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Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser attends lavish event in Hawaii paid for by corporations he’s suing

Posted on October 23, 2022October 23, 2022 by Judith E. Ashton

An investigation by CBS News Colorado reveals how state attorneys general, including Colorado AG Phil Weiser, are attending lavish events funded, in part, by companies they’re suing and investigating.

An organization called the Attorney General Alliance – made up of 48 attorneys general – is at the center of it all. Weiser is Chair of the organization.

It’s a private club that corporations and lobbyist organizations pay tens of thousands of dollars to belong to. Their membership buys them access to extravagant events where they can schmooze the top legal officers for state government, individuals who have sole discretion over whether to sue, settle, or investigate them.

CBS News Colorado received video of the group’s 2021 annual conference in Maui from a Republican group. While its motives are political, the events in question include AGs from both parties.

The video shows Weiser and other AGs at the Grand Wailea Resort, a place billed as a “tropical oceanfront paradise” with “luxurious accommodations” that start at a thousand dollars a night, but AGs didn’t have to pay a dime.

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A screenshot of the Grand Wailea Resort’s website shows rates for rooms at the Waldorf Astoria-owned resort in Maui.

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Their stay was compliments of taxpayers and sponsors, including corporations like Google, Facebook, Juul, and Pfizer – all of which AGs were suing at the time. The events have been happening quietly for years.

Now, for the first time, someone with inside knowledge of the gatherings is speaking out, in an exclusive interview with CBS4.

“To me, it’s Ethics 101 that you don’t take advantage of a situation that’s being funded by organizations that you’re suing or investigating,” says Chris Toth, the former executive director of the National Association of Attorneys General, a quasi- governmental organization that provides training and

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Neymar Serving Jail Time for Spanish Fraud Case ‘Very Improbable’: Lawyer

Posted on October 22, 2022October 22, 2022 by Judith E. Ashton

Brazilian soccer star Neymar is currently on trial for fraud and corruption charges that prosecutors are hoping will result in a two-year prison sentence, but one lawyer claims that outcome to be unlikely.

In 2013, Neymar—whose full name is Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior—transferred from the Brazilian soccer club Santos to play for Barcelona, ​​before leaving in 2017 to play for his current team, Paris Saint-Germain. However, during the transfer from Santos to Barcelona, ​​a Brazilian investment firm called DIS claims that it owned a 40 percent stake in Neymar’s rights while he was at Santos, which it did not receive upon the transfer.

The investment firm claims that Neymar and eight other parties are responsible for trying to hide the true amount of the transfer fee so they did not have to pay DIS the full amount. It is reported that DIS received $16.6 million as a transfer fee, but an investigative judge found that the transfer fee was at least $81.2 million.

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Here, Paris Saint-Germain’s Brazilian forward Neymar gestures as he leaves after attending a hearing at the courthouse in Barcelona on October 18, 2022, on the second day of his trial. He testified that his father handled all of the contracts and allegedly he did not remember if he took part in the negotiations leading to the agreement in 2011 with Barcelona, ​​and a lawyer told Newsweek that it is highly improbable that he will face jail time.
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Neymar took the stand on Tuesday and tested that he took no part in the negotiations over his transfer to Barcelona, ​​and the other defendants have all denied any wrongdoing, claiming that the accusations do not apply to the Spanish court, as all the operations happened in Brazil where “corruption in business” is

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Judge says Trump knew his voter fraud numbers were false, orders ex-lawyer to give more emails to Jan. 6 committee

Posted on October 21, 2022October 21, 2022 by Judith E. Ashton

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered lawyer John Eastman, a key figure in former President Donald Trump’s challenges to the 2020 election results, to turn over 33 new documents to the House Jan. 6 committee, including a number that the judge found are exempt from attorney-client privilege because they relate to a crime or an attempted crime.

In his orderUS District Judge David Carter of Central California found Eastman should hand over eight documents under the “crime-fraud exception” to attorney-client and attorney work privileges.

According to the judge, Eastman said in one of the email exchanges that Trump was aware that the number of voter fraud cases his team was alleging in a federal lawsuit challenging the election results in Georgia was “inaccurate.” But, the judge said, Trump signed off on the suit, “swearing under oath” that the numbers were correct, anyway.

