Nov 20, 2021 · Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's disbarred former personal attorney, will be released from house arrest Monday, three years after he pleaded guilty to tax evasion and campaign finance law violations.
Jan 29, 2022 · LONDON— Trump Tower lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya has been accused of an elaborate new plot to pervert the course of justice. Veselnitskaya, the pro-Kremlin lawyer who attended the notorious 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Donald Trump Jr. and Jared Kushner, allegedly doctored official documents, according to leaked files viewed by The Daily Beast.
Mar 02, 2022 · Washington (CNN)A conservative lawyer who worked on former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election is under investigation by the State Bar of California, where he is licensed.
Aug 20, 2020 · Michael Cohen. Trump’s onetime lawyer and fixer, Cohen pleaded guilty in 2018 to tax fraud, lying to Congress and campaign finance violations for facilitating hush money payments to two women ...
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Cohen's book, titled “Disloyal: A Memoir," was released in September 2020. In it, Cohen alleged that Trump worked with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election and that Trump worked to get close to Russian President Vladimir Putin and “his coterie of corrupt billionaire oligarchs,” among other misdeeds. Trump has repeatedly and consistently ...
government. Onetime "fixer" says he was sent back to federal prison for criticizing the then-president and writing a book about him . Michael Cohen arrives at his apartment after being released from a federal prison to home confinement, in New York, on July 24, 2020.
(CNN) The orbit of former advisers and associates of President Donald Trump who have been indicted or found guilty grew Thursday when Steve Bannon, his former senior adviser and chief strategist, was arrested and indicted.
Trump's onetime national security adviser, Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his talks with the then-Russian ambassador about approaches that would undermine Obama administration policy before Trump took office.
In an interview with The New York Times in February 2019, Trump said he hadn't spoken with his former campaign manager "in a year and a half." He did, however, offer praise for Bannon as a top advocate during the President's impeachment who caught his attention.
The case has become a political lightning rod, with Trump and Flynn both saying he's been treated unfairly by the judge and the prosecutors who cut his plea deal. Trump has not ruled out a pardon for Flynn.
Trump campaign surrogates, including the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., and his girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoyle, previously applauded the effort to privately fund the wall. A spokeswoman said Thursday that Trump Jr.’s “previous praise of the group was based on what he was led to believe about their supposed intention to help build the wall on our southern border and if he and others were deceived, the group deserves to be held accountable for their actions.”
Bannon and three others – including Brian Kolfage, who spearheaded the “We Build the Wall” fundraising effort – were each indicted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York on one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering.
Steve Bannon was arrested and charged with defrauding hundreds of thousands of donors through a campaign to crowdfund the construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Numerous other people connected to Trump, either through his 2016 campaign, his presidency or his business, have been charged with crimes.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., August 19, 2020. Tom Brenner | Reuters. The arrest of Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump ’s onetime campaign chief and former White House strategist, makes him the latest ex-associate of Trump’s to face charges.
Steve Bannon. Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon attends a ceremony at the White House April 10, 2017 in Washington, DC. Bannon, 66, was arrested Thursday morning and charged with defrauding hundreds of thousands of donors through a campaign to crowdfund the construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Seven other Trump associates have either been charged or convicted of various crimes.
The former Trump campaign adviser was sentenced in September 2018 to 14 days in prison after pleading guilty in October 2017 to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russian officials and a Maltese professor who told him the Russians had “dirt” on Clinton.
A month later, he pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges related to money laundering, lobbying violations and witness tampering.
Trump lawyer Bruce Castor bizarrely seemed to suggest Donald Trump should be arrested if the allegations at the heart of the impeachment trial are true.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) suggested there was a path forward to vote on the debt ceiling and avoid what would be the nation’s first ever default, NBC News reports. Said…
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You're correct of course--no crime need be present in order to impeach. As a practical matter, if one is not present, it is very difficult. That said, inciting a riot, in which people die, and in which a Federal building is invaded--there are lots and lots of crimes in this instance. Moreover, the purpose of the "event" was the violent overthrow of the election, and therefore the government. That is a Constitutional crime, implicating the 14th Amendment. And murder was done as well as attempted murder. It is as bad as it gets.