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LetMyPeopleVote's JournalAny TFG indictment today will be under seal and there will likely be no press announcement
It is possible that we may not hear anything today even if grand jury votes to indict TFG unless TFG leaks/announces indictment
https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote/status/1638522369521360896’
Remember TFG announced the Mar-a-Lago search warrant activities. I suspect that TFG will leak announcement of indictment unless there are charges included that TFG was not expecting. I believe that DA Bragg will have additional charges in addition to Stormy Daniels
Again do not be surprised if we do not hear anything today
Communications between Stormy Daniels and Trump attorney turned over to Manhattan DA
It is my understanding that NY law restricts lawyers who interviewed for an engagement from being adverse to the client they interviewed. This will be fun to watch
https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote/status/1638360417943814144
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/21/politics/joe-tacopina-trump-lawyer-stormy-daniels/index.html
The exchanges – said to date back to 2018, when Daniels was seeking representation – raise the possibility that the Trump attorney, Joe Tacopina, could be sidelined from his defense of the former president in a case pertaining to Trump’s alleged role in a scheme to pay hush money to Daniels.
Daniels’ communications with Tacopina and others at his firm include details relating to Daniels’ situation, according to her current attorney Clark Brewster, who believes the communications show a disclosure of confidential information from Daniels.
Tacopina denies that there is a conflict or that confidential information was shared with his office. He says he neither met nor spoke to Daniels.
CNN has not seen the records in question. But legal ethics experts CNN spoke with said they could lead to limits being placed on the role Tacopina can play at trial or even his disqualification. The impact that the disclosure will have on the case will depend on the circumstances and the substance of the communications, the ethics experts said.
Communications between Stormy Daniels and Trump attorney turned over to Manhattan DA
Source: CNN
Communications between adult-film star Stormy Daniels and an attorney who is now representing former President Donald Trump have been turned over to the Manhattan district attorney’s office, Daniels’ lawyer told CNN.
The exchanges – said to date back to 2018, when Daniels was seeking representation – raise the possibility that the Trump attorney, Joe Tacopina, could be sidelined from his defense of the former president in a case pertaining to Trump’s alleged role in a scheme to pay hush money to Daniels.
Daniels’ communications with Tacopina and others at his firm include details relating to Daniels’ situation, according to her current attorney Clark Brewster, who believes the communications show a disclosure of confidential information from Daniels.
Tacopina denies that there is a conflict or that confidential information was shared with his office. He says he neither met nor spoke to Daniels.
CNN has not seen the records in question. But legal ethics experts CNN spoke with said they could lead to limits being placed on the role Tacopina can play at trial or even his disqualification. The impact that the disclosure will have on the case will depend on the circumstances and the substance of the communications, the ethics experts said.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/21/politics/joe-tacopina-trump-lawyer-stormy-daniels/index.html
Ari takes apart TFG's Georgia attorney
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1638310770092982274https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1638311975947051008
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1638309547436650498
Judge rejects Trump legal team's request to delay NY AG's civil trial
Source: ABC
A judge declined Tuesday to move the trial date for a civil lawsuit filed against former President Donald Trump, his eldest children and his company by New York Attorney General Letitia James, alleging they duped banks and insurers by inflating the value of Trump's real estate portfolio.
Trump's legal team sought the delay but Judge Arthur Engoron said there was no need to postpone what he called a "seemingly simple case" of whether Trump's disclosures to his lenders and insurers, known as statements of financial condition, were accurate or not.
"The issue is whether the statements were false," Engoron said. "This case is complex, but it is not complicated."
Trump has denied wrongdoing and cast the lawsuit as politically motivated by the New York attorney general.
The trial is scheduled to start on Oct. 2
Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/judge-rejects-trump-legal-teams-request-delay-ny/story?id=98019044
Survey of Past New York Felony Prosecutions for Falsifying Business Records
The crime that TFG may be charged with has been used a great deal in New York. TFG is not being picked on.
https://twitter.com/rgoodlaw/status/1638143778241368064
https://www.justsecurity.org/85605/survey-of-past-new-york-felony-prosecutions-for-falsifying-business-records/
Here it appears they are. Prosecution of falsifying business records in the first degree is commonplace and has been used by New York district attorneys’ offices to hold to account a breadth of criminal behavior from the more petty and simple to the more serious and highly organized. We reach this conclusion after surveying the past decade and a half of criminal cases across all the New York district attorneys’ offices.
https://twitter.com/rgoodlaw/status/1638145615358992389
.....An individual is “guilty of falsifying business records in the second degree when, with intent to defraud, he:
makes or causes a false entry in the business records of an enterprise; or
alters, erases, obliterates, deletes, removes or destroys a true entry in the business records of an enterprise; or
omits to make a true entry in the business records of an enterprise in violation of a duty to do so which he knows to be imposed upon him by law or by the nature of his position; or
prevents the making of a true entry or causes the omission thereof in the business records of an enterprise.” N.Y. Penal Code § 175.05
An individual “is guilty of falsifying business records in the first degree when he commits the crime of falsifying business records in the second degree, and when his intent to defraud includes an intent to commit another crime or to aid or conceal the commission thereof.” N.Y. Penal Code § 175.10.
TFG is not being picked on
We're going to need smaller cuffs
https://twitter.com/ThirdAngie/status/1638193550771777537Mike Luckovich-Twas the moment before indictment
https://twitter.com/mluckovichajc/status/1637914832153243652TFG's claims to dismiss Georgia special grand jury have been litigated already
TFG's bogus motion is very weak and makes claims that have been litigated. The Georgia Fulton County DA has gone to court to force witnesses to testify and the weak ass arguments being urged by TFG were raised and dismissed.
https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1637863501505912839
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/20/trump-georgia-indictment-2020-election-00087876
But Findling argued that the entire process was defective and should be thrown out. The special grand jury itself should not have been treated as a “criminal“ proceeding, he said. He said comments made by special grand jurors to media, as well as by the presiding judge in the case, Robert McBurney, tainted any future criminal proceedings. And he said Willis should have been disqualified from the investigation months ago, after McBurney disqualified her from pursuing evidence about one particular state official.....
The complaints by Trump’s attorney echoed procedural complaints raised by witnesses throughout the months of the special grand jury’s probe.
State courts in New York, South Carolina, Florida and elsewhere all rejected claims that the special grand jury proceedings were “civil” in nature and that therefore out-of-state witnesses could not be compelled to appear. That led to appearances by Trump allies Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows and Michael Flynn. And the Supreme Court similarly cleared the way for one key witness, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), to testify after he sought to challenge the special grand jury in federal court.
Several courts have considered and rejected the arguments being advanced by TFG
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