The email exchange centered on Trump’s legal team’s plan to use the same highly inflated fraud numbers it had used in a state court suit in early December 2020, alleging that Fulton County, Georgia, “improperly counted a number of votes including 10,315 deceased people, 2,560 felons, and 2,423 unregistered voters,” the ruling said.

But on Dec. 30, 2020 — before the federal filing — “Eastman relayed ‘concerns’ from President Trump’s team ‘about including specific numbers in the paragraph dealing with felons, deceased, moved, etc.,'” Carter said.

Eastman said in an email the next day that “although the President signed a verification for [the state court filing] back on Dec. 1, he has since been made aware that some of the allegations (and evidence proffered by the experts) has been inaccurate.”

“For him to sign a new verification with that knowledge (and incorporation by reference) would not be accurate,” Eastman wrote.

Nevertheless, Carter noted, “Trump and

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Lawyer Based for Representing Brother-in-Law Over Wife’s Sister in Divorce

Posted on October 20, 2022October 20, 2022 by Judith E. Ashton

A lawyer was dragged online for choosing to represent his brother-in-law in divorce proceedings instead of his wife’s sister—and then telling her that he wouldn’t go through with the divorce because she was going to “lose a lot.”

The lawyer’s sister-in-law, u/redpanda891, shared her side of the story with the popular Reddit forum r/AmITheA**hole, earning over 20,700 upvotes and 2,600 comments for her post“[Am I the A**hole] for calling my sister’s husband a piece of s**t because he’s representing my ex in our divorce?”

The original poster (OP) says she asked for a divorce two months ago, and discovered a week later that her brother-in-law was going to represent her husband in the proceedings. She said that he’d helped her husband’s career quite a bit, so she wasn’t “completely surprised,” but was “still hurt.”

Though she’s tried to avoid her brother-in-law given the upcoming divorce, her parents threw a family dinner recently. Throughout the dinner, however, she says her brother-in-law still referred to her regularly as her ex’s “wife,” but tension came to a head when he referenced the case.

“[He] told me that if he was me, he would stay married because I was going to lose a lot if I divorced my ex,” u/redpanda891 wrote. “I ended up telling him he was a real piece of s**t in front of everybody, including his daughters.

“My sister got angry at me for saying that in front of her daughters but I was so mad I told her I didn’t care because he was a bast**d so now she’s p**sed at me,” she added, asking if she was in the wrong.

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A lawyer who is his brother-in-law in his wife’s sister’s divorce is being criticized online.
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California Attorney General Investigating LA Redistricting Amid Leaked Audio Scandal

Posted on October 17, 2022October 17, 2022 by Judith E. Ashton

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California’s attorney general said Wednesday that he will investigate Los Angeles’ redistricting process as three of its City Council members face calls to resign over a leaked recording of them using racist language to mock colleagues while they schemed to protect Latino political strength in council districts.

The announcement from Attorney General Rob Bonta, a Democrat like the three council members, comes amid growing calls to address the way politics can still influence the redrawing of district maps after the census count each decade. He said the investigation could lead to civil liability or criminal charges, depending on what is found.

“We’re going to gather the facts, we’re going to work to determine the truth and take action as necessary to ensure the fair application of our laws,” Bonta said.

“It’s clear an investigation is afternoon needed to help restore confidence in the redistricting process for the people of LA,” he added.

Bonta spoke in Los Angeles while the council itself was trying to conduct business nearby despite the uproar triggered by the recording of crude, racist comments from a nearly year-old meeting, which also provided an unvarnished look into City Hall’s racial rivalries. Those involved in the closed-door meeting were all Latinos, while Bonta is the first Filipino American to hold the top law enforcement job in the nation’s most populous state.

Three council members — former City Council President Nury Martinez, who is taking a leave of absence, and Councilmen Kevin de Leon and Gil Cedillo — are facing calls from President Joe Biden and others to resign after the recording surfaced online.

