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Mar 12 2024
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Civil lawsuits against West Virginia American Water, Mountaineer Gas advance in Kanawha County
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — One Kanawha County Circuit Judge could take up a handful of lawsuits filed by Charleston residents against Mountaineer Gas and West Virginia American Water Company for the water main break and gas outage in the city’s West Side last November. Civil lawsuits filed by West Side residents advanced in court Tuesday. Kanawha County Circuit Court Judge Jennifer Bailey looked at
WV Metro NewsFeb 28 2024
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Trump offers $100 million bond to pause his civil fraud penalty
NEW YORK -- Donald Trump's lawyers told a New York appellate court Wednesday that he's prepared to post a $100 million bond to halt collection of his staggering civil fraud penalty, arguing that provisions of the verdict make it impossible for the former president to secure a bond for the full amount. Trump's lawyers floated the offer in court papers asking the state's mid-level appeals court
ABC 7 New YorkFeb 28 2024
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3 Mississippi prisons violate civil rights with violent, unacceptable conditions, the DOJ says
Mississippi prison officials are not doing enough to protect incarcerated people in their care, federal investigators said, and living conditions are unsanitary and unsafe. The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday released its report on an investigation into three Mississippi prisons. During a news conference to announce the report, Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke, who oversees
The Clarion-LedgerMar 27 2024
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Jon Stewart found to have overvalued his NYC home by 829% after labeling Trump’s civil case ‘not victimless’
Jon Stewart is facing online backlash after the comedian opined on air this week that Donald Trump’s civil real estate case for overvaluing his properties was “not victimless” — when it turns out the price of a previous home sale finds Stewart doing the exact same thing, The Post has learned.
On Monday night, Stewart, 61, unpacked Trump’s $454 million appeal bond, calling out experts
New York Post (News)Dec 30 2023
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Disunion, Slavery, and the Causes of the Civil War
Nikki Haley recently downplayed the role of slavery in the actual starting of the Civil War. Technically, she is absolutely right. President Abraham Lincoln in his First Inaugural Address said that he would fight to keep the Union together, and that he would ban slavery in the western territories, but he pledged to forever protect slavery in the southern States that had it, and Lincoln even
ReasonMar 19 2024
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Maine AG files civil rights complaint alleging Harpswell men spray painted racist, antisemitic messages
A civil rights complaint filed Tuesday alleges a father and son from Harpswell spray-painted racist and antisemitic messages across several towns in January. BRUNSWICK, Maine — Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey announced Tuesday he has filed a civil rights complaint against two Harpswell residents alleging they spray-painted racist and antisemitic messages in multiple Cumberland County towns
News Center MaineFeb 17 2024
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Donald Trump civil fraud decision "political": Former whitewater lawyer
Former Whitewater lawyer Sol Wisenberg told Fox & Friends Weekend host Guy Benson on Saturday that Judge Arthur Engoron's decision in Donald Trump's New York civil fraud case was "political." New York Attorney General Letitia James in a lawsuit filed in September 2022 accused Trump, his two adult sons, Donald Jr. and Eric, The Trump Organization and two firm executives, Allen Weisselberg
NewsweekFeb 17 2024
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Donald Trump announces surprising stop after civil fraud trial
Former President Donald Trump announced he will be stopping in Philadelphia to attend Sneaker Con on Saturday following the final ruling in his civil fraud trail in New York. New York Attorney General Letitia James sued Trump, his two adult sons, Donald Jr. and Eric, The Trump Organization and two firm executives, Allen Weisselberg and Jeff McConney, in September 2022. Judge Arthur Engoron,
NewsweekFeb 16 2024
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What the Civil Fraud Ruling Means for Trump’s Finances and His Empire
Donald J. Trump lost his civil fraud trial on Friday, as a judge found him liable for violating state laws and penalized him nearly $355 million plus interest. In total, Mr. Trump is expected to have to pay more than $450 million. The judge, Arthur F. Engoron, did not stop there. Along with other punishments, he also barred the former president from leading any company in the state, including
New York Times (News)Feb 16 2024
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Judge Hits Trump With $364 Million Penalty in Civil Fraud Trial
A New York judge has handed former President Donald Trump a multi-million dollar penalty in a civil fraud case. The Associated Press notes the penalty came after Engoron ruled Trump engaged in a “yearslong scheme to dupe banks and others with financial statements that inflated the former president’s wealth.” “Trump also was barred from serving as an officer or director of any New York
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