Indicted

Grand jury in hush money probe votes to bring first case against a former US president.

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The charge against Trump, brought by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, makes him the former president to ever be criminally charged.

“I stand by my testimony and the evidence that I provided to the district attorney of New York,” Cohen said on Thursday during an interview on MSNBC. After the prosecutors’ departure, Bragg hired a former colleague at the New York Attorney General’s Office — Matthew Colangelo, who helped lead a lawsuit against the Trump Foundation that led to its demise — and the district attorney’s probe appeared to kick into higher gear. Bragg inherited the Trump case from his predecessor, Cy Vance, and both district attorneys initially indicated there wasn’t enough evidence to bring a case against the former president. And both Cohen and federal prosecutors have said that he acted “in coordination with and at the direction of” the former president. The former president is also facing potential criminal charges on three other fronts — over allegations of trying to undermine the 2020 election results in Georgia, taking classified documents from the White House (and obstructing efforts to recover them) and for his involvement in the Jan. I wouldn’t even think about leaving.” He has said his supporters were “very upset” about the multiple investigations he’s facing, and added that he thought the probes would “enhance” his poll numbers. Trump’s attorney to coordinate his surrender to the Manhattan D.A.’s Office for arraignment on a Supreme Court indictment, which remains under seal,” a spokesperson for the district attorney’s office said. “The NYPD continues to monitor all activity and there are no credible threats to the city at this time,” Adams spokesperson Fabien Levy said. “This is Political Persecution and Election Interference at the highest level in history,” Trump wrote in his statement. And while the case could stretch beyond November 2024, a conviction before then would spark a host of constitutional issues. The district attorney’s office requested that Trump surrender on Friday, but Trump’s lawyers replied that the timeline was too tight, saying the U.S. He did not commit any crime,” the attorneys Joe Tacopina and Susan Necheles said in a statement.

The grand jury indictment makes Trump the first former U.S. president charged with a crime.

The Justice Department has a longtime policy that it is likely unconstitutional to prosecute a sitting president in federal court. Unlike those inquiries, the Manhattan case concerns conduct by Trump that occurred before he became president and is unrelated to much-publicized efforts to overturn a presidential election. railed about the investigation on social media and urged supporters to protest on his behalf, prompting tighter security around the Manhattan criminal courthouse. [READ MORE: New York’s probe of Trump’s involvement in hush-money case, explained](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/new-yorks-probe-of-trumps-involvement-in-hush-money-case-explained) The former president was at Mar-a-Lago, his Florida estate, on Thursday and had filmed an interview with a conservative commentator earlier in the day. Cohen pleaded guilty to those charges and unrelated tax evasion counts and served time in federal prison. Bragg’s predecessor as district attorney, Cyrus Vance Jr., then took up the investigation in 2019. For security reasons, his booking is expected to be carefully choreographed to avoid crowds inside or outside the courthouse. [well-chronicled allegations](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/new-york-grand-jury-indicts-trump-in-stormy-daniels-hush-money-case-lawyer-says) from a period in 2016 when Trump’s celebrity past collided with his political ambitions. Arriving at a time of deep political divisions, the charges are likely to reinforce rather than reshape dueling perspectives of those who see accountability as long overdue and those who, like Trump, feel the Republican is being targeted for political purposes by a Democratic prosecutor. A person familiar with the matter, who was not authorized to discuss sealed proceedings, said the surrender was expected to happen next week. In a statement confirming the charges, defense lawyers Susan Necheles and Joseph Tacopina said Trump “did not commit any crime.

A grand jury in Manhattan has voted to indict Donald Trump, the first time in American history that a current or former president has faced criminal charges ...

"Today's indictment is not the end of this chapter; but rather, just the beginning. Trump has denied knowledge of the payment. Now let truth and justice prevail," he said. Yet, now he is stretching the law to target a political opponent," DeSantis said. Especially when they do. "But so too is the unlawful conduct in which Trump has been engaged," Schiff said in a statement. "No one is above the law." "The two things I wish to say at this time is that accountability matters and I stand by my testimony and the evidence I have provided to DANY (District Attorney of New York)." At issue in the investigation is the payment made to Daniels and the Trump Organisation's reimbursement to Cohen. "I take no pride in issuing this statement and wish to also remind everyone of the presumption of innocence; as provided by the due process clause. "For the first time in our Country's history, a President (current or former) of the United States has been indicted," Cohen said. "This is political persecution and election interference at the highest level in history," he said.

An extra in the 1992 film 'Home Alone 2: Lost In New York' has been indicted on fraud-related charges. The un-named extra has just one line in the film ...

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A Manhattan grand jury has indicted former President Donald Trump, multiple sources close to Trump confirmed to NPR. The charges, which are expected to be ...

"And he says to me something to the effect of, 'Don't worry, Michael. I believe that your decision not to prosecute Donald Trump now, and on the existing record, is misguided and completely contrary to the public interest." So the documentation of the reimbursement involved the creation of false business records, which is a crime under New York law." And it takes a while for that to get through the White House system.' Checks signed by Trump were presented at trial, but the former president was never charged. in 2018 and quickly grew to become a broad probe of Trump business practices. Cohen said he even discussed the checks with Trump inside the White House. "This is Political Persecution and Election Interference at the highest level in history," he wrote in the statement. The grand jury's indictment is expected to be unsealed in the coming days. Some came from the Trump trust, but others were Trump's attorney to coordinate his surrender to the Manhattan D.A.'s Office for arraignment on a Supreme Court indictment, which remains under seal. Cohen got the money from a home equity line of credit.