On the other side of Donald Trump’s turbulent presidency, the lawyers are >waiting.
Leaving aside his Senate impeachment trial, mounting government >investigations include a civil probe by New York Attorney General Letitia >James, a criminal probe by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.,
and a federal probe by acting U.S. Attorney for D.C. Michael Sherwin that
may include Trump’s role in the catastrophic storming of the U.S. Capitol >this month.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/roberta-kaplan-lawyer-attorney-trump/2021/01/17/ae8890f2-50f8-11eb-bda4-615aaefd0555_story.html
But already pending for the soon-to-be South Florida retiree is a trio of >lawsuits that allege defamation, fraud and more fraud — all of which are >helmed by one attorney.
Roberta Kaplan’s clients include writer E. Jean Carroll, who filed a >defamation case after Trump claimed she was “totally lying” about her >allegation that he raped her a quarter-century ago in a Bergdorf Goodman >dressing room, and niece Mary L. Trump, who claims that Trump and two of
his siblings deprived her of an inheritance worth millions.
“I became the go-to person to sue the president,” says Kaplan, 54, with >considerable relish.
She is in many ways the ideal legal adversary to take on Trump. Kaplan is
a brash and original strategist, with neither a gift for patience nor >silence, a crusader for underdogs who has won almost every legal accolade >imaginable. Kaplan, says New York Democratic Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo in an >email, “has been indispensable in the fight against the cancer of hate and >division that Trump spent four years exacerbating.”
Before the presidency, Trump was often as engaged in legal tussles as he
was in real estate, suing and threatening to sue his way out of financial >trouble. With a return to private life, “his terror is that he will no >longer be protected by the office and will have to deal with these >lawsuits,” says his niece. Trump faces the prospect of spending >considerable time in the role of defendant. Kaplan says she will seek to >depose him in all three cases. Trump’s lawyers did not respond to requests >for comment on the cases in this story.
For much of her career, there was little in Kaplan’s professional bio to >suggest she would become an attorney suing behemoths. Kaplan, known to all
as Robbie, is a self-described “traditionalist,” in pearls, pumps and, >pre-coronavirus, superior blond highlights, who long worked as a top >commercial litigator at Paul, Weiss, one of the nation’s preeminent firms, >where the fees tend to be if-you-have-to-ask-you-surely-can’t-afford-us.
But she became increasingly identified as an advocate for liberal causes
and outside-the-box legal strategies. She is a lesbian, an observant Jew
and a die-hard Democrat for whom 12 hours constitutes a light work day.
“My maternal grandmother always hated a bully,” Kaplan says during a >series of phone interviews. “One really good job for going after bullies
is to be a lawyer.”
Since launching her own firm four years ago, Kaplan has initiated a >constellation of cases against powerful, often intimidating forces: white >supremacists, major Hollywood players, the president of the United States. >Legal writer Dahlia Lithwick calls her “an attorney general for the >resistance.”
Stanford University law professor Pamela Karlan says of their frequent
legal conversations: “Robbie’s not calling about feelings. She wants to >fix it first. She’s the least diffident person I’ve ever met. Plenty of >smart people worry about failing. They worry about every little thing.
Robbie doesn’t worry about that. In a really disarming way, she doesn’t >care if people view her as hyperaggressive.”
In Kaplan’s third Trump case, she represents participants in ACN, a >multilevel marketing company promoted on “The Celebrity Apprentice.” >They’re suing not ACN, but the former host and his three oldest children, >accusing them of endorsing the company as a promising business opportunity.
While Trump billed himself as a populist, Kaplan perceived a consistent >disconnect in how Trump University and other enterprises allegedly took >advantage of the very people whose interests he claimed to champion.
“Because of his prominence, he marketed his ability to convince >unsophisticated, very poor Americans to invest,” says Kaplan, who was >indignant that Trump “would exploit people like this to line your own >pockets.”
(In a Business Insider story, a Trump organization spokesperson responded
to the suit by saying, “Before enrolling with ACN, every participant >acknowledged in writing that they are ‘not guaranteed any income.’ ” In >that story, ACN co-founder Robert Stevanovski claimed the plaintiffs were >told that Trump was getting paid to endorse the company. “I think it’s >politically motivated that they’re going to sue him and the family and not >us,” he said.)
One week after the firm moved into its 71st-floor offices of the Empire
State Building, the furniture yet to arrive, Charlottesville erupted.
Believing that Trump’s Justice Department seemed unlikely to seriously >investigate and prosecute the people responsible for the violence during
the “Unite the Right” rally — he infamously claimed there “were very fine
people, on both sides” — Kaplan announced, and this was her precise >language to friends and colleagues: “I want to sue Nazis.”
Because, why not?
Within days, Kaplan and her team flew to Virginia. The firm adopted an >outside-the-box approach and sued two dozen avowed neo-Nazis, white >supremacists and associated groups, invoking the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act to >argue that they conspired for months to commit racially motivated
violence, thereby making it more of a challenge for the organizers to
adopt free speech as a defense. The case is scheduled for trial in October.
