Former US President Donald Trump has assembled overlapping teams of lawyers as he balances the growing legal threat against his 2024 election campaign to return to the White House.
Trump has pleaded not guilty to all charges in each of the three cases in which he has been indicted.
Here are the top lawyers defending Trump:
NEW YORK STATE HUSH MONEY CASE
Trump was accused in April of falsifying company records to orchestrate hush money payments to a porn actress for the 2016 election.
* Todd Blanche: Blanche, a former New York federal prosecutor and leading white-collar defense attorney, resigned from New York law firm Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft to represent Trump. He previously represented former Trump 2016 campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Igor Fruman, an aide to former New York mayor and Trump personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, in a campaign finance case. Blanche has also represented Trump’s legal and political adviser Boris Epshteyn. * Susan Necheles: Necheles is a longtime criminal lawyer from New York who was once the attorney for Venero Mangano, an underboss of the well-known Genovese organized crime family. Necheles was on the team defending the Trump Organization in a 2022 tax fraud lawsuit.
MAR-A-LAGO OUR SECRET DOCUMENTS BUSINESS
U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith accused Trump in June of keeping sensitive national security documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida after he left office and of conspiring to thwart U.S. government efforts to recover those documents. to thwart.
* Todd Blanche: Blanche is also one of the lead attorneys defending Trump in the documents case. * Christopher Kise: Kise served as attorney general of Florida from 2003 to 2007 under then state attorney general Charlie Crist, who later became governor of the state. Kise also advised former Republican Governor Rick Scott, now a US Senator. Kise joined Trump’s legal team shortly after the FBI conducted a search of Mar-a-Lago in August 2022 as part of its document search. Kise is also representing Trump in a civil fraud case brought by the New York State Attorney General, due for trial later this year. * Stephen Weiss: Weiss was a lawyer with the Cadwalader firm who moved with Blanche when he left the firm to represent Trump.
ELECTION CASE 2020
Smith sued Trump for a second time this month, this time for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Prosecutors charged Trump with fraud against the US government and conspiracy to deprive voters of their right to a fair election by attempting to interfere with vote counting and prevent Congress from holding the election he lost to Democrat Joe. Biden, would formally certify.
* John Lauro: Lauro, a longtime Florida criminal defense attorney, joined Trump’s defense team when it became clear that Smith was headed for an indictment in the election portion of his 2020 investigation. Lauro previously represented another Trump attorney, Christina Bobb, in the document search. He also defended former US basketball umpire Tim Donaghy, who admitted to gambling on games he presided over. Lauro told The New York Times in 2007 that he modeled his approach on famed lawyer Clarence Darrow, who was known for defending unpopular clients, including teacher John Scopes in a famous 1920s trial over teaching evolution. * Todd Blanche: Blanche appeared with Trump at his arraignment on Thursday in the 2020 election case. It’s unclear how big his role will be given his work on the other cases. * Evan Corcoran: Corcoran is a former federal prosecutor in Washington, DC who has worked as a civil trial attorney and white collar attorney. He represented Trump’s former White House adviser, Steve Bannon, in a 2022 contempt of Congress trial. Corcoran represented Trump at the Mar-a-Lago documents investigation and was compelled by the judge to testify and take notes on his interactions with the former president, later given prominence in the Trump indictment. Corcoran stopped representing Trump in that investigation, but continued to advise on the election case. He appeared at Thursday’s arraignment, but did not sit at the defense table with the former president.
GEORGIA 2020 ELECTION CASE
Georgia prosecutor Fani Willis has been investigating attempts by Trump and his allies to interfere with the state’s post-election vote count in 2020. A jury is expected to file charges in the coming days and Trump can be indicted.
* Drew Findling: Findling is a prominent Georgia criminal defense attorney who has been nicknamed #BillionDollarLawyer for his past representation of hip-hop stars such as Cardi B and Gucci Mane. Findling had previously criticized Trump on social media, but was hired in August 2022 to defend the former president in the Georgia investigation. * Marissa Goldberg: Goldberg is a partner at Findling’s law firm who has been working on several legal challenges against Willis’s investigation in recent months. *Jennifer Little: Little is a former district attorney who now has her own criminal defense practice in Georgia.
2023-08-04 20:43:34
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