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‘Crying Little Sh*t’: Michael Cohen Spars With Trump’s Defense Attorney In Fiery Cross-Examination

Just a minute into cross examining star witness Michael Cohen, defense attorney Todd Blanche took a direct jab at one of the major issues hanging over Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case: Cohen’s credibility. Blanche began by asking a question put to many witnesses, whether he and Cohen had ever spoken to each other before. But Blanche’s next question — which, like those that followed, was aimed at impugning Cohen’s character and highlighting his frequent insults against Trump on social media — was a little more unusual. Blanche asked Cohen whether he had gone on TikTok and called him a

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Gregg Jarrett Says ‘Notorious Liar’ Michael Cohen ‘Didn’t Lay A Glove On Trump’ During ‘Train Wreck’ Testimony

Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett said Tuesday that Michael Cohen “failed to deliver a devastating blow” to former President Donald Trump during his testimony for the prosecution. Cohen, a one-time fixer for former President Donald Trump who pled guilty to charges of lying to Congress in 2018 and who was accused of perjury by a federal judge, gave further testimony Tuesday after he took the stand Monday to testify in the case centered around a $130,000 payout to [censored] star Stormy Daniels. Jarrett said that Cohen’s testimony Tuesday provided no new information about the case or any wrongdoing by

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Admitted Liar Michael Cohen Pins Blame On Trump For Allegations At Heart Of Alvin Bragg’s Case

NEW YORK— Prosecutors on Monday finally called former President Donald Trump’s previous lawyer Michael Cohen to testify, a star witness who has been widely criticized for his history of lying under oath. Cohen, whose credibility has come under intense scrutiny due to his multiple admissions of lying under oath and public attacks on Trump, largely gave the answers prosecutors were seeking. He testified that Trump both directed him to make the payment for a nondisclosure agreement with [censored] star Stormy Daniels and agreed with the reimbursement plan beneath the falsifying business record charges at the heart of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin

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Former US Attorney Says Alvin Bragg’s Team Is Making Major Error By Keeping Michael Cohen On Stand

Former United States Attorney Brett Tolman said Monday prosecutors were giving attorneys for former President Donald Trump more leeway in cross-examination by keeping former attorney Michael Cohen on the stand. Cohen, a former fixer for Trump who previously pled guilty to charges of lying to Congress and was accused of perjury, testified Monday in the case regarding a $130,000 payout to [censored] star Stormy Daniels. Tolman said that prosecutors should have limited Cohen’s exposure on the witness stand. “They’re very worried about cross-examination, that’s why there’s such an effort to script everything that is being said. Some of my most difficult

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Former Federal Prosecutor Predicts On MSNBC That Michael Cohen Won’t Be ‘Last Witness’ Because He Isn’t ‘Good’

Former federal prosecutor Jon Sale forecasted on Friday that former President Donald Trump’s previous attorney Michael Cohen is not going to be the final witness against him because he will not be “good.” Trump faces 34 felony counts of allegedly falsifying business documents in relation to reimbursing Cohen, who is set to be a key witness testifying against him starting Monday, for $130,000 paid to [censored] star Stormy Daniels in the lead-up to the 2016 election. Sale said on MSNBC’s “Katy Tur Reports” that prosecutors like to begin and end with what he referred to as “a good witness,” citing this

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BONNER COHEN: Biden White House Starts End Run Around Supreme Court WOTUS Ruling

At an April 23 “Water Summit” at the White House, the Biden administration announced a multi-agency plan reasserting the federal role in determining the future of wetlands in the wake of last year’s landmark Supreme Court Decision limiting Washington’s authority to regulate “waters of the United States” (WOTUS). The administration’s move on wetlands appears to be part of a concerted effort to get as many rules and regulations as possible in place by the end of the year, in the event there is no second Biden term. In April, alone, the Biden Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued new rules setting stricter

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Jonathan Turley Says Michael Cohen Must Convince Jury To Convict Trump For Following His Legal Advice

George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley on Thursday said Michael Cohen, who is former President Donald Trump’s previous attorney, must convince the jury in his trial to send him to jail for following his counsel. A grand jury indicted Trump in April 2023, alleging the former president attempted to cover up another crime, possibly a violation of federal election law, when he reimbursed Cohen for a $130,000 payment made to keep [censored] star Stormy Daniels quiet regarding a purported affair, recording it as payment for “legal services.” Cohen is a key witness for prosecutors and Turley said his task

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Trump says hush money prosecutors sought to block access to Michael Cohen evidence

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – Donald Trump on Friday accused the New York prosecutors who charged him with crimes stemming from hush money paid to a [censored] star of trying to obstruct his access to damaging information about his former lawyer Michael Cohen, a key witness in the case. The first-ever criminal trial of a former U.S. president has been scheduled for March 25. That timing was thrown into question when the office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said on Thursday it would not oppose a 30-day delay due to late disclosure of evidence from federal prosecutors.

