New York City mayor-turned-Trump attorney. During the four-day civil trial, the eight Washington, D.C., residents heard harrowing testimony from the…
Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, from Atlanta, received threats after Trump ally falsely accused them of trying to steal 2020 election
Donald Trump's civil business fraud trial has offered fresh insight into the former president's finances, his dealings with lenders and his aspiration to be an NFL owner, among other matters.
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) - An expert witness paid nearly $1 million by Donald Trump to testify at his New York civil fraud trial "lost all credibility" by "doggedly" justifying the former U.S. president's business records, the judge overseeing the case said on Monday. Eli Bartov, a New York U...
Former President Donald Trump's ally Rudy Giuliani faces a $148 million judgment for pushing lies and conspiracy theories about Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss after their lives and reputations were completely derailed by threats and harassment.But Giuliani could be just the beg...
Eli Bartov, a New York University accounting professor, was paid nearly $1 million by Donald Trump to testify at his New York civil fraud trial
Lawyers for former President Donald Trump say he may testify at a mid-January civil trial set to decide how much he owes a columnist for defaming her after she said he sexually abused her three decades ago in a Manhattan luxury department store.
Donald Trump is facing a $250 million penalty and a ban on doing business in New York when a judge renders his verdict later in January.
A federal judge blasted former President Donald Trump for an "utterly frivolous" motion in E. Jean Carroll's defamation case against him.U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled against Trump's motion to exclude a deposition he gave after Carroll said he raped her. Trump has claimed that Carroll...
New York state lawyers increased their request for penalties to over $370 million Friday in Donald Trump's civil business fraud trial. He retorted: “They should pay me.”
New York state lawyers are increasing their request for penalties to $370 million in former President Donald Trump’s civil business fraud trial.
The Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals rejects a request by lawyers for former President Donald Trump for the full court to review whether federal immunity protects him from being sued for defamation by columnist E. Jean Carroll.
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Former President Donald Trump aims to deliver his own closing argument Thursday in his New York civil business fraud trial in addition to his legal team’s summations, according to two people familiar with the highly unusual plan.
A damages trial for E. Jean Carroll's first defamation lawsuit against Trump is set to begin next week.
Donald Trump's grievance "grift" to flush funds into his campaign coffers has already begun its whimpering end, legal experts said on MSNBC Wednesday night. Lisa Rubin took to the airwaves to discuss an email exchange between Trump's attorney Chris Kise and Justice Arthur Engoron, the civil court ...
Donald Trump on Wednesday lashed out on his Truth Social platform against New York state Justice Arthur Engoron, who purportedly refused the former president's attorneys' request for a fourth extended deadline to accept the terms under which Trump would give closing statements at his own civil fraud...
"He may not deliver a campaign speech," the judge wrote after Trump asked to personally give closing arguments in his civil fraud trial.
Kevin O'Leary defends Trump in the Letitia James case, pointing to widespread real estate practices.
Former U.S. president Donald Trump was ordered Friday to pay nearly $400,000 in legal fees to The New York Times and three investigative reporters after he sued them unsuccessfully over a Pulitzer Prize-winning story about his family's wealth and tax practices.
New York Judge Robert Reed said that given the ‘complexity of the issues’ in the case and other factors, it was reasonable that Trump be forced to pay lawyers for the Times
Former President Donald Trump was ordered Friday to pay nearly $400,000 in legal fees to The New York Times and three investigative reporters.
Trump had filed a complaint against the newspaper, accusing three journalists of engaging in an “insidious plot” to obtain his tax documents.
Former President Donald Trump was ordered Friday to pay nearly $400,000 in legal fees to The New York Times and three investigative reporters after he sued them unsuccessfully over a Pulitzer Prize-winning 2018 story about his family's wealth and tax practices.
Letter accuses ex-president of intending to ‘sow chaos’ next week, while Trump ordered to pay New York Times nearly $400,000
Michael Cohen brushed off recent attacks from his former boss Friday. “He’s a felon, convicted felon and not a good person,” former President Trump said of Cohen after closing arguments in his civil fraud trial in New York. Cohen asked if there was a “reason” to “respond” to Trump in an interview on CNN. “He…
Trump and his lawyers have repeatedly alleged co-ordination between the Biden White House and the prosecutors who have brought criminal cases against him
A New York judge ruled Friday that former President Trump owes The New York Times nearly $400,000 in legal fees over his lawsuit targeting the paper that the same judge tossed last year. New York Supreme Court Justice Robert Reed said in an order released Friday that the former president has to pay the Times…
Judge Lewis A. Kaplan issued a one-page order saying Trump could testify on Jan. 22
As writer E. Jean Carroll's civil defamation trial against former President Donald Trump continued in the courtroom on Wednesday, Judge Lewis Kaplan warned Trump attorney Alina Habba off her attempted line of questioning about Carroll's firearm ownership, reported Inner City Press' Matthew Russell L...
