NY - Ex-President Donald Trump, charged with 34 criminal counts of falsifying business records, Apr 2023, Trial 25 Mar 2024 #2

[ilovewings]

Trump D.C. trial drops off court’s March calendar, clearing way for N.Y. case​

https://wapo.st/48XSJbo

Former president Donald Trump’s March 4 trial date on charges of plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 election has been dropped from the public calendar of the federal court in Washington, a sign of what has long been anticipated — that his claim of presidential immunity from criminal prosecution would delay his trial while it remains on appeal.

The change did not appear on the official criminal case docket before U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan, who has made clear since Trump filed his appeal on Dec. 7 that all trial deadlines would be suspended while he challenges the case.
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A delay in the D.C. case makes it increasingly likely that the first of Trump’s four criminal trials could be held this spring in Manhattan on New York state charges of business fraud in connection with hush money payments during the 2016 election. That trial has nominally been set for March 25, but the court in that case has signaled deference to Trump’s federal election subversion case. New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan has scheduled a pretrial hearing in two weeks — Feb. 15 — and is expected to decide after that if the trial will go forward as planned.
BBM

I am pretty shocked that the appeals court has not made a ruling on the Immunity issue- it has been three weeks--- Trump wins by every delay even if he loses the appeal. Actually it would take me 5 minutes to rule that a president does have blanket immunity for anything he does as president LOL

 

[musicaljoke]

I am pretty shocked that the appeals court has not made a ruling on the Immunity issue- it has been three weeks--- Trump wins by every delay even if he loses the appeal. Actually it would take me 5 minutes to rule that a president does have blanket immunity for anything he does as president LOL

Does? or do you mean does not?

 

[waldojabba]

A New Book Delves Into Trump’s Efforts to Overturn the Election — With Stunning Details

Here, the authors offer some truly outrageous revelations.

katiecouric.com

When we set out to report Find Me the Votes, we had a hunch we’d be digging into the most interesting of all of the criminal investigations into Donald Trump. The GA election fraud controversy was the epicenter of Trump’s most furious efforts to overturn the 2020 election; it was where the widest scope of alleged criminality took place — from the fake elector scheme to making false statements to an alleged cyber-heist of election equipment sensitive voter data in a rural county.

There was also a troubling racial component to much of the political skullduggery being perpetrated by Trump and his confederates. There was a toxic brew in Georgia of hate-filled conspiracy theories and vicious online attacks that seemed to revive the ghosts of the state’s Jim Crow past. It led to the horrific targeting of Black election workers like Ruby Freeman and her daughter Shaye Moss, victims of sickening racial attacks and frighteningly specific death threats.

 

[Niner]

Date/Time Judge Calendar Hearing Type Outcome
01/04/2024/09:30 AM Merchan, Juan M. 59 Decision Adjournment Rescheduled

02/15/2024/09:30 AM Merchan, Juan M. 59 Decision Adjournment

03/25/2024/09:30 AM Merchan, Juan M. 59 Trial Trial


Case #
Summons # Defendant Appearance Date Court Judge Part
IND-71543-23/001 TRUMP, DONALD 02/15/2024 New York Supreme Criminal Court 100 Centre Street Merchan, Juan M. 59

link: Defendant Search


I have a notation that Trump will attend virtually.

 

[MyBelle]

A New Book Delves Into Trump’s Efforts to Overturn the Election — With Stunning Details

Here, the authors offer some truly outrageous revelations.

katiecouric.com

When we set out to report Find Me the Votes, we had a hunch we’d be digging into the most interesting of all of the criminal investigations into Donald Trump. The GA election fraud controversy was the epicenter of Trump’s most furious efforts to overturn the 2020 election; it was where the widest scope of alleged criminality took place — from the fake elector scheme to making false statements to an alleged cyber-heist of election equipment sensitive voter data in a rural county.

There was also a troubling racial component to much of the political skullduggery being perpetrated by Trump and his confederates. There was a toxic brew in Georgia of hate-filled conspiracy theories and vicious online attacks that seemed to revive the ghosts of the state’s Jim Crow past. It led to the horrific targeting of Black election workers like Ruby Freeman and her daughter Shaye Moss, victims of sickening racial attacks and frighteningly specific death threats.

BBM. Shame on Katie Couric for playing the race card and not doing it very well.