Suing the powerful has brought repeated threats. Kaplan has an apartment
in Manhattan but requested that her country home’s location, where she has >spent the pandemic working, go unnamed.
Kaplan says the greatest abuse she’s received on social media has come not
from neo-Nazis, white supremacists or Trump’s true believers, but from
Depp’s vehement online champions.
A hallmark of Kaplan Hecker & Fink is crafting complaints in layman’s >language that pack a wallop. The Mary Trump brief is a doozy. “For Donald >J. Trump, his sister Maryanne, and their late brother Robert, fraud was
not just the family business — it was a way of life,” the complaint >begins, before alleging three duplicitous schemes, “The Grift,” “The >Devaluing” and “The Squeeze-Out.”
Says Mary Trump, “That brief is literature.”
The president’s lawyers, in an effort to have the case tossed, claimed
that the complaint is “laden with conspiracy theories.”
When Carroll first met with Kaplan, the lawyer quickly understood her >client’s objective. “I don’t give two flying figs about an apology,” >Carroll says. “I am dying to get him in a deposition. I want him to say >that I’m not a liar. I just want him to admit that he lied and that, yes, >it happened.”
“I’m ready. I’m excited,” says Kaplan. In the Carroll case, Kaplan >believes that Trump’s proclivity for false and misleading statements, with >more than 30,000 of them during his White House term, according to The
Post, will be tested when he is under oath. During a 2007 Trump
deposition, lawyers caught him making exaggerated claims 30 times,
according to a 2016 Post investigation.
“When we depose you, you’re not going to get away with that,” Kaplan says.
“He had the mantle of the presidency, and that’s now gone.”
Mary Trump hired Kaplan to sue President Trump, his sister Maryanne Trump >Barry and the estate of his late brother Robert Trump “because I want >justice for my daughter, and for me, and for my dad. If Donald Trump is
not going to be held accountable for other things, he needs to be held >accountable for this,” she says, adding: “Maybe that will start the >dominoes to fall. Maybe other people will feel that they, too, have
options and will come forward.” Kaplan’s firm regularly fields inquiries
from potential clients who wish to sue Trump.
Carroll cannot wait for her day in court with Trump. She’s already picked >out her outfit. Black. Armani.
She also views her lawsuit as symbolic, saying, “It’s for all the women in >the country who have been harassed or assaulted by powerful men, and feel >helpless to do anything about it.”
So Carroll’s doing something about it.
“I don’t have to be brave,” she says. “Because Robbie Kaplan is brave for
me.”
(have snipped some of the yada-yada about her life & career etc...)
### - lol with only 2 days to go before he's evicted the wolves are
already gathering at trumpy's door? :)))
plus, by the looks of things, he's gots an awful lot to answer for & to?? >(damn right!)
all his pots of money representing nothing less to these wolves than an >almost bottomless pit of future legal salaries haha, a lawyers banquet no >less! they's gonna tear him to pieces??
gud! plus perhaps then (heh) we'll actually see some of that so-called >'trickle-down' effect in action for once as he's slowly stripped of all
his ill-gotten gains? (double-gud!)
and because one monster less in the world can only be a 'good' thing!
ooOOOWWwwwwwoo... OOOoooowWWWWWwoooo!
what's that? did ya hear that don?? (really laffing haha)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiaF4kuxJco
"and when you lose control
you'll reap the harvest you have sown..."
big fat piggy on the block wolves! chow time!
(cue gathering crowd chanting: 2 more days! 2 more days!)
ahaha ;)
On Mon, 18 Jan 2021 13:05:28 -0000, slider <slider@anashram.com>
wrote:
On the other side of Donald Trump’s turbulent presidency, the lawyers
are
waiting.
Leaving aside his Senate impeachment trial, mounting government
investigations include a civil probe by New York Attorney General
Letitia
James, a criminal probe by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.,
and a federal probe by acting U.S. Attorney for D.C. Michael Sherwin
that
may include Trump’s role in the catastrophic storming of the U.S.
Capitol
this month.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/roberta-kaplan-lawyer-attorney-trump/2021/01/17/ae8890f2-50f8-11eb-bda4-615aaefd0555_story.html
But already pending for the soon-to-be South Florida retiree is a trio
of
lawsuits that allege defamation, fraud and more fraud — all of which are >> helmed by one attorney.
Roberta Kaplan’s clients include writer E. Jean Carroll, who filed a
defamation case after Trump claimed she was “totally lying” about her
allegation that he raped her a quarter-century ago in a Bergdorf Goodman
dressing room, and niece Mary L. Trump, who claims that Trump and two of
his siblings deprived her of an inheritance worth millions.
“I became the go-to person to sue the president,” says Kaplan, 54, with >> considerable relish.
