Former President Donald J. Trump faces a series of investigations across the country, at both the state and federal levels, into matters related to his business and political career.
Mr. Trump has pleads not guilty to 34 felonies filed by prosecutors in Manhattan in connection with his role in what they describe as a hush scheme to cover up a potential sex scandal to clear the way for him to become president. in 2016. A Georgia prosecutor is in the final stages of an investigation into Mr. Trump’s efforts to reverse election results in that state.
And Jack Smith, the special counsel leading the document lawsuit, is also looking into Mr Trump’s efforts to reverse his defeat at the 2020 polls and his role in the events leading up attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
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Manhattan Criminal Case
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg has brought the case over Mr. Trump’s role in a hush payment to a porn star, Stormy Daniels, who is already campaigning for publicity. Tell her story about a sexual encounter with him.
Michael D. Cohen, Mr. Trump’s fixer at the time, paid Ms. Daniels $130,000 to remain silent. As soon as he was sworn in as president, Mr. Trump returned the money to Mr. Cohen.
While paying to silence is not inherently a crime, Mr Bragg accused Mr. Trump of falsifying records relating to the payments and refunds of Mr. Cohen, who is believed to have played a role. is the main witness of the prosecution.
In court papers, prosecutors also cited another woman, Karen McDougal, a former Playboy model. Ms. McDougal tried to sell her affair with Mr. Trump during the campaign and landed a $150,000 settlement with The National Enquirer.
Prosecutors said that instead of publishing her account, the tabloid blocked it with the cooperation of Mr. Trump and Mr. Cohen. (Mr Trump denies having an affair with Ms. Daniels or Ms. McDougal.)
The case is expected to go to trial in March.
Georgia Criminal Investigation
Georgia prosecutor recent designation that it will announce indictments this summer in the investigation of Mr. Trump and some of his allies into efforts to interfere in the outcome of the 2020 presidential election in the state.
Mr. Trump and his associates had many contacts with Georgian officials after the election, including a call in which he urged Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find 11,780 votes” – the number he needed to overtake President Biden’s lead there.
Legal experts say Mr. Trump and others appear to be at “significant risk” was indicted for violating several Georgia statutes, including state auction laws.
A special grand jury was convened last May in Fulton County, and they heard the testimony of 75 witnesses behind closed doors for months. The jurors issued a final report, but its most important elements – including recommendations on who should be indicted and on what charges – remained sealed.
But the foreman, Emily Kohrs, has said that indictments have been brought against more than a dozen people, and she strongly hinted in an interview with The New York Times in February that Mr. among those names. “You won’t be shocked,” she said. “It’s not rocket science.”
Fani T. Willis, the Fulton district attorney, will ultimately decide which charges to seek and then bring them before a regular grand jury. She recently indicated that she will do so during the first three weeks of August.
January 6
A House committee investigating the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has spent a year and a half examining the role Trump and his allies played in their bid to stay in power following his November election defeat. 2020.
IN Decemberpromulgating committee an 845-page report details the events leading up to the attack on the Capitol concluding that Mr. Trump and several of his associates devised “a multipart plan to overturn the 2020 presidential election.”
The panel also accused Mr. Trump of inciting rebellion and conspiring to defraud the United States, among other federal crimes, and referred him and some of his allies to the Justice Department so they could be prosecuted.
The introductions were largely symbolic, but they sent a strong signal that a bipartisan congressional committee believed the former president had committed a crime.
Mr. Smith’s office launched its own investigation into Mr. Trump’s efforts to overturn the election, building on months of work by other federal prosecutors in Washington who also filed prosecuted nearly 1,000 people who participated in the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
The office of special counsel has focused its attention on a series of schemes that Mr. Trump and his allies have used to try to prevent failure, among them a planning to create the wrong list of pro-Trump electors in the key swing states that Mr. Biden has won. Prosecutors under Mr. Smith Also searched for information about Trump’s main fundraising activity after the election.
The special counsel’s office recently won key legal battles in its investigation as judges in Washington issued rulings forcing top Trump administration officials like Former Vice President Mike Pence and former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to testify before a grand jury.
It’s not clear what allegations, if any, may come from the federal investigation. But prosecutors continue to pursue different angles. Recently they subpoena employees from Trump’s White House who may have been involved in the firing of the cybersecurity official whose agency rated the 2020 election as “the safest in American history,” according to two people informed of the matter.
New York State Civil Investigation
In the September lawsuit, New York Attorney General Letitia James accused Mr lie to lenders and insurance companies by fraudulently overvaluing his assets by billions of dollars.
Ms. James is seeking to ban the Trumps, including Mr. Trump’s eldest sons, Donald Jr. and Eric, and his eldest daughter, Ivanka, run a business in New York.
She successfully requested that a judge appoint an independent supervisor to oversee the Trump Organization’s use of its annual financial reports.
Since Ms. James’s investigation is civil, she cannot file a criminal complaint. She may choose to pursue settlement negotiations in the hope of receiving a faster financial settlement. But if she prevails at trial, a judge could impose hefty financial penalties on Mr. Trump and restrict his business in New York.
Miss James’s Investigator Questioning Mr. Trump under oath in April, and a test is scheduled for October.
Report contributed by Jonah E. Bromwich, Rebecca Davis O’Brien, yellow michael, Michael Rothfeld, Ed Shanahan, Richard Fausset And Ashley Wong.
