Former President Donald Trump finds himself once again facing indictment, this time in federal court, after an investigation into his handling of classified documents after departing the White House. The prospect of putting Mr. Trump on trial for serious crimes and sending him to prison has many Americans feeling giddy: Finally, justice might be done. […]
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Why It Matters The move by Mr. Bragg follows similar actions by district attorneys in recent years. The Manhattan district attorney’s office has been examining cases brought by 22 former New York Police Department officers who have been convicted of crimes. In November, the office dismissed 188 misdemeanor convictions going as far back as 2001 […]
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Former President Donald J. Trump is asking the judge overseeing his criminal case in Manhattan to step aside, citing ties between the judge’s family and Democratic causes, Mr. Trump’s lawyers said in a statement Wednesday. The motion for recusal, which has not yet been filed publicly, represents the latest effort by Mr. Trump’s lawyers to […]
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The trial of Donald J. Trump has been scheduled for March 25, 2024, the judge presiding over his Manhattan criminal case said Tuesday. Mr. Trump, who appeared on video in his first courtroom appearance since 34 felony charges were unveiled against him last month, appeared to react angrily when the trial date was announced by […]
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One of Donald J. Trump’s longtime lieutenants, Allen H. Weisselberg, was recently released from the notorious Rikers Island jail complex after pleading guilty to a tax fraud scheme. Yet Mr. Weisselberg’s legal troubles are far from over. The Manhattan district attorney’s office is now considering a new round of criminal charges against Mr. Weisselberg, 75, […]
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The killing of a 30-year-old homeless Black man by a white rider on a New York City subway car has prompted intense debate over the response by the police and prosecutors. Ten days after the May 1 killing, Alvin L. Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, filed a felony complaint of second-degree manslaughter against Daniel Penny, […]
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Little is known about the political views of Daniel Penny, the ex-Marine charged with fatally choking Jordan Neely on a New York City subway. But since Mr. Penny’s arrest on Friday on second-degree manslaughter charges, he has been quickly embraced by right-wing political figures and groups. A campaign to raise money for his legal defense […]
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Daniel Penny, the 24-year-old Marine veteran who choked and killed a homeless man on the subway last week, is expected to be arrested on a second-degree manslaughter charge and to appear in Manhattan Criminal Court on Friday. The Manhattan district attorney’s office confirmed Mr. Penny’s expected arrest on the charge in a statement. “We can […]
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Last year, on a spring evening, a 28-year-old man confronted a woman on a San Diego bus who was filming him with her cellphone, according to court documents. Edward Hilbert, 56, another rider, decided to intervene. He grabbed the man, Anthony J. McGaff, 28, put him in a chokehold and held him for eight minutes, […]
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A lawyer was accused of stealing $1.2 million from his law firm and covering it up. An insurance broker was accused of taking $350,000 from a client and covering it up. And a former president was accused of orchestrating a $130,000 hush-money payment to a porn star and covering it up. All three men were […]
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The man who choked Jordan Neely to death on a New York City subway train on Monday is Daniel Penny, a 24-year-old veteran of the Marine Corps, according to two senior law enforcement officials. Mr. Penny has not been charged in Mr. Neely’s death and it is unclear if he will be. Many politicians, city […]
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Almost as soon as the video of one subway rider choking another to death began to ricochet across the internet, the killing came to signify more than the tragic death of one man. For many New Yorkers, the choking of the 30-year-old homeless man, Jordan Neely, was a heinous act of public violence to be […]
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Donald J. Trump is seeking to move his criminal case from New York State Supreme Court to federal court, one of his lawyers said on Thursday. One month after appearing in a Manhattan courtroom, where state prosecutors accused him of committing 34 felonies by falsifying documents to cover up a potential sex scandal, Mr. Trump […]
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Lawyers for Donald J. Trump on Monday pushed back against an effort by the Manhattan district attorney’s office to limit the former president’s ability to publicly discuss evidence in the criminal case against him. The district attorney’s office last week asked the judge in the case to restrict Mr. Trump’s access to some case material. […]
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A former prosecutor who once helped lead an investigation of Donald J. Trump will testify before Congress next month, ending for now a legal dispute between Republican lawmakers and Alvin L. Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, who had sought to block the testimony. The former prosecutor, Mark F. Pomerantz, is now scheduled to testify under […]
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Good morning. Today we’ll find out about a new designation that recognizes how much cleaner the waterways around New York City are than they once were. We’ll also get details on an appeals court ruling that temporarily blocked questioning of a former prosecutor about the investigation of former President Donald Trump. “We’re going to have […]
