Author: Stephen Braun
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Trump disclosure shows revenue steady at key properties
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NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s financial disclosure report Thursday showed revenue held steady last year at several of his key properties — including his Washington hotel and Doral golf resort — despite a turbulent presidency that has buffeted his brand. Trump’s Doral golf course and club in Miami took in the most among…
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Manafort sentenced to 47 months
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. • Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was sentenced Thursday to nearly four years in prison for tax and bank fraud related to his work advising Ukrainian politicians, a significant break from sentencing guidelines that called for a 20-year prison term. Manafort, sitting in a wheelchair as he deals with complications from gout,…
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Bomb suspect described as ‘loner’ with long arrest record
WASHINGTON — The Florida man charged with sending more than a dozen package bombs to Democratic political figures is described as a troubled loner who showed little interest in politics before the rise of President Donald Trump. Cesar Sayoc, 56, of Aventura, has been an amateur body builder and male stripper. He has a history…
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Kavanaugh classmate who wrote of partying goes silent
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WASHINGTON • Mark Judge spent decades mining his recollections and writing books and articles full of semi-confessional details about the suburban Maryland prep school he attended with future Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Now, though, Judge’s memory has drawn a blank. Judge, identified by Christine Blasey Ford as an eyewitness to her claim that Kavanaugh sexually…
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Gates, star witness against Manafort, concludes testimony
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Paul Manafort’s protégé on Wednesday wrapped up his testimony aimed at implicating the former Trump campaign chairman in financial crimes while also enduring stinging attacks on his character and credibility. Rick Gates has been the government’s star witness in Manafort’s financial fraud trial, testifying how at the behest of his longtime boss,…
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SEC dropped inquiry a month after firm aided Kushner company
NEW YORK — The Securities and Exchange Commission late last year dropped its inquiry into a financial company that a month earlier had given White House adviser Jared Kushner’s family real estate firm a $180 million loan. While there’s no evidence that Kushner or any other Trump administration official had a role in the agency’s…
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Lawmakers suggest former Trump aide Flynn broke US law
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, appeared to violate federal law when he failed to seek permission or inform the U.S. government about accepting tens of thousands of dollars from Russian organizations after a trip there in 2015, leaders of a House oversight committee said Tuesday. The congressmen also raised…
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Trump’s son-in-law retains scores of real estate holdings
WASHINGTON— President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and daughter are holding onto scores of real estate investments — part of a portfolio of at least $240 million in assets — while they serve in White House jobs, according to new financial disclosures. The revelations about Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump were part of a massive White House…
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Trump knew Flynn misled WH weeks before ouster: officials
WASHINGTON (AP) — Fired by one American commander in chief for insubordination, Michael Flynn has now delivered his resignation to another. President Donald Trump had been weighing the fate of his national security adviser, a hard-charging, feather-ruffling retired lieutenant general who just three weeks into the new administration had put himself in the center of…
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Clinton Foundation donors got face time with her at State
WASHINGTON — More than half the people outside the government who met with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state gave money — either personally or through companies or groups — to the Clinton Foundation. It’s an extraordinary proportion indicating her possible ethics challenges if elected president. Donors who were granted time with Clinton…