All posts tagged "Businesscrime"

NEW YORK — Donald Trump may be forced to fork over a fortune under an order in his civil fraud case issued Friday, but it does not look like he will be losing his ritzy New York real estate holdings any time soon, legal experts said. The decision from Justice Arthur Engoron in the long-running Manhattan Supreme Court case clarified the question after the judge issued a much-analyzed ruling in September that seemed to signal Trump might have to give up control of coveted properties. The September ruling essentially ordered Trump and his family to relinquish their businesses in New York after En......

NEW YORK — Lawyers for the New York attorney general, Donald Trump and his former top executives said Wednesday they didn’t know anything about the ex-president’s onetime finance chief Allen Weisselberg being in talks to plead guilty to perjury. Responding to a demand for more information from the judge in Trump’s civil fraud trial — who asked them to shed light on a recent New York Times report that Weisselberg is in talks with the Manhattan district attorney’s office to plead guilty to perjuring himself at the trial — both sides said they were out of the loop. “At this time, we are not invol......

A former San Diego-area U.S. Border Patrol agent pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court to bribery and drug charges, admitting that he was paid at least $110,000 to use his position to help smuggle drugs and undocumented immigrants across the border from Mexico. Hector Hernandez, 55, pleaded guilty to one count each of attempted distribution of methamphetamine and receiving a bribe by a public official, according to his plea agreement. As part of his deal, prosecutors dropped a second bribery charge. Hernandez agreed as part of the plea deal to forfeit $110,000 in drug trafficking and briber......

WARREN, Mich. — Two signature validators who worked for the defendants in a fraud scheme that kept seven gubernatorial and judicial candidates from the August 2022 primary ballot testified Friday that their employers did not take action when they were told about concerns with the quality of signatures on the nominating petitions. To get on the Michigan primary ballot, candidates need a certain number of citizen signatures on nominating petitions, which varies depending on the office they are seeking. Candidates often hire signature collecting companies, which in turn hire validators like Stacy......

NEW YORK — A set of corporate entities co-founded by Frank Carone, New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ trusted political confidante, helped orchestrate a sprawling “money laundering scheme” that ultimately bilked $3.5 million from a major insurance company, according to a new federal lawsuit. The civil lawsuit, filed this month by GEICO in Brooklyn Federal Court, alleges Financial Vision Group LLC and three other similarly named corporate entities co-founded by Carone participated in the illegal scheme by providing the seed money for it. The elaborate conspiracy centered around illegally operating......

NEW YORK — An old friend of Donald Trump testified as an expert witness for the defense team Tuesday in the former president’s Manhattan fraud trial, telling the courtroom that property valuations are more an art than a science. Steven Witkoff, the chairman and CEO at Witkoff, a real estate developing and investing firm, was called in to testify about both the Trump Building at 40 Wall St. and Trump’s golf resort in Florida. However, Manhattan Supreme Justice Arthur Engoron ruled that Witkoff would be allowed to testify only about the 40 Wall St. property. The direct examination stopped abrupt......