U.S. Justice Department prosecutors on Thursday asked for a January 2, 2024, start date for the trial of the criminal case against former President Donald Trump accusing him of illegally conspiring to overturn his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden. In a filing with U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington, the office of […]
The request came after Trump posted on Truth Social, “If you go after me, I’m coming after you!” The Department of Justice asked the Washington judge presiding over the latest criminal case against former President Donald Trump to issue a protective order for evidence Friday after Trump made an apparently threatening post on social media. […]
Federal prosecutors have opened an investigation into Rudy Giuliani, the personal lawyer of U.S. President Donald Trump, Bloomberg reports. The prosecutors are conducting an inquiry into possible finance violations against Giuliani and his failure to register as a foreign agent, according to the Bloomberg account. Giuliani, the former mayor of New York, has emerged as […]
A U.S. federal judge on Thursday sentenced Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, to 47 months in prison for tax and bank fraud. The sentence was substantially less than the 19 to 21 years prosecutors wanted, which most likely would have put Manafort, 69, behind bars for the rest of his life. […]