Feb 13, 2020 · Several of President Donald Trump’s personal attorneys have opened the White House up to yet another ethics minefield. With Trump’s impeachment acquittal in the rearview mirror, some on his legal team will be well-positioned to help their wealthy clients with business before the Trump administration, potentially leading 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue into a new …
Mar 21, 2022 · Habba, who turns 38 this month, runs a small law firm just an eight-minute drive from Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey. According to three sources, Habba has spent an inordinate amount...
Aug 02, 2021 · Aug. 2, 2021, 12:17 AM EDT. Donald Trump ’s former personal attorney Rudy Giuliani is almost broke and Trump doesn’t seem to care all that much, sources have told The New York Times. Giuliani is currently struggling under a mountain of legal fees as he attempts to fend off a major federal investigation and answer a $1.3 billion lawsuit.
Apr 18, 2022 · Lindell is now facing a $1.3 billion lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems. They say he spread false claims about their voting machines. He was just in Mar-a-Lago last week with Trump to attend a fundraiser for Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake. It seems that the more people like Eastman and Lindell work to overturn the election results ...
Dershowitz controversially said in Trump’s defense on the Senate floor in January that “if a president does something which he believes will help him get elected in the public interest, that cannot be the kind of quid pro quo that results in impeachment.”.
ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch was a roadblock to getting Ukraine to launch investigations involving Biden, Trump removed her from her post in April 2019.
After a torrent of criticism, Dershowitz said his remarks had been misconstrued. Dershowitz has said he will not accept compensation for his legal defense of Trump. He told POGO that he is not lobbying the administration, only representing Gertler in a legal capacity.
Giuliani has said his legal representation of the president, which began in April 2018, is provided free of charge, though there’s reason to think he may not be telling the full story—especial ly when it comes to his activities in Ukraine .
The IRS did not respond to a request for comment.
Dershowitz is working through a firm run by former FBI Director Louis Freeh, who is also listed as lobbying on Gertler’s behalf. The Trump administration sanctioned Gertler at the end of 2017, cutting off Gertler’s access to his U.S.-based assets.
(Source: C-SPAN) Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard law professor known for representing celebrity criminal defendants, also has other business before the Trump administration.
Prior to joining NBCNews.com, Rafferty was a campaign reporter covering the 2012 presidential election. Rafferty was on the road for both the Republican primaries and general election, providing content for both the web and television. Rafferty began at NBC News through a fellowship at "Meet The Press.".
His hiring comes amid reports the president is growing frustrated with Kasowitz, who remains in New York and commutes to Washington.
Futerfas made his name as a defense attorney by successfully representing mobsters in New York City. He later expanded to defending corporate and white collar crimes, and more recently cyber crimes. In 2016, he defended a Russian man who was convicted in the U.S. of creating computer malware. Federal Election Commission records filed last month show Trump's re-election campaign began paying Futerfas' law firm more than a week before the June 2016 meeting became public.
Richard Cullen: The vice president hired outside legal counsel about a month after Trump hired his own private lawyer to deal with the Russia probe. Cullen worked for President George W. Bush during the 2000 Florida recount and has represented GOP Majority Leader Tom Delay as well as Tiger Woods ex-wife, Elin Nordegren, during the couple’s divorce.
Jay Sekulow: Sekulow is a lawyer with his own radio show and has largely been the public face for Trump’s legal team. He is the chief counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice, a Pat Robertson founded group meant to be the conservative answer to the American Civil Liberties Union.
Cooper, a founding member of the Washington law firm Cooper & Kirk who once clerked for late Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist, had been under consideration to be the next solicitor general but withdrew his name after Sessions’ contentious confirmation hearings.
While still working for the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office, he attended Widener University Delaware Law School in 2001. In 2016, Scaringi was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. He writes a biweekly column for The Patriot-News/PennLive and was a talk radio host in Harrisburg.
Sidney Powell made news recently by calling out potential problems with voting machines made by Dominion Voting Systems and suggesting that enough evidence will emerge to overturn election results in several states.
He opened ECLJ offices in France, Russia, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, and Israel. Legal Times named Sekulow to a list called “The 90 Greatest Washington Lawyers of the Last 30 Years.”.
After Santorum won in 1994, Scaringi became his legislative correspondent in Washington. Scaringi returned to Pennsylvania to work for Mike Fisher’s campaign for state attorney general, and served as an executive assistant to Fisher as attorney general from 1997 to 2001.
Sekulow, 64, is chief counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice, a conservative legal group.
He returned to New York in 1977 to go into private practice, but in 1981, President Ronald Reagan appointed him as associate attorney general, the No. 3 position in the Justice Department. In 1983, Reagan appointed Giuliani as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.
Pam Bondi is a former two-term Florida attorney general, elected in 2010 and again in 2014. Bondi, 55, already familiar to viewers of Fox News Channel, became a familiar figure early in 2020 as one of Trump’s lawyers during his Senate impeachment trial. She made strong arguments for the president on the Senate floor, ...
Daniels said on 60 Minutes Sunday that she was threatened physically in 2011 by an individual who told her not to make her alleged affair with Trump public; she and her new lawyer also say that she felt “intimidated” by Cohen into signing recent statements recanting her past claims to the affair.
• Jill Martin. A Trump Organization lawyer whose name appears on paperwork related to the Daniels case, which is noteworthy because Cohen has claimed that “neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign was a party to the transaction with Ms. Clifford.”
• Don McGahn. He’s the head of the White House Counsel’s Office, so his orientation is the same as Cobb’s , but he doesn’t work exclusively on Mueller issues because he’s also responsible for jobs like reviewing legislation and overseeing the nomination of judges. McGahn reportedly talked Trump out of firing Mueller in June.