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Rhulani Howard Ndobela's law firm, Ndobela and Associates, is once again mired in controversy over exorbitant fees, News24 can exclusively reveal. from News24 News24/TopStories/rss https://ift.tt/kaPz5Rq via sinceretalk

During Thursday's episode of MSNBC's The ReidOut , Florida state attorney Dave Aronberg called out the "lack of enforcement" of serious consequences from judges presiding over ex-President Donald Trump's several ongoing cases. During host Joy Reid's conversation with the Sunshine State prosecutor, she specifically referenced the gag order imposed by Judge Arthur Engoron on Trump amid his $250 million New York civil fraud trial — which had been paused — but reinstated Thursday. "His initial Truth [Social] post that prompted the gag order resulted in hundreds of threatening and harassing voice mail messages that have been transcribed into over 275 single spaced pages," host Joy Reid noted. "Last week, we learned that the clerk receives 20 to 30 calls a day to her personal cell phone, and 30 to 50 messages a day on social media and personal email combined. So we know what the results and the threats are to the people that Trump is harassing. Wh...

United States Representative Dean Phillips (D-MN) is unhappy with a recent decision made by the Florida Democratic Party in light of the Minnesota lawmaker's bid to replace President Joe Biden next year. According to a Thursday, November 30 Politico report , the Sunshine State will "hold no presidential primary election for Democrats this cycle after the state party submitted" Biden's name, alone, for the nomination. In a statement to the news outlet, "Phillips called the handling of the process by the Florida Democrats a 'blatant act of electoral corruption' and demanded Biden 'condemn and immediately address' it." POLL : Should Trump be allowed to hold office again? Accusing the party of "rigging the primary," the Democratic congressman said, "Americans would expect the absence of democracy in Tehran, not Tallahassee. The intentional disenfranchisement of voters runs counter to everything for which our Democratic Party ...

Attorney Kenneth Chesebro — the architect of the "fake electors" scheme who counts ex-President Donald Trump among his former clients — will now provide testimony in Nevada's state-level investigation into its own fake electors plot. CNN reports Chesebro is cooperating with Nevada in hopes of avoiding a criminal prosecution in the Silver State, as it conducts its own investigation into fake electors who attempted to subvert the results of the 2020 presidential there. According to CNN, two of the six electors — Republican national committeeman Jim DeGraffenreid and Nevada Republican vice chair Jim Hindle — are in the midst of conducting a "road show," traveling to local GOP events and explaining the inner workings of the caucus process as the 2024 Nevada presidential caucuses approach. Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford, who is a Democrat, is leading the investigation. However, he did not provide comment on Chesebro's cooperation. POLL: Should Trump be...

Ahead of the Iowa caucuses in January, GOP mega donors who are looking to replace ex-President Donald Trump as the leading 2024 GOP nominee are "starting to run out of time" — but not giving up hope, according to a Wednesday Axios report. Some mega-donors, like Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus are certain the MAGA hopeful will prevail, though Trump is not his first choice. "There are people I've spoken to that are still sitting on the fence, that don't know what to do," Marcus said to ABC News , according to Axios. "They dislike the person Trump, but they recognize that the talent is there." POLL: Should Trump be allowed to hold office again? Additionally, in a recent op-ed for Real Clear Politics, he wrote , "Let's face it: Donald Trump is going to win the nomination." However, other major Republican donors are looking to help ex-South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley take Trump's place. Axios points out "Deep-pock...

Even though the Trump Organization has been assigned a court monitor to watch its accounts, former President Donald Trump is transferring large sums of money out of his company's account to pay himself. The Daily Beast exclusively reported Wednesday that Trump moved $40 million from the Trump Organization's accounts to his own account in order to pay a $29 million tax bill. The transfer took place without Trump first alerting Barbara Jones , whom New York Judge Arthur Engoron appointed to oversee the Trump Organization's financial activity. The remainder apparently went to cover legal costs — including a $5 million payment a court imposed in the E. Jean Carroll sexual abuse case. "These transactions included a cash transfer of $29 million to Donald J. Trump, which I have confirmed was used for tax payments," Jones wrote. "I have also confirmed that the other transfers were for insurance premiums and to an attorney escrow account." POLL: Should Tru...

Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson made two major statements Wednesday at a press conference on his Biden impeachment inquiry, both of which serve to protect not the rule of law, the public’s faith in the credibility of Congress, or American democracy, but Mike Johnson. Johnson, elected Speaker by every House Republican just five weeks ago, was widely described as a “back-bencher,” (a British term Americans have co-opted to refer to a low-profile or lower-level member of Congress,) yet he was anything but. While not well-known by the American people, Johnson had made his mark during the 2020 election, leading The New York Times recently to call him “a key architect of his party’s objections to certifying President Biden’s victory.” “Mr. Johnson played a leading role in recruiting House Republicans to sign a legal brief supporting a lawsuit seeking to overturn the results” of the 2020 presidential election, The Times reported. “In December 2020, Mr. Johnson collected sig...