Not all of the election workers working in the arena counting ballots were black. The reason the two female election workers were singled-out by the right-wing nuts was not because they are black but because a snippet of arena security video showed one of them sending away the poll watchers by claiming a water pipe had broken and they would resume counting ballots in the morning.

After the poll watchers left, the two election workers--who had placed the uncounted ballots under the table because they thought they were done for the night--were told to keep counting, so they did. All of the security video revealed the truth, and the media covered it extensively.

I don't know how Rudy knew their names, but he did defame them very publicly and also placed their lives in danger. What truly baffles me is why did Rudy, an attorney, do something so incredibly stupid.

JMO

 

[Niner]

Here's what is coming up.

Updated 2/9/24

NY – vs Trump -34 felony criminal counts of falsifying business records in the 1st degree & conspiracy in connection with hush money payments to two women before the 2016 presidential election. New York County #IND-71543-23/001
Judge Juan M. Merchan. Manhattan Attorney General Alvin Bragg. Defense attorneys Todd Blanche & Susan Necheles.

Thursday, 2/15/24 @ 9:30am – Miscellaneous hearing & decision on motions, including to dismiss & to consider any scheduling conflicts & potential changes to trial date. Trump will attend hearing.
Monday, 3/25/24 @ 9:30am – Trial set to begin – Trial will probably be rescheduled. Trump defense lawyers have said the trial is expected to last upward of three weeks.

 

[SouthAussie]

Trump will attend a hearing Thursday that is expected to determine a timetable for the trial in the New York hush money case against him

New York Judge Juan Merchan's hearing on Thursday, where he will also address Trump's motions to dismiss the case, will likely shape the first felony trial against the former president.

Trump to attend New York hush money case hearing Thursday

Thursday is also a hearing in the Fulton County election interference case on the misconduct claims against District Attorney Fani Willis and special prosecutor Nathan Wade.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[Niner]

