Judge has ruled that he adding three perjury counts and one obstruction of justice count. In addition to the fraud.
https://twitter.com/innercitypress/status/1773349403530494178?t=HaS85NXxswpyNxViDjzRKg&s=19
The judge has rejected the claim of discovery violations in Trump Stormy Daniels criminal case and jury selection will begin April 15th. Trump was in court in NYC for this today.
Seems like today could be a very big news day.
Former President Trump is expected to be back in a New York courtroom Monday as his lawyers battle with the state over new documents turned over in Trump’s hush money case.
Monday was supposed to be the day the hush money trial began, but a surprise development has delayed the trial until at least mid-April. Judge Juan Merchan will instead hold a hearing to sort out the blame game over the new documents and mull Trump’s contention that an additional delay is warranted.
Also Monday, Trump faces a major deadline to pay a $454 million judgment in a separate case out of New York, in which he was found liable for fraud. If he fails to pay up, he faces possible seizure of some of his most famous properties.
**Update Fraud Trial **
Appellate Judges Ruled a stay in the Fraud case at a reduced amount.
Trump has 10 days to pay $175 million and this will paused any seizure of assets through his appeal.
Two parts of the judgement are going through. The monitor overseeing the Trump Organization does have more power including needing to be informed beforehand of big moves AND Trump Organization needs to hire an Independent Director of Compliance.
Update Criminal Trial
The judge has seemed skeptical of Trump's motion. Questioning why they only subpoenaed SDNY recently and why they didn't mention this to the judge earlier and indicating the Manhattan DA is not at fault
Judge said
The People went so far above and beyond what they were required to do that it’s odd that we’re even here.
Right now Trump does not have a stay of the judgement. Deadline is tomorrow. He
He filed a motion requesting one. James requested to argue against it. The judge eventually let her submit her argument after initially making her remove the argument from the request.
So Monday might be a busy day.
The Appellate judge has not made a ruling. I don't know if anything compels the judge to rule by Monday.
In court Trump said he couldn't get a bond. On Friday outside of court, he said he had 500 million cash. Which should mean a bond is easy to get.
One part of the judgment Trump and his sons can be officers in NY company for 3 years. I have no idea how that gets enforced
Lots of folks have focused on the buildings. But reports today say the first thing a creditor goes after is bank accounts. You deal directly with the bank.
Just wanted to clear up something from this thread
https://greatawakening.win/p/17siEgbuAk/its-not-out-yet-but-ny-appeals-c/
Nothing has changed so far in the deadline for Trump to pay. We are still at status quo.
Trump still has to come up with the money "to get a stay of the judgement." A stay would mean the money would go into escrow and NY state could not go after his assets during his appeal.
Trump's team have asked an appellate court judge to stay the judgement in this document and the judge has yet to rule. Here's the motion. This the full 5,000 page document they submitted, I couldn't even get this to download last week.
https://eddsa.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/public/2024_01134_doc_11.pdf
This is what Trump's lawyers have asked for 1 A stay of judgment with no undertaking (money) put up
2 If court MIGHT stay, a hearing on their arguments
3 If court denies stay, permission to appeal again.
CONCLUSION 1 For the reasons stated, this Court should stay the execution of the monetary portion of the judgment without requiring the posting of an undertaking, and maintain all other aspects of the interim stay granted on February 28, 2024.
2 If the Court considers denying a stay on any issue, Defendants respectfully request that this Court schedule this stay motion for oral argument at a time of the Court's convenience.
- In the event that this Court declines to grant a stay, Defendants respectfully request that the Court grant Defendants permission to appeal to the Court of Appeals and enter a temporary stay to allow them to seek relief from the Court of Appeals.
So far we don't any resolution on these 3 questions. So we may get a lot of news on this.
New York AG takes 1st step toward possibly seizing Trump's assets as part of $464M fraud judgment Trump's lawyers say he faces "insurmountable difficulties" in obtaining a bond.