Like an angry child the ex-president could not contain himself as he listened from feet away to the columnist’s testimony
Writer E Jean Carroll was giving evidence in in a Manhattan federal court trial.
Donald Trump’s right to be at his defamation trial “can be forfeited,” the judge warned. Writer E. Jean Carroll is seeking $US10 million in damages at the trial.
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan's threat came after a lawyer for Carroll said Trump was talking loudly with his lawyers during Carroll's testimony. Carroll, 80, who wrote an advice column for Elle magazine for 27 years, has said Trump destroyed her reputation and should pay millions of dollars in damages for denying in 2019 that he had raped her nearly a quarter of a century earlier.
Northwestern University marketing professor Ashlee Humphreys testifies that it would cost between $7.2 and $12.1 million to rectify the damage to columnist E. Jean Carroll’s reputation caused by former President Donald Trump’s persistent attacks on her character.
Conservative columnist Charlie Sykes isn't a lawyer, he told MSNBC on Thursday, but even he can see that the Donald Trump strategy in court isn't working. While Trump wasn't on hand in the E. Jean Carroll damages trial on Thursday, his presence was, according to legal analyst Lisa Rubin.The witnes...
Habba's performance on Day 3 of the E. Jean Carroll defamation trial got off to a brutal start.
Carroll, 80, acknowledged at her civil damages trial that she has received more attention from media outlets and celebrities since publicizing her rape claim in June 2019 - but said she has also been widely disparaged. "My status is lowered," Carroll said under cross-examination by Trump's lawyer Alina Habba in federal court in Manhattan.
Former President Donald Trump's attorney Alina Habba got into a fight with New York Judge Lewis Kaplan when he refused to grant the former president a continuance in the E. Jean Carroll trial to attend the funeral of his mother-in-law, saying, "My client and I would like to reiterate that [Carroll] ...
Video has emerged of the former president's explosive deposition, in which he goes from calm to fuming, labelling the NY civil suit "a terrible thing"
Isabelle Brourman has used a unique art style to capture the courtroom drama of Donald Trump's civil fraud case in New York.
Ms Carroll, 80, is seeking more than $10m (£7.87m) in damages after she claimed Trump ruined her reputation when she accused him in a memoir of sexually abusing her in a department store dressing room.
Former President Donald Trump was on and off the witness stand at a jury trial Thursday in less than 3 minutes but not before breaking a judge’s rules on what he could say by claiming that a writer’s sexual assault allegations were a “false accusation.” (Jan 25) (AP video by Ted Shaffrey)
Carroll is seeking over $10 million in damages from Trump.
Two days after dominating the New Hampshire GOP’s presidential primary, all but assuring himself a third straight nomination and rematch with President Joe Biden, Donald Trump returned to a Manhattan federal courthouse.
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Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro sentenced to four months for contempt of Congress
After Judge Lewis Kaplan denied Donald Trump lawyer Alina Habba's request to have writer E. Jean Carroll's defamation case against him dismissed Thursday, former U.S. Rep. David Jolly (R-FL) insisted that the MAGA hopeful "miscalculated" the potential impact the trial could have on his 2024 campaign...
The former president was on and off the witness stand in less than 3 minutes but not before breaking rules set in advance by the judge.
NEW YORK (AP) — A jury awarded $83.3 million to E.
Former president calls verdict ‘absolutely ridiculous’ and accuses Biden of directing ‘witch-hunt’ against him and Republicans
The final remarks from the lawyers come a day after Trump managed to sneak past a federal judge’s rules severely limiting what he could say during his turn on the witness stand, which wound up lasting just 3 minutes. He left fuming that he hadn’t been given an opportunity to refute Carroll’s sexual abuse accusations.
Donald Trump has been ordered to pay $83.3m in a defamation case to a woman who accused him of sexual assault - with the former US president saying her allegation was a lie.
Ex-president vows to appeal against ruling, which comes less than a year after Carroll won $5m in sexual abuse and defamation trial
A 1980s essay collection by E. Jean Carroll is fetching big bucks after former President Donald Trump's attorney questioned its title in defamation case.
