The criminal hush money trial kicked off its fourth week in New York City.
Prosecutors called two new witnesses as former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial kicked off its fourth week in New York City. Live updates have ended.
Tarasoff took the stand in the afternoon. The Trump employee testified about who had signing authority and how checks are prepared at the company.This morning, Judge Juan Merchan held Trump in contempt for violating the gag order for a tenth time, and threatened jail should the violations continue. The former president addressed this after court Monday afternoon.
On behalf of the DA's office, prosecutor Joshua Steinglass is raising issue with the defense's arguments that they haven't had sufficient notice of the evidence that the prosecution is introducing, saying,"it's just not true." Blanche argues Longstreet shouldn't be allowed to retake the stand, but Merchan seems skeptical about how letting her introduce more social media posts would be prejudicial.Merchan tells prosecutors that they need to give the defense a 24-hour notice before recalling Longstreet.
Tarasoff is the Trump Organization's accounts payable supervisor who reported to Jeffrey McConney, she also testified in the Trump Organization tax fraud trial. She has been with the Trump Organization since 2000. Tarasoff says that Trump did not have to sign a check just because Weisselberg approved it."If he didn't want to sign it, he didn't sign it," she said. Instead, Trump would just write VOID in Sharpie and send it back.
Earlier, McConney explained how the Trump Organization owed Michael Cohen $420,000, prosecutors are now showing jurors the payments made. McConney says Mr. Trump fully reimbursed Mr. Cohen in 2017.These are tied to some of the 34 falsifying business records charges against Trump.McConney had"very few" conversations with Trump over his decades of work at the Trump Organization, he testifies.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's witnesses"contradicted" the basis for Trump's prosecution in the hush money case, attorney Jonathan Turley says.publisher David Pecker. Pecker was the prosecution's first witness who testified over several days. Turley argues Pecker killed stories for multiple celebrities, not just Trump.
"They have absolutely no case," Trump said Monday morning."It's a political hoax, it's election inference, anything they can do. And even the witnesses they want to bring up, they have nothing to do with the case. This is a ridiculous situation, not fair — not fair but we will fight."Judge Merchan has now fined Trump $10,000 for 10 gag order violations. This morning, Merchan threatened the former president with jail sanctions should the violations continue.
Prosecutors show Weisselberg's notes. McConney explains they owed Cohen $180,000 , which was grossed up to $360,000 by Weisselberg for income tax purposes. The judge found Trump violated one of the four, and held him in contempt for a 10th time. Merchan said it appears the fines"aren't working" and in the future, the court must consider sanctions.
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