WASHINGTON — Christopher Krebs, who was recently fired by President Donald Trump as the head of the federal government's election cybersecurity efforts, suggested Tuesday that he might take legal action against one of Trump’s lawyers who said that Krebs should be shot. In an interview on NBC’s “TODAY” show, host Savannah Guthrie asked Krebs how concerned he is about the comments made by Trump campaign lawyer Joe diGenova on Monday in which he said Krebs “is a class A moron. He should be drawn and quartered. Taken out at dawn and shot.” “It's certainly more dangerous language, more dangerous behavior," Krebs responded. "And the way I look at it is that we are a nation of laws, and I plan to...
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City’s Top Lawyer Resigns Amid Furor Over Mistaken Police Raid A still image from a Chicago Police Department body camera video shows a police raid at the home of Anjanette Young in February 2019. (WTTW News via Ja’Mal Green) Mark Flessner, the city’s top lawyer, resigned Sunday amid a growing furor over Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s handling of the revelation that Chicago police officers handcuffed a naked woman during a mistaken raid in February 2019. The firestorm that pushed Flessner out as Chicago’s corporation counsel began Monday evening when CBS2-TV aired video of the raid that showed Anjanette Young, a social worker, telling seven male police officers 43 times they were in the wrong...
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A commercial litigator who was struck and killed by a U-Haul truck in an underground parking garage in Midtown Toronto on Friday evening was the victim of a “targeted” homicide, Toronto police say. According to investigators, 52-year-old Scott Rosen had finished work for the day at his law firm in the area of Eglinton Avenue and Mount Pleasant Road at around 5:30 p.m. when he was struck by the driver of a rented U-Haul truck in the building’s underground parking garage. The driver of the vehicle took off and Rosen was later pronounced dead at the scene. Det.-Sgt. Ted Lioumanis told reporters Monday that the suspect had been waiting for Rosen in the parking garage for some time before the...
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Police say lawyer struck and killed by U-Haul in Toronto parking garage was victim of 'targeted' homicide TORONTO -- A commercial litigator who was struck and killed by a U-Haul truck in an underground parking garage in Midtown Toronto on Friday evening was the victim of a “targeted” homicide, Toronto police say. According to investigators, 52-year-old Scott Rosen had finished work for the day at his law firm in the area of Eglinton Avenue and Mount Pleasant Road at around 5:30 p.m. when he was struck by the driver of a rented U-Haul truck in the building’s underground parking garage. The driver of the vehicle took off and Rosen was later pronounced dead at the scene. Det.-Sgt. Ted...
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The lawyer and conspiracy theorist Sidney Powell was back at the White House on Sunday night, reportedly to pitch Donald Trump on a plan to seize voting machines as the US president continues to dispute the result of November’s election, which he lost. Trump refuses to concede defeat by Joe Biden and continues to advance baseless claims of electoral fraud, despite Biden’s electoral college victory and regardless of the Democrat’s lead in the popular vote by more than 7m ballots. Over the weekend, Trump tweeted encouragement to Republicans reported to be considering challenges to the electoral college results when they come before Congress on 6 January. Such moves will in all likelihood not...
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Trump lawyers: DA's fight for tax returns built on innuendo NEW YORK – A New York prosecutor engaged in a long-running battle to obtain Donald Trump’s tax returns is resorting to “speculation and innuendo” to justify his demands, the president's lawyers argued in court papers filed Thursday on the eve of an appeals court showdown. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is scheduled to hear arguments Friday after a district court judge last month rejected Trump's renewed efforts to invalidate a subpoena that the office of Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. issued to the president's accounting firm. Trump's lawyers maintain that the subpoena was issued in bad faith and is overly...
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'All he did was defend himself': Lawyer for Louisville police officer shot by Breonna Taylor's boyfriend releases bodycam video of him being saved by colleagues and threatens to sue anyone who calls him a murderer Bodycam footage allegedly shows Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly being carried away by officers after being struck in the leg Mattingly was hit by Breonna Taylor's boyfriend Kenneth Walker in the shooting that took her life The officer's lawyer has hit out at those branding him a 'murderer' He claimed he represents the cop against those who slandered him Mattingly was not indicted of any crime by a Kentucky grand jury Wednesday 16:12 BST, 25 September 2020 21:43 BST, 25 September 2020 New...
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Days after learning that no Louisville police officers would be charged with homicide in the death of Breonna Taylor, lawyers for the woman’s family called on Kentucky’s attorney general to release the transcripts of the grand jury proceedings. “Breonna Taylor’s entire family is heartbroken, devastated, outraged and confused as to what Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron presented to the grand jury,” civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump said at a Friday morning news conference in Louisville. “Did he present any evidence on Breonna Taylor’s behalf? Or did he make a unilateral decision to put his thumb on the scales of justice to try to exonerate and justify the killing of Breonna Taylor...
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Lawyer for Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend shares ballistics, says cop possibly hit by friendly fire: report © Provided by New York Daily News Kenneth Walker and Breonna Taylor The lawyer for Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend Kenneth Walker reportedly says Kentucky’s top prosecutor went too far Wednesday when he stated as fact that Walker’s bullet hit an officer the night Taylor died. Lawyer Rob Eggert reportedly shared with VICE News the inconclusive findings of the ballistics report compiled by Kentucky State Police after the botched March 13 raid by three Louisville Metro Police officers ended Taylor’s life. The report, which was included in the investigative file provided to Kentucky Attorney...
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Authorities in Belarus detained a lawyer representing a top opposition activist who was jailed this month amid mass protests against the country’s authoritarian president, who won a sixth term in a disputed election. The lawyer, Lyudmila Kazak, went missing Thursday, with police confirming later in the day that she had been detained. According to Kazak’s lawyers, she faces administrative charges of participating in an unauthorized rally and resisting a police officer. Kazak was defending Maria Kolesnikova, a key member of a council Belarus’ political opposition set up to push for a new presidential election. Kolesnikova is facing charges of undermining state...
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