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Hush money. Hush money is an arrangement in which one person or party offers another money or other enticement, in exchange for remaining silent about some illegal, stigmatized, or shameful behavior, action, or other fact about the person or party who has made the offer. [ 1] It can also be money paid to placate a disgruntled adversary who may ...
Juan Manuel Merchan [1] (born 1962/1963) [2] is a Colombian-born American judge and former prosecutor. He is an acting justice of the New York State Supreme Court in New York County (Manhattan). He presided over the 2024 criminal trial of former US president Donald Trump, in which Trump was convicted. Merchan is the first judge in history to ...
Giving money illegally or unethically to influence a person's behavior is a form of bribery. Bribery is the offering, giving, receiving, or soliciting of any item of value to influence the actions of an official, or other person, in charge of a public or legal duty and to incline the individual to act contrary to their duty and the known rules ...
Donald Trump has lost three last-ditch bids in three days to delay his hush money trial – with the landmark case looming in a matter of days. On Wednesday, a New York appeals court judge ...
The judge in Donald Trump's hush money trial is pushing back a date for a key ruling on presidential immunity until two days before Trump's scheduled sentencing. In a letter made public Tuesday ...
What we know about Judge Merchan. Judge Merchan is an acting justice with the New York State Supreme Court and has held the position since 2009.
Henry Cisneros payments controversy. The Henry Cisneros payments controversy was a lengthy investigation begun in 1995 into allegations that Henry Cisneros, United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development during the Presidency of Bill Clinton, had lied to the FBI background check investigators about payments he had made to his former ...
It began nearly five years ago, when federal prosecutors started probing a $130,000 payment made by Trump’s former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen to Daniels, who said she'd had an affair with ...