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When Lauren Nelson returned home from a trip to Portugal in 2022, she was “on cloud nine.” It hadn’t been any regular holiday — she had just gotten married. She and her new husband, Darragh, as well as their young daughter, were celebrating the perfect week away when they found a lump on his bicep.
The adult film star. The betraying bagman. The brash billionaire. The plot reads like a "Sopranos" episode, a shadowy narrative of a nation’s sins and troubling divisions, its characters converging in a New York courtroom where, for the first time in history, a former president will stand before a jury in a criminal trial. Donald Trump is giving the country another unruly moment to mark. There have been so many over the years — the Jan. 6 insurrection, the failed pandemic response — that they...
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Letitia James contended the former president failed to demonstrate that the company behind his bond had the resources to pay it if his appeal failed.
CNN’s Laura Coates discusses the possibility of an unfair “sleeper” juror making their way into the Trump jury selection and attempt a mistrial later on.
The New York attorney general’s office has asked a judge to void the $175 million bond former President Trump secured to put off paying the larger monetary damage award in his civil fraud cas
New York Attorney General Letitia James is pushing the judge in former President Donald Trump's civil fraud case to void the $175 million bond that Trump previously posted to appeal his New York civil lawsuit. In her 26-page filing obtained by Fox News Digital, James questions whether the insurance company has sufficient funds to back it up. Trump’s bond was posted by California-based Knight Specialty Insurance Company (KSIC), but James argued that the insurer was "not authorized" to write...
New York Attorney General Letitia James on Friday asked that a judge void former President Donald Trump's bond in his civil fraud case, questioning whether the company that issued it has the funds to back it up. In a 26-page filing ahead of a pre-scheduled hearing on Monday, James expressed concern about whether Knight Specialty Insurance Company could secure the $175 million bond. She also argued that the collateral put up by the former president should be under the full control of the company....
It appeared in late March that the wrangling over former President Donald Trump's ability to pay the $454 million in damages ordered in the civil fraud case brought against him by New York state Attorney General Letitia James' office was sorted out. Sure, James also started to make noises that she would try to seize Trump's property--and Judge Arthur Engoron slapped on court supervision of the Trump Organization's finances for the next three years.But remember that in lieu of having to...