Several co-defendants charged in the Fulton County, Georgia 2020 election criminal case alongside former President Donald Trump, including attorneys Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro, have all accepted plea deals in efforts to avoid time behind bars. According to a Tuesday, November 28 exclusive report from The Guardian , Fulton County prosecutors do not plan to extend plea deals to the 2024 MAGA hopeful, former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani and ex-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, however, "Fulton county district attorney Fani Willis has opened plea talks or has left open the possibility of talks with the remaining co-defendants in the hope that they ultimately decide to become cooperating witnesses against the former president," sources said. During Tuesday's episode of Deadline: White House , guest host Ari Melber asked legal analysts Lisa Rubin and Harry P. Litman to lay out the clear "difference" between "what Rudy Giuliani is t...

Former Vice President Mike Pence's loyalty to ex-President Donald Trump has been questioned and staunchly criticized by faithful MAGA supporters since he decided to accept President Joe Biden's win over Trump ahead of the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. A bombshell November 28 ABC News report by Katherine Faulders, Mike Levine, and Alexander Mallin detailed the ex-vice president's conversations with US Department of Justice special counsel Jack Smith's investigators earlier this year about Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Referencing the report, during Tuesday's episode of MSNBC's Deadline: White House, guest host Ali Velshi spoke with legal analyst Neal Katyal, saying, "As we often say, commas save lives. There's this whole discussion about comma placement. Let me read this from the article, 'Sources said that investigators' questioning became so granular at times that they pressed Pence over the placement of a comma...

One way or another, George Santos will probably not have the title of U.S. Congressman much longer, and very possibly not after Thursday. The embattled and indicted freshman New York Republican who is facing 23 federal felonies including for alleged wire fraud, money laundering, theft of public funds, identity theft, and lying to Congress, not to mention a damning Ethics Committee report, just days ago vowed , “I’m not leaving,” and “Come hell or high water … it’s done when I say it’s done,” yet admitted he would likely be expelled. House Republicans are reportedly now giving Rep. Santos one last chance to resign, before forcing his expulsion via a vote they are suggesting will take place on Thursday. “House Republican sources tell me they may wait until Thursday to ask for a vote on Michael Guest’s resolution to expel George Santos,” Punchbowl News’ Jake Sherman reports . “Some in the GOP leadership seem to want to give Santos one last chance to resign Thurs. at his news conferen...

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has taken almost one year to decide whether former President Donald Trump "can be sued over his speech" during the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, or whether he has immunity, according to a Monday Politico report. However, the news outlet reports the court "typically decides cases within four months of oral arguments." Since the three cases were filed by "Capitol police officers and members of Congress" in December 2022, Politico points out that the MAGA hopeful "has surged to the front of the GOP presidential primary pack and been charged criminally twice for his efforts to subvert the 2020 election." POLL: Should Trump be allowed to hold office again? University of Richmond law professor Carl Tobias t old the news outlet , "It seems like it's extraordinarily long, even for the D.C. Circuit," although he said the DC court "tends to take longer than most other federal appea...

Many legal analysts and experts, from former Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steele and GOP strategist Tara Setmayer to New York University professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat and staff at the respected British newspaper The Economist — all have warned about the danger ahead if former President Donald Trump wins another four years in the White House. During Monday's episode of MSNBC's The Beat with Ari Melber , NBC News historian Michael Beschloss laid out the importance of understanding the possibility of America shifting from democracy to dictatorship under a second Trump presidency. "You know, Michael, it's my opinion here, of course, that Trump is too stupid to do this on his own," guest host Katie Phang said. "The reason why I say that is trump is too stupid to do this on his own, he requires the loyalists that will enable him to do this. the concern that I have is dictators obviously, still have people helping them be dictators. So how much should ...

Former President Donald Trump's attorneys in a new filing Monday suggested the current hold on the MAGA hopeful's gag order issued by Judge Arthur Engoron during his ongoing New York civil fraud trial should be sustained. During the latest episode of MSNBC's The Beat with Ari Melber , guest host Katie Phang spoke with legal analyst Neal Katyal, who slammed the move as "ridiculous." Pointing to the fact "there is a buffet of Trump legal" to discuss now, Phang asked Katyal to explain his thoughts on this particular filing. POLL : Should Trump be allowed to hold office again? "Katie we're like in Las Vegas with an all-you-can-eat buffet at every corner as far as I can tell," Katyal said. "I mean, look. some people celebrate Thanksgiving by being grateful. Unsurprisingly, Donald Trump celebrates it by continuing his hateful attacks. That's what we really saw in his latest filing. It's basically just an extension of the same t...