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BONNER COHEN: Biden Admin Could Bring Its Net-Zero Emissions Fantasy To Another Key Sector

BONNER COHEN: Biden Admin Could Bring Its Net-Zero Emissions Fantasy To Another Key Sector Bonner Cohen on March 10, 2024 Residential and commercial buildings throughout the United States are in the bull’s eye of a White House plan “intended to help move the building sector to net-zero emissions.” A “pre-decisional” draft released with little fanfare in January outlines the vast scope of an initiative aimed at nothing less than the decarbonization of one of the nation’s largest economic sectors. Couched in the turgid bureaucratic prose common to regulatory schemes, the White House draft seeks a “broadly accepted minimum definition of

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Federal Judge Seals Trump’s Planned Deposition In Lawsuit Against Michael Cohen

Federal Judge Seals Trump’s Planned Deposition In Lawsuit Against Michael Cohen Arjun Singh on July 21, 2023 A deposition to be given by former President Donald Trump in a lawsuit against his former attorney, Michael Cohen, has been sealed by a judge’s order on Friday, according to a report. Trump is suing Cohen, his personal lawyer of 11 years from the Fall of 2006 to early 2017, for allegedly violating attorney-client privilege when he made public statements against him in several fora — including in media appearances, his book and on podcasts. On Friday, U.S. Chief Magistrate Judge Edwin Torres

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Morgan Stanley hires healthcare services banker Cohen from Truist

By David Carnevali and Svea Herbst-Bayliss NEW YORK (Reuters) – Morgan Stanley has hired veteran investment banker Daniel Cohen from Truist Financial Corp, where he was the head of the firm’s healthcare services advisory business, a person familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. In his new role, Cohen will continue to focus on dealmaking in the pharmaceutical services sector, the person said, requesting anonymity because the move is not yet public. Morgan Stanley declined to comment. A Truist spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment, and Cohen did not immediately reply to a message sent via

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Goldman Sachs fintech executive Stephanie Cohen to take leave of absence: memo

By Lananh Nguyen NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stephanie Cohen, the head of Goldman Sachs Group Inc’s fintech unit called Platform Solutions, is taking a leave of absence for family reasons, she said in a memo to staff seen by Reuters. “The past year has brought some challenges for my family,” Cohen said in the memo. “While I have done my best to balance the important work we do here with my life at home, I have made the decision that taking some time away from work to focus on my family is the best choice.” Philip Berlinski, the bank’s treasurer,

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BONNER COHEN: Elites Have Come Up With Their Greatest Excuse Yet To Suppress The Rest Of Us

BONNER COHEN: Elites Have Come Up With Their Greatest Excuse Yet To Suppress The Rest Of Us Bonner Cohen on May 13, 2023 The recent torrent of regulations unleashed by the Biden administration — targeting everything from power plant and automobile tailpipe emissions to gas stoves and other household appliances — confirms that the White House was deadly serious when — in office for less than a week — it pledged a “whole of government” approach to combatting what it told the public was a “climate crisis.” If anything, the “whole of government” language contained in President Joe Biden’s Jan.

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Michael Cohen calls Trump’s $500 million suit against him “pure retaliation”

By Karen Freifeld and Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s onetime lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen asked a court to throw out the former U.S. president’s $500 million lawsuit against him, calling it an “abusive act of pure retaliation and witness intimidation.”       Cohen’s lawyers in a filing late Monday in Miami federal court said the lawsuit combined the “worst of Mr. Trump’s vindictive impulses,” and that its timing was no coincidence.     Trump sued Cohen on April 12, eight days after pleading not guilty to 34 criminal charges from the Manhattan district attorney’s office over a $130,000 hush money

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Trump’s ex-fixer Michael Cohen poised to be key witness in criminal case

By Luc Cohen and Karen Freifeld NEW YORK (Reuters) – A former lawyer for Donald Trump who once said he would do anything to protect the former U.S. president is now poised to serve as a key witness in the criminal trial of his longtime boss. Michael Cohen, who became a top executive at Trump’s real estate company and then his personal lawyer, testified twice before the Manhattan grand jury that voted on Thursday to indict Trump following an investigation into a hush payment to [censored] star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Cohen has said that Trump

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Investor Ryan Cohen takes stake in Nordstrom – WSJ

(Reuters) – Activist investor Ryan Cohen is racking up a sizable stake in Nordstrom Inc and plans to urge the department-store chain to make changes to its board after a decline in share prices, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. He is looking to engage with Nordstrom’s management about a targeted board refresh that he believes can support cost-cutting efforts as sales decline, WSJ said, adding that he is one of the top-five nonfamily shareholders of the company. Cohen wants to replace at least one director at Nordstrom, with an eye on former

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Israel says intercepted message brought down spy Cohen in 1965

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel sought to lay to rest on Monday a decades-old debate about one of its most famous spies, Eli Cohen, saying his capture and execution in Syria was due to successful counter-intelligence rather than unprofessionalism. Cohen, a Jewish immigrant to Israel from Egypt, was recruited by Mossad and dispatched under cover to Damascus, where he operated from 1961 to 1965. Before his arrest, he managed to pass on information that Israel says proved vital to the defeat of Syrian forces in the 1967 Middle East war. His story was the subject of a 2019 Netflix dramatisation. Inaugurating

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Lawyer Michael Cohen can sue Trump’s company to cover legal bills

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – Michael Cohen, the onetime personal lawyer and fixer for Donald Trump, can sue the Trump Organization to cover millions of dollars in legal fees from defending against investigations into his work for the former U.S. president, a New York state appeals court ruled on Tuesday. Cohen, now a vocal Trump critic, said the real estate company stopped paying his bills after he began cooperating with several investigations. Among these were probes into Russia’s interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and Trump’s efforts to silence women who claimed they had affairs with him.

