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(CTN News) – Truth Social reports that Trump expects to be arrested in the hush money case involving adult film star Stormy Daniels on Tuesday. He requested that his supporters protest his indictment in New York, Georgia, or federal court for any of the criminal investigations involving campaign payments, election interference, efforts to overturn his defeat in the 2020 presidential election, and the keeping of top secret documents. According to his post on Saturday, “Protest, take our nation back! ” Trump could be indicted next week as the Manhattan district attorney’s office investigates the hush money case. Trump posted a message on Truth Social referring to himself in the third person without any official confirmation, including the following statement: “The far and away leading Republican candidate and former president of the United States of America will be arrested on Tuesday.” Officials in New York have made security preparations for an indictment of Trump. The … [Read more...] about On Tuesday, Trump Says He’ll Be Arrested In a New York Criminal Case

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Topline Authorities in New York City and Washington, D.C., have started preparing for protests ahead of the possible indictment of former President Donald Trump this week according to multiple reports , even as online communities of Trump supporters seem widely disorganized as they hastily make plans for demonstrations. Key Facts Police were seen putting up barricades Monday outside the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse, where Trump could be arraigned on criminal charges as soon as this week—a New York Police Department spokesperson told Forbes police are preparing “for all contingencies.” In D.C., Capitol Police have reportedly erected bike rack fencing around the Capitol, though people familiar with the precautions told Politico police believe unrest is more likely in New York City and around Trump’s Mar-A-Lago resort in south Florida, where small groups have turned out since Trump suggested over the … [Read more...] about New York And D.C. Beef Up Security For Possible Trump Indictment Unrest

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Topline The Manhattan district attorney is reportedly toying with what experts have called an untested legal theory in potentially bringing charges against former President Donald Trump—adding to the unprecedented nature of a case that could mark the first-ever indictment of a former president. Key Facts The primary charge prosecutors are considering is whether Trump falsified business records when the Trump Organization reimbursed his former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen for payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels during his 2016 campaign for the presidency in exchange for her silence about her alleged 2006 affair with Trump, according to multiple reports . Prosecutors must prove that Trump orchestrated the payments, but legal experts have said his lawyers could argue that Cohen made the deal on Trump’s behalf and without his knowledge (though Cohen has explicitly, and repeatedly, said he did so … [Read more...] about Breaking Down The Case Against Trump: New York Prosecutors Must Prove Complex Legal Theory—And It Could Be Risky

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Topline Top House Republicans sent a letter to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Monday demanding he testify about his investigation into former President Donald Trump’s role in an apparent hush money payment made to a porn star in the final days of the 2016 campaign, which the GOP paints as a politically motivated probe relying on an untested legal theory ahead of his potential indictment. Key Facts The letter called the investigation an “unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial authority,” claiming the DA’s office has spent years looking for an excuse to charge Trump and has now settled on a “novel legal theory untested anywhere in the country.” Trump predicted over the weekend he will be indicted Tuesday for allegedly orchestrating a $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels to keep her from publicly disclosing an alleged affair between the two—Bragg could claim the payment was an illegal political … [Read more...] about House GOP Demands Manhattan DA Testify Over Trump Criminal Probe: ‘Unprecedented Abuse Of Prosecutorial Authority’

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Topline Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) criticized former President Donald Trump for not firing federal health official Anthony Fauci and mocked Trump’s nicknames for him in an interview this week with Piers Morgan, according to a preview penned by Morgan in the New York Post —firing back at the former president and possible 2024 rival after months of attacks. Key Facts DeSantis, who had previously remained quiet as Trump publicly attacked him, criticized the former president for his handling of the Covid-19 pandemic and his decision to keep Fauci on the White House Coronavirus Task Force—DeSantis has been one of Fauci’s biggest critics. When asked about differences between the two GOP leaders, DeSantis reportedly said, “the approach to Covid was different” and that he would have fired Fauci because “he got way too big for his britches” and “did a lot of damage” (Trump openly mulled firing Fauci in his last … [Read more...] about DeSantis Strikes Back: Florida Gov. Criticizes Trump For Working With Fauci In New Interview, Piers Morgan Says