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An appeals court temporarily blocked congressional Republicans from questioning a former prosecutor with the Manhattan district attorney’s office, briefly pausing an order from a federal district judge. The prosecutor, Mark F. Pomerantz, worked on the district attorney’s investigation into Donald J. Trump for about a year before resigning in 2022, and published a book about […]
Read More An appeals court temporarily blocked congressional Republicans from questioning a former prosecutor with the Manhattan district attorney’s office, briefly pausing an order from a federal district judge. The prosecutor, Mark F. Pomerantz, worked on the district attorney’s investigation into Donald J. Trump for about a year before resigning in 2022, and published a book about […]
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A federal judge on Wednesday declined to bar Congressional Republicans from questioning a former prosecutor with the Manhattan district attorney’s office, granting them limited permission to scrutinize the investigation that led to criminal charges against Donald J. Trump. The former prosecutor, Mark F. Pomerantz, worked for the district attorney’s office for about a year, leaving […]
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One Republican bashed him as “pro-criminal.” Another called him a “terrible” prosecutor with a habit of losing cases. A third suggested he was in the pocket of a wealthy Jewish financier frequently demonized by the far right. “He should resign and be disbarred,” declared Representative Jeff Van Drew, Republican of New Jersey. Two weeks after […]
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House Republicans are descending on New York on Monday for a hearing that will use the issue of crime as a political cudgel against Alvin L. Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney who charged former President Donald J. Trump with falsifying business records. During the hearing, “Victims of Violent Crime in Manhattan,” Republicans on the Judiciary […]
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Former President Donald J. Trump said in an online campaign advertisement on Thursday that if he were re-elected he would “completely overhaul” the F.B.I. and the Justice Department and launch “sweeping civil rights investigations” into local district attorneys’ offices. Mr. Trump’s three-minute ad promising to crack down on local prosecutors in Democratic cities — whom […]
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The Manhattan district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, last month became the first prosecutor to bring a criminal case against a current or former American president when a grand jury indicted Donald J. Trump. Mr. Bragg, 49, a Democrat who had never held public office before last year, now finds himself on the national stage as […]
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Donald J. Trump on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against his former fixer, Michael D. Cohen, just weeks after being indicted in a case in which Mr. Cohen is expected to serve as a star witness. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Florida, accuses Mr. Cohen of revealing Mr. Trump’s confidences and “spreading falsehoods” about […]
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The Manhattan district attorney on Tuesday sued Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio in an extraordinary step intended to keep congressional Republicans from interfering in the office’s criminal case against former President Donald J. Trump. The 50-page suit, filed in federal court in the Southern District of New York, accuses Mr. Jordan of a “brazen and […]
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The Republican-led House Judiciary Committee said on Monday that it would hold a hearing in Manhattan on what it called the “pro-crime” policies of the borough’s district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, a Democrat who is leading the criminal prosecution of former President Donald J. Trump. The move was the latest by Mr. Trump’s congressional defenders […]
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In New York, Mr. Bragg said he, too, was focusing on crimes that thwarted the democratic process, though these were from the 2016 campaign. In a statement, he said that Mr. Trump had “repeatedly and fraudulently falsified New York business records to conceal crimes that hid damaging information from the voting public during the 2016 […]
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WASHINGTON — The Fulton County district attorney’s investigation into former President Donald J. Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia is nearing a decision point, posing fresh challenges for federal prosecutors considering charging him in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. The long-running investigation by Fani T. Willis in […]
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PALM BEACH, Fla. — At one end of the palatial Donald J. Trump Grand Ballroom at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday, the former president made his first public comments about his arrest. At the opposite end of the hall — a space illuminated by 16 crystal chandeliers and bigger than four professional basketball courts — were several […]
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As a former president and the de facto leader of the Republican Party, Donald J. Trump is one of the most powerful people in America. But as a criminal defendant within the confines of the Manhattan courtroom where the case against him will play out for months to come, Mr. Trump is under the authority […]
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WASHINGTON — House Republicans issued a subpoena on Thursday to a former Manhattan prosecutor who investigated former President Donald J. Trump, moving quickly after Mr. Trump’s arraignment this week to dissect the active criminal case against him and scrutinize the office pursuing it. Representative Jim Jordan, Republican of Ohio and the Judiciary Committee chairman, sent […]
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