Former US President Donald Trump’s attorney has argued that the country “may never recover” if a Washington DC appeals court allows a case against the ex-president to go ahead. The government contends that Trump can be criminally charged over a speech he gave while in office. Trump arrived at the …
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Former US President Donald Trump and his attorneys are still uncertain about what was taken during the FBI’s raid on his Florida home last week, according to Trump lawyer Lindsey Halligan, who told Fox News on Monday that the list of seized items the agency had provided was “borderline worthless.” …
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A top sports lawyer has warned the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) that it must be “very careful” when making a decision on figure skater Kamila Valieva’s fate before her next Beijing 2022 event on February 15. International Testing Agency (ITA) officials announced on Friday that the 15-year-old had returned …
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With the trial of the former British socialite inching closer, her lawyer, Bobbi Sternheim, made a last-ditch effort to secure the pretrial release of her client on Wednesday, citing the “utterly inappropriate” prison conditions Maxwell allegedly has to endure behind bars. Noting that Maxwell, 59, has “no criminal record or …
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Timothy George Simpkins walked out of the Tarrant County jail on Thursday, and into a white Mercedes sedan, without talking to reporters. He was released by County Magistrate Judge Brooke Panuthos into house arrest enforced by a GPS monitor, and told he had to undergo drug and alcohol testing and …
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“This is a retaliation case designed to punish me for my successful advocacy on behalf of the indigenous groups in Ecuador,” Donziger said in a video address he uploaded to Twitter in response to Friday’s verdict in the Chevron case. In the early 1990s, the Harvard Law School graduate and …
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Michael Sussmann was charged with making a false statement to the FBI, falsely telling counsel James A. Baker that he was not acting on behalf of a client, even though he represented an unnamed tech executive, an internet company, and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. In the September 19, 2016 meeting, …
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Samuel Phillip Bickett, a former compliance director at the Bank of America, was sentenced to four months and two weeks on Tuesday by a Hong Kong court. Court magistrate Arthur Lam said Bickett’s behavior posed a “serious threat to public order,” noting the officer whom he attacked suffered multiple injuries. …
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Javier Villalba told Reuters on Thursday that he “had constant telephone contact” with McAfee and “at no point had he shown any special worry or clue that could let us think this could have happened.” Villalba added that McAfee’s death was particularly painful “because it was not justified under any …
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“How much money do I owe you. [Because] n***a you better not be charging me Hennessy rates,” Biden texted Mesires on December 13, 2018, explaining that he “just made up that phrase.” A bill from October that year showed that Mesires charged $845 an hour, the UK tabloid reported. After …
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