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Google veteran launches ‘digital family office’ backed by Betsy Cohen, Eric Schmidt

By Hannah Lang (Reuters) -Arta Finance, a fintech that aims to replicate the family office experience for a wider audience through artificial intelligence, debuted on Wednesday with $90 million in funding from investors who include Betsy Cohen and former Google chief Eric Schmidt. Calling the operation a “digital family office,” Arta CEO Caesar Sengupta, who led Google’s payments initiatives until 2021, said the startup will offer AI-personalized portfolios and alternative investments to accredited investors in the United States, with the aim of eventually expanding to non-accredited investors on a global scale. While family offices cater to those with hundreds of

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COHEN: States Are Waking Up To The Dark Reality Behind Financial Elites’ ESG Push

COHEN: States Are Waking Up To The Dark Reality Behind Financial Elites’ ESG Push Bonner Cohen on October 30, 2022 The recent decision by officials in Louisiana and Missouri to liquidate their states’ investments in Wall Street heavyweight BlackRock reflects the growing recognition that the interests of the financial elites are at odds with the aspirations of ordinary Americans. Louisiana will be yanking its $794 million investment in BlackRock by the end of the year, and Missouri will follow suit by terminating its $300 million account with the firm. At stake is more than just the financial security of pension

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COHEN: It’s Time To Turn The Tables On Our Would-Be Climate Overlords

COHEN: It’s Time To Turn The Tables On Our Would-Be Climate Overlords Bonner Cohen on July 19, 2022 American consumers are already reaping the whirlwind from the Biden administration’s deliberate sacrifice of American energy independence on the altar of green energy’s false promises. Whether at the pump or at the supermarket, Americans are seeing their disposable incomes eaten away by higher prices driven by the soaring cost of energy. The prospect of Congress changing hands in January has raised hopes that, under divided government, the White House’s war on domestic fossil fuels can be effectively countered, slowing the headlong march

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COHEN: SCOTUS Left A Bitter Pill To Swallow In One Of Its Key Rulings. Here’s Why

COHEN: SCOTUS Left A Bitter Pill To Swallow In One Of Its Key Rulings. Here’s Why Bonner Cohen on July 4, 2022 The Biden administration’s plan to use the administrative regulatory state to further what the president has called the “incredible transition” to green energy hit a speed bump with the Supreme Court’s June 30 ruling reining in the Environmental Agency’s (EPA) authority to regulate power plants. For decades, Congress has delegated its constitutionally prescribed lawmaking authority to unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats ensconced throughout federal regulatory agencies. It has done so by passing vaguely worded laws and then standing idly

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Ex-judge Roy Moore presses defamation appeal against Sacha Baron Cohen

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK – A U.S. appeals court in Manhattan on Friday appeared unlikely to revive former Alabama judge Roy Moore’s lawsuit accusing Sacha Baron Cohen of defamation for falsely portraying him as a sex offender on the British comedian’s show “Who Is America?” Moore, 75, sued for $95 million in September 2018 over an interview in Washington, D.C., where the former Republican chief justice of Alabama’s Supreme Court and U.S. Senate candidate expected to receive an award for supporting Israel. Instead, Baron Cohen, 50, disguised as fictional Israeli anti-terrorism expert Erran Morad, waved a wand-like device that

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36-Year-Old Male Reported Missing in Philadelphia

The Philadelphia Police Department needs the public’s assistance in locating 36-year-old Missing Person Donte Daniel Cohen. He was last seen on Friday, April 22nd, 2022, on the 400 block of N. Gross St. He is 5’11, 189lbs, dark complexion, brown eyes, glasses, black hair/short. No clothing description given. Anyone with any information on Donte’s whereabouts is asked to please contact Southwest Detectives Division at 215-686-3183 or 911.

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Bed Bath settles with Ryan Cohen, adds 3 directors, eyes changes for buybuy Baby

By Svea Herbst-Bayliss BOSTON – Bed Bath & Beyond and billionaire investor Ryan Cohen said on Friday that the two sides had reached a settlement where three new directors will join the housewares retailer’s board and the company will look for alternatives for its buybuy Baby unit. The two sides reached the agreement three weeks after Cohen, co-founder of online pet food company Chewy and chairman of GameStop, said he wanted management and the board to consider other options, including a possible full sale of the company. Marjorie Bowen, Shelly Lombard and Ben Rosenzweig will join the board immediately, expanding

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