All posts tagged "Civil"

Los Angeles (AFP) - A major film that imagines a second civil war in the near-future United States has highlighted fears about the divided state of the nation ahead of November's presidential election. "Civil War," which premiered at the SXSW Festival this week and hits theaters April 12, pictures a three-term US president in Washington DC battling secessionist forces from California and Texas. The movie stars Kirsten Dunst as a journalist travelling through a broken, dystopian nation. The FBI has been disbanded, and military drone strikes launched on US citizens. In early reviews, The Atlanti......

The court-appointed monitor for the Trump Organization in the New York civil fraud case is sounding the alarm that the company's disclosures are "inconsistent" and riddled with errors, reported The Messenger on Friday.

"'I have identified certain deficiencies in the financial information that I have reviewed, including disclosures that are either incomplete, present results inconsistently, and/or contain errors,' former federal judge Barbara Jones, tasked with scrutinizing the former president's business empire, wrote in a 12-page letter," reported Adam Klasfeld. "Though she described Trump and his businesses as 'cooperative' with her investigation, Jones added that 'information required to be submitted to me pursuant to the terms of the monitorship order and review protocol has, at times, been lacking in completeness and timeliness.'"

"Jones, who also served as a monitor in Rudy Giuliani and Michael Cohen's criminal investigations, said that the Trump Organization has 'implemented changes' under her monitorship, but it needs to shape up even more," the report continued, quoting her as saying. "Absent steps to address the items above, my observations suggest misstatements and errors may continue to occur, which could result in incorrect or inaccurate reporting of financial information to third parties."...

Former President Donald Trump was doing everything in his power to "distract" from the release of damning new deposition footage in his civil fraud trial, argued former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti on MSNBC Friday.

New York Attorney General Letitia James, whose office released the footage, has alleged in the case that the former president and his two adult sons have systematically falsified property values of Trump Organization buildings and clubs, in order to get more favorable tax, loan, and insurance treatment. She is seeking hundreds of millions in fines and the dissolution of the Trump Organization in the state.

"Let's talk about the impact with the release of this videotape, considering the fact that the A.G.'s office already had the substantive testimony itself," said anchor Katie Phang, herself an attorney....

Donald Trump's civil fraud trial in New York entered closing arguments this week, with the former president himself giving a short statement despite state Justice Arthur Engoron previously having ruled he could not do so. But the closing statement from Trump's attorneys wasn't convincing at all, argued former prosecutor Seth Waxman on CNN Thursday.

In fact, Waxman said, Trump's lawyers were trying to mount a defense that was already too late.

"If you are the prosecutor in that trial taking in the Trump defense argument, how do you feel about your case?" asked anchor Boris Sanchez....

Donald Trump's niece dropped some insider information on her uncle on Friday, revealing to the world what the former president will be hurt by most from the civil fraud case he's facing.

Trump, who went on a social media posting spree targeting New York Attorney General Letitia James presumably after learning that she had asked for more than $100 million in additional damages in the fraud case, lashed out at James Friday. He said, "They should pay me!"

But Mary Trump says the media missed the biggest part of the story in terms of its potential impact on her uncle....

Trump's cronies are proving her case.

New York Attorney General Letitia James recorded another video testimonial that her office plopped on Twitter/X showcasing her smiling at some of the efforts made by former President Donald Trump's legal team to counter the case brought against him in the $250 million civil lawsuit claiming the Trump Organization, Trump himself, and his eldest sons committed widespread fraud for financial gain.

After entering the tenth week of trial, James appeared to mockingly grin when summarizing the "expert" witnesses trotted out in court. ...