She is in many ways the ideal legal adversary to take on Trump. Kaplan
is
a brash and original strategist, with neither a gift for patience nor
silence, a crusader for underdogs who has won almost every legal
accolade
imaginable. Kaplan, says New York Democratic Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo in an
email, “has been indispensable in the fight against the cancer of hate
and
division that Trump spent four years exacerbating.”
Before the presidency, Trump was often as engaged in legal tussles as he
was in real estate, suing and threatening to sue his way out of
financial
trouble. With a return to private life, “his terror is that he will no
longer be protected by the office and will have to deal with these
lawsuits,” says his niece. Trump faces the prospect of spending
considerable time in the role of defendant. Kaplan says she will seek to
depose him in all three cases. Trump’s lawyers did not respond to
requests
for comment on the cases in this story.
For much of her career, there was little in Kaplan’s professional bio to >> suggest she would become an attorney suing behemoths. Kaplan, known to
all
as Robbie, is a self-described “traditionalist,” in pearls, pumps and, >> pre-coronavirus, superior blond highlights, who long worked as a top
commercial litigator at Paul, Weiss, one of the nation’s preeminent
firms,
where the fees tend to be if-you-have-to-ask-you-surely-can’t-afford-us. >>
But she became increasingly identified as an advocate for liberal causes
and outside-the-box legal strategies. She is a lesbian, an observant Jew
and a die-hard Democrat for whom 12 hours constitutes a light work day.
“My maternal grandmother always hated a bully,” Kaplan says during a
series of phone interviews. “One really good job for going after bullies >> is to be a lawyer.”
Since launching her own firm four years ago, Kaplan has initiated a
constellation of cases against powerful, often intimidating forces:
white
supremacists, major Hollywood players, the president of the United
States.
Legal writer Dahlia Lithwick calls her “an attorney general for the
resistance.”
Stanford University law professor Pamela Karlan says of their frequent
legal conversations: “Robbie’s not calling about feelings. She wants to >> fix it first. She’s the least diffident person I’ve ever met. Plenty of >> smart people worry about failing. They worry about every little thing.
Robbie doesn’t worry about that. In a really disarming way, she doesn’t >> care if people view her as hyperaggressive.”
In Kaplan’s third Trump case, she represents participants in ACN, a
multilevel marketing company promoted on “The Celebrity Apprentice.”
They’re suing not ACN, but the former host and his three oldest
children,
accusing them of endorsing the company as a promising business
opportunity.
While Trump billed himself as a populist, Kaplan perceived a consistent
disconnect in how Trump University and other enterprises allegedly took
advantage of the very people whose interests he claimed to champion.
“Because of his prominence, he marketed his ability to convince
unsophisticated, very poor Americans to invest,” says Kaplan, who was
indignant that Trump “would exploit people like this to line your own
pockets.”
(In a Business Insider story, a Trump organization spokesperson
responded
to the suit by saying, “Before enrolling with ACN, every participant
acknowledged in writing that they are ‘not guaranteed any income.’ ” In
that story, ACN co-founder Robert Stevanovski claimed the plaintiffs
were
told that Trump was getting paid to endorse the company. “I think it’s >> politically motivated that they’re going to sue him and the family and
not
us,” he said.)
One week after the firm moved into its 71st-floor offices of the Empire
State Building, the furniture yet to arrive, Charlottesville erupted.
Believing that Trump’s Justice Department seemed unlikely to seriously
investigate and prosecute the people responsible for the violence during
the “Unite the Right” rally — he infamously claimed there “were very >> fine
people, on both sides” — Kaplan announced, and this was her precise
language to friends and colleagues: “I want to sue Nazis.”
Because, why not?
Within days, Kaplan and her team flew to Virginia. The firm adopted an
outside-the-box approach and sued two dozen avowed neo-Nazis, white
supremacists and associated groups, invoking the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act
to
argue that they conspired for months to commit racially motivated
violence, thereby making it more of a challenge for the organizers to
adopt free speech as a defense. The case is scheduled for trial in
October.
Suing the powerful has brought repeated threats. Kaplan has an apartment
in Manhattan but requested that her country home’s location, where she
has
spent the pandemic working, go unnamed.
Kaplan says the greatest abuse she’s received on social media has come
not
from neo-Nazis, white supremacists or Trump’s true believers, but from
Depp’s vehement online champions.
A hallmark of Kaplan Hecker & Fink is crafting complaints in layman’s
language that pack a wallop. The Mary Trump brief is a doozy. “For
Donald
J. Trump, his sister Maryanne, and their late brother Robert, fraud was
not just the family business — it was a way of life,” the complaint
begins, before alleging three duplicitous schemes, “The Grift,” “The >> Devaluing” and “The Squeeze-Out.”
Says Mary Trump, “That brief is literature.”
The president’s lawyers, in an effort to have the case tossed, claimed
that the complaint is “laden with conspiracy theories.”
When Carroll first met with Kaplan, the lawyer quickly understood her
client’s objective. “I don’t give two flying figs about an apology,” >> Carroll says. “I am dying to get him in a deