NEW YORK, Jan 27- The judge overseeing Michael Avenatti's extortion trial said the case should not focus on Nike Inc's alleged corruption or devolve into celebrity name-dropping, as jury selection began for the case against the lawyer and critic of U.S. Prosecutors accused Avenatti, 48, of trying to shake down Nike for up to $25 million by threatening to...
The reported account in an unpublished manuscript by the former national security adviser counters the White House's defense of the president.
President Trump's personal lawyer urged the Justice Department to go easy on Alejandro Betancourt, the Venezuelan businessman trying to oust socialist President Nicolas Maduro.
WASHINGTON, Jan 22- At a lavish August gathering at a private estate in Spain, a wealthy Venezuelan businessman under criminal investigation in the United States introduced Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trumps personal lawyer, to the father of Venezuelas opposition leader, Juan Guaido. Betancourt told Giuliani he secretly helped bankroll Guaidos efforts...
KIEV, Jan 16- Ukraine has asked the FBI in the United States for help investigating a suspected cyberattack by Russian military hackers on Burisma, an energy company caught up in the impeachment of U.S. The FBI said it had visited the home and business of Robert Hyde, a Republican congressional candidate in Connecticut who sent the text messages to Lev Parnas, an...
As the Senate prepares to try Trump over his Ukraine pressure campaign, a key player in that effort, Lev Parnas, is sharing new documents with Congress.
President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, says he'd be willing to testify at his client's Senate trial, NBC News reported.
Trump is expected to become the third U.S. president to be impeached when the full Democratic-led House votes on the charges, likely this week, setting up a trial in the Republican-controlled Senate. The Senate has shown little appetite for removing Trump from office. "The misconduct hasn't stopped," Schiff said, noting that Trump has still urged Ukraine, as well as...
Trump is expected to become the third U.S. president to be impeached when the full Democratic-led House votes on the charges, likely this week, setting up a trial in the Republican-controlled Senate. The Republican-controlled Senate has shown little appetite for removing Trump from office. Both Democrats used their air time on Sunday to urge the Senate to call...
Trump is expected to become the third U.S. president to be impeached when the full Democratic-led House votes on the charges, likely this week, setting up a trial in the Republican-controlled Senate. The Republican-controlled Senate has shown little appetite for removing Trump from office. Both Democrats used their air time on Sunday to urge the Senate to call...
As Trump faces an impeachment inquiry led by House of Representative Democrats into whether he abused his office by pressing Ukraine to investigate a political rival, the U.S. president and his allies have sought to reject that by saying Trump is interested in the wider issue of corruption in Ukraine. As first reported by the New York Times, lawyer Rudy Giuliani...
WASHINGTON, Dec 2- The U.S. Senate was set on Monday to confirm Dan Brouillette, a former top lobbyist for Ford Motor Co who believes fossil fuels will power a large part of world energy needs for many decades, as President Donald Trump's second energy secretary. Brouillette would replace Rick Perry who stepped down on Sunday while at the center of Trump's...
WASHINGTON, Dec 1- The White House told Democratic lawmakers on Sunday that U.S. The White House's decision was in response to the first of two crucial deadlines it faces in Congress this week as Democrats prepared to shift the focus of their impeachment inquiry from fact-finding to the consideration of possible charges of misconduct over Trump's dealings...
President Donald Trump faced two deadlines in Congress this week as Democrats prepared to shift the focus of their impeachment inquiry from fact-finding to the consideration of possible charges of misconduct over his dealings with Ukraine. The Democratic-led House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, tasked with considering charges known as...
President Donald Trump faced two deadlines in Congress this week as Democrats prepared to shift the focus of their impeachment inquiry from fact-finding to the consideration of possible charges of misconduct over his dealings with Ukraine. The Democratic-led House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, tasked with considering charges known as...
Lev Parnas would testify that aides to Devin Nunes scrapped a planned trip to Ukraine when they realized it would mean notifying Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff.
Sondland's testimony, in a Democrat-led impeachment probe of Trump's Ukraine dealings, raises questions about Perry, who had been one of Trump's longest-serving and most scandal-free Cabinet members. The U.S. House impeachment investigation centers on Trump's request https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Unclassified09. 2019....
Tuesday's congressional testimony will feature three witnesses who listened in on Trump's July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
NEW YORK, Nov 15- The televised impeachment hearings that began this week in the U.S. House of Representatives do not appear to have changed many minds about President Donald Trump, with public support for his impeachment about the same before and after the first U.S. diplomats testified, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll. The national online poll, which ran from...
President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani stood to profit from a Ukrainian natural gas business pushed by two associates who aided his efforts to launch investigations that could help the president, the Wall Street Journal said on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. The associates, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, pitched their company,...
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