All posts tagged "Lisa Rubin"

A legal expert on Thursday revealed a potential pattern in the newly released alleged Epstein suicide note and described why it was something to consider.

Lisa Rubin, MS NOW senior legal reporter, told MS NOW anchor Katie Tur that there could be a buried detail found in the note discovered by Nicholas Tartaglione, Jeffrey Epstein's cellmate in 2019. Tartaglione, who is now serving four consecutive life sentences for a quadruple homicide, says he discovered it after Epstein's alleged suicide attempt in July 2019 and gave it to one of his lawyers.

"There was then a conflict between his lawyers and specifically the judge, examining multiple issues about a conflict of interest between and among his lawyers," Rubin said. "One of the issues was how this note was handled by Tartaglione and his lawyers. It then came into the court's possession in Tartaglione's criminal case in 2021."...

A legal expert said Wednesday that interim U.S. attorney Lindsey Halligan — despite calls for her to resign — has continued her role.

Legal expert Lisa Rubin told MS NOW's Ana Cabrera that Halligan has not left her position while pressure mounts for her to step down.

"Lindsey Halligan is still in her job and she is signing, or rather, lying," Rubin said. "Prosecutors are signing criminal filings in the Eastern District of Virginia in her name, which is typical." ...

Donald Trump's challenge to his criminal hush money case based on the Supreme Court's recent presidential immunity ruling has alarmed a legal expert who warns the decision's "manipulability" could imperil his conviction.

Legal analyst Lisa Rubin dissected for MSNBC Trump's filing and the argument that he and the Trump Organization could not be guilty of fraud under the new ruling.

"They assert that the Manhattan district attorney’s presentation of evidence included testimony, tweets and even a required government ethics form that are themselves evidence of Trump’s exercise of 'core' presidential authority or, at the very least, within the outer perimeter of his official duties, and therefore, should not have been admitted," wrote Rubin....

A relatively obscure Wisconsin law could explain why none of the state's 10 so-called "fake electors" have been charged, despite criminal cases being brought across several states.

Three Donald Trump allies were indicted this week on a single felony count on allegations that they plotted to keep former President Donald Trump in office following his loss to President Joe Biden in 2020. The trio charged were Mike Roman, the Trump campaign's head of Election Day operations; attorney Kenneth Chesebro, who last year pleaded guilty in a deal with prosecutors in a separate 2020 election case in Georgia; and former judge and Trump campaign attorney James Troupis.

But Wisconsin’s 10 fake electors have yet to be charged, and MSNBC legal correspondent and former litigator Lisa Rubin thinks she knows what's behind the feet-dragging....

A legal analyst is clearing things up when it comes to a recent filing in Donald Trump's civil fraud case.

Earlier in the day, Raw Story reported that documents related to Donald Trump's $175 million bond in that case were "returned for correction" after his lawyers reportedly forgot to attach a financial statement.

But legal eagle Lisa Rubin had something else in mind....

To cobble together enough funds to square away the nearly $454 million Trump owes — among his options are he either can pay it, find a benefactor, or he may possibly be forced to declare bankruptcy.

But whatever he does, he can't dodge it.

"It could also prompt him to file for personal bankruptcy because, again, in this order Donald Trump and the business entities that were found liable, are jointly and severally liable," said former litigator Lisa Rubin while being interviewed on MSNBC's "Alex Wagner Tonight." "That means that any one of them can be liable for the whole of the judgment attributed to them and that also means that Donald Trump can't escape this just by plunging those business entities themselves into bankruptcy, because that would leave him individually on the hook for the totality of it."...