Thursday, February 15th:
*Motions Hearing (@ 9:30am ET) – NY - *Donald John Trump (76/now 77) was indicted (3/30/23), formally arrested, charged & arraigned (4/4/23) with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the 1st degree & conspiracy in connection with hush money payments to two women before the 2016 presidential election. Plead not guilty. Warrant vacated, released on recognizance. New York County
NY false invoices or checks. All 34 counts against Trump are felony charges (class E) instead of misdemeanors.
Trump’s lawyers are Susan R. Necheles, Joseph Tacopina, Chad Seigel, Alan Garten & Todd Blanche. 4/3/23: Trump adds new attorneys to legal team: Hallie Jackson, Vaughn Hillyard & Adam Reiss. Court site has Gedalia Moshe Stern as attorney.
Trial set to begin on 3/25/24.
NY Supreme Court Judge Juan Marchan presiding. Manhattan Attorney General Alvin Bragg. Defense attorneys Todd Blanche & Susan Necheles.
Investigation & arraignment/court info from 3/30/23 thru 6/2/23 reference post #489 here:
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/t...ng-business-records-apr-2023-2.673176/page-25
6/16/23 Update: Trump tried again in a new court filing to get his criminal prosecution in New York moved to federal court, arguing the alleged crimes "took place while the president was in office." Trump & the prosecutors have filed dueling motions over the appropriate place to put Trump on trial for allegedly falsifying business records connected to the 2016 hush payment to *advertiser censored* actress Stormy Daniels. Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts. Trump has argued he was an officer of the United States when he was president & his case is best handled by federal court. There may be a more practical reason: If Trump's bid for the White House in 2024 is successful he could, in theory, take steps to make a federal prosecution go away. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has argued Trump's alleged criminal conduct regarding his business records had nothing to do with his job as president. Instead, Bragg's team has argued payments to Trump's then-fixer Michael Cohen, who had written the $130K to Daniels, were solely reimbursements for campaign contributions & therefore not acts done under the color of federal law. Trump plans to argue the business records were truthful because the money paid to Cohen was, in part, "retainer," so Cohen could handle Trump's personal affairs while he was president. U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein has scheduled oral argument on 6/27/23. An in-person hearing for Trump on 12/4/23 & miscellaneous hearing on 1/4/24, both at 9am.
6/27/23 Update: Trump's lawyers say federal court is the proper venue for the case, arguing that his actions were related to his presidency. The Manhattan District Attorney's office, which brought the charges, says the case has nothing to do with any presidential act & should remain in state court. U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein said he was inclined to side with prosecutors. "The argument is very clear that the act for which the president has been indicted does not relate to anything under color of his office," Hellerstein said at the end of a hearing in Manhattan federal court, expressing his "present attitudes" toward the case ahead of a formally written ruling within two weeks. Next in-person hearing on 12/4/23.
7/19/23 Update: A federal judge on Wednesday rejected Trump 's bid to move his hush-money criminal case from New York state court to federal court, ruling that the former president had failed to meet a high legal bar for changing jurisdiction. U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein found that the allegations in the Manhattan case pertained to Trump's personal life, not presidential duties that would have merited a move to federal court. "The evidence overwhelmingly suggests that the matter was a purely a personal item of the President - a cover-up of an embarrassing event," Hellerstein wrote in a 25-page ruling. "Hush money paid to an adult film star is not related to a President's official acts. It does not reflect in any way the color of the President's official duties." Hellerstein rejected Trump's argument that the indictment could be moved to federal court because it was "politically motivated" and the product of "state hostility." Hellerstein said there was "no reason to believe that the New York judicial system would not be fair & give Trump equal justice under the law." And he added that Trump had failed to show that the grand jury lacked a rational basis for the indictment. The ruling can be appealed to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
8/14/23 Update: The judge presiding over Trump's hush money case has rejected his request to step down from it. Trump "failed to demonstrate that there exists concrete or even realistic reasons for recusal to be appropriate, much less required on these grounds," Justice Juan Merchan said.
9/8/23 Update: In person hearing on 12/4/23 was rescheduled on 1/4/24 @ 9:30am. 9/13/23 Update: New York Judge Juan Merchan signaled this week that he would most likely delay the trial start date in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s criminal case against Trump. Usually such a development is a setback for a prosecutor. In this case, which had been set for trial on March 25, 2024. The delay makes room in the schedule for perhaps the most important of the criminal cases against the former president: his federal election interference trial now set to commence that same month in Washington, D.C. Even before that trial was scheduled, Bragg had publicly signaled that he was willing to give up his pre-existing March trial date in the 2016 hush-money case if that was “what justice requires.”
9/18/23 Update: NY Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan ruled that 2018 communications with adult film star Stormy Daniels should not sideline defense attorney Joe Tacopina from representing Trump in his criminal trial related to an alleged hush money scheme to silence Daniels. Merchan ultimately sided with Trump’s lawyer in a letter penned earlier this month telling Tacopina that he accepts the defense attorney’s representations that there is no conflict. Despite finding no conflict with Tacopina, the judge said he would "revisit this issue with Trump when he next appears virtually on 2/15/24. The judge also said Tacopina would not participate in any examination of Daniels if she is called as a witness at trial.
10/5/23 Update: Trump’s attorneys in New York filed a motion to dismiss the criminal case against him charging that he used hush money payments paid by his personal attorney Michael Cohen to keep Stormy Daniels from going public during his 2016 presidential campaign. The 57-page document asking a New York State Supreme Court judge to throw out the case attacks Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's case as a "discombobulated package of politically motivated charges marred by legal defects, procedural failures, discovery violations & a stubborn refusal to provide meaningful particulars regarding its theory of the case." Trump's attorneys Todd Blanche & Susan Necheles go on to say: “The indictment was filed six years after the conduct at issue, more than four & a half years after DANY began to investigate it, and more than three years after they started presenting evidence to a grand jury, the delay has prejudiced Trump, interfered with his ongoing presidential campaign & violated his due process rights.” Trump has pleaded not guilty & the trial is scheduled for March 25, 2024 assuming it is not pre-empted by his Washington, D.C., election interference trial, which is also set for March 2024. A spokesperson for the Manhattan DA says they will respond in court papers. Responses for defense motions are due Nov. 9.
10/5/23 Update: Case #2023-04580. Stipulation withdrawing special proceedings filed by Trump. Trump withdrew his case against Justice Engoron & the AG after failing to delay the case. A higher court declined to immediately force the Judge to cut down AG's claims.
10/28/23 Update: Motion to Dismiss hearing on 1/4/24. 11/14/23 Update: Motion to dismiss hearing on 1/4/24 has been rescheduled on 2/15/24.
11/14/23 Update: Trump in a sudden twist dropped his bid to move his hush money criminal case to federal court Tuesday. At the time of publication, the reason the former president’s counsel moved for a voluntary dismissal of the appeal was unclear. The decision to do so means Trump will proceed in State court as he defends himself against 34 charges of falsifying business records, which revolve around hush money deals made with former adult film star Stormy Daniels & former Playboy model Karen McDougal.

 

[sds71]

Judge Merchan: "In substance, defendants motions to dismiss have been denied."

Judge: "At this point, I can inform you that we’re moving ahead to jury selection on March 25." Trump lawyer Todd Blanche calls this "a great injustice."
https://twitter.com/eorden
Judge Merchan is snapping at Todd Blanche, at one point telling him, "stop interrupting me."

Trump's lawyer Todd Blanche argued that Judge Merchant was putting Trump “in an impossible position” by scheduling a trial in the midst of a series of “compressed and expedited schedules."

https://twitter.com/x/status/1758138470529155401

 

[crussell821]

Judge Merchan: "In substance, defendants motions to dismiss have been denied."

Judge: "At this point, I can inform you that we’re moving ahead to jury selection on March 25." Trump lawyer Todd Blanche calls this "a great injustice."
https://twitter.com/eorden
Judge Merchan is snapping at Todd Blanche, at one point telling him, "stop interrupting me."

Trump's lawyer Todd Blanche argued that Judge Merchant was putting Trump “in an impossible position” by scheduling a trial in the midst of a series of “compressed and expedited schedules."

https://twitter.com/x/status/1758138470529155401

Too effin’ bad?? He’s the defendent in a criminal trial, buddy. You don’t get to pick and choose your time and date for your scheduling issues and convenience. The gall of these men!!

 

[SouthAussie]

First (former) US president to be criminally tried. What an honour! And in his hometown, as well.

imo

 

[Smelly Squirrel]

Judge says Trump's hush money trial will move forward, shoots down campaign conflict arguments

The judge in former President Trump's criminal hush money case in New York City says Trump's trial will proceed on March 25 as planned.

abcnews.go.com

Before Thursday's hearing concluded, Blanche made one last effort to delay the start of the trial.

"We strenuously object to what is happening in this courtroom," he told the judge. "That President Trump is now going to spend the next two months working on this trial instead of" being out there campaigning for president "is something that shouldn't happen in this country."

"What is your legal argument?" Judge Marchan asked.

"That is my legal argument," Blanche replied.

"That's not a legal argument," Merchan said. "See you all on March 25."

 

[Niner]

Next Appearance
Date: March 25, 2024
Time:09:30 AM
Court:New York Supreme Criminal Court
100 Centre Street
Judge:Merchan, Juan M.
Part:59

link: Case Details - Summary


I shall check next week to see if any hearings might be scheduled before jury selection on 3/25.

 

[sds71]

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has asked a judge on Monday to impose a gag order on former President Trump, per @AaronKatersky & @PCCharalambous

https://twitter.com/x/status/1762190929044148575

“long history of making public and inflammatory remarks”

 

[Smelly Squirrel]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1762214722093428837

In its gag order request, the Manhattan DA's office says it has "received hundreds of threats in the wake of, and connected to," Trump's public attacks.

The Office responded to "terroristic mailings twice" around the time of Trump's indictment.

In addition, the Office received "thousands of harassing, racist, and offensive emails, phone calls, and text messages."

 

[ilovewings]

Does? or do you mean does not?

does not- a typo

 

[Kemug]

You would think that nothing could possibly be bigger than Trump's ego, wouldn't you? But the number of his court cases is certainly challenging that.

 

[Kemug]

How can this man's family not speak out against him, leave him, whatever? Or at least make a statement about not subscribing to his beliefs, actions, etc? Hasn't even one of them got the guts and morality to do that? Maybe not. Gotta look after number 1.

 

[SouthAussie]

How can this man's family not speak out against him, leave him, whatever? Or at least make a statement about not subscribing to his beliefs, actions, etc? Hasn't even one of them got the guts and morality to do that? Maybe not. Gotta look after number 1.

Mary Trump is doing what she can to tell the public what is wrong with trump. She is a trained clinical psychologist, as well as trumps only niece, and has gone on record many, many times to try to alert the public. imo

Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man

 

[Kemug]

Yes, Mary has certainly spoken out, and good on her. But I meant his more immediate family. Surely they haven't all "drunk the Koolaid"?