Topline Former President Donald Trump’s lawyer Joe Tacopina suggested in a 2018 interview that hush-money payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels may have been illegal—statements that appear to complicate his defense of Trump as the former president could be indicted over the scheme as soon as Wednesday.Joe Tacopina (Photo by Gilbert Carrasquillo/Getty Images) Getty Images Key FactsIn the 2018 CNN clip, which resurfaced on Tuesday, Tacopina tells anchor Don Lemon that “if in fact” the payments were made in connection to Trump’s 2016 campaign “it’s an illegal agreement. It’s a fraud.”Tacopina was speaking about federal prosecutors’ 2018 case against former Trump lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen, in which Cohen pleaded guilty to five charges, including campaign finance violations, for paying adult film star Stormy Daniels $130,000 in exchange for her silence about her alleged 2006 affair with Trump.…
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Trump lawyer says he aims to get hush money case dismissed before trial | Donald Trump
While Donald Trump launches verbal attacks against the prosecutor and judge overseeing his criminal charges in connection with hush money payments to the adult film star Stormy Daniels, an attorney for the former US president has said his main focus is on legal maneuvers aiming to get the case Refuse long before a trial jury is ever seated. Jim Trusty appeared on Sunday on ABC’s This Week and argued that “there’s a lot to play with” when examining whether New York state prosecutors waited too long to secure an indictment against Trump and if the ex-president intended to commit any crimes with the payments at the center of the case.…
The lawyer in charge of Manchester City’s investigation supports Arsenal
Arsenal fans on Twitter have stumbled across a goldmine regarding the Manchester City case… The topic of conversation today is certainly the events which are involving regarding Manchester City. The club is currently under investigation for financial breaches occurring over the last decade. It’s now been reported that the lawyer in charge of the case is an Arsenal fan. That’s right. Murray Rosen KC, who has been appointed to chair the independent commission looking into Manchester City’s financial breaches is an Arsenal fan. Of course, he will put all exterior biases aside, as he is an established and experienced professional in the field of law, but this hasn’t stopped Arsenal fans from digging.…