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LetMyPeopleVote's JournalJudge rules Trump lawyer Corcoran must testify, people familiar say
This is a big deal. It is not easy to undo the attorney client privilege without proof of real fraud.
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1636820800048095232
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/03/17/trump-corcoran-crime-fraud-howell/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
Evan Corcoran had refused to answer investigators’ questions about his interactions with Trump, invoking attorney-client privilege — a principle of U.S. legal practice that says lawyers must keep confidential what they are told by their clients.
U.S. prosecutors argued that there are exceptions to the privilege, including when there is evidence that a client used the attorney’s legal services in furtherance of a crime. In secret court filings and a hearing held behind closed doors last week, prosecutors sought to show Chief U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howell of Washington that there were grounds for a “crime-fraud exception.”
A federal judge has at least partially granted a request from U.S. prosecutors request to force an attorney for Donald Trump to testify before a grand jury about the former president’s possession of classified documents after leaving office, according to two people briefed on the decision.
Evan Corcoran had refused to answer investigators’ questions about his interactions with Trump, invoking attorney-client privilege — a principle of U.S. legal practice that says lawyers must keep confidential what they are told by their clients.
U.S. prosecutors argued that there are exceptions to the privilege, including when there is evidence that a client used the attorney’s legal services in furtherance of a crime. In secret court filings and a hearing held behind closed doors last week, prosecutors sought to show Chief U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howell of Washington that there were grounds for a “crime-fraud exception.”
President Biden-Happy St. Patrick's Day
https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1636744343565238272https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1636744259549249536
https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1636753284663787531
https://twitter.com/VP/status/1636752792223195141
Trump and his family failed to report nearly $300,000-worth of gifts from foreign governments, House
Source: CNN
Donald Trump and his family failed to report nearly $300,000-worth of gifts they received from foreign governments between 2017 and 2020, including a “larger-than-life-sized painting” of the former president that may currently reside at his Mar-a-Lago resort, according to a new report by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee and supporting documents obtained by CNN.
Over 100 gifts from foreign officials, including Chinese President Xi Jinping and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, with a total value of over a quarter of a million dollars, were never disclosed to the State Department by Trump and members of his immediate family as required by law, the report says.
House Democrats say the discovery of these unreported foreign gifts, including 17 from Saudi Arabia with a total value of more than $48,000, “raises significant questions about why former President Trump failed to disclose these gifts to the public” and whether they may have been used to influence US policy under the previous administration. The report does not provide any specific evidence that US policy was influenced by the gifts.,,,,,
The White House Gift Office under the Trump administration requested the National Archives transfer a number of gifts from its custody back to the White House, which included this gift to Kushner. But there are no records that pinpoint where this gift, a box decorated in silver patterns with an estimated value of $450, is located.
The panel also found that Kushner, his wife Ivanka Trump and their children together, received 33 unreported gifts, totaling nearly $82,000.
“The Committee identified 13 additional unreported foreign gifts addressed to both former President Trump and former First Lady Melania Trump, totaling more than $22,000 in estimated value,” according to the report.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/17/politics/trump-gifts-democrats-report/index.html
Mike Luckovich-Recognize me Donald?
https://twitter.com/mluckovichajc/status/1636468575576662038NASDAQ announced that they will be delisting Digital World Acquisition- Trump Social's public parent
The proposed merger between the special purpose acquisition company, Digitial World Acquisition and Trump Media & Technology (the parent of Truth Social) is effectively dead
https://twitter.com/58bugeye/status/1635999025836199936
Dozens of Mar-a-Lago staff, from servers to aides, are subpoenaed in classified documents probe
This will be fun to watch. The crime fraud exception to the attorney client privilege should force Corcoran to testify
https://twitter.com/joncoopertweets/status/1636466935436025877
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/16/politics/mar-a-lago-trump-subpoenas/index.html
Smith has sought testimony from a range of people close to Trump – from his own attorneys who represent him in the matter to staffers who work on the grounds of Mar-a-Lago, including a housekeeper and restaurant servers, sources said.....
Meanwhile, Smith continues to pursue Trump defense lawyer Evan Corcoran. In an earlier appearance before the grand jury, Corcoran declined to answer questions about his conversations with Trump related to the classified documents, citing attorney-client privilege. Prosecutors are asking a judge to find that he must answer because the conversations may have been part of advancing a crime or fraud.
A ruling is expected from the DC District Court on Corcoran as early as this week.
Sanofi announces insulin price cap after actions by Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk
Thank you President Biden. I used the long lasting insulin from this company
https://twitter.com/BigBlueWaveUSA/status/1636461868134043648
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/sanofi-insulin-price-cap-rcna75346
Sanofi is the last of three major insulin makers in the United States to cut or cap the price of the drug.
Both Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk announced changes to how they price their insulin this month. Together, the three drugmakers make up roughly 90% of the insulin market in the U.S.
"It seemed like only a matter of time" before Sanofi also made changes, said Stacie Dusetzina, a health policy professor at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. "You don’t want to be a standout.”
The Lincoln Project-Fox News can't quit us. Maybe the ads are getting to them?
https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1636442212123672577https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1636442613250179102
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