Donald Trump's associates, advisers facing legal trouble
Joe Fisher
Wed, June 19, 2024
Former President Donald Trump exits from the courtroom after hearing the
verdict in his criminal trial at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York on
May 30. Jurors found the former president guilty on 34 felony charges of
falsifying business records in connection with payments made to an adult
film actress in 2016. File Pool Photo by Steven Hirsch/UPI

June 19 (UPI) -- Former President Donald Trump has faced many legal
problems since leaving the White House, including 34 felony convictions, a
$355 million business fraud penalty and being found liable of rape. Legal
troubles have followed at least 10 of his associates as well.

Campaign staffers, high-profile advisers, attorneys and business associates
of the former president are among those in Trump's orbit who have been
charged, convicted or imprisoned.

Steve Bannon

Trump's former White House adviser has been ordered to report to prison by
July 1. He was convicted of contempt of congress in 2022 after ignoring a
subpoena to testify before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6
attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Bannon filed a motion to the U.S. Court of Appeals last week, seeking to
remain out of prison while he appeals his conviction. He faces a four-month
sentence.

Mark Meadows

Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows is set to go to trial in
October over his alleged role in a fake elector scheme in Arizona, a charge
that he and former attorney Rudy Giuliani have pleaded not guilty to.

Meadows and former Trump campaign staffer Michael Roman were arraigned
earlier this month on charges related to attempting to overturn the results
of the 2020 election in Arizona. They face felony charges including
conspiracy, forgery and fraud.

Rudy Giuliani

Along with the charges Giuliani faces in Georgia and Arizona, he was also
found liable of defamation for spreading falsehoods about two Georgia
election workers. Ruby Freeman and Wandrea' ArShaye Moss successfully sued
the former mayor of New York for $148 million.

Days after winning the lawsuit, Freeman and Moss filed another lawsuit
against Giuliani. He allegedly continued to make the same false statements
about the pair that led to the first lawsuit.

"Of course I don't regret it," Giuliani said after being found liable in
the first case. "I told the truth."

Giuliani was also sued by Dominion Voting Systems for spreading false
claims about its voting machines following the 2020 election. Dominion
seeks $1.3 billion in the lawsuit.

Trump's former attorney Sidney Powell was included in the lawsuit as well.
She is among Trump and Giuliani's co-defendants in the Georgia election
case.

Roger Stone, a former campaign adviser to President Donald Trump, arrives
for his sentencing hearing in his trial for lying to Congress and witness
tampering, at the E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse in Washington, D.C., on
Feb. 20, 2020. File Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI
Roger Stone, a former campaign adviser to President Donald Trump, arrives
for his sentencing hearing in his trial for lying to Congress and witness
tampering, at the E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse in Washington, D.C., on
Feb. 20, 2020. File Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI

Roger Stone

Roger Stone, a Republican political strategist and former campaign adviser
to Trump, was sentenced to 40 months in prison and two years of probation
in 2020. He was convicted on seven criminal counts for lying to Congress
during the House investigation into Russian election interference.

Peter Navarro

Former Trump administration adviser Peter Navarro began serving his four-
month prison sentence in Miami last month after being convicted of contempt
of Congress.

Navarro was charged with contempt after refusing to comply with a
congressional subpoena in the House select committee investigation into the
Jan. 6 Capitol riot. He argued that as an official in the Trump
administration he believed executive privilege protected him from
disclosing information to investigators.

Michael Flynn

Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to
making false statements to the FBI in 2017. He was charged with making
false statements during FBI director Robert Mueller's investigation into
election interference by Russia.

Flynn later withdrew the guilty plea.

Flynn acknowledged his wrongdoing in a statement released by his lawyer. He
also vowed to cooperate with the investigation. He served as Trump's
national security adviser for 24 days before being fired for lying to Vice
President Mike Pence about a conversation with former Russian ambassador
Sergey Kislyak.

In 2020, Pence told reporters that he believed Flynn may have lied
unintentionally.

Paul Manafort

Paul Manafort, former chairman of Trump's presidential campaign, was found
guilty on eight of 18 counts of bank fraud in 2018. Manafort was charged
for hiding millions of dollars in bank accounts overseas to avoid taxes.

In 2019, Manafort was sentenced to four years in prison. He expressed
embarrassment over the case but did not offer an apology for the crimes he
was charged with.

Manafort was later sentenced to 47 months in prison for fraud in a separate
case in Virginia. He was also ordered to pay $24.8 million in restitution.

A 2020 report from the Senate Intelligence Committee alleged that Manafort
worked with Russian agents during Trump's 2016 campaign. No charges were
filed over these accusations.

Allen Weisselberg

Allen Weisselberg, former chief financial officer of the Trump
Organization, pleaded guilty to perjury in March. He was sentenced to five
months in prison.

Weisselberg's business license was canceled by Supreme Court Judge Arthur
Engoron at the conclusion of the civil fraud case against the Trump
Organization in New York.

In 2023, Weisselberg served 99 days of a 100-day sentence in Rikers Island
in New York for fraud related to his actions with the Trump Organization.
He was found guilty of tax fraud, falsifying business records and
conspiracy.
Michael Cohen, former attorney for Donald Trump leaves his home before
testifying in Manhattan criminal court in former president Donald Trump's
hush money trial in New York on May 13. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI
Michael Cohen, former attorney for Donald Trump leaves his home before
testifying in Manhattan criminal court in former president Donald Trump's
hush money trial in New York on May 13. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI

Michael Cohen

Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen was released from prison in 2020
after pleading guilty to arranging hush-money payments to adult film
actress Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal to hide
their affairs with Trump. He was sentenced to three years in prison but was
released into home confinement early.

George Papadopoulos

George Papadopoulos, a former campaign adviser to Trump, served 12 days of
a 14-day jail sentence for lying to the FBI during the Mueller
investigation.

Trump pardoned Papadopoulos along with 19 others on Dec. 22, 2020.

<span>Donald Trump walks out of the courtroom to talk to the media after a
jury convicted him at Manhattan criminal court, on 30 May 2024, in New
York.</span><span>Photograph: Seth Wenig/AP</span>
Donald Trump walks out of the courtroom to talk to the media after a jury
convicted him at Manhattan criminal court, on 30 May 2024, in New
York.Photograph: Seth Wenig/AP

Donald Trump has lost one of two legal efforts to terminate a gag order
imposed on the former president during his �hush-money� trial in New York
on accounting fraud charges.

On Tuesday, New York�s state supreme court said it declined to hear Trump�s
appeal against the gag order in the case involving Stormy Daniels that led
to his conviction on 34 felonies, asserting that �no substantial
constitutional question is directly involved�.

Trump�s lawyers had argued that the case presents �substantial
constitutional questions of the highest importance�, in part because it
includes no post-decision termination date.

�This gag order restricts President Trump�s core political speech on
matters of central importance at the height of his presidential campaign �
and thus it violates the fundamental right of every American voter to hear
from � [a] candidate for president on matters of enormous public
importance,� his attorneys wrote.

Related: Trump lawyers and prosecutors at odds over lifting gag order
before sentencing

New York prosecutors opposed the appeal, urging the court to dismiss it,
citing Trump�s �well-documented history of leveling threatening,
inflammatory and denigrating remarks against trial participants�.

The gag order � imposed by the trial judge, Juan Merchan, after Trump
lashed out at court staff and prosecutor�s witnesses, including his former
lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen � remains in effect.

Trump is tentatively scheduled to be sentenced on 11 July.

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