DONALD Trump has been ordered to pay E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million for defamatory statements he made against the advice columnist.Trump was in court i
NEW YORK (AP) — A jury has awarded an additional $83.3 million to former advice columnist E. Jean Carroll, who says former President Donald Trump damaged her reputation by calling her a liar after she accused him of sexual assault.
A federal jury ordered the former president to pay the sum for defaming E. Jean Carroll.
A jury has awarded an additional $83.3 million to former advice columnist E. Jean Carroll, who says former President Donald Trump damaged her reputation by calling her a liar after she accused him of sexual assault.
The verdict has been delivered in the defamation suit against former President Donald Trump. The jury ordered him to pay as much as $88million to columnist E Jean Carroll, who also accused him of raping her
Trump has repeatedly disparaged Carroll after she accused him of raping her.
Donald Trump must pay $83.3 million to writer E. Jean Carroll for defaming her when he was president and to stop him from continuing to ruin her reputation, a jury said.
The writer sued the ex-president for defamation after separate sexual assault and defamation trial in which she won $5m
The judgment for E. Jean Carroll, and another potentially much larger one on the horizon, could compel the former president to sell some of his assets.
New York state Judge Arthur Engoron is poised to possibly rule as soon as Wednesday on how much Trump and co-defendants have to pay in a civil fraud case and if the ex-president can continue doing business in New York.
Roberta Kaplan says ex-president directed ‘See you next Tuesday’ remark at her after deposition in unrelated case at Mar-a-Lago
Attorney Roberta Kaplan, who most recently represented E. Jean Carroll against Donald Trump, recounted he got angry during a deposition.
A Postal Service worker admitted in the settlement that he only heard "a fragment" of a conversation between a supervisor and a postmaster, who later filed a lawsuit.
“Weisselberg’s lies could be used to completely toss out everything he said in defense of the company": report
Judge asks lawyers for details of potential agreement between ex-Trump executive and district attorney
Project Veritas and conservative activist James O’Keefe have settled a lawsuit in Pennsylvania over false claims about voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election that were initially made by a postal worker who backed former President Trump. A lawyer who represented Erie postmaster, Robert Weisenbach, who filed the lawsuit, confirmed to NBC News that it…
The judge in former President Donald Trump's civil fraud trial indicated he's weighing how a potential perjury charge might factor into his final ruling.
A federal judge ordered Donald Trump to pay $83.3 million to E Jean Carroll endorsing the jury’s verdict in the defamation trial last month.
The judge in the E. Jean Carroll defamation case has taken a step that puts former President Donald Trump on a timer to post bond for the damages, reported MSNBC legal commentator Lisa Rubin on Thursday.Carroll sued former President Donald Trump after he called her allegation he raped her in a Manha...
As he closes in on the Republican presidential nomination, former President Donald Trump made a highly unusual stop.
Donald Trump's New York real estate empire could be sold off as he faces down a 30-day deadline to pay a $355 million civil fraud ruling from a Manhattan judge.
On the witness stand last year, Donald Trump proclaimed: “I have a lot of cash.”.
“They’re gonna have to start liquidating assets,” Cohen said in an interview on MSNBC’s “Velshi” with anchor Ali Velshi, calling the legal fees that Trump owes in various lawsuits an “enormous amount of money he does not have.”
Former President Donald Trump on Saturday launched a sneaker line, a day after he and his companies were ordered by a judge to pay nearly $355 million in his New York civil fraud trial.
New York Judge Engoron fined Trump $355 million on Friday after the former president was found liable of business fraud.
Donald Trump's loyal fans have stood by him through thick and thin, but this latest legal judgment may spell the beginning of the end to that, according to a Republican pollster. Republican strategist Frank Luntz, who previously confronted an election denier, appeared Saturday on CNN Newsroom Wi...
A New York judge on Friday spared the ex-president that worst case punishment as he ruled in a civil case alleging Trump fraudulently misrepresented financial...
Trump lawyer Alina Habba, who recently represented the ex-president in the fraud case in which he was ultimately ordered to pay hundreds of millions of dollars, has an ongoing obsession with prosecutor Letitia James drinking Starbucks in court.Habba raised the issue during the trial before Justice E...
As Trump world scrambles to find a way to pay a massive civil fraud judgment, his fans have turned to online fundraising in a bid to pitch in.