The council reconvened Wednesday, possibly to censure the three members, with the minimum of 10 out of 15 members necessary for a quorum but was unable to do business because

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State attorney general will investigate LA redistricting

Posted on October 16, 2022October 16, 2022 by Judith E. Ashton

California Atty. Gene. Rob Bonta said Wednesday that his office would investigate the Los Angeles redistricting process that took place last fall, saying an inquiry is needed to “restore confidence” in the line-drawing of the city’s 15 council districts.

The announcement comes days after The Times published a recording in which then-council President Nury Martinez is heard making racist remarks while talking with fellow Councilmembers Kevin de León and Gil Cedillo and labor leader Ron Herrera about how the city’s council district boundaries should be redrawn. This conversation focused on how the group could maintain Latino political power while also ensuring they and their colleagues would have districts that help them win reelection.

“We’ll be conducting our investigation, and when it’s full and thorough and comprehensive and complete, we’ll have something to share about what liability there might be, either civil or criminal,” said Bonta, a former member of the state Assembly who was appointed attorney general last year.

Bonta said his office had reviewed information — which he didn’t detail — and the law “to determine whether we feel we have a good-faith basis to launch an investigation.”

“And after conducting that process and completing that process — it was not complete yesterday, but it’s now complete — we believe we have a basis … for an investigation,” Bonta said.

Calls for resignations and government structural reforms reverberated across LA after the leaked audio surfaced.

A group of 30 civic leaders sent a letter Wednesday to act City Council President Mitch O’Farrell asking for the council to support a ballot measure to amend the City Charter to create an independent redistricting commission.

At one point in the recording, Herrera, head of the LA County Federation of Labor, is heard telling the councilmembers: “My goal in life is to

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Brittney Griner’s lawyer says WNBA star fears she may never be released from Russian prison

Posted on October 15, 2022October 15, 2022 by Judith E. Ashton

Basketball star Brittney Griner, who was sentenced to nine years in a Russian prison on drug possession charges, is growing increasing nervous about the prospects of being released, her lawyer said.

Griner was in Russia to compete during the WNBA offseason when Russian authorities said she had vape canisters with cannabis oil inside her luggage while traveling through an airport in Moscow in February.

The Biden administration reportedly talked about a potential prisoner swap to free her and another American held in a Russian jail, Paul Whelan. But Griner’s lawyer, Alexandr D. Boykov said he spoke with her Tuesday and said she is far from hopeful.

“She is not yet absolutely convinced that America will be able to take her home,” Boykov said in an interview with the New York Times. “She is very worried about what the price of that will be, and she is afraid that she will have to serve the whole sentence here in Russia.”

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WNBA star and two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner is escorted from a courtroom after a hearing in Khimki just outside Moscow, Russia, Aug.  4, 2022.

WNBA star and two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner is escorted from a courtroom after a hearing in Khimki just outside Moscow, Russia, Aug. 4, 2022.
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Another growing concern for Griner is the condition of the prison she may end up in, Boykov noted. She said she is only outdoors once a day and is forced to spend the remainder of her time in a small cell with two other prisoners.

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In August, Griner was sentenced to nine years in prison. Her appeal, which the US has called “another sham judicial proceeding,” has been scheduled for Oct. 25.

American basketball star Brittney Griner in a Russian prison.

American basketball star Brittney Griner in a Russian prison.
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Prior to the appeals court hearing, Boykov called

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Alabama inmate endured ‘torture’ during execution attempt, attorneys say

Posted on October 14, 2022October 14, 2022 by Judith E. Ashton

MONTGOMERY, Ala — An Alabama inmate said prison staff poked him with needles for over an hour as they tried to find a vein during an aborted lethal injection last month. At one point, they left him hanging vertically on a gurney before state officials made the decision to call off the execution.

Attorneys for 57-year-old Alan Eugene Miller wrote about his experience during Alabama’s Sept. 22 execution attempt in a court filing made last week. Miller’s attorneys are trying to block the state from trying a second lethal injection.

Two men in scrubs used needles to repeatedly probe Miller’s arms, legs, feet and hands, at one point using a cell phone flashlight to help their search for a vein, according to the Oct. 6 court filings. The attorneys called Miller the “only living execution survivor in the United States” and said Alabama subjected Miller “to precisely the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain that the Eighth Amendment was intended to prohibit.”

