"In its 2012 appeal of the GSA’s decision to go with Trump’s bid...a rival consortium...took both the agency and the Trump Org to task, saying the project couldn’t succeed because the lease payments were too high"
Keith Davidson, Stormy Daniels’ ex-lawyer who took the stand on Tuesday in Trump's criminal trial, also filed a sexual assault case against the estranged son of Don Hankey, the billionaire who recently bailed Trump out.
Daniels later sued Davidson, alleging that after she signed the NDA, Davidson breached his obligations as an attorney by colluding with Cohen to take actions that benefited Trump. They settled.
Keith Davidson entered Don Hankey’s orbit, meanwhile, in April 2020, when the attorney filed a civil lawsuit in Los Angeles on behalf of three Jane Does against Hankey’s son, Don Rufus Hankey.
When one of the women confronted Rufus Hankey after she tested positive for an STD, according to the complaint Davidson filed, Hankey replied, “Fuck off you whore–that is what you get! Plus, you probably got it from your mom.”
After 2.5 years of pretrial proceedings, two of the Jane Does agreed to a stipulated judgment with Rufus Hankey, resolving all allegations. According to the court filing and a person with knowledge of the arrangement, no money changed hands.
Jane Doe No. 1, however, has continued to pursue her claims.
She has been doing it w/out an attorney though: days after two of his three clients agreed to the stipulated judgment, with the potential for a big payday diminished, Davidson filed a motion to quit the case.
Today @campaignlegal asked the Senate Ethics Committee to investigate if Cruz violated the honoraria prohibition "by disguising speaking fees from hosting a podcast as payments to a super PAC."