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...The former US president posted a $175mn bond yesterday to prevent the New York attorney-general from collecting on a near half-billion dollar fraud judgment against him and his businesses....
...In another New York courtroom another judge will hold a hearing over the $175mn bond Trump posted as he appeals against a $454mn fraud judgment, after the state’s attorney-general Letitia James asked for...
...An Illinois court on Wednesday joined Colorado and Maine in throwing Trump off the state’s presidential primary ballot on the basis that he engaged in insurrection....
...“In part because of the crimes committed, Binance became the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world,” said US attorney-general Merrick Garland. Read the full story....
...In New York, for example, the Attorney General is currently arguing that Ether is a security under New York’s own Waldstein test, first articulated in 1936....
...Just south of Wisconsin’s state border in Illinois, Chicago voters chose the progressive Democrat Brandon Johnson to run the third largest city in the US....
...Attorney-general Merrick Garland last month tapped Jack Smith as a special counsel to investigate the former president in connection with his role in the attack and his mishandling of sensitive government...
...The decision has led to the legalised bribery that afflicts US politics. Now see the many state attorneys-general (acolytes, no doubt of Alito et. al.) who want to sanction corporations that adopt ESG....
...Just minutes after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe vs Wade, Eric Schmitt, the attorney-general of Missouri, proclaimed that his state would be the first to ban abortion after the landmark ruling on Friday...
...Skadden has hired John Kocoras, former first assistant United States attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, as a partner in its litigation group, based in Chicago....
...Latest news Nato’s Stoltenberg accuses Putin of ‘dangerous and reckless nuclear rhetoric’ Steep mortgage rates fuel August decline in US existing home sales New York attorney-general files fraud suit...
...But the three-year investigation by the New York attorney-general Letitia James threatens to shine a spotlight on his activities....
...They look at Facebook’s past five years and its attempts — frequently belated, often ambiguous — to deal with the way that state actors (Russia et al), hoodlums (such as the Proud Boys), politicians (a list...
...Yet until this week, when the 165-page New York state attorney-general’s report was published, Cuomo’s fellow Democrats extended him the courtesy of awaiting the outcome of an official investigation....
...His philanthropy division in 2017 started paying salaries for staffers in state attorneys-general offices to combat climate change....
...His own attorney-general, William Barr, has said there was no evidence of election fraud that affected the outcome of the vote....
...Brazil’s far-western state of Mato Grosso has become one of the world’s leading producers of a crop so lucrative locals call it “green gold”: soyabeans....
...Japan has extended its state of emergency from the Tokyo area to another seven prefectures covering the cities of Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe, Fukuoka and Nagoya....
...Nominations for the next director-general of the World Trade Organization formally opened on Monday....
...Saudi authorities investigated Mr Qahtani but he was not charged because of a lack of evidence, the kingdom’s deputy attorney-general said in December....
...(FT) Ex-justice officials call for US attorney-general to resign More than 1,100 former justice department officials have called on US attorney-general William Barr to resign, accusing him of doing Donald...
...Edward Luce writes that the attorney-general Bill Barr is Mr Trump’s political sword....
...The US attorney-general issued a rare rebuke to Donald Trump on Thursday after a week of allegations of political interference by the president in the trial of the self-declared “dirty trickster” Roger Stone...
...That would be a particularly lethal moment as Trump would still be president for another 10 weeks with its awesome range of powers. William Barr would also still be US attorney-general....
...Video of the day How map makers will win the 2020 US election The FT’s head of visual and data journalism Alan Smith investigates gerrymandering, using tiddlywinks and a salamander. (FT)...
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