Trump, children are ordered to testify in N.Y. attorney general probe
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Via: hallux • 2 years ago • 70 commentsBy: By Karen Freifeld, Jonathan Stempel
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York judge ruled on Thursday that former U.S. President Donald Trump and two of his adult children must answer questions under oath within 21 days in the state attorney general’s civil probe into their family company.
Justice Arthur Engoron of the New York state court in Manhattan ruled in favor of Attorney General Letitia James in directing Trump, his son Donald Trump Jr and his daughter Ivanka Trump to testify.
Engoron said James had “the clear right” to issue her subpoenas and question the Trumps after having uncovered “copious evidence of possible financial fraud.”
Failing to issue subpoenas “would have been a blatant dereliction of duty,” Engoron wrote.
“Today, justice prevailed,” James said in a statement. “No one will be permitted to stand in the way of the pursuit of justice, no matter how powerful they are. No one is above the law.”
Lawyers for Donald Trump did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Alan Futerfas, a lawyer for Donald Trump Jr and Ivanka Trump, declined to comment.
The decision followed a two-hour hearing in which the Trumps’ lawyers accused James of doing an end run around their clients’ constitutional rights by seeking testimony she could then use against them in a parallel criminal investigation.
Alina Habba, one of Donald Trump’s lawyers, …
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In the meantime, John Durham is chasing parked ambulances.
the next fund raising scam du jour...
From the part of the article you have to go dig for:
"The judge also rejected the Trumps’ claim that James’ sometimes aggressive public statements about investigating Donald Trump, including a pledge that “we’re definitely going to sue him,” illustrated the “impropriety” of her probe."
That tells you all you need to know about Justice Arthur Engoron.
The Republicans will have a real criminal in Hunter Biden. They should prosecute him to the fullest extent of the law and make sure Joe & Jill have ringside seats!
Clicking a mouse button is digging? What's next from under your mattress of peeves? Hunter? How about finishing with the Clintons first, it's been what ... 25 years?
As Norm Macdonald once said we'll need Vince Foster for that.
You are defending and shielding something. What is it? And why?
You tell me
I hear Vince is now a delivery boy for Comet Ping Pong, don't forget to tip him.
I can still remember when Norm endorsed George W. He said we need a guy who tells the truth, doesn't cheat on his wife or commits murder!
You know. Because if you didn't you wouldn't be here.
Norm had both comedic and poetic license.
He was an original. A one of a kind.
Comment 2 demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of American jurisprudence and/or a desire to politicize the criminal justice system. If the author of that comment were to have his way, we can say farewell to the American way of life.
Well, that certainly is ONE opinion.
Farewell to the American way of life??
JUST a tad melodramatic.
Hard to take it seriously when melodrama's afoot!
I've noticed that the right-wingers have picked up a new word for their anti-liberal put-downs - "melodramatic", and will use it in the absence of a logical disagreement.
Well, alrighty then, I'll put you down as agreeing with the foolish statement "If the author of that comment were to have his way, we can say farewell to the American way of life"
I must say I am a little surprised that you think the American way of life is actually threatened if Hunter Biden is indicted for any crimes. I just figured you were much wiser than that.
There you go again. Taking things out of context and mischaracterizing what was clearly stated.
Your comments are trolling.
And there you go again, telling me what I am doing.
Then flag it.
LOL. I really have to laugh at your comment's ridiculous interpretation of what I said. I neither agreed nor disagreed with Gsquared. I commented on the use of the word "melodramatic". WOW, what a twist from reality.
Comment 2.2.5 is blatantly hypocritical.
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I find that the comment WAS melodramatic.
Your opinion may vary.
We didn't vote for Hunter Biden. We voted for Joe Biden!
Eric 'the toothy one' Trump has already deposed. He used The Fifth Amendment over 500 times. That must mean something, right?
according to his dad, that means he's guilty...
"If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?"
Quote from DJT.
and the hits just keep coming ...
I hope someone throws those words back in his fat face the first time "I take the fifth." comes out of his lying mouth.
Is that how you reason?
No. That is not how I reason. I was not the one that used The Fifth Amendment hundreds of times to hide whatever truths I was aware of. That would belong only onto those you apparently support. Reason does not qualify. Only truth qualifies. Is truth something to be feared?
Did you read the article that Hallux posted? Testimony given in one investigation can be used in another. There is also the matter of trying to frame people. Exhibit A is what the rogue FBI did to the national security advisor they wanted out of the way so Trump wouldn't know he was being spied on. Remember that?"
That would belong only onto those you apparently support.
You mean it's a political prosecution?
I agree.
Wretched stuff, in the wrong hands it's brown Play-Doh.
It's called malicious prosecution.
Have a good night.
And Judge Engoron dismissing Trump's lawyers interpretation as “reminiscent of Lewis Carroll” was delicious execution.
Emails and Benghazi? You mean that kind of Play-Doh?
... and cookiegate.
Well, hopefully there's sufficient independent evidence that would convince a jury that their taking the 5th is in fact just to cover up actual guilt, and would therefore justify their agreeing on a guilty verdict.
It's my understanding that someone taking their 5th Amendment rights in a criminal trial cannot be used to assume guilt. The issue here is that is not the same ruling in a civil trial and the Trump organization is undergoing both a criminal trial as well as a civil trial so Trump taking the 5th in this deposition for a criminal trial could be used against him in the civil trial.
I think it's because he didn't understand the questions. He always come across as dim. He looks dim, too
Yes, it does appear that Eric, the toothy one, is dim although it is reported that the 'orange old one' thought Don Jr. to be the----------shall we say, "Less equipped."
However, Eric understood the questions well enough but knew and realized that just being the specter of a Trump assured those whatever dealings and occurrences being discussed were at the least unethical and possibly illegal.
As it is a civil matter, the jury can indeed use all of his 5th's against him.
The appearance of partisan politics is there. This all started when Trump had won the election and Democrats targeted him with a fictitious allegations.
The parking garage lawyer?
This 'lawyer'
Trump's Lawyer Interrupted A Hearing About The Trump Organization's Finances To Ask New York's AG To Investigate Hillary Clinton For 'Spying' On Trump
It's a reference to a right-wing conspiracy theory claiming Clinton illegally spied on Trump's White House.
The comment came in the middle of a court hearing over whether Trump should sit for a deposition about Trump Organization finances.
Former President Donald Trump's attorney Alina Habba asked a lawyer from New York attorney general Tish James' office if they would "go after Hillary Clinton" in a hearing about whether the former president should be forced to sit for a deposition about his company's finances.
"I want to know, Mr. Wallace, Ms. James, are you gonna go after Hillary Clinton for what she's doing to my client?" Habba said, referring to New York Attorney General Letitia James and Kevin Wallace, an attorney representing her in the hearing. "That she spied at Trump Tower in your state? Are you gonna look into her business dealings?"
Judge Arthur Engoron stopped Habba's discussion of Clinton, saying they were irrelevant.
"The Clintons are not before me," he said.
The conspiracy theory that Hillary Clinton spied on Trump in the White House has proliferated through right-wing media outlets in recent days.
She's not a very good lawyer
I thought Trump only hires the best people … until he has to fire them.
I predict she will be fired within two Scaramuccis when it becomes clear that "But what about Hillary" turns out to be an entirely ineffective legal defense.
You're taking offense with WHO it is? That's something you should take up with them and the author. It doesn't change my statement at at all.
You really expect anybody to expect that a lawyer working for Trump is NOT going to be partisan? That the partisanship is all on the part of prosecutors?
Do you believe every lawyer of every convicted prisoner who says "My client is innocent! It was all a witch hunt!" Or do you think that maybe they know their paycheck depends on them being (or pretending to be) biased in favor of their client and against the prosecution, cuz, you know, that's their job.
Or do you only believe them if their clients were Republicans?
They usually just quit.
I expect a lawyer to be committed to their client. Doesn't matter if it's Trump of Jeff Dahmer.
Isn't that what I said?
And here is where you start chasing squirrels.
You shouldn't change any of your statements, they're (fool's) gold.
So you expect them to be partisan, but will also accept as true their partisan accusations that others are partisan.
Noted.
Did you miss where I stated I expect a lawyer to be committed to their client?
No. Nor did I miss the part where you present the partisan ramblings of a partisan lawyer as evidence that the prosecution is partisan.
Do you think Trump would go good with some Fava Beans and a Nice Chianti, cause Trumps Silence and or constant refusal to release records, makes one need question why hes going to look so damn guilty out on the Lamb, when he and his family members invoke the Fifth, they should have drunk, like the Kool Aid they distribute and never dilute, cause it can never refute what so many don't or can't refute here, hear, or see, hear....?
That appears to be their only strategy.
But they're going after 'children'! The humanity!
The 'But Hillary' Defense - I'm surprised we've never seen it on Law & Order.
LOL!
Some of them lose their license and a few of them have served time in jail.
Ivanka for pole dancer.
Actually, a lawyer is an officer of the court. His only commitment is to the letter of the law.
I guess Trump will have to find a new fall guy since they are leaving him like rats from a sinking ship.
I'm surprised anyone is loyal to him because he is loyal to no one but himself.
I don't understand it myself.
especially since he no longer can pardon , and not cause he ran out of mustard...
The USN DeSantis is their neo-liferaft.
they all deserve to go down with their Shit ! Hell Stormy should have brought that Shit down.
The Trump Family and organization has been an Anchor around US for far too long and the conspiracies and lies run oh so deep....but not so deep, as to we could not hear his cries and pleas for HELP, i'm a mental midget who is more like Gidgette, goes to Washinton, to Steal the Art of The Democracy Deal, with a bunch of ignorant knumb sklullz a tempting to close US, and the Deal of a Trumped up Card, Shark, Tanked Retardation , upon our fckd up nation
A summation of the MAGA and even 'The Orange One' himself could be summed up as simply beginning with a Stormy Who and ending with a Hang mike Pence.