WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit in federal court Wednesday against his former lawyer Michael Cohen — who has emerged as a key witness in the criminal case against him — seeking more than $500 million in damages and alleging “breaches of fiduciary duty, unjust enrichment, conversion, and breach of contract.”
Cohen was the key witness to testify last month before a Manhattan grand jury, which then approved a 34-count indictment against Trump, who has denied any wrongdoing.
The complaint accuses Cohen of violating his attorney-client relationship with Trump by publicly disclosing information about him and “spreading…
Within 24 hours of having been advised that he had been indicted by a federal grand jury, former President Donald Trump announced on his social media platform, Truth Social, that he was getting a new lawyer to defend him against special counsel Jack Smith and the US government.Trump’s efforts to revamp his legal team are about as futile as rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic as long as his lawyers cannot defend Trump from … himself.We’ve seen this before, with Trump’s penchant for changing legal counsel seems at the drop of a hat throughout his ongoing legal…
LAHORE, Pakistan, May 15 (Reuters) – A Pakistani court in the eastern city of Lahore on Monday granted bail until May 23 to former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s wife in a graft case, a lawyer in their legal team said.
Khan was arrested by the country’s anti-graft agency last week in the same case, prompting violent protests across the country, which is already reeling from a crippling economic crisis. He was later released and received bail from a court in Islamabad for two weeks.
Khan’s wife, Bushra Bibi, was co-accused along with Khan in the case, which is pertained to…
Crypto lawyers Jesse Hynes believe that the Ripple-SEC lawsuit resolution might be closer than ever. Hynes recounts his take on the outcome of the lawsuit.
He made the starting prediction that early XRP sales would be found to have broken securities laws.As we get closer to the resolution of the Ripple case, I’m going to throw down my original thoughts from years ago so people can tell me how unreasonably wrong I am when the case is decided. Let me know your thoughts:
— Jesse Hynes 🌱 (@jesse_hynes) May 22, 2023
Hynes continues by saying that this will establish…
Parlatore’s exit is the latest example of tension and turmoil in Trump’s legal shop. The former president has often surrounded himself by lawyers with competing strategies.
Trump was recently found liable earlier this month in a federal civil trial in New York for sexually abusing writer E. Jean Carroll. He was represented in the trial by Joe Tacopina, a New York based lawyer who has also represented other Trump allies, including Kimberly Guilfoyle and Sean Hannity.
Parlatore’s distaste for Tacopina was evident in a recent CNN appearance, when anchor Kaitlan Collins pressed Parlatore on Tacopina’s work for Trump in yet…
It’s been about two months since a lawyer for former President Donald Trump was forced to testify as part of special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into the handling of classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago. It wasn’t clear at the time why a federal judge opted to approve a “crime fraud exception” to the usual shield of attorney-client privilege and ordered Evan Corcoran to testify. But now we have an inkling — and it’s not an encouraging development if the former president is still hoping to avoid a federal indictment.This development seems makes for compelling evidence in a possible obstruction…
“It was in consultation with the generative artificial intelligence website ChatGPT that your affiant did locate and cite the following cases in the affirmation in opposition submitted,” he said.
According to the lawyer, he has never used ChatGPT in the past to conduct legal research and was “unaware” that the content it generated could be false.
“That is the fault of the affiant, in not confirming the sources provided by ChatGPT of the legal opinions it provides,” Schwartz said. “That your affiant had no intention to deceive this court nor the defendant.”
Schwartz added that he “greatly regrets” using generative…
Evan Corcoran, a key member of former President Trump’s legal team, has recused himself from the investigation into Trump’s handling of classified documents after he was questioned by a grand jury last month, according to The Washington Post.
Trump is under investigation by Special Counsel Jack Smith over allegations that he intentionally mishandled classified documents during and after he left office, including storing documents at his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida and hiding them from federal investigators.Corcoran will still represent Trump in other cases, including Smith’s investigation into the former president’s role in the Jan. 6 insurrections.
He spoke to…