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National Enquirer founder's heirs suing each other over 'rampant-self dealing': report
March 24, 2023
Two children of Generoso Pope Jr., the founder of the infamous National Enquirer tabloid, are suing their brother, alleging "rampant self-dealing" that disgraces the name of the family patriarch, Italian-American media tycoon Generoso Pope Sr., according to The Daily Beast on Friday.
"In a 35-page civil complaint filed Friday in New York State Supreme Court, Marie-Thérèse and Ted Pope accuse David Pope, the well-connected president and CEO of the Generoso Pope Foundation, of 'looting' the nonprofit for personal gain as he iced the two of them out. David, according to the two, paid himself 'far above the value of his services,' put his wife and two sons on the foundation payroll 'for little to no work,' and managed to blow through at least $28 million of the foundation’s money in a little over a decade," reported Justin Rohrlich. "He also used foundation funds to, among other things, get acting roles for his son, finance his kids’ football teams and cheerleading squads, and get all three children into college, the lawsuit states."
In a statement to The Beast, Marie-Thérèse said that David “has destroyed the foundation and its ability to achieve my great-grandfather’s vision.”
"The wider Pope family, in the words of Marie-Thérèse and Ted’s cousin Paul David Pope, is a 'made-for-television' saga of a 'wealthy and high-profile dynasty torn apart by money and power,'" said the report. "Paul, who is Generoso Jr.’s son, says his father was written out of Generoso’s Sr.’s will, then clawed his way to riches with the Enquirer. When Generoso Jr. died in 1988, he left his own instructions to sell the tabloid rather than give it to Paul, who wanted to continue the legacy. In 2013, Paul sued his mother, Palm Beach socialite Lois Pope, over the family fortune, culminating in his arrest on stalking charges."
IN OTHER NEWS: Trump lawyer's testimony likely seals the deal for indictment in docs case: legal expert
This comes after the Enquirer itself featured prominently in the Trump hush-payment scandal, which is a focus of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and is expected by many legal experts to lead to charges against the former president.
In addition to the payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels, the focus of that probe, David Pecker, the paper's former publisher, allegedly facilitated another payment to former Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal in a "catch-and-kill" scheme to bury a story about Trump's purported affair with her.
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No Texas GOP Reps. will say if they’ll attend Trump’s rally in Waco – will he have trouble filling seats?
March 24, 2023
Donald Trump's Saturday campaign rally in Waco, Texas, falls during the 30th anniversary of the 51-day siege that community is known for, when 86 people died after a failed ATF raid on an anti-government religious cult suspected of illegally stockpiling firearms amid allegations of sexual abuse, statutory rape, and polygamy.
Experts have been warning for a week that Trump's choice of Waco, synonymous with violent anti-government extremism, was no accident. His rhetoric this week, including most recently Friday when he warned of "potential death & destruction" should he be indicted, has been seen as encouraging violence.
NCRM was among the first news outlets to report experts' concerns over Trump’s choice to hold a rally in Waco during the 30th anniversary of the deadly siege.
Not a single congressional Republican from Texas will say they are attending, nor has the town's GOP mayor, according to a report from Insider, which contacted over two dozen Republican lawmakers and other elected officials.
"None of the 30 Texas Republicans Insider contacted about the event said they were going," Insider reveals.
"Most of the 30 GOP members contacted about Donald Trump's inaugural visit to the site of a 30-year-old standoff between cult leader David Koresh and federal authorities did not respond to requests for comment about whether they intended to rally with the scandal-plagued candidate and perhaps say a few kind words," Insider reports.
"Rep. Pete Sessions, a Waco native who now represents the surrounding 17th congressional district, praised Trump for shining a light on his hometown but said he’d have to miss the spectacle," Insider adds. "Aides to Rep. Troy Nehls, one of the four House Republicans from Texas who have formally backed Trump's 2024 run, told Insider he wouldn’t be heading to Waco because of a prior commitment in Washington, DC, this weekend."
Meanwhile, in addition to guest list challenges – the campaign refused to tell Insider who the guest speakers will be – Trump may have trouble filling seats.
Mary Trump, the ex-president's niece who opposes him, has been running a campaign to get anti-Trump Americans to "sign up" for tickets to the Saturday rally, in the hopes of being able to turn away supporters.
"Donald has a rally in Waco this Saturday," she also said via Twitter. "It's a ploy to remind his cult of the infamous Waco siege of 1993, where an anti-government cult battled the FBI. Scores of people died. He wants the same violent chaos to rescue him from justice."
"But we can stop him. If we book the 50,000+ venue, we can make sure most of the seats are empty when the traitor takes the stage," she said. "We can no longer fail to hold powerful men accountable for their crimes against our country."
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Trump lawyer's testimony likely seals the deal for indictment in docs case: legal expert
March 24, 2023
The testimony of Donald Trump’s lawyer on Friday before a federal grand jury likely seals the deal for an indictment in the classified documents case, a former top law enforcement official told CNN.
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe said that from an investigative standpoint, Evan Corcoran’s testimony was “icing on the cake” for special counsel Jack Smith.
U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell on Wednesday ordered the former president’s lawyer to provide evidence to prosecutors under the crime-fraud exception.
Corcoran was seen by reporters entering federal court Friday morning, and McCabe said the Justice Department has since presented evidence to Howell implicating Corcoran and Trump in a crime or a cover-up, confirming that Trump’s lawyer did in fact provide evidence to the grand jury Friday.
Corcoran’s testimony, according to McCabe, makes an indictment against the former president “almost guaranteed.”
“Talking to Corcoran as they did today, and understanding exactly what those conversations involve is like the icing on the cake, and I think it also makes an indictment on the activity around the documents almost guaranteed at this point,” McCabe said.
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