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say it isn't so... asking for a summery judgement in his fraud case... for the big ticket items... hahahahaha
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-fraud-case-new-york-attorney-general-says-mountain-of-evidence-justifies-summary-judgment/ar-AA1g0ph5?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=ab7f9167c99f4c11ee01ea539b91eedd&ei=19
Trump fraud case: New York attorney general says 'mountain' of evidence justifies summary judgment
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New York's attorney general asked a judge for a partial summary judgment against Donald Trump in her $250 million lawsuit accusing the former president of widespread fraud.
AG Letitia James cited what she called a "mountain of undisputed evidence" of false and misleading financial statements over the court of a decade.
James' request comes two months before the trial is set to begin in the civil suit against the former president, the Trump Organization, and his sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, at New York Supreme Court in Manhattan.
New York's attorney general asked a judge Wednesday for a partial summary judgment against Donald Trump in her $250 million lawsuit accusing the former president of widespread fraud, citing what she called a "mountain of undisputed evidence" of false and misleading financial statements.
AG Letitia James, in a court filing, said evidence shows that if Trump's net worth was correctly calculated, it would be between 17% and 39% lower than what he claimed each year over the course of a decade, "which translates to the enormous sum of $1 billion or more in all but one year."
The allegedly false statements included years when Trump was in the White House, according to the filing.
James' filing comes two months before the trial is set to begin in the civil suit against the former president, the Trump Organization, and his sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, at New York Supreme Court in Manhattan.
James is suing the Trumps for allegedly defrauding banks, insurance companies and others with the use of false financial statements.
That trial would still take place to address other claims, even if Judge Arthur Engoron grants James' request for partial summary judgment and finds Trump and other defendants committed fraud under New York business law.
James, in her motion, says Engoron has to answer just "two simple and straightforward questions" to make that finding.
One question is whether Trump's annual statements of his financial condition were "false or misleading," the attorney general wrote.
The other question, she wrote, is whether Trump and his co-defendants repeatedly used the financial statements to conduct business transactions.
"The answer to both questions is a resounding 'yes' based on the mountain of undisputed evidence cited" in the documentation submitted by James' office, the motion said.
"Based on the undisputed evidence, no trial is required for the Court to determine that Defendants presented grossly and materially inflated asset values in the SFCs [financial statements] and then used those SFCs repeatedly in business transactions to defraud banks and insurers," James wrote.
"Notwithstanding Defendants' horde of 13 experts, at the end of the day this is a documents case, and the documents leave no shred of doubt that Mr. Trump's SFCs do not even remotely reflect the 'estimated current value' of his assets as they would trade between well-informed market participants," the motion said.
CNBC has requested comment from a lawyer for Trump. |
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again what the F did this guy do for Trump and the Russians to be paid this much money. this cover is bs. Make him talk or put him in isolation till he does.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/disgraced-former-fbi-agent-charles-mcgonigal-pleads-guilty-to-working-with-a-sanctioned-russian-oligarch/ar-AA1fjboY?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=c4328dc4586240e8932ac744d1eb2405&ei=21
Disgraced former FBI agent Charles McGonigal pleads guilty to working with a sanctioned Russian oligarch
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Charles McGonigal pleaded guilty on Tuesday to working with a sanctioned Russian oligarch.
The former FBI agent was once a top counterintelligence chief.
He admitted to money laundering and violating sanctions.
Charles McGonigal, the FBI's former chief New York City spyhunter, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to working with a sanctioned Russian oligarch.
McGonigal pleaded guilty to one count of money laundering and conspiracy to violate sanctions.
His plea marks what could be the beginning of the end of one of the most embarrassing scandals in FBI history. Sources from within the government have repeatedly denied that McGonigal engaged in any espionage, a crime he was never charged with. But the fact that McGonigal broke the law to do any work for the Russian industrial magnate Oleg Deripaska is itself hugely embarrassing, given Deripaska's closeness to Russian President Vladimir Putin, and the many US secrets that McGonigal was charged with keeping.
McGonigal's co-defendant, Sergey Shestakov, a former Russian diplomat who later became a US citizen and worked as an interpreter in the federal courts, was not present at the Tuesday hearing. Shestakov has pleaded not guilty to the same five counts that McGonigal was initially charged with. His attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Ex-FBI Counterintelligence Official Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy Charge for Helping Russian Oligarch
McGonigal faced two indictments — one in New York and one in Washington DC — in January of this year after a secret grand jury investigation into the counterintelligence chief, and specifically, his relationship with a representative of Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch.
Insider previously reported that federal prosecutors charged McGonigal with money laundering and making false statements in his mandatory employee disclosures to the FBI. He was also charged with taking money from a representative of Deripaska, which violated US economic sanctions against Russia.
In court, McGonigal read from a handwritten statement. He admitted that he took money to collect information about Vladimir Potanin, a business competitor of Deripaska's, in order to get him sanctioned.
"I never intended to hurt the US, the FBI, my family and friends," he said in court, choking up as he thanked the FBI and prosecutors who he had once worked alongside. He said he was "deeply remorseful" for his actions. He described how he had knowingly routed payments from a Russian Gazprombank account associated with Deripaska through Cyprus to a New Jersey corporation. His purpose, he said, was to conceal the source of the payment which he knew to be in violation of US sanctions.
Prosecutors filed a document today describing the specifics of the crime that McGonigal plead guilty to. In court, they described some of the evidence that would have come to light had McGonigal's case proceeded to trial. It included, they said, electronic messages showing that McGonigal and Shestakov stood to gain as much as $3 million if they succeeded in obtaining records showing Potanin's hidden assets. They also said they had evidence of a meeting that the two men held in Manhattan with an agent of Deripaska's, a man who has been named in earlier court proceedings as Yevgeny Fokin.
On Tuesday, Judge Jennifer Rearden pointed out that McGonigal is also being prosecuted for a separate charge in Washington DC in which he is accused of soliciting a $500,000 bribe to help set up a meeting between the US and the UN. Rearden said McGonigal's sentences could be consecutive.
Outside of the courtroom, McGonigal's attorney, Seth DuCharme, said, "He's had a black cloud hanging over him for a long time. Now, hopefully, the clouds are starting to part a little bit."
When asked whether McGonigal's plea agreement required that he cooperate with the government, DuCharme simply replied "the agreement is the agreement."
McGonigal will be sentenced on December 14. |
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Peter Navarro, an adviser to Donald Trump, was convicted of contempt of Congress over his defiance of a subpoena from the House Jan. 6 panel.
Thursday, September 7, 2023 4:16 PM ET
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The verdict made Mr. Navarro the second top adviser to former President Trump to be found guilty of contempt for defying the Jan. 6 committee’s investigation. |
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yep with the criminal supreme court he knows he can get off anything.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-claims-he-can-do-whatever-he-wants-constitute-virtual-confessions-legal-experts/ar-AA1gqnPV?cvid=e4b2debab11649d3caa0d819d5df0c07&ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&ei=72
Trump's claims he can do "whatever" he wants "constitute virtual confessions": legal experts
| Quote: | Former President Donald Trump's recent comments claiming that he has the authority to do "whatever" he wants with classified documents because the Presidential Records Act protects him are "totally inane and upside-down," and can be used against him court, legal experts warn.
Trump justified his handling of classified documents in an interview Wednesday with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, misrepresenting the Presidential Records Act and claiming that it protected him from doing whatever he pleases.
"I don't talk about anything," Trump said. "You know why? Because I'm allowed to do whatever I want. I come under the Presidential Records Act… I'm not telling you. You know, every time I talk to you, 'Oh, I have a breaking story.' You don't have any story. I come under the Presidential Records Act. I'm allowed to do everything I did."
