OK. NOW I think I understand what all the private sessions were about.
Trump's lawyers filed their long-promised mistrial motion, leaning into attacks on the judge and his law clerk as "biased."
The motion cites her name eight times. The phrase "Principal Law Clerk" appears 44 times.
Both Trump and his lawyers are gagged from going after the clerk, but the judge gave some latitude for their mistrial motion, a topic that lawyer Alina Habba indicated the defense would invoke "delicately."
Here's the document
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/1-trump-asks-mistrial-civil-152447958.html
Looks like Engoron gets to decide.
It is highly unlikely that Engoron will declare a mistrial, given his earlier fraud findings and defense of his law clerk's conduct.
Yesterday there were private talks between the lawyers and then the lawyers for each side and the judge. There were rumors of a settlement, but maybe it was about this.
She called for a perjury investigation into Michael Cohen today too. Who was a witness in this case and the NY criminal case
Do you have any idea how many hotels are here in New York City?
There's no way this is true.
Apparently the settlement rumor started with Trump himself. He mentioned the settlement conference on Truth social. yesterday
For context, here's what Trump said on Monday:
"He asked me to settle for a MUCH LOWER AMOUNT, at a settlement conference, but I said NO, I DID NOTHING WRONG!"
Basically because he can't.
Look up Trump Organization II LLC.
He tried to set that up in Delaware the day the lawsuit against him in New York came out. The New York AG went to court and got an injunction prohibiting him from moving any assets to new corporations.
Why would that be?
It's a civil suit. There's no prosecutors.
I think any party could suggest it.
In the Trump University case, it was the judge you told them to try to work it out
It’s hard to come to any useful conclusions without sauce.
It's basically reporters covering the trial and so far it's just talk in the courthouse....outside the courtroom Alina Habba is talking mistrial.
Also Elise Stefaniik who is clearly working with the Trump lawyers just called for an investigation of Michael Cohen for perjury https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-allies-house-call-criminal-probe-michael-cohen-testimony-fraud-t-rcna125112
it sounds like it is the NY AG’s office that is seeking a settlement.
See my other post. The AG's office already won a gigantic part of the case before trial and are seeking a huge amount of $$$. So there is incentive for Trump to settle. Trump tried to settle this case back in September 2022, right befor the lawsuit was filed the made a last minute pitch to the NY AG.
See my other comment.
No. Trump would be making the settlement offer to the state.
Settlement with New York state.
In the lawsuit the state asked for several remedies.
These the judge ruled on before trial
Cancellation of Trump’s NY business certificates.
All of Trump’s many LLCs ultimately roll up to just a couple, so this affects Mar a Lago and the Chicago Hotel and golf courses outside of NY. This is on appeal.
But my understanding of this is that it would be like a bankruptcy, the businesses would be dissolved, creditors paid off, any remaining money would go to Trump
An Independent financial monitor over the Trump Organization for 5 years.
These are the issues the trial is about.
$250 million in disgorgement of financial benefits of the fraud plus interest.
Disgorgement is a remedy requiring a party who profits from illegal or wrongful acts to give up any profits they made as a result of that illegal or wrongful conduct.
NY state had an investment banker testify to disgorgement https://www.wpsdlocal6.com/news/trump-and-company-saved-168-million-in-loan-interest-as-a-result-of-fraud-banking/article_1dd709b0-78de-11ee-b8cb-7fdfbca658c9.html
A banking expert testified Wednesday that Donald Trump and his company benefited more than $168 million by obtaining favorable loan terms on transactions where the former president personally guaranteed the loans.
Independent Trustees on the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust. This trust hold most of Trump's assets. The other LLC's roll up into this and one other LLC TBD
Accurate Financial Statements for the next five yeas, to be given to everyone who got his prior fraudulent states of financial condition.
TBD
Trump and Trump Organization banned from NY real estate for 5 years. TBD
Trump and Trump Organization banned from any loans from NY financial institutions for 5 years. TBD
Permanent ban on Trump, Don Jr, Eric, and Ivanka from being an officer of a NY corporation.