Alabama has asked the state Supreme Court to set a new execution date for Miller, saying the execution was canceled only because of a time issue as the state faced a midnight deadline to get the lethal injection underway.

“Despite this failed execution, the physical and mental torture it inflicted upon Mr. Miller, and the fact that the Defendants have now botched three lethal injection executions in just four years, Defendants relentlessly seek to execute Mr. Miller again—presumably by lethal injection,” attorneys for Miller wrote, referencing an execution that was canceled and another that took three hours to get underway.

“What then, in Defendants’ view, is a constitutional amount of time to spend stabbing someone with needles in an attempt to kill them?” his attorneys wrote.

The 351-pound inmate testified in an earlier court hearing that medical

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California attorney general to investigate LA City Council after leak of audio with racist remarks

Posted on October 13, 2022October 13, 2022 by Judith E. Ashton

California’s attorney general announced Wednesday his office will investigate the Los Angeles City Council to determine whether any laws were broken after an audio recording of racist remarks surfaced this week.

“The investigation comes on the heels of leaked audio revealing deeply concerning remarks tied to the city’s 2021 redistricting efforts,” Attorney General Rob Bonta said in a statement.

The independent probe will seek to determine whether there were any violations of state or federal voting rights laws and transparency laws, Bonta said.

City Council members Nury Martinez, Kevin de León and Gil Cedillo have apologized for their roles in a meeting last year, which was secretly recorded.

Martinez resigned as council president this week, and she announced Wednesday that is resigning from her seat on the council.

In the leaked audio, Martinez likened the Black son of council member Mike Bonin, who was 2 years old at the time, to an animal. She is also heard on the recording implying that the county’s progressive district attorney shouldn’t be supported because he’s “with the Blacks.”

The 2021 audio was from a political strategy meeting attended by a handful of Latino Democrats on the council. It was first reported Sunday by the Los Angeles Times.

The meeting, which Bonta said was about redistricting, was attended by the three council members, as well as Ron Herrera, the president of the powerful Los Angeles County Federation of Labor.

Bonta said in the statement that he was “deeply appalled” by the remarks from some of Los Angeles’ highest-ranking officials.

“Their comments were unacceptable, offensive, and deeply painful,” he said. “There is no place for anti-Black, antisemitic, anti-Indigenous, anti-LGBTQ, or any kind of discriminatory rhetoric in our state, especially in relation to the duties of a public official.”

The recording surfaced on

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Athens gang members facing 51 charges in first indictments from Attorney General’s task force

Posted on October 11, 2022October 11, 2022 by Judith E. Ashton

Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr’s newly formed Gang Prosecution Unit has made its first three indictments on two gang members.

Carr announced on Wednesday that Nigel “Fredo” Harvey and Nicholas “Necco” Wiseman, both members of the 1-8 Trey Bloods criminal street gang, were indicted on 51 drug, gun and gang charges.

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The 1-8 Trey Bloods are based out of the Bronx in New York.

Harvey and Wiseman are also charged with violating the Street Gang Terrorism and Prevention Act.

The first indictment stems from an undisclosed incident in March 2022.

It charges Harvey with eight counts of violating the Street Gang Terrorism and Prevention Act and four counts of possession of a firearm by a first offender probationer. Wiseman faces 12 counts of violating the Street Gang Terrorism and Prevention Act and four counts of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

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The second indictment pertains only to Wiseman from a May 2022 incident.

It charges him with:

  • Six counts of violation of Street Gang Terrorism and Prevention Act

  • Two counts of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon

  • One count of possession of a schedule II controlled substance with intent to distribute

  • One count of possession of marijuana with intent to distribute

  • One count of possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony

  • One count of obstruction of an officer

The third indictment only references Harvey and an incident from July 2022.

It charges him with:

  • Six counts of violation of Street Gang Terrorism and Prevention Act

  • One count of aggravated assault

  • One count of criminal damage to property

  • One count of interference with government property

  • One count of possession of firearm by first offender probation

  • One count of possession of firearm

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