https://www.allrisenews.com/p/judge-nullifies-trump-1776b-fund-settlement
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A federal judge on Monday nullified a purported settlement that served as the basis of Donald Trump’s attempt to create a $1.776 billion slush fund for his political allies and immunize himself and his family from taxpayer audits. In a 56-page order, U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams excoriated Trump v. Internal Revenue Service as an “attempt to use the Court to provide some legitimacy to an agreement to confer immunity to people and entities affiliated with the President and to earmark billions of dollars from American taxpayers to redress grievances not defined in the law.” Affirming that Trump is “bound by the rules” of the court, Williams added: “Ensuring that our courts are used only for the express purpose created by the Constitution is the obligation of every judge and an obligation that this Court must discharge in light of the matter before it.” She barred any of the parties to the lawsuit from “using, offering, admitting, or citing” any purported settlement” in any “judicial, administrative, regulatory, arbitration, or any other official proceeding.” Williams also referred Trump’s Florida-based personal lawyer Alejandro Brito to The Florida Bar for possible discipline and ordered the clerk to forward a copy of her order to the State Bar of New York and the D.C. Bar, in their “ongoing proceedings” against Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward, respectively. Woodward represented Trump’s co-defendant Walt Nauta in the Espionage Act case over the retention of highly classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. Read the ruling in full here. |
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