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Topline Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg pushed back Thursday against demands from top House GOP leaders to testify about his investigation into former President Donald Trump, calling their request an “unprecedented inquiry” into a local prosecution and questioning its legislative purpose, as the Trump criminal probe appears to be wrapping up. Key Facts Bragg called the letter, written earlier this week by Reps. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), James Comer (R-Ky.) and Bryan Steil (R-Wis.), an “unlawful incursion into New York’s sovereignty” and said that Congress was not the “appropriate branch” to review a pending criminal case. The Manhattan district attorney suggested the inquiry came at the request of Trump’s lawyers, who Bragg said urged House GOP members to intervene, and noted it “only came after Donald Trump created a false impression that he would be arrested” on Tuesday. Bragg offered to meet with … [Read more...] about Manhattan D.A. Calls House GOP’s Investigation Of Trump Criminal Probe ‘Unlawful’

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a new accord to modify the existing Safe Third Country agreement between the United States and Canada as part of Biden’s two-day visit to Ottawa. The existing Safe Third Country agreement requires refugee claimants to make their claims in the first country they arrive in to prevent them from "forum shopping" by passing through the U.S. or Canada on route to making a claim in the other country. However, migrants have been sidestepping the requirements of the existing agreement by avoiding official ports of entry and instead entering at unofficial border crossings. Irregular border crossing migrants have been a source of concern for both countries, and they have aggravated tensions between leaders at the state and provincial levels with federal leaders as migrants have been shuttled around in both countries to accommodate their needs on arrival. The Statistics … [Read more...] about New Agreement Between Biden And Trudeau Aims To Curb Irregular Immigrant Border Crossings

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Cash App’s Barcelona-based business fined for anti-money laundering and terrorist financing failures, while Hindenburg Research shorts owner Block, citing ‘Wild West’ approach to compliance. The European arm of Jack Dorsey’s hugely popular Cash App payment software has been slammed by its banking license provider for “serious and systematic infringements of the prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing.” The reprimand, which came with a $250,000 fine, landed last week from the Bank of Lithuania, which provides a license to Verse, a Cash App company founded in Barcelona, Spain. On Thursday, Hindenburg Research, an activist short seller and investment firm, said it was taking a short position on Block, the owner of Cash App, because of the company’s alleged compliance weaknesses. “Core to the issue is that Block has embraced one traditionally very ‘underbanked’ segment of the population: criminals,” … [Read more...] about Jack Dorsey’s Block Slammed For Failure To Stop Criminals Abusing Cash App

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Topline A lawyer for former President Donald Trump called his client’s social media posts last week targeting Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg “ill advised” on Sunday, days after Bragg was sent a mysterious white powder, as New York prosecutors appear close to wrapping up a criminal investigation into Trump. Key Facts In an interview on NBC’s Meet The Press , attorney Joe Tacopina said a post on Trump’s Truth Social app showing the former president holding a baseball bat next to a photo of Bragg was shared by “one of his social media people,” and added that Trump “quickly” deleted it “once he realized the rhetoric and the photo attached to it.” Several other posts referring to Bragg by name remain on Trump’s account, including one calling Bragg “a danger to our Country” and another saying Bragg “is doing the work of Anarchists and the Devil,” as well as a post calling Bragg—who is Black—a “Soros … [Read more...] about Trump’s Lawyer Calls Posts Targeting Manhattan D.A. ‘Ill Advised’

Blacklisted Bitcoin? Frankfurt’s Bankhaus Scheich has a budding business cleaning crypto and getting it back into circulation. J ust before sunset on a chilly Spring day in 2019 armed German special agents broke down the door to the Frankfurt home of a 22-year-old hacker who the government has only identified as Coder420, the developer of a dark web exchange called Wall Street Market. At its peak, the enterprise was the largest of its kind, conducting about €50 million in sales between October 2016 and April 2019, selling everything from cocaine to credentials. At the time of Coder420’s arrest, he had roughly 1,000 bitcoins, then worth $5.5 million. The operation was a huge success. The German state of Hesse, home to Germany’s finance capital Frankfurt, seized 2,200 bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies from Coder420 and two collaborators. “It was a classical takedown of a darknet marketplace,” says Jana Ringwald, 41, a senior prosecutor for the attorney general of Frankfurt. … [Read more...] about Legal Money Laundering: How A German Bank Is Cleaning Tainted Bitcoin And Other Dirty Cryptos