The judge presiding over New York’s civil business fraud case against Donald Trump had a “ testy exchange ” with one of the ex-president’s attorneys, this time over the lawyer’s demand he be allowed to call as a witness the monitor overseeing Trump’s real estate holdings and who may oversee the disgorgment of some of his assets. Judge Arthur Engoron, who already was forced to impose a gag order on Donald Trump and subsequently the lawyers for the ex-president, criticized attorney Chris Kise on Monday afternoon. Last year Judge Engoron had appointed former U.S. District Judge Barbara Jones as a monitor for the Trump Organization. “The Trump family’s lawyer Clifford Robert asked to call her to the witness stand on Monday, a request that Engoron promptly denied,” The Messenger reports. “’Besides being untimely and inappropriate, Judge Jones and her staff are arms of the court,’ Engoron said in a denial from the bench, adding that having her also testify would invite a conflict of in...

Four planes, eight helicopters, 2 300 firefighters and R16 million - that's the firefighting arsenal the Western Cape plans to use to respond to an anticipated 7 000 wildfires. from News24 News24/TopStories/rss https://ift.tt/yX4KzJw via sinceretalk

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Former SAA board chairperson Dudu Myeni and several of her erstwhile board colleagues are being investigated by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) for, among other things, the massive looting that brought the airline to its knees. from News24 News24/TopStories/rss https://ift.tt/y0jTrlf via sinceretalk

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An aggrieved top businessman has involved the SABC and the SA Information Regulator in his fight with an ex-girlfriend, accusing her of dubiously obtaining his television licence invoice which she used to locate his whereabouts. from News24 News24/TopStories/rss https://ift.tt/A21WSN4 via sinceretalk

Disgraced former Minneapolis, Minnesota police officer Derek Chauvin — who was convicted in 2021 for the murder of George Floyd — was just stabbed by a fellow inmate at a federal prison in Arizona. According to the Associated Press, Chauvin was "seriously injured" in the attack around 12:30 PM local time, and taken to a local hospital for further treatment after prison staff performed "life-saving measures." Chauvin is roughly a year into both a 21-year federal prison sentence for depriving Floyd of his constitutional rights, and a 22 year state-level sentence for second-degree murder. Chauvin was sent to FCI Tucson in 2022 after serving time at a maximum security prison in Minnesota, where he was largely kept in solitary confinement for his own protection. The AP reports that FCI Tucson has been "plagued by security lapses and staffing shortages," and that this is the second such incident in roughly a year. POLL: Should Trump be allowed to hold o...

Amazon workers and allies in dozens of countries around the world took to the streets Friday to protest the e-commerce behemoth's atrocious working conditions , low pay, union busting, tax dodging , and inaction on planet-warming emissions . The "Make Amazon Pay" strikes and rallies coincided with Black Friday, the busiest shopping day of the year and one of Amazon's most profitable. Amazon workers across the globe—in ever-larger numbers—have been walking off the job on Black Friday for years to demand better treatment from the $1.5 trillion company. "This day of action grows every year because the movement to hold Amazon accountable keeps getting bigger and stronger," said Christy Hoffman, general-secretary of UNI Global Union. "Workers know that it doesn't matter what country you're in or what your job title is, we are all united in the fight for higher wages, an end to unreasonable quotas, and a voice on the job." Organizers of the...

Former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani has now retained the services of a small town lawyer from rural Georgia to represent him in his high-stakes RICO case in Fulton County. L. Allyn Stockton, whom the Wall Street Journal described as a "country lawyer," has been the county attorney for Rabun County, Georgia — which has a population of roughly 16,000 residents — for the past 23 years. The Journal reports he has represented a wide breadth of clients ranging from DUI suspects to death row inmates. Stockton told the publication that despite Giuliani's ongoing financial hardships, the former New York City mayor has agreed to pay him, and that his client will not be accepting any plea deals. "No offer has been sought, nor is one expected," Stockton said. POLL: Should Trump be allowed to hold office again? Giuliani and more than a dozen other defendants are accused of orchestrating a conspiracy to subvert the will of Georgia voters in the 2020 election. If he i...

