#trump-tower

#trump-tower

Timothy Parlatore, one of the lawyers representing former President Donald J. Trump in the federal investigations into Mr. Trump's handling of classified documents and his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, has resigned from the former president's legal team.In a brief interview on Wednesday, Mr. Parlatore declined to discuss the specific reasons for his departure, but said it was not related to the merits of either inquiry both of which are being led by a special counsel, Jack Smith.

Timothy Parlatore, an attorney for Donald Trump who played a key role in the Mar-a-Lago documents investigation and once testified before the grand jury, is leaving the former president's legal team, two sources familiar with the exit tell CNN.Parlatore's departure became official Tuesday, though it had been rumored for several weeks among the former president's inner circle.

(CNN)Former President Donald Trump's legal team turned over more materials with classified markings and a laptop belonging to an aide to federal prosecutors in recent months, multiple sources familiar with the investigation told CNN.The Trump attorneys also handed over an empty folder marked "Classified Evening Briefing," sources said.

DOJ request to identify private investigators who conducted November search "suggests an increasing breakdown in trust."Former President Donald Trump departs after speaking at the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, on November 15, 2022.Alon Skuy / AFP via Getty Images A federal judge on Wednesday ordered former President Donald Trump's lawyers to turn over names of private investigators who searched Trump's properties last month for additional classified documents, according to The New York Times.

WaPo and CNN both have stories about searches by a professional firm on additional Trump properties, looking for stolen classified documents.In addition to at least three paragraphs that are affirmatively misleading (one that does not push back on a bullshit quote about how cooperative Trump has been, one that described Trump's outright obstruction as a "breakdown ... in trust," and one that claims Trump is trying to avoid another high profile search when the further search was ordered by Chief Judge Beryl Howell) WaPo describes only searches of Bedminster and, later, Trump Tower.

Donald J. Trump on Wednesday reached a settlement in a civil case brought by protesters who said they were attacked by his bodyguards in 2015, a deal that will spare the former president and his family business the prospect of two simultaneous trials in New York State court.In a joint statement, Mr. Trump and the protesters  Efrain Galicia, Florencia Tejeda Perez, Miguel Villalobos and the estate of Johnny Hosvaldo Garcia  announced that they had reached a deal and that the case had been dismissed.

Given the news that Alina Habba appeared before the grand jury investigating Trump's stolen documents, I wanted to go back to the declaration she submitted in the NY State investigation pertaining to diligent searches for documents in that investigation back in May 2022.Politico reported on it before the public release about details of the stolen classified documents, and as such was taken as a claim that Habba conducted a search of the locations where documents were known to have been stored.

The Trump Organization's former CFO, Allen Weisselberg, arrives at court Tuesday in New York.The longtime Donald Trump lieutenant who became a star prosecution witness and helped convict the former president's company of tax fraud pleaded guilty for dodging taxes on $1.7 million in company-paid perks.

Even before the pandemic, some worried that Chicago's largest restaurant company, Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises, was abandoning upscale to focus on more casual concepts.The company closed Tru in 2017, when "fast casual" and "quick serve" were buzzwords in increasing usage within the restaurant world.