Apr 17, 2018 · Kimba Wood, the judge currently presiding over the Michael Cohen case, is one of the foremost jurists in the country. She also briefly trained as a …
Apr 18, 2018 · Wood drew the Cohen case after decades on the federal bench, where legal experts said she has distinguished herself. “She is highly respected, smart, …
Apr 18, 2018 · The judge presiding over the case involving President Donald Trump's longtime lawyer, Michael Cohen, has an interesting story. US District Judge Kimba Wood was, at one time, under consideration to ...
Apr 17, 2018 · Kimba Wood, judge presiding in Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen’s case is a left-wing HACK. She was chosen by Bill Clinton (Hillary’s decision) to be AG. She officiated George Soros’ wedding. She just forced Cohen to turn over his other clients. IT DOESN’T GET MORE SETUP!!! — Jack Murphy (@RealJack) April 16, 2018
Amy Sussman/Getty Images. Kimba Wood and Frank Richardson attend an event at The Frick Collection on Oct. 19, 2009 in New York. Wood said that while everything she did was legal, she felt that under the circumstances accepting the post of Attorney General or being in consideration for it would be inappropriate.
Wood also presided over the US government’s headline-grabbing 2010 case against ten Russia spies, including photogenic redhead Anna Chapman, who was eventually deported in exchange for U.S. prisoners held in Russia. Wood was nominated to the bench by Ronald Reagan in 1987 after nearly two decades practicing law.
Wood is presiding over the federal case filed by Cohen and joined by Trump to keep federal prosecutors from reviewing documents and other records seized last week from Cohen’s office, home, hotel room and safe deposit box on grounds of attorney-client privilege.
For United States District Judge Kimba M. Wood, who was once considered for Attorney General but was then forced to withdraw her name in the swirl of the so-called “nannygate” scandal, this week has marked a return to Washington’s special brand of high-stakes showdown, only in a new role — arbiter.
That judicial career was interrupted in 1993 when President Bill Clinton prepared to nominate Wood to be the first female U.S. Attorney General. Wood had been a leading candidate for the position after Clinton’s first choice, Zoe Baird, withdrew her nomination.
Kimba Wood, judge presiding in Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen’s case is a left-wing HACK. She was chosen by Bill Clinton (Hillary’s decision) to be AG. She officiated George Soros’ wedding. She just forced Cohen to turn over his other clients. IT DOESN’T GET MORE SETUP!!!
Here are five facts about Judge Wood – and why Trump should be very worried. 1. She was President Bill Clinton’s pick for Attorney General in 1993. President Bill Clinton nominated Wood to become the first female Attorney General.
She was President Bill Clinton’s pick for Attorney General in 1993. President Bill Clinton nominated Wood to become the first female Attorney General. In fact, Wood was hand-picked by Hillary Clinton, who had been asked to submit a list of possible nominees for her husband’s consideration.
In 1995 at the age of 51, Wood began an affair with married multimillionaire Wall Street financier Frank Richardson. The affair was uncovered by Richardson’s wife when she found passionate passages written about Wood in Richardson’s diary.
The Federal Judge, Kimba Wood, who officiated the wedding of George Soros is presiding over the already controversial case regarding a raid of the President’s lawyer.
Wood officiated the 2013 wedding of notorious liberal billionaire George Soros. At the time, Soros was 83 and his bride, Tamiko Bolton, was 42. Numerous prominent liberals attended the wedding, including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and then-California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsome. In lieu of wedding gifts, the couple asked that donations be made to several organizations including Planned Parenthood and Global Witness, an environmental activist group.
Kimba Maureen Wood (born January 21, 1944) is a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
In 1970, Wood married Robert Lovejoy, a partner at Davis Polk & Wardwell. She went by the name Kimba Wood Lovejoy from 1970 to 1982, until the time of their divorce. In 1982, Wood married Time magazine political columnist Michael Kramer. They had a son, Ben, in 1986. The marriage ended in divorce. After separating from Kramer, Wood and former Harvard Law School classmate Frank E. Richardson II began dating. In 1995, Wood was named as a co-respondent in Richardson's high-profile divorce battle, where Richardson's diaries describing his relationship with Wood were made public. In 1999, Wood married Richardson.
Wood employed the undocumented immigrant at a time when it was legal to do so, before the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 made the hiring of undocumented immigrants unlawful. The threat of a repetition of the same controversy nevertheless led to the hasty withdrawal of Wood from consideration.
On November 19, 2010, Wood received attention in connection with a letter to the court from Bennet M. Epstein, an attorney, who asked for time off from a trial to attend his then-unborn grandson's bris, if the baby proved to be a boy.
White House officials said they were angry at Wood because she had not told Clinton and other officials about the nanny, even when she had been directly asked. In her statement, however, Wood said she had not misled the White House.
In the Nannygate matter of 1993, Wood was Bill Clinton 's second unsuccessful choice for United States Attorney General. Like Clinton's previous nominee, Zoë Baird, Wood had hired an undocumented immigrant as a nanny, but unlike Baird, she had paid the required taxes on the employee. Wood employed the undocumented immigrant at a time when it was legal to do so, before the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 made the hiring of undocumented immigrants unlawful. The threat of a repetition of the same controversy nevertheless led to the hasty withdrawal of Wood from consideration. Janet Reno was later nominated and confirmed for the post. White House officials said they were angry at Wood because she had not told Clinton and other officials about the nanny, even when she had been directly asked. In her statement, however, Wood said she had not misled the White House.
The State Bar of Georgia’s investigation into far-right attorney Lin Wood and whether he should lose his law license after trying to overturn the presidential election results will move forward, as a federal judge Wednesday struck down Wood’s lawsuit trying to stop the bar from requiring him to undergo a mental health evaluation as part of their probe..
The state bar is investigating whether Wood violated multiple professional conduct rules after the election, as he brought multiple lawsuits challenging the presidential election results and spread baseless conspiracy theories online involving such figures as former Vice President Mike Pence and U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Roberts.
Wood is still refusing to participate in the mental health evaluation, and the state bar’s rules state that being unwilling to undergo the examination “may be grounds for further proceedings...including emergency suspension proceedings.” In a court filing, however, the state bar members noted that refusing to undergo the evaluation wouldn’t be immediate grounds for Wood having his law license revoked.
Wood responded to the ruling against him on Telegram Wednesday, alleging Batten—who also oversaw several of Wood’s unsuccessful post-election lawsuits, and who Wood has tried to have removed from the case—was biased against him.
The state bar investigation is one of several consequences Wood is facing for his actions post-election. The lawyer has also been removed from unrelated court cases in Delaware and against MSNBC anchor Joy Reid, and the Lawyers Club of Atlanta expelled Wood from their membership in March.