On Thursday, the New York Attorney’s Office took a historic step, file a criminal case against Donald Trumpthe first time this happened to a former US president.
The Manhattan district attorney’s decision to accuse Trump of secret payments to porn star Stormy Daniels during his 2016 campaign is just one of many investigations the Republican has faced. lead a new race to return to the White House.
Election fraud in Georgia
Georgia Attorney Investigates Trump’s Alleged Attempts undo his defeat in the 2020 elections. In this state.
The investigation focuses in part on Trump’s phone call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, Republican, on January 2, 2021. Trump asked Raffensperger to ‘find’ the votes needed to overturn election defeat in Georgia from the former president.
Fanny Willis, Fulton County District Attorney, will finally decide whether to press charges against Trump or someone else, informed the judge on January 24 that the special grand jury had completed its investigative task and that decisions were “imminent”.
Brad Raffensperger
Legal experts said Trump may have violated at least three Georgian election laws: conspiracy to commit voter fraud, criminal incitement to commit voter fraud, and willful interference with electoral procedures.
Trump could argue that their discussions took place within the framework of constitutionally protected freedom of speech.
Storming of the US Capitol
On the other hand, the United States Department of Justice is investigating Trump’s actions in the 2020 election And your possession of highly classified documents after leaving the White House in 2021.
Both investigations are under observation. Jack Smith, war crimes prosecutor and independent politician.. Trump accused the FBI of conducting politically motivated investigations without evidence.
The House Select Committee Investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 Attack by Trump Supporters on the U.S. Capitol Called on the Justice Department accuse Trump of official corruptionConspiracy to deceive the United States, Conspiracy to make a false statement and incite or aid insurrection.
Only the Justice Department can decide whether to indict Trump, who called the Democratic-led commission’s investigation politically motivated farce.
lost government records
In the same vein, United States Attorney General Merrick Garland also nominated Smith investigate whether Trump wrongfully concealed secret records of his property in Mar-a-LagoFlorida, after leaving office in 2021 and subsequent attempt to obstruct a federal investigation.
Garland also nominated former U.S. Attorney Robert Hur. investigate the deletion of secret records in the possession of President Joe Biden since his tenure as Vice President.
It is illegal to knowingly remove or withhold classified material.
In the case of Trump The FBI seized 13,000 documents from Mar-a-Lago. on the 8 August raid. About 100 documents were marked as secret; some were designated top secret, the highest level of secrecy.
Trump accused the Justice Department of participating in a witch hunt.
New York State Attorney’s Civil Action
Last September, New York Attorney General Letitia James sued Trump and the Trump Organization for fraud.
James said his office found over 200 examples misleading asset valuation between 2011 and 2021, and that Trump has inflated his net worth by billions of dollars.
The Attorney General said that the scheme was meant to help Trump get lower interest rates on loans and better insurance coverage.
He also said that his research discovered evidence of a criminal act and sent them to the federal prosecutor’s office and the tax service.
Letitia James
Civil action requires permanently ban Trump and his three adult children from running companies in New York State and return at least $250 million in fraudulent proceeds.
Trump called James’ lawsuit a witch hunt, while the defendants called the claims baseless. James is a Democrat.
Judge from New York ordered an independent observer to monitor the Trump organization pending trial scheduled for October 2023.
Defamation lawsuits
E. Jean Carroll, former magazine columnist Elfiled two lawsuits accusing Trump of defaming her. deny that he raped her in the dressing room of Bergdorf Goodman department store New York in late 1995 or early 1996.
Carroll first sued Trump after telling a reporter at the White House in 2019 that he didn’t know her, that she was “not my type” and that lied to boost sales of his memoirs.
The second lawsuit involved a social media post from October 2022 in which Trump called the rape allegations a “hoax”. “lie”, “conspiracy” and “complete scam”.
E. Jean Carroll
This lawsuit includes an assault lawsuit under the New York Adult Victims of Violence Act, which gave adults a one-year window to sue alleged attackers even if the statute of limitations has expired.
Trump and Carroll they are waiting for a decision from the Washington, D.C. Court of Appeals. on whether, under local law, Trump should be protected from Carroll’s first lawsuit.
The second lawsuit could go to court on April 25 after a US judge called Trump’s attempt to reject him in January “absurd”. (rts)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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