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Former Senate Minority Leader Marty Connor, who is part of the team of election attorneys handling the recount fight for the Democrats in the Thompson race, said the whole mess could take weeks — or maybe even months — which means there might be empty seats in the chamber when the Legislature returns to Albany in early January.

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The president said it was a «terrible mistake» for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to recuse himself from Mueller's investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

The Times «attorney also argued that Trump's proximity to the nation's highest office, and the fact that Trump's past treatment of women has become a major talking point in the election, mean that the article in question addresses «an issue of national importance.»

During the campaign, Trump and other Republicans vigorously criticized a meeting between then - Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former President Bill Clinton, husband of Trump's general election opponent.

Rudy Giuliani, who joined President Trump's personal legal team last week, told Fox News on Thursday that the Trump attorney Michael Cohen had arranged a payment to the adult - film actress Stormy Daniels in order to prevent allegations of an affair from coming out in the closing days of the 2016 election.

President Trump confirmed in a series of tweets Thursday morning that he repaid his longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen for the hush money he delivered to porn actress Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election.

Trump's longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen paid Daniels, an adult film actress, $ 130,000 in exchange for her signing a nondisclosure agreement in the final days of the 2016 election that kept her from saying anything about an alleged affair with Trump.

Rudy Giuliani, who just joined President Trump's legal team, dropped a bombshell on Fox News Wednesday: Trump repaid the $ 130,000 in hush money that his longtime attorney Michael Cohen paid to porn actress Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election.

Conservative House allies of President Trump have drafted articles of impeachment against Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein, who oversees the ongoing special counsel probe, setting up a possible GOP showdown over the federal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

She had received $ 130,000 in hush money days before the 2016 election as part of a payment arranged by a Trump attorney, according to the Wall Street Journal.

This settlement should have been considered a campaign expense «because the funds were paid for the purpose of influencing the 2016 presidential general election,» Paul S. Ryan, a campaign finance expert at the group, said in a letter addressed to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein.

Selina questions the Attorney General about political donations and the role of the Attorney General in administering both the Election Act and the Lobbyists Registration Act.

The admission by Donald Trump's attorney Michael Cohen that he made the $ 130,000 payment of apparent hush money to adult film star Stormy Daniels shortly before the 2016 election does not make the Trump campaign's legal problems go away despite Cohen's assertions.

After discovering Ms. Clifford's plans, Mr. Trump, with the assistance of his attorney Mr. Cohen, aggressively sought to silence Ms. Clifford as part of an effort to avoid her telling the truth, thus helping to ensure he won the Presidential Election.

Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani suggested Thursday that a payment from the president's longtime personal attorney to porn actress Stormy Daniels in the days leading up to the 2016 election was intended to silence allegations of an affair at a sensitive time for the Trump campaign.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- President Donald Trump reimbursed his personal lawyer for $ 130,000 in hush money paid to a porn actress days before the 2016 presidential election, Rudy Giuliani, one of Trump's attorneys, said Wednesday, appearing to contradict the president's past claims that he didn't know the...

Preliminary hearings ensued, and dismissals of charges, and trials and mistrials and retrials, and an acquittal, and two hung juries, and defections and elections of district attorneys, and the McMartin defense team carried on, until the list of defendants had dwindled to one, young Raymond Buckey, a surfer dude who had not seen the sun in years, whose charges were finally dismissed in 1990.

Sanjay Tailor, an assistant state's attorney, said if the judge agrees with the state's attorney's office, «we're going to ask the court to throw them out of office and ask the court to schedule a special election.»

«This is the largest amount of money ever concealed in an election,» says Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson, as tobacco - style tactics by likes of PepsiCo and Nestle are revealed in Washington State's lawsuit against the Grocery Manufacturers Association over GMO labeling fight.

Kenneth Menzel, attorney for the Du Page Board of Elections, said Thursday that the case, which is set for a hearing on Aug. 22, will mark one of the first times that state statutes on the matter have been faced

Arlington Heights: Election day also marked the passing of an era in the largest northwest suburb, where an attorney was ahead by a small margin in a three - way race for the mayor «s seat, vacated after 14 years in the firm grasp of retiring Mayor James Ryan.

Hartstein, an attorney, former village trustee and Stevenson High School board member, wore an «I Love Buffalo Grove» button as he knocked on thousands of doors to seek support for his election.

A Monroe County attorney panned the chances of a federal lawsuit filed in hopes of forcing a special election in NY - 29.

Cuomo made the party sweat it out in 2010 while he delayed accepted its endorsement due to a US attorney's office investigation into the actions of its now defunct for - profit arm, Data and Field Services, in the 2009 NYC elections.

All that said, the best way for you to find out exactly what it takes to get on the primary ballot is to: (1) hire a good election law attorney, or (2) contact the Suffolk County Board of Elections and ask them to provide you with the rules for ballot access, candidate qualifications (such as residency requirements in the district), deadline dates, and filing fees.

Sen. Mark Grisanti, one of the Senate Republicans» most vulnerable members who must first succeed in Thursday's primary election against attorney Kevin Stocker before defending his seat in November against the Democratic primary winner, announced that he has landed the coveted endorsement of former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

President Donald Trump reimbursed his personal lawyer for $ 130,000 in hush money paid to a porn actress days before the 2016 presidential election, Rudy Giuliani, one of Trump's attorneys, said Wednesday, appearing to contradict the president's past claims that he didn't know the source of the money.

