#WINSTON SALEM NEWS PAPER TRIAL#
In state court, a criminal trial was set for March 25 - in the thick of the primary season before next year’s November presidential election. 2:37 PM EDT WINSTON-SALEM, NC (July 4, 2023) After a series loss on the road to the Aberdeen IronBirds, the Winston-Salem Dash are back home for a six-game set against the Hickory. If the case is moved to federal court, Trump’s lawyers could try to get the charges dismissed on the grounds that federal officials are immune from criminal prosecution over actions they take as part of their official job duties.Ī shift to federal court would also mean that jurors would potentially be drawn not only from heavily Democratic Manhattan, where Trump is wildly unpopular, but also from a handful of suburban counties north of the city where he has more political support. The Manhattan district attorney’s office, which is bringing the hush money case, has argued that nothing about the payoffs to either Cohen or the women involved Trump’s official duties as president.
While requests to move criminal cases from state to federal court are rarely granted, the prosecution of Trump is unprecedented. law allows criminal prosecutions to be moved from state to federal court if they involve actions taken by federal government officials as part of their official duties, among other qualifications. The leading news source for Winston-Salem & Northwest N.C. “We have the invoices” showing what Cohen was paid, the judge noted. Winston-Salem Journal JournalNow, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Garten said he sometimes referred to Cohen non-corporate matters involving Trump and his wife, Melania, but wasn’t sure what Cohen did about those things.Īfter hearing Garten’s testimony and arguments from both sides’ lawyers, Hellerstein said the evidence suggested that Cohen “was hired privately, not under color of any presidential office or related to it.” Company documents recorded them generally as legal expenses. On being shown some of Trump’s ledgers, Garten also testified that “the vast majority” of attorney payments were accompanied by some description of the lawyers’ work, though there was no such description for the monthly $35,000 payments that went to Cohen throughout 2017. (AP) A former North Carolina state legislator and Winston-Salem City Council member was sentenced to five years of probation along with monetary penalties after pleading guilty to fraud for spending money from the homeless center organization he had led for personal use. However, Garten said he knew of no written retainer agreement between Trump and Cohen, though Trump’s attorneys “typically” had them. Pressed by Hellerstein to prove it, Trump lawyer Todd Blanche called the legal chief of Trump’s company to the witness stand, though attorneys for both sides last week had agreed they would not call witnesses at the hearing.Īlan Garten, the Trump Organization’s chief legal officer, testified that he believed the payments were partly reimbursements for the money that Cohen had paid Daniels, and partly to compensate him for “the role that he was playing as counsel” for Trump’s personal matters.
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