Besides Donald Trump Manhattan grand jury indictment about his alleged role in the plot to silence an adult movie star, here is a list of notable ongoing investigationslawsuits and controversies hang over the former president’s head.
Mar-a-Lago documents: Did Trump mishandle classified documents?
Special Advisor Jack Smith is overseeing the Justice Department’s criminal investigations into the retention of defense information at Trump’s resort and parts of the January 6, 2021 uprising. DOJ investigation continues to see if documents from Trump’s White House were unlawfully mishandled when they were brought to Mar-a-Lago in Florida after he left office.
Elections 2020 and January 6: US Department of Justice
Smith’s intentions also include the period following Trump’s 2020 election defeat to Joe Biden and the resulting uprising on the US Capitol.
Aspects of the Justice Department’s investigation include the use of so-called fake electors from states where Trump falsely claimed he won, such as Georgia and Arizona. Trump has fought to prevent former advisers from testifying about certain conversations, invoking executive and attorney-client privileges to keep information secret or slow investigators down. criminal.
Election 2020: Attempts to overturn Georgia results
Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis oversaw a special grand jury investigating what Trump or his allies may have done in an effort to overturn Biden’s victory in Georgia. She is consider bringing charges of conspiracy and fraudCNN’s Don Lemon reported.
Elections 2020 and January 6: House Selection Committee
Before the end of 2022, the House selection committee referred Trump to the Justice Department on at least four criminal charges. It investigated the attack on the US Capitol and discovered dramatic evidence of Trump’s actions before and on January 6, particularly efforts to use government leverage to overturn. election. It also issued a 845 page long report.
Trump Organization: Convicted of criminal tax fraud
The Trump Organization is sentenced in December by a New York grand jury on tax fraud, grand theft and falsifying business records that prosecutors allege was a 15-year scheme to defraud tax authorities by failing to report and pay taxes on compensation provided to employees. Former Trump Foundation CFO Allen Weisselberg pleaded guilty for his role in tax planning and was sentenced to 5 months at Rikers Island. He will be debuting this summer.
Trump Organization: NY Attorney General Investigates
New York Attorney General Letitia James, after a lengthy investigation, sued Trump, his three adult children, and the Trump Organization in September, accusing them of being involved in a large-scale scam spanning more than a decade that the former president used to enrich himself. James is seeking $250 million in allegedly illegal funds. Trump has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing and called the investigation politically motivated based on the electoral ambitions of James, a Democrat. One test is Booked for October 2023.
E. Jean Carroll: Defamation lawsuit over Trump’s denial of rape allegations
Former magazine writer E. Jean Carroll accuses Trump of raping her in the locker room of a New York department store in the mid-1990s and smeared her when he denied the rape, saying she was not his “type” and alleging that she made a claim to increase her book sales. Trump denies any charges brought against him by Carroll.
January 6: Police lawsuits
Several members of the US Metropolitan Police and the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police are suing Trump, alleging his words and actions incited the 2021 riots. Different cases accuse Trump. directing assaults and assaults; support and abet the attack and battery; and violate Washington’s laws prohibiting incitement to riots and disorderly conduct.
Personal Revenge: The Peter Strzok . Case
Former top FBI counterintelligence official Peter Strzok, who was fired by the FBI in 2018 after disclosing anti-Trump documents he exchanged with a top lawyer in the office, Lisa Page, sued. Department of Justice alleging that he was improperly terminated.
Strzok and Page have frequently been the target of verbal attacks by Trump and his allies as part of a broader rage Trump has expressed toward the FBI over the Trump-Russia investigation. Trump repeatedly and publicly called for the overthrow of Strzok until he was fired in August 2018. A federal judge ruled last month that Trump and FBI Director Christopher Wray may be disqualified for two hours each as part of the lawsuit.
Lawsuits filed by Trump: Bob Woodward
trumpet sue journalist Bob Woodward in January 2023 for alleged copyright infringement, alleging that Woodward released audio from their interviews without Trump’s consent. Woodward and publisher Simon & Schuster say Trump’s case is unfounded.
Lawsuits filed by Trump: The New York Times, Mary Trump and CNN
Former president in 2021 sued His niece and The New York Times in New York state court for disclosing his tax information.
Trump’s lawsuit – which is seeking “damages in an amount to be determined at trial, but is believed to be not less than One Hundred Million Dollars” – alleges that Mary Trump’s disclosure of tax information to the The Times was an illegal breach of contract, among other claims, as the alleged disclosure violated a 2001 settlement agreement between the Trump family. The Times is fighting the lawsuit.
Donald Trump also sue CNN in a southern Florida federal court last fall, accusing the network of being a “dissident campaign in the form of defamation and slander” that had “escalated in recent months.” CNN asked the judge to “refute with prejudice.”