US District Judge Aileen Cannon of the Southern District of Florida — who was appointed to her lifetime position by then-President Donald Trump — has been roundly criticized for actions perceived as biased in favor of the former president. However, a former federal prosecutor says Cannon's actions may actually be accelerating Trump's legal headaches. Currently, Trump is scheduled to stand trial in Cannon's court on May 20, 2024 for allegedly mishandling classified documents. However, Cannon's pattern of delaying multiple pretrial procedures suggest that the trial could either be pushed back until after the 2024 election, or — in the event that Trump wins the general election — cancelled altogether. Daily Beast legal correspondent Jose Pagliery recently wrote that earlier this month, Cannon "pushed back what might have been a one- or two-day meeting with prosecutors to review classified documents until February." Legal experts say these delays will almost...

Child sex abuse ring kingpin Gerhard Ackerman has missed his deadline to file papers in his seemingly absurd challenge against his conviction and sentence. from News24 News24/TopStories/rss https://ift.tt/czpkvC1 via sinceretalk

Following the passage of the qualifying deadline for presidential primary candidates, the Republican Party of Florida announced eight candidates will be on the 2024 GOP ballot — including one entrant Politico referred to as a " last-minute surprise candidate. " Most of the eight candidates are names that have been prominent in the campaign news cycle in recent months like former President Donald Trump, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, former UN ambassador Nikki Haley, businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, and former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson. However, Politico reports that Texas-based pastor and CEO Ryan Binkley has also qualified for the ballot. According to the Des Moines Register , Binkley is pastor of the nondenominational Create Church in Richardson, Texas, and is also CEO and co-founder of the Generational Equity Group. Binkley purchased $250,000 worth of radio and TV ads in November, and an...

Canadian authorities said it’s irresponsible to speculate about the explosion at the Rainbow Bridge border crossing on Wednesday, as the investigation continues. Meanwhile, Fox News reported the explosion was an attempted terrorist attack without naming sources. “We’re taking this circumstance very seriously, but to speculate on the origin of thisparticular circumstance, the reasons why this may have happened, until we have moreaccurate information is simply not responsible,” Dominic LeBlanc, Canadian Public Safety Minister, addressed reporters at about 2:20 p.m. local time. At 2:30 p.m., Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addressed the Canadian Parliament. “We will continue to be engaged, we will provide updates. The update I can give rightnow is there are four border crossings that are right now closed, Rainbow Bridge,Whirlpool Bridge, Queenston Bridge and Peace Bridge. Additional measures are beingcontemplated and activated at all border crossings across the country. We are...

The chief executive officer of Florida governor and 2024 GOP presidential candidate Ron DeSantis' super PAC Never Back Down resigned Wednesday, The New York Times reports, "effectively immediately." Chris Jankowski's resignation comes as tensions rose within the super PAC this week when DeSantis aide Scott Wagner and Never Back Down consultant Jeff Roe "nearly came to blows" during a strategy meeting discussing ex-South Carolina governor and rival GOP candidate Nikki Haley's recent success poll success. According to the Times, a spokesperson for the super PAC offered a statement from Jankowski saying, "Never Back Down's main goal and sole focus has been to elect Governor Ron DeSantis as President. Given the current environment it has become untenable for me to deliver on the shared goal and that goes well beyond a difference of strategic opinion. For the future of our country I support and pray Ron DeSantis is our 47th president." POL...

Called the architect of the Trump administration’s migrant child separation policies and anti-Muslim travel ban, Stephen Miller is now focused on targeting corporate America’s efforts to improve diversity through his America First Legal organization. AFL says it has filed a federal complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) “against Macy’s, Inc. for apparent illegal racial discrimination in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.” On social media announcing the federal EEOC complaint, Miller’s AFL on Tuesday wrote : “Before you tune into the Thanksgiving Day Parade or go Black Friday shopping at @Macys, you should know that Macy’s appears to maintain policies that perpetuate illegal racial discrimination — denying career advancement to white straight men.” Miller’s AFL claims Macy’s “five-point plan with specific directives focused on achieving greater diversity for all aspects of the company’s business model” amounts to “quotas” which...

Former US Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri) is raising red flags about former President Donald Trump's increasingly authoritarian rhetoric on the campaign stump. In a Tuesday evening segment on MSNBC's Deadline: White House , McCaskill told guest host Elise Jordan that Trump — who will likely be the Republican nominee for the 2024 presidential election — has a unique trait that makes him far more dangerous than some of the most notorious dictators of the 20th century, including Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler. "[Trump] has no philosophy he believes in," McCaskill said. "He is not trying to expand the boundaries in the United States of America. He is not trying to overcome a neighboring country like [Russian President Vladimir] Putin in Ukraine. He is not going for a grandiose scheme of international dominance. All he wants is to look in the mirror and see a guy who is president. all he cares about is selfish self-promotion." POLL: Should Trump be...