TBD Ivanka is no longer part of this suit as the statue of limitations ran out. She left the company.
Permanent ban on Trump executives Alan Weisselberg and Jeffrey McConney from being a financial officer of a NY corporation.
TBD
And still more news
Fani Willis predicts Trump’s Georgia trial could stretch into early 2025
“I think the case will be on appeals for years. But, I believe in that case, there will be a trial,” Willis said at an event hosted by The Washington Post on Tuesday. “I believe the trial will take many months. And I don’t expect that we will conclude until the winter [of 2024] or the very early part of 2025.”
Fulton County DA asks for protective order after leak of witness videos in Trump election interference case claims witness intimidation
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' office is seeking an emergency protective order after portions of videos from key witnesses in her election interference case against former President Donald Trump and others were leaked to two news outlets.
"The release of these confidential video recordings is clearly intended to intimidate witnesses in this case, subjecting them to harassment and threats prior to trial," the DA's office said in a court filing Tuesday after portions of the videotaped statements of lawyers Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro and bail bondsman Scott Hall were made public.
Judge Scott McAfee scheduled a hearing on the emergency motion for Wednesday.
In addition to the Powell and Jenna Ellis videos, the Post got proffer videos from the other two defendants.
Although some of the recordings were garbled, the portions of the four statements that The Post was able to review — from Ellis, lawyers Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell, and Georgia bail bondsman Scott Hall — offered many previously undisclosed details about the effort by Trump and his allies to reverse his defeat.
Chesebro disclosed in his recorded statement that at a previously unreported White House meeting, he briefed Trump on election challenges in Arizona and summarized a memo in which he offered advice on assembling alternate slates of electors in key battlegrounds to cast ballots for Trump despite Biden’s victories in those states. Chesebro’s recollection could provide evidence that Trump was aware of the elector plan.
The audible portions of the Fulton recordings reviewed by The Post do not appear to directly implicate Trump. At one point in Powell’s interview, she said Trump really believed he had won — a statement that could help his defense. But Powell also said that Giuliani spoke of a plan to gain access to voting equipment at a Dec. 18, 2020, meeting with Trump and others in the Oval Office. And Hall appeared to implicate another defendant, lawyer Robert Cheeley, describing Cheeley as part of the “brain trust” planning the Coffee County scheme. Giuliani spokesman Ted Goodman, asked to comment on the recordings, called the Fulton investigation a “farce” that should be dismissed immediately. A lawyer for Cheeley declined to comment.
From twitter
New: Very curious. Sitting here & 25 min late on our planned return.
Trump atty Habba walked out from chambers, alone. Then, AG’s attorneys head in.
Recently, Trump complained about a low-ball settlement offer...
Settlement bid afoot?
They return. We continue. Who knows.
WeWork declares bankruptcy on Nov 6th.
Oh man I gotta get my stuff.
False is not redundant here.
If I assert than I'm 180lbs, I can assure you that is a false assertion.
I mistrial means the first trial is void and doesn't count.
???
There's video of it.
Here's the unsigned executive order. It CITES EO13848, so it would have been a new and separate executive order
Given that they both are testifying in this case, this information would be turned over to the defense as part of the discovery. They plead guilty last month, so all the remaining defendants probably have these videos by now.
My guess is defense counsel for someone.
see my comment above.
It's important to note that mistrials are not declared lightly, and judges carefully consider the circumstances before making such a decision. After a mistrial is declared, the case may be retried with a new jury or under different circumstances. The decision to grant a mistrial is within the discretion of the presiding judge.
This is why I think they chose a different route.
I don't think this is going to happen.
They initially said they were filing this last week.
The did ask the judge for a directed verdict.....which is saying the state didn't prove their case, so there's no need for the defense to go on. The Judge said the trial would continue today and it did.
They they claimed they were going to finally for mistrial immediately, but they didn't.
But they did do something else.
Elise Stefanik filed a an Ethics complaint to the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct.
Elise Stefanik is not a lawyer, but her letter reads like a legal brief. So people thought that they put the complaints in here
I think it goes to the judge directly.