With the November election looming just weeks away, Rep. Matt Gaetz was once again tied to a party that included underage high school girls and drugs in a late-night filing made available to the public on Thursday. As Pagliery wrote, Gaetz is accused of attending "a drug-fueled sex party in 2017 with the 17-year-old girl at the center of the …
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon still hasn't set a trial date in former President Donald Trump's classified documents case in the Southern District of Florida. The Daily Beast reported that Stanley Woodward — an attorney for Trump "body man" Walt Nauta — is alleging "vindictive prosecution" by Department of Justice special counsel Jack Smith. "Mr. Bratt attempted to coerce Mr. …
As Donald Trump's bank fraud trial enters its third week, observers are noting the former president's lawyers appear to be employing a deliberate strategy of dragging it out for a multitude of reasons, one of which includes baiting New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur F. Engoron in an effort to bolster an inevitable appeal. According to a report from the …
According to attorneys who have appeared in Judge Juan Merchan's Manhattan courtroom, the jurist is fair, patient, listens well and is, as one colleague called him, "Bright, kind of chill." According to the Daily Beast's Jose Pagliery, Merchan was the judge who ruled in the Trump Organization tax fraud case that resulted in a $1.6 million judgment, as well as …
Former President Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign is unprecedented in many ways. Moreover, no U.S. presidential candidate has had so many close associates or former associates who were convicted of or pled guilty to criminal charges — a list that includes Allen Weisselberg, Michael Cohen, Paul Manafort, veteran GOP operative Roger Stone, former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, and "War …
New Jersey-based attorney Alina Habba, who joined Donald Trump’s legal team in 2021, has represented the former president on a variety of cases — including his lawsuits against his niece Mary Trump and journalist E. Jean Carroll. “Her name is Alina Habba, and — almost out of nowhere — the relatively unknown New Jersey lawyer went from representing a college …