All posts tagged "New York City Civil Court"

Donald Trump's art of the dodge failed him in the New York City courtroom where the future of his eponymous empire hangs in the balance because, as his former attorney Michael Cohen told Raw Story on Tuesday, it revealed his Achilles heel.

"It only took them four hours to get him to crack," said Cohen. "Because he has no stamina."

Cohen spoke to Raw Story just one day after a "disaster" day for Trump on the witness stand and one day before his daughter Ivanka is slated to give potentially damaging evidence. ...

Former President Donald Trump is trying to build a case for mistrial after a "disaster" of a day on the witness stand in his $250 million civil fraud trial, in which he's already been found liable, former federal prosecutor Barbara McQuade argued on MSNBC on Monday.

Part of that, she argued, includes "baiting" Judge Arthur Engoron into misconduct by levying accusations of bias against his clerk.

"I think what they're trying to do is get under the judge's skin in hopes he has a temper tantrum," McQuade said. ...

The New York prosecutors suing the Trump Organization for $250 million tripped up Eric Trump when he took the stand Thursday, according to a new report.

The former president's son reportedly contradicted himself over financial statements provided to the company’s in-house comptroller Jeffrey McConney about Donald Trump's financial condition, ABC News reports.

While Eric Trump testified Thursday that he'd provided McConney with the information, video from his deposition shows him telling prosecutors, "I have no recollection of ever providing Jeff material to be used in a statement that I've ever seen.”...