Trump lawyers blast DA Alvin Bragg’s case. Legal experts weigh in.

Donald Trump’s defense lawyers blasted Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s hush-money case on Tuesday, saying it lacks the kind of convincing detail he’ll need for a slam-dunk prosecution against the first-ever former president to face criminal prosecution. A number of legal experts and former prosecutors, however, said Bragg was smart to leave out critical details of his case in order to gain competitive advantage over Trump’s aggressive team of lawyers and political influencers. more:Timeline: How Trump was indicted after probe into payment of hush money to Stormy Daniels Covering up “crimes relating to the 2016 election” The indictment handed up…

Lawyer sues FDA to keep identity secret in public inspection report

Law firm Cooley filed a complaint in DC federal court FDA claims general policy is to not redact names of high-up officials (Reuters) – A lawyer at a company inspected last year by the US Food and Drug Administration has sued the agency to block it from disclosing the attorney’s identity in a public report that raises questions about the business’ regulatory compliance. The unidentified lawyer filed the lawsuit anonymously on Tuesday in Washington, DC, federal court through lawyers at law firm Cooley. The complaint alleged that disclosing the attorney’s identity on the inspection report will cause “reputational harm that…

Missing Markham lawyer faced legal battles, complaints: court

A missing Markham lawyer who investigators now suspect was met with foul play was embroiled in a number of legal battles and facing professional complaints at the time of her disappearance, recent court filings show. Isabella Dan, 53, was last seen nearly two months ago on March 3 in the area of ​​Water Walk Drive and Verclaire Gate in Markham, Ont. New details outlined in court filings made to the Ontario Superior Court of Justice and reviewed by CTV News Toronto show that, in the weeks since the lawyer’s disappearance, the Law Society of Ontario (LSO) has obtained a court…

Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina’s arguments on hush-money case, explained

Comment on this storyComments Few Americans in modern history have run through a series of lawyers as colorful — and often, of such dubious reliability — as Donald Trump. And now we have a new entry in a long succession: Joe Tacopina. In appearances on ABC News, Fox News and MSNBC this week, the high-profile criminal defense lawyer rather enthusiastically laid out Trump’s defense against a potentially imminent criminal charge in Manhattan. In the course of doing so, though, Tacopina lodged a series of questionable claims about the case. The potential charges apparently deal with the $130,000 hush-money payment that…