Donald Trump's hush money case resumed in a New York courtroom with testimony from Gary Farro, a banker who helped Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen open accounts.
AP is live from a courthouse in New York as banker Gary Farro testifies in Donald Trump’s hush money trial.found that the former president violated a gag order 9 times, fining him a total of $9,000. He also warned that Trump could be jailed if he continued to violate the gag order.
The former longtime Elle magazine advice columnist alleges Trump sexually assaulted her in the 1990s and then defamed her after she came forward publicly in 2019. He says nothing happened between them and has accused her of engineering a “hoax” to sell a book. After two federal trials last year and this winter, juries awarded Carroll over $88 million. Trump is appealing.
After confirming the veracity of the clips, Browning, who manages C-SPAN’s video collection, was dismissed from the witness stand. Trump’s attorneys declined to question him.Court won’t be in session on Friday, May 24 to accommodate a juror who has a flight that morning, Judge Merchan said. “He was a challenging client because of his desire to get things done so quickly,” Farro said. “Ninety percent of the time it was an urgent matter.”Within a day after opening the Essential Consultants LLC account on Oct. 26, 2016, and funding it with about $130,000 from his own home equity loan, Cohen wired out $130,000 to Keith Davidson, then a lawyer for Stormy Daniels, documents showed.
The additional scrutiny would have delayed or even nixed opening the account, which Cohen had wanted to open right away. In particular, the adult film world “is an industry we don’t work with,” he said.Judge Merchan wrote that he was finding Trump “in criminal contempt for willfully disobeying a lawful mandate” of the court on nine separate occasions for posts made on Truth Social and his campaign website.
Trump stared down at the table in front of him as the judge read the ruling, frowning slightly but otherwise showing no expression.
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