CHICAGO — A Cook County judge said Friday she will decide late next week the fate of a legal challenge seeking to strike former President Donald Trump’s name from Illinois’ March 19 Republican primary ballot. Judge Tracie Porter announced her plans after a near four-hour Daley Center hearing that fe...
Donald Trump has been ordered to pay nearly $355 million US in penalties for fraudulently overstating his net worth, a New York judge ruled on Friday. But does the former U.S. president have enough money to pay it off?
White powder was found Wednesday in an envelope addressed to the New York judge who ordered Donald Trump to pay a $454 million civil fraud judgment.
The former president said he would be forced to sell parts of his real estate empire to cover the hefty penalty issued by a New York judge earlier this month.
Lawsuit against CBS backed by former Trump adviser claims Seal Team writer was denied advancement due to network’s DEI policy
Former President Donald Trump is demanding that he be given a do-over trial in the E. Jean Carroll defamation case.According to CNN's Kara Scannell, "Trump argued that Judge Lewis Kaplan wrongly prohibited him from defending himself during his brief testimony and that warrants a new trial." In court...
Donald Trump’s attorneys on Tuesday filed a motion for a new trial in writer E. Jean Carroll's defamation case and asked a judge overseeing the case to cancel the judgment of $83 million dollars against the former president.
Former President Trump's legal team asked Judge Lewis Kaplan to grant him a new trial in his civil defamation case.
In a longshot bid, former President Donald Trump is asking the judge overseeing E. Jean Carroll’s defamation case against him to significantly reduce the $83.3 million jury award or grant a new trial.
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Trump lawyers ask Manhattan judge to approve the bond, which would mean he would not yet have to pay damages to Carroll
Former President Donald Trump deposited a bond of more than $91 million on Friday to appeal the $83 million judgment against him in the case brought by E. Jean Carroll.
Donald Trump posted bond Friday, starting his appeal against the verdict in the E. Jean Carroll defamation trial.
A federal judge has approved the $92 million bond put up by former President Donald Trump to ensure that writer E.
VERIFY fact-checks if a Russian company backed Trump’s bond in the E. Jean Carroll case and whether Trump nominated CEO Evan Greenberg for a committee.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's comments about RICO not being a "crime" have sparked questions over Donald Trump's Georgia RICO charges.
Trump May Let James Seize Trump Tower Rather Than Pay $454M: Report - New York City, NY - Donald Trump says it's impossible to pay a $454 million bond by Monday to appeal his civil fraud judgment. Prosecutors don't believe him.
Potential move could coincide with ex-president’s Monday deadline to find $454m bond needed to cover civil fraud judgment
The New York attorney general's office fought back against Trump's attempt to avoid posting a bond in a judgment against him.
The New York Attorney General's Office doubts that Donald Trump is "truly unable" to come up with $454 million bond in his civil fraud case.
A key deadline for the $464 million civil fraud judgment against Donald Trump and his co-defendants is fast approaching, and it appears it's one he might not be able to meet.
Trump “increasingly concerned about the optics" Monday's fraud bond deadline will create, CNN reports.
For days, Donald Trump’s fury over the requirement to secure hundreds of millions of dollars in bond money by Monday has been bubbling behind the scenes and through a steady stream of social media posts.
Giuliani, one-time New York mayor and Donald Trump's former lawyer, gave his take on the former president's legal woes.
“Shark Tank” host and investor Kevin O’Leary slammed New York Attorney General Letitia James’ (D) attempts to seize assets from former President Trump in relation to his recent civil fraud trial Friday. “Property rights are mentioned 37 times in the Constitution. Due process — very important. Why steal someone’s assets in 27 days? Why not…
The bond Mr Trump is posting with the court now is essentially a placeholder.
Embattled former US president Donald Trump has posted a $175 million bond in his New York civil fraud case, a court document showed, avoiding asset seizures while his case winds through the appeals process.
The businessman behind the company who posted Trump's $175 million civil fraud bond said that his group charged the former president a low fee.
New York Attorney General Letitia James has called Donald Trump's $175 million bond posting into question, despite a corrected submission.
Saturday afternoon, just hours before he is set to host a gala fundraiser at his Mar-a-Lago resort, Donald Trump lashed out at three New York judges in a three-part furious rant about how he has been treated by the legal system.Along the way, he he also attacked New York writer E. Jean Carroll who s...
