All posts tagged "Andrew Block"

A federal judge accused the Justice Department of "untenable" stonewalling over how it ended President Donald Trump's IRS suit.

According to a Friday article by Bloomberg, U.S. Magistrate Judge Ivan Davis said at a hearing that the DOJ failed to properly answer questions about the origins of the deal that gave Trump, his family, and businesses blanket immunity from IRS audits. During the Friday hearing, Davis ordered some preliminary records turned over within a week and set a September 4 hearing to decide whether to compel further disclosures.

"You have failed on both ends of the discovery process," Davis told DOJ senior counsel Andrew Block, according to Bloomberg. "That cannot continue."...

The Department of Justice is refusing to swear that the Trump slush fund is dead in a new court filing flagged by a legal analyst.

Last week, federal judge Leonie Brinkema indefinitely blocked the $1.776 billion anti-weaponization fund, which critics worried would have paid Trump allies, and gave the DOJ until June 19th to file a declaration swearing it wouldn't move forward with the fund under penalty of perjury.

DOJ lawyer Andrew Block submitted a new court filing on June 19th, but "not the one the judge instructed, not the one that she wanted," Legal AF host Michael Popok said in an update....