Sentences with phrase «by election lawyer»

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Cobb has been the lead lawyer representing Trump in an investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, and possible collusion with Russians by Trump campaign officials.»

Two weeks before the election in 2016, she made another business deal: signing a nondisclosure agreement for $ 130,000, brokered by Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen.

But the element of crucial importance to most observers about Daniels's story is that she was allegedly paid $ 130,000 by Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, to sign a non-disclosure agreement about the affair, days before the presidential election.

New comments by President Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani about a payment to Stormy Daniels place the president at the center of questions about possible campaign - finance violations, two former Federal Election Commission leaders said.

An adult - film star was paid $ 130,000 by a lawyer for Donald Trump in the weeks before the 2016 election to not talk publicly about a sexual relationship with the then - Republican candidate, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.

Adult film actress Stormy Daniels, whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford, is also locked in a legal battle with Trump and his team over a nondisclosure agreement arranged by his lawyer that she signed shortly before the 2016 election.

Daniels alleges she had an extramarital affair with Donald Trump in 2006 and was subsequently paid off by a Trump lawyer to stay silent during the presidential election.

The past 24 hours of news in President Donald Trump's various legal imbroglios — the replacement of outgoing lawyer Ty Cobb with Emmet T. Flood, who represented Bill Clinton during his impeachment as president, and the admission of Rudy Giuliani to Sean Hannity (subsequently confirmed by Trump on Twitter) that Trump did in fact reimburse Michael Cohen for a $ 130,000 payment made to porn actress Stormy Daniels on the eve of the 2016 election — are powerful reminders of something that can't be said often enough: Trump and his White House lie all the time, without apparent compunction.

Matthew Sanderson, who served as a campaign finance lawyer for the 2008 McCain - Palin campaign, said the timing of the payment «strongly suggests it was related to the election, and therefore is either a contribution, or at least a reportable expenditure by the campaign».

In a conversation with BuzzFeed News, Giuliani later said that Cohen, Trump's longtime personal lawyer, «had complained to some people» after the 2016 election that he'd not been fully paid by Trump.

BuzzFeed reports: «In a conversation with BuzzFeed News, Giuliani later said that Cohen, Trump's longtime personal lawyer, «had complained to some people» after the 2016 election that he'd not been fully paid by Trump.

She'll face Vancouver poverty lawyer David Eby, whom she barely edged out in a 2011 by - election.

A federal judge in California on Thursday temporarily blocked an effort by the attorney for adult - film star Stormy Daniels to depose President TrumpDonald John TrumpUS ends aid for northwest Syria: report FBI informant met with three Trump campaign advisers: report McCabe lawyer fires back at Trump: «You need to stop lying» MORE and his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, over a $ 130,000 payment from Cohen to the actress before the 2016 presidential election.

He joined a handful of Republicans on Sunday in blasting President Donald Trump's personal lawyer — and by extension, the president himself — for suggesting that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III should shut down his investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

Represented by prominent election lawyer Martin Connor, two New York Democrats challenged the validity of Zephyr Teachout's petition to secure a place on the Democratic gubernatorial primary this week.

Kaminsky (D - Long Beach) faces Republican lawyer Chris McGrath in a special election April 19 for the State Senate seat vacated by convicted ex-GOP majority leader Dean Skelos.

In February, Data and Field Services settled a lawsuit brought by Randy M. Mastro, a former deputy mayor who is now an election lawyer, that alleged that the Working Families Party had unfairly helped Deborah Rose, the winning candidate in a Staten Island City Council race.

The Democrats who brought the petition are represented by Marty Connor, a longtime Democratic election lawyer and former Senate leader who filed general objections to Teachout's nominating petitions earlier this week.

Marty Connor, an election lawyer and the former leader of the State Senate Democrats, pulled Teachout's voting records and spent Friday and Saturday sharing them with journalists, noting that she claimed to be a permanently disabled voter (this lets her vote by absentee ballot), had no record of voting in New York in 2011 or 2013 and questioned whether she met the five - year residency requirement to be governor.

When allies of the mayor began to set up the Campaign for One New York, after de Blasio's election in 2013, they followed a model established by Gov. Andrew Cuomo — even hiring the same well - established election lawyer, Laurence Laufer, who had helped set up a similar nonprofit to support Cuomo's agenda three years earlier.

Breslin concluded that the case should have been led by Albany County District Attorney David Soares, who is elected, not the Justice Center whose lawyers do not stand for election, as required in the state Constitution.

Deacon, 39, of Syracuse, finished with 48 percent of the vote, easily defeating Syracuse University professor Eric Kingson, 70, of Manlius and Syracuse lawyer and Navy veteran Steve Williams, 53, of Baldwinsville, according to unofficial returns compiled by the state Board of Elections.

«Beyond the legal and regulatory issues implicated by your office's memorandum being improperly leaked to the press, your memorandum reflects either a shocking lack of understanding or a complete disregard of the most fundamental aspects of the state's election laws,» lawyer Laurence Laufer, who represents several other parties named in the memo, wrote.

The July 2014 memo, written by campaign lawyer Laurence Laufer, who was retained to represent some of the parties involved in the effort, detailed how the coordinated campaign would be structured and run, and how it intended to comply with existing state election law.

Republicans mulled court action on the grounds that party lawyers were prevented from observing the counting of some absentee ballots, voting machines erroneously recorded votes from Lamb, and voters were confused by some information from the state election Web site.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- Questioned intently by a Senate committee, President Donald Trump's son struck a firmly unapologetic tone, deflected many queries and said he didn't think there was anything wrong with meeting a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower in hopes of election - season dirt on Hillary Clinton, according to transcripts released Wednesday.

Lawyers for the former treasurer of former state Sen. George Maziarz's campaign committee have filed a set of amended spending reports with the state Board of Elections, as ordered by a state Supreme COurt justice.

«We are confident that this effort by Mr. Heaney's insider consultants and his high paid lawyers will fail just as it did at the Board of Elections,» the Bishop campaign said in a statement.

Stung by the ruling, Martins — in a rare maneuver that stunned many election lawyers — sought unsuccessfully to have a federal judge reschedule the congressional balloting from Nov. 8, the date of the general elections, to Dec. 6.

Schechter's decision comes as lawyers representing Trump face another suit - this one filed in early March in Los Angeles Superior Court by porn star Stormy Daniels, who said Trump sought to silence her shortly before the 2016 election.

In an argument by INEC's lead counsel, Chief Adegboyega Awomolo (SAN), who led a team of other senior lawyers, including, Dr. Livy Uzoukwu (SAN), A.B. Mahmoud (SAN), H.M. Liman (SAN) and Ahmed Raji (SAN), the commission said it was Ikpeazu who won the election and not Otti.

Peacock is vying with Ithaca lawyer Rick Wallace Nov. 4 to earn election to the seat to which Peacock was appointed earlier this year by Mayor Svante Myrick.

A stunned Warren left the caucus and consulted a lawyer the next day after being turned down by the county Board of Elections.

Marty Connor, the election lawyer and former state senator who brought the petition on behalf of the Cuomo campaign, pointed to numerous documents filed by Teachout with state governments and the federal government that gave out - of - state addresses.

Gillibrand was a hardworking lawyer (partner in David Boies» law firm); elected TWICE in a heavily Republican district; serves on the Armed Services Committee; ranks among the top ten fundraisers in the House; was hired by President Clinton to work at HUD; fought for the rights of abused women; is a genuine working Mom who gave birth to her second child just last March, making her only the sixth woman in the House to do so while serving in office; she has voted in every single election (unlike Kennedy who has missed even GENERAL elections); magna cum laude graduate of Dartmouth... Need I say more?

Given the concerted efforts by county Legislator Berky and her lawyers to suppress the tape until well after Election Day, I expected something confrontational between the accused and the arresting officer.

The Scunthorpe MP and former minister, who has been barred from standing for Labour at the next general election, said further examination by his own lawyers showed that taxpayers had paid for part of the capital sum of his mortgage.

Ciampoli had previously worked for years a top election lawyer for the Senate's Republican majority before he was hired to the county attorney post in 2010 by Nassau County executive Ed Mangano.

The donors, topped by hedge funder Stanley Druckenmiller, the Trial Lawyers Association and the health care union 1199SEIU, combined to contribute $ 10 million, according to a POLITICO New York analysis of state Board of Elections records.

Abrams, an African - American lawyer from Atlanta, says it's a fool's errand for Democrats to keep trying to win elections in Georgia by going after white voters who've abandoned Democrats in recent decades.

Officials for the campaigns of four other Democratic candidates for the job — State Senator Eric T. Schneiderman; Assemblyman Richard L. Brodsky; Eric R. Dinallo, a former state insurance superintendent; and Sean Coffey, a plaintiffs» lawyer and a former prosecutor — said they were not yet ready to reveal the fund - raising figures they would be submitting to the Board of Elections by Thursday, the formal deadline, in part because they were still processing donations and paperwork.

Melania Trump was reportedly «blindsided» by reports that her husband's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, paid an adult film star $ 130,000 right before the presidential election to keep quiet about an affair.

Now Mejias, 39, a Farmingdale lawyer who served in the Nassau County Legislature before losing his seat last year in a close election, is trying for a comeback by painting Hannon as part of a dysfunctional Albany establishment for the past 34 years.

But Governor Dakingari's lawyer Mr. Sam Nene, said the judges were unfair to the governor and his deputy by cancelling the election.

In a hard - fought election decided by a one - vote margin, the World Intellectual Property Organization elected Australian lawyer Francis Gurry to be its next director general.

From an employment lawyer's perspective, there was a clear statement by all parties during the election that employment rights derived from the EU will effectively remain untouched.

A new study in the Journal of Legal Analysis examines the political leanings of American lawyers by using the Database on Ideology, Money in Politics, and Elections (DIME) to track the financial contributions of lawyers to political campaigns.

It's really interesting to note the high growth in probate lawyers during the year; this may have been linked to the proposed changes to probate fees which have now been rescinded by the government, ahead of the general election.

Back in November, I told you about the election - law blawg maintained by Birmingham, Ala., lawyer Edward Still, Votelaw — Law and Politics.

By getting involved in a judicial election, and picking a specific candidate, lawyers are rolling the proverbial dice.