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Nonilex

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… paring down time on social media … ?? Fully migrated to mastodon now that the bird self destructed. Though if you want to view my old posts, same username.

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Nonilex, to Law
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Trump continued to , & the trial itself in posts to his social media platform this morning.

He again suggested that the trial is an attempt to interfere w/ his presidential campaign & complained about the lack of a jury in the trial.
(It is long established that either are issues)

Trump won’t be in court today. He had no legal obligation to attend, & left yesterday, noticeably angry.

Nonilex,
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Last night, in a filing, ’s lawyers filed a motion seeking to his .

The filing asked Judge to delay the trial until after the .
It’s currently scheduled for May 20, 2024.

They argued for delay due to scheduling issues w/Trump’s other challenges, including his case

(that’s rich, “can we wait till after my election cuz I’m indicted for interfering in my last election?”)

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One of his lawyers in the case, Chris , is also defending in the .

Trump’s lawyers also claimed that there have been delays in obtaining & reviewing the classified records that pointed to in his indictment.

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“The ’s Office has not provided some of the most basic discovery in the case. Given the current schedule, we cannot understate the prejudice to President Trump arising from his lack of access to these critical materials months after they should have been produced.” Trump attys motion said.

The ’s office argued that ’s team is seeking unreasonable delays & have falsely accused the govt of delaying the production of evidence.

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Back to 🧵

Judge has set a timeline for Trump to dissolve LLCs

Engoron issued a ruling to make sure Trump & the other defendants in the case are complying w/his order last week to cancel their certificates.

The judge formally extended the deadline for Trump's team & the AG's office to submit suggestions for an independent receiver to oversee the dissolution of the companies by Oct. 26.

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He also directed the team to turn over a full list of those , & to inform the monitor already overseeing the 's about any 3rd parties who have ownership interests.

The order also directs Trump's team to inform the monitor in advance of any applications for new certificates & any transfer of assets.

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The judge's ruling last week found that Trump & his companies had committed repeated , & canceled certificates for LLCs "controlled or beneficially owned" by , his sons . & , & two execs. It originally gave the parties 10 days to name a potential receiver, but Engoron extended the deadline at the request of Trump's lawyers. Trump filed a notice Wednesday that he's the ruling.

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Fmr is back on the stand for a third day of testimony.

Trump's lawyer continues his lengthy cross-examination.

, the lead lawyer on the ’s case, objected after Suarez began to ask about financial statements year by year, despite getting similar answers each time (& being told not to by the Judge yesterday)

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then asked how long this would take. said he will finish his cross-examination of Bender in ~1½ hrs.

During his questioning of , 's lawyer asked Bender if he ever consulted w/. or about the statements that the AG contends were grossly inflated.

"Not that I recall," he said of both.

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is a exec & a defendant in the case & was responsible for filing some of the statements after his father was elected president. is a fmr exec & was originally a defendant in the case, but an appeals court dismissed the claims against her on statute of limitations issues.

questioned about his interactions w/the Manhattan DA’s office.

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, who testified in DA 's case against last yr, said he wasn’t threatened w/ & wasn’t either, to the best of his knowledge.

Suarez asked why , a fmr prosecutor in the DA's case, said in his book that Mazars sent Bender in to meet w/them w/o his own counsel & told Mazars it was in a precarious legal position. Bender said he was “satisfied” w/his representation & wasn’t aware of that convo between Pomerantz & Mazars.

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also tried to insinuate that tried to make the fall guy by sending him in to meet w/the DA w/only the counsel for Mazars. (Counsel for the company would owe duties to the co alone & is supposed to warn employees or fmr employees that in the event of a conflict, their duties are to the co.)

Bender was called by the defense in the last year & spent 3 days on the stand as their lawyers suggested he failed to alert to the scam.

Nonilex, to anime_titties
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Um, no bueno

DHS announced that the admin waived 26 federal laws to allow construction

The , Act & Act were some of the waived by to make way for construction that will use funds from a congressional appropriation in 2019 for construction. The waivers avoid time-consuming reviews & lawsuits challenging violation of laws.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/biden-administration-waives-26-federal-laws-border-wall-103738662

Nonilex, to Amazon
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dead in ; scientists blame 102°

For 10 days, the people of have awakened to a terrible sight: the carcasses of pink river dolphins floating in , food for circling buzzards.
>150 of the beloved, have died in this lake in ’s state, alarming scientists & advocates. The cause is unknown, but scientists say the likeliest culprit is extreme & , …linked to ….

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/10/04/amazon-river-dolphin-death/

Nonilex, to DaftPunk
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From a Capitol Hill Basement, Stokes the Party Meltdown

The fmr adviser has helped create the of , using it to build his own following & those of the rebels who took down .


https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/04/us/politics/bannon-republicans-gaetz-mace.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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has spent years promoting the …, railing against mandates & what he refers to as a “criminal invasion of the southern .” His obsession of late was toppling & taking out what he describes as “” who have become indistinguishable from Democrats. (?)

W/McCarthy’s historic downfall…, (Bannon’s) wing of the party has claimed its most prominent trophy.

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Around this time, was drinking heavily, according to comments made to ….

“Literally falling-down drunk,” said in an interview, noting that several incidents over the years, in Ms. Giuliani’s telling, required medical attention.

[ was relying on an ]
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/04/us/politics/rudy-giuliani-drinking.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Nonilex, to Law
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🧵:

Trump gripes trial is 'unfair' after judge's
(it was just in regards to the judge’s staff.)

After the trial wrapped up yesterday, Trump aired his in a post on his social media platform, saying the trial is “unfair” & again suggesting it was an attempt to interfere w/his presidential campaign.

Nonilex,
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The trial resumed w/o , the mood in the courtroom considerably lighter now that he is is gone.

allowed an interruption to ’s testimony to accommodate , the partner at who handled Trump’s work after resigned in 2020.

is now discussing the role of , the comptroller, in their engagement to compile the statements of financial condition.

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As the AG did w/ , they are reviewing specific language from ’s written description of the process. He says they went through the 2020 statement of condition to understand how to obtain info & their process.

discussed Whitley Penn’s internal “program” for compiling statements of financial condition, which appears to be a guide to how to handle compilations.

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The internal program for compilation does “not verify any of the accuracy of the information provided,” which distinguishes a compilation from a review or an audit. It does not include, for example, analytics or inquiries of management, much less verification of work papers.

is essentially limiting the scope of their work, as did.

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came up for the first time in testimony. said that Eric was a member of executive leadership who set “the tone at the top” & that he had no interactions w/Eric re: the statements of financial condition. Their first meeting took place after the 2021 statement was issued.

Eric Trump is in the front row shaking his head suggesting he doesn’t agree with Harris' descriptions of his role.

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, argued the are for their

& , who signed the representation letr. & the engagement letr. for the 2021 compilation of ’s statements of condition, were a focus of the PM court session.

When was engaged, , fmr CFO, played that role, but by 2021, the responsibility for retaining & managing the relationship seems to have shifted to the .

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, , said he was responsible for compiling & checking the docs for obvious errors but the clients were ultimately in charge of preparing the info.

"Who's responsible for the statement of financial condition?" asked state atty .

"The client's responsible for that," Harris replied.

Things got more professional after left. Before, they objected so often Engoron called them out. After, defense didn’t log a single one.

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’s attys declined to cross-examine , but they reserved the right to call him back to the stand later.

Instead, they spent the last hour of court continuing their cross-examination of fmr USA .

After defense highlighted Bender's inconsistent statements about Mazars' use of specialists to evaluate assets, seemed to struggle to articulate how Mazars provided expertise.

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Defense atty told Justice he planned to continue cross-examining through Thurs afternoon, but promised to "streamline" questions after the judge criticized the timing.

, a top exec, is expected as the next witness, & he’ll be ready tomorrow in case cross-examination of Bender concludes earlier than expected.

Court adjourned for the day.

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