Attorney General Letitia James' office filed paperwork demanding that former President Donald Trump prove within 10 days that they can make good on a $175 million bond, gumming up the appeals process.
Donald Trump's lawyers may have made misrepresentations to the court regarding the former president's bond in his civil fraud case, and legal experts are looking out for what comes next.ProPublica reported on Friday that Trump's attorneys "had told the appellate court it was a 'practical impossibili...
Donald Trump lost a bid Thursday to pause a string of lawsuits accusing him of inciting the U.S. Capitol attack, while the former president fights his 2020 election interference criminal case in Washington.
A judge rejected Trump's request to pause a handful of lawsuits against him over his actions related to the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Donald Trump is aggressive in court, but he tends to back down once you hit him back, according to the former president's biographer, who beat a $5 billion lawsuit over financial allegations.Tim O'Brien, who spent massive amounts of time with Trump before writing TrumpNation: The Art of Being the ...
Donald Trump has already lost two defamation suits brought against him by magazine writer E. Jean Carroll, and he may be in for a third one after his Memorial Day attack on the woman who he was found to have sexually assaulted. Trump on Monday posted a lengthy attack labeled as a Memorial Day po...
The 12 Trump trial jurors are conducting a meticulous exploration of the evidence and considering carefully how to apply the law, and their requests are proof of that, writes Norm Eisen.
The first day of jury deliberations in former President Donald Trump's "hush money" trial ended without a verdict as jurors asked to review several portions of testimony.
The jury appears to be homing in on the "conspiracy" elements of the Manhattan criminal hush money case, said former federal prosecutor David Kelley on MSNBC Wednesday — and that's a disturbing sign for former President Donald Trump.This comes after the jury asked Judge Juan Merchan for a refresher ...
Trump was ranting about standard New York courtroom procedure, which his legal team failed to educate him about.
The jury deliberated for about nine-and-a-half hours in total: about four-and-a-half hours on Wednesday and five hours on Thursday.
Jurors have asked the judge overseeing Donald Trump's hush money trial to review testimony from prominent witnesses, to help them reach a verdict in the first criminal trial of a former US president.
The 12-person jury deliberated for about four-and-a-half hours on Wednesday without reaching a verdict on the charges against Donald Trump.
A jury has convicted Donald Trump of falsifying business records to conceal hush money paid to adult film actress Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election.
The jury in former President Trump’s New York trial completed its first day of deliberations on Wednesday without reaching a verdict. Several days of indecision will raise questions about a hung jury, and a declaration of a mistrial.
The 12-person jury has requested to re-hear testimony.
The jury is now deliberating in former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money case in Manhattan, where the former president is charged with felony business fraud for allegedly concealing payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels, a matter Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is arguing was...
The former president once again repeated his claim the trial is "rigged" and posted on social media as the 12-person jury began their decision-making.
A federal judge is on the defense by a Donald Trump ally for publishing a New York Times Op-Ed rebuking Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and saying the upside-down American flag and "Appeal to Heaven" flag placements erode trust.Mike Davis, the founder of the Article III Project, a collective that...
Judge Juan Merchan presented the jury with instructions Wednesday morning before they headed into deliberations for the rest of the day in former President Trump's New York criminal trial. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg charged Trump with 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. Trump has pleaded not guilty to all counts.
Former President Donald Trump's legal team is demanding that Judge Arthur Engoron recuse himself from Trump's civil fraud case.
Donald Trump does not have presidential immunity for covering up a payoff to a porn star from the Oval Office – and his hush money conviction should stand, Manhattan prosecutors argued Thursday.
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Donald Trump has failed for a third time to force out the judge who is due to sentence him for covering up hush money payments.
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If the case is moved to federal court, Mr Trump’s lawyers said they will then seek to have the verdict overturned and the case dismissed.
The ruling leaves Trump’s case in state court, where he is scheduled to be sentenced on September 18.
Ruling leaves former US president’s case in state court, where he is scheduled to be sentenced on September 18th
A federal judge rejected an effort by Trump to remove his criminal hush money case to the federal courts citing Supreme Court immunity ruling.
Alvin Hellerstein ruled ex-president didn’t have burden of proof in latest attempt to overturn his felony conviction
Three judges of the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals are scheduled to hear arguments on Friday in the appeal.
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NBC, which is facing a defamation lawsuit from Sean “Diddy” Combs, removed an episode of “Dateline” about the Diddy trial. The post Why Did NBC Delete Its “Dateline” Episode on Diddy? appeared first on The Intercept.
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