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Trump appeals as judge OKs Manhattan DA getting tax returns

August 20, 2020 Leave a comment

FILE - In this Friday, Feb. 7, 2020, file photo, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. leaves court, in New York. Vance, the New York prosecutor who has been fighting to get President Donald Trump’s tax returns, got Deutsche Bank in 2019 to turn over other Trump financial records. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

As President Donald Trump’s lawyers moved swiftly Thursday to appeal a federal judge's ruling that granted Manhattan’s top prosecutor access to his tax returns, Trump blasted the long-running quest for his financial records as a “continuation of the most disgusting witch hunt in the history of our country.”

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Inmates fearful of coronavirus argue for their release

March 19, 2020 Leave a comment

This combination of 2019 and 2002 file photos shows Michael Cohen, left, President Donald Trump's former personal attorney, outside his apartment building in New York and drug kingpin Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela leaving the Combita maximum security prison in Tunja, Colombia before extradition to the United States in 2004. Amid the COVID-19 coronavirus threat, they are among the prisoners making pleas for compassionate release or home detention. (AP Photo/Jonathan Carroll, Javier Galeano)

NEW YORK — Coronavirus has become a “get out of jail” card for hundreds of low-level inmates across the country, and even hard-timers are seeking their freedom with the argument that it’s not a matter of if but when the ...

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Judge rejects Trump challenge to release of his tax returns

October 7, 2019 Leave a comment

FILE - In this Aug. 15, 2019 file photo, President Donald Trump acknowledges the crowd after speaking at a campaign rally in Manchester, N.H. Trump will visit Baltimore less than two months after he derided the majority-black congressional district that includes the city as a "disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess" where "no human being would want to live." Trump's Thursday, Sept. 12, visit will be limited to a hotel overlooking the city's Inner Harbor, where he will deliver dinner remarks before Republican members of Congress gathered for a retreat. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

NEW YORK — A federal judge Monday emphatically rejected President Donald Trump’s challenge to the release of his tax returns to New York prosecutors, saying the president’s broad claim of immunity from all criminal investigations is at odds with the ...

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Florida Bar won’t dismiss complaint over Rep. Gaetz tweet

May 8, 2019 Leave a comment

FILE - In this April 3, 2019 file photo, Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., voices an objection to a resolution by House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., to subpoena special counsel Robert Mueller's full report, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Florida Bar has decided a disciplinary investigation will continue into a tweet sent by Gaetz about President Donald Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen. Bar officials said in a statement Wednesday, May 8, 2019, that the matter is being examined by a grievance committee. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A Florida Bar disciplinary investigation will continue into a tweet sent by Republican U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz about President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen. Bar officials said in a statement Wednesday the matter is being examined ...

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‘I think every other lawyer in here knows’

March 27, 2019 Leave a comment

Republicans tried hard to discredit President Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen when he appeared before the House Oversight Committee last month. One fascinating line of attack, particularly mounted by Rep. Kelly Armstrong, R-N.D., focused on supposed deficits in Cohen’s ...

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FBI tracked Michael Cohen’s phones with controversial device

March 20, 2019 Leave a comment

This undated handout photo provided by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office shows the StingRay II, manufactured by Harris Corporation, of Melbourne, Fla., a cellular site simulator used for surveillance purposes. A police officer testified Wednesday, April 8, 2015, that the Baltimore Police Department has used Hailstorm, a upgraded version of the StringRay surveillance device, 4,300 times and believes it is under orders by the U.S. government to withhold evidence from criminal trials and ignore subpoenas in cases where the device is used. (AP Photo/U.S. Patent and Trademark Office)

Search warrant documents made public Tuesday show the FBI used highly secretive and controversial cellphone sweeping technology to zero-in on President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer when agents raided his New York City home, hotel room and office last year.

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Nielsen estimates about 16 million watched Michael Cohen

March 1, 2019 Leave a comment

FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019 file photo, Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, reads an opening statement as he testifies before the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. Cohen says he's cooperating with federal prosecutors in New York and hopes to receive a so-called Rule 35 motion from prosecutors that would reduce the time he is to spend in prison. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

The Nielsen company says that 15.8 million people watched President Donald Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, testify against him on television before a congressional committee.

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Analysis: Cohen hearing stokes talk of impeachment

February 28, 2019 Leave a comment

Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former lawyer, testifies before the House Oversight and Reform Committee, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

WASHINGTON — Michael Cohen’s testimony is just the beginning of what Democrats in Congress see as long days ahead providing checks and balances on the Oval Office. As hearings and investigations unfold, Democrats, particularly those running for the White House, ...

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‘Racist,’ ‘conman’: Cohen assails Trump before Congress

February 27, 2019 Leave a comment

Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, arrives to testify before the House Oversight and Reform Committee, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer is planning to tell a House committee that Trump knew ahead of time that WikiLeaks had emails damaging to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign and that Trump is a "racist," a "conman" and a "cheat."

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Mueller considers new charges for ex-Trump campaign chairman

November 30, 2018 Leave a comment

FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2018 file photo, Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, leaves the federal courthouse in Washington. Manafort says in a statement that a Guardian report saying he met with Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy is "totally false and deliberately libelous." Manafort says that he has never been contacted by "anyone connected to WikiLeaks, either directly or indirectly." (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort may face additional charges after lawyers in the special counsel's Russia investigation said he lied to them and broke his plea agreement, prosecutors said Friday.

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