New York Attorney General Letitia James has taken an initial step toward laying the groundwork for a possible seizure of former President Donald Trump's assets in New York's Westchester County as part of the $464 million judgment in Trump's civil fraud trial.
State officials have entered the judgment from Trump's civil fraud trial in Manhattan with the county clerk's office in Westchester, which would allow James to move to take possession of Trump National Golf Course in Briarcliff Manor and Seven Springs, a private estate in Bedford, if Trump fails to secure a bond.
Forgot the link https://abcnews.go.com/US/trumps-attorneys-appeals-court-secure-464m-bond-fraud/story?id=108347165
This monitor was already in place and Trump's team helped select her, but she is now getting more power.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.njd.544402/gov.uscourts.njd.544402.1.0_3.pdf
DOJ is saying Apple uses anti-competetive practices to stop people from switching to other phones.
Michael Cohen is still under court supervised release from his conviction from 2018. He applied for an early termination of supervised release.
The judge turned him down and pointed out some stuff that will affect the NY Criminal trial https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24489780/18cr602-cohen-opinion.pdf
It gives rise to two possibilities: one, Cohen committed perjury when he pleaded guilty before Judge Pauley or, two, Cohen committed perjury in his October 2023 testimony
Cohen is the lead witness in the Trump NY criminal trial.
Alina Habba tweeted
@AlinaHabba Judge Furman confirmed what we already know: That Michael Cohen committed perjury and should be prosecuted. As the Manhattan DA says on their website “one standard of justice for all”.
The Judge in the NY trial made a bunch of rulings on requests from Trump's team
-The jurors will not see the Access Hollywood video.
-Witnesses can still be asked about the tape.
-Trump wanted the judge to prevent Michael Cohen, Dino Sajudin, Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal from testifying. The judge denied this. The prosecutor will have to show why Sajudin and McDougal's testimony is relevant.
It seems the judge is not giving Trump everything he wants, but is trying to keep the salacious aspects of the case out of the courtroom.
-A polygraph Stormy Daniels took will be kept out of the courtroom.
-Notes from Alan Weisselberg might be allow if the prosecutors land the proper foundation.
https://www.nycourts.gov/LegacyPDFS/press/pdfs/Dec%20on%20Defendant's%20MIL.pdf
Headline:
Trump may enlist Paul Manafort, who was criticized for Russia ties
Key paragraphs:
Former president Donald Trump is expected to enlist Paul Manafort, the former campaign manager he pardoned, as a campaign adviser later this year, according to four people familiar with the talks.
The job discussions have largely centered around the 2024 Republican convention in Milwaukee in July and could include Manafort playing a role in fundraising for the presumptive GOP nominee’s campaign, according to these people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private deliberations. While no formal decision has been made, the four people described the hiring as expected and said Trump was determined to bring Manafort back into the fold.
Confirmed???
A Trump campaign spokeswoman did not respond to a request for comment. Manafort also did not respond to a request for comment.
Anyone see Trump's campaign comment on this?
Trump in Florida federal court today as his lawyers argue a motion to dismiss the first 32 counts of Florida....basically every charge about retaining documents.
The main thing to discuss is the Presidential Records Act.
Trump's lawyers boldly argued that the PRA gave Trump “virtually unreviewable Article II executive authority to designate the records as personal when, as alleged in the Superseding Indictment, he ’caused’ the materials to be transported out of the White House while he was still in office.”
Smith has countered by saying Trump simply had no such unilateral authority under the PRA.
But Charge 19 deals with Q clearance.
In their February motion to dismiss on grounds of unconstitutional vagueness, Trump lawyers argued the nineteenth willful retention of national defense information count, relating to an “Undated document concerning nuclear weaponry of the United States,” could not stand. They said the special counsel handed them Department of Energy records “indicating that President Trump maintained the ‘Q’ clearance that is relevant to the document charged.”
In his opposition, Smith called the “Q clearance” argument meritless because discovery actually shows the “Q clearance” went away “as a matter of law” when Joe Biden was inaugurated as president.