«We think it's Cuomo and we think this is an indication of how the attorney general is going to go (in the general election).

A number of members of the upstate GOP establishment also cut checks for Lhota, including former Senate Finance Secretary Abe Lackman ($ 1,000), Election Law attorney Jeff Buley ($ 400), and ex-state GOP, SRCC Executive Director Ed Lurie ($ 150).

GOP consultant Roger Stone, a Trump loyalist, is set to testify before the House Intelligence Committee as part of its Russia election meddling probe in late July, according to his attorney.

Of course, I believe all of these candidates are also attorneys, which means they can be nominated for judgeships to get them off the general election balloOf course, I believe all of these candidates are also attorneys, which means they can be nominated for judgeships to get them off the general election balloof these candidates are also attorneys, which means they can be nominated for judgeships to get them off the general election ballot.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo in an interview on NY1 Friday questioned the «iffy process» of appointing an attorney general through the Legislature, virtually endorsing Barbara Underwood to remain in the post through the November general election.

How Eric Schneiderman will be replaced in the attorney general's office is still not clear as a large field of candidates has signaled they want to fill the job, either through a legislative appointment or on Election Day.

Mr Amidu, who filed the case ahead of the 2016 general elections, told the court on Wednesday, 8 February that since there has been a change in government, he would leave the matter to new Attorney General and Minister of Justice Gloria Akuffo to retrieve the money, Accra100.5 FM's Court Correspondent Ama Brako Ampofo reported.

Another option for the Legislature would be to hold a special session after Election Day and formally appoint the new attorney general - elect to fill the remainder of Schneiderman's term.

@Ame The legality will be decided by the investigating attorneys and judges, but I think it is safe to say that a campaign adviser agreeing to meet with someone alleged to be the representative of a hostile government who wants to help a candidate win a presidential election is HIGHLY unusual, if not unprecedented.

Bedford attorney and political newcomer Samard Khojasteh is continuing to forge ahead with his bid to represent the Republican Party in the yet - to - be-called 37th Senate District special election, assembling a campaign team and sending out a letter seeking the support of local committee members.

While the Berks County legislator, a longtime advocate of limited government who billed himself as the true conservative in the primary, has neither encouraged or discouraged the nascent write - in movement, which began to take shape only a few days after the state's bruising primary election — a lopsided contest in which the heavily - favored attorney general and the GOP establishment unleashed a last - minute barrage of negative ads against Rohrer's insurgent candidacy.

NOTE, each independent office within Erie County Government (Board of Elections, Clerk, Comptroller, District Attorney, Legislature, and Sheriff), administers their own separate FOIL processes with both an internal FOIL Officer and FOIL Appeals Officer.

Other question topics included how Cuomo's love of cars and motorcycles affects his actions on mass transit, the ongoing investigations of Mayor de Blasio's fundraising efforts in the 2014 senate elections and whether Cuomo has been questioned in those investigations, current legislative efforts at retroactively extending the statute of limitations in child sex abuse cases, the developing troubles of Suffolk County District Attorney Tom Spota and whether Cuomo will act to remove Spota, the likelihood of «ethics reform» passing in this legislative session, the timing of an inspector general's report on the 2015 Dannemora prison escape and Cuomo's planned trip to Italy.

«Knowingly and willfully failing to file campaign finance disclosure reports with the New York State Board of Elections is a crime,» said Attorney General Schneiderman.

Sources claim the absence of a single, clear decision - maker could boost the chances of others, including Erie County Elections Commissioner Ralph Mohr, State Supreme Court Justice Richard C. Kloch Sr., Assistant U.S. Attorneys Joseph M. Guerra III and Brian J. Counihan and former prosecutor Michael L. McCabe.

Liquor stores and their interest groups gave an additional $ 67,644 in 2009 contributions to the election committees of individual legislators, the governor and the attorney general.

The methods of humbling this rival have included the Christie-esque maneuver of publicly investigating him when Cuomo was attorney general and declining to clear him until well into his re-election campaign — and conspicuously opting not to endorse DiNapoli in a general election against a well - financed Republican opponent.

«What I think should happen is the state Board of Elections should investigative this,» the district attorney said.

Attorneys for the three disgraced politicos last month requested that the trial be delayed to the end of the year, so it would not interfere with the 2013 primary elections.

Vincent Messina Jr., a partner with the Central Islip law firm Sinnreich Kosakoff & Messina LLP, was tapped by the Independence Party to be their attorney general candidate in November, according to paperwork filed with the state Board of Elections.

State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman later said his office has opened an investigation into «allege improprieties» in Tuesday voting by the city Board of Elections.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- Former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara revealed on Sunday that he received a handful of «unusual» phone calls from Donald Trump after the November election that made him feel uncomfortable, and said he was fired after declining to take the third call.

A number of high - profile potential candidates for this year's election, former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, New York City Public Advocate Letitia James, and U.S. Rep. Kathleen Rice, are not on the list of those to be interviewed.