But Trump's claims that his retention of dozens of classified documents after leaving the White House were covered under the Presidential Records Act "is a mischaracterization of that authority," Javed Ali, former senior counterterrorism official at the Department of Homeland Security, told Salon. |
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/explosive-e-mail-reveals-oan-may-have-engaged-in-criminal-activities-with-smartmatic-data/ar-BB1hrokP?cvid=f783e04382694755846f47b394b1599f&ocid=winp2fptaskbar&ei=12&sc=shoreline
'Explosive e-mail' reveals OAN 'may have engaged in criminal activities' with Smartmatic data
[quote]Fox News, Newsmax and One America News (OAN) have all faced civil defamation lawsuits from Dominion Voting Systems after promoting the false claim that Dominion's voting equipment was used to help now-President Joe Biden steal the 2020 election from then-President Donald Trump. And Fox News, after agreeing to a $787.5 million settlement with Dominion in 2023, is still up against a $2.7 billion civil defamation lawsuit from Dominion competitor Smartmatic.
"Civil" is the operative word in those lawsuits, none of which involve criminal charges.
But according to CNN's Marshall Cohen, lawyers for Smartmatic are alleging that OAN "may have engaged in criminal activities" following the 2020 election.
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"In the wake of the 2020 election," Cohen explains, "the president of the far-right network One America News sent a potentially explosive e-mail to former Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell, with a spreadsheet claiming to contain passwords of employees from the voting technology company Smartmatic, according to court filings. The existence of the spreadsheet was recently disclosed by Smartmatic, which is suing OAN for defamation."
Cohen continues, "CNN pieced together who was involved in the e-mail exchanges by examining court records from three separate cases stemming from the 2020 election. Lawyers from Smartmatic told a federal judge that the e-mail, and the attached spreadsheet, suggest OAN executives 'may have engaged in criminal activities' because they 'appear to have violated state and federal laws regarding data privacy."
According to Cohen, court records "don't say how OAN obtained the spreadsheet, or whether the supposed Smartmatic passwords were authentic."
Cohen reports, "Nobody from OAN has been charged with any crimes.… According to court filings, the supposed passwords were shared around the same time that Powell, her associates and other Trump supporters were trying to improperly access voting systems across the country, to prove their false claims of voter fraud. The January 8, 2021, e-mail exchange between OAN President Charles Herring and Powell has recently emerged as a flashpoint in Smartmatic's defamation lawsuit against the pro-Trump network."
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the second link a good cliff notes version...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-fraud-trial-judge-says-there-s-no-mistake-the-former-president-s-mar-a-lago-price-tag-was-fraudulent/ar-BB1ip7pR?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=2aeab1726fb14778aeb013fd52165f53&ei=4
Trump fraud trial judge says there's 'no mistake' the former president's Mar-a-Lago price-tag was 'fraudulent'
| Quote: | In his single largest net-worth whopper, Trump told a bank in 2018 that Mar-a-Lago was worth $739M.
He told the tax man it was worth a fraction of that and now claims it's worth north of $1 billion.
Trump's civil-fraud-trial judge called Trump's Mar-a-Lago valuation "fraudulent" in Friday's verdict. |
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/trump-trial-judge-slams-see-no-evil-hear-no-evil-testimony/ar-BB1ir9bC?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=d5a2a1f78b1a4c04b0cb47e712b82d91&ei=58
Trump Trial Judge Slams ‘See No Evil, Hear No Evil’ Testimony
| Quote: | (Bloomberg) -- The judge who hit Donald Trump and his real estate company with fines expected to exceed $450 million in New York state’s civil fraud trial against the former president made clear in his decision that he doubted testimony of key witnesses, including the billionaire and three of his children.
Justice Arthur Engoron, who oversaw a nearly 11-week trial, wrote in his Friday verdict that he’d weighed the “expressions, demeanor, and body language” of witnesses as they testified a few feet away, as well as “simple touchstones of self-interest and other motives, common sense, and overall veracity.”
In the end, Engoron found Trump, his sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump were liable for submitting “blatantly false financial data” year after year to get better terms on loans, as alleged by New York Attorney General Letitia James. The judge, who sometimes asked the Trumps direct questions on the stand, described them in his verdict as having a lack of remorse that “borders on pathological.”
“Instead, they adopt a ‘See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil’ posture that the evidence belies,” Engoron wrote.
Donald Trump
The former president and lead defendant in the case was the star witness, but his meandering and combative testimony went off the rails and almost resulted in his removal from the courtroom. Trump “equivocated” at times and didn’t recall conversations about seemingly crucial asset valuations, the judge said.
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Engoron wrote that when Trump was confronted on the stand with the 2002 deed in which he permanently gave up the right to use or develop his Mar-a-Lago estate “as anything other than as a social club” in exchange for a tax benefit, the former president said: “when you say, ‘intend,’ intend doesn’t mean we will do it.”
Despite being confronted with evidence that Mar-a-Lago is worth hundreds of millions of dollars less than he claims, Trump testified that he believed Mar-a-Lago is worth “between a billion and a billion five” today.
Engoron said in his verdict that such a figure “would require not only valuing it as a private residence, which the deed prohibits, but as more than the most expensive private residence listed in the country by approximately 400%.”
Trump was similarly asked on the stand if he’d been misquoted in a 2015 Forbes article in which he said his 40 Wall Street tower in Manhattan was 72 stories tall instead of the actual 63, resulting in a $50 million over-valuation.
“I don’t know,” Trump testified. “I don’t know what I said.”
Donald Trump Jr.
Trump’s eldest son testified that as trustee he certified that he was responsible for his father’s annual statements of financial condition — the documents at the center of the case — and ensuring they were prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, often shortened to GAAP, in the US, the judge said.
The verdict included a play by play of every time Donald Trump Jr. testified he didn’t know about GAAP while agreeing that he verified the rules had been met. And he knew the statements were critical documents for lenders, the judge said.
“He did this every year from 2017 to 2021 despite having no knowledge of the requirements of GAAP, never having been employed in a position that required him to apply GAAP, and never having received any training,” Engoron wrote.
Engoron noted that Trump’s eldest son repeatedly said he relied on others to ensure the accuracy of the documents, but couldn’t remember who. The judge said he mistakenly testified that Mark Hawthorn became CFO of his father’s company after Allen Weisselberg left.
“However, the CFO position has remained unfilled since Allen Weisselberg departed the Trump Organization,” Engoron wrote.
Eric Trump
Engoron said in his verdict that Trump’s other adult son, Eric Trump, had “severely damaged” his credibility on the stand when he “repeatedly denied knowing that his father ever even compiled” annual statements of financial condition “that valued his assets and showed his net worth” until the lawsuit was filed.
“Upon being confronted with copious documentary evidence conclusively demonstrating otherwise, he finally conceded that, at least as early as August 20, 2013, he knew about his father’s SFCs,” the judge wrote, with Eric Trump “begrudgingly acknowledging” the fact on the stand.
“It appears that way, yes,” Eric Trump said.
The judge also criticized Eric Trump’s testimony that he had “very limited involvement” in the appraisal work on one of his favorite properties, the Seven Springs estate near New York City. That testimony “was shown to be false when he was confronted with the ample contemporaneous documentary evidence demonstrating otherwise,” the judge wrote.
A key witness and defendant, former comptroller Jeffrey McConney, provided spreadsheets showing he relied on Eric Trump when valuing Seven Springs on his father’s statement of financial condition — including for years when the property was inflated to include the value of mansions that didn’t exist, according to the verdict. That contradicted Eric Trump’s assertion that he “never had anything to do with the statement of financial condition,” the judge said.
Ivanka Trump
The former president’s eldest daughter worked on some her father’s biggest development deals before leaving the Trump Organization in 2017. Ivanka Trump was dismissed from the suit by an appeals court, but was called to testify anyway by the state. Engoron described her as a “thoughtful, articulate, and poised witness,” but said her “inconsistent recall” of events was “suspect.”
“In any event, what Ms. Trump cannot recall is memorialized in contemporaneous emails and documents; in the absence of her memory, the documents speak for themselves,” particularly in regards to the massive loans she helped secure from Deutsche Bank AG, the judge wrote.
Ivanka Trump “consistently denied” recalling the contents of documents and emails that “confirmed that she actively participated in events” even after the evidence was shown to her at trial.
“On direct examination by plaintiff, Ivanka Trump had no recollection of any of the events that gave rise to this action; no number of emails or documents with her signature served to refresh her recollection,” the judge wrote. “Notably, on cross-examination by defendants’ counsel, Ms. Trump suddenly and vividly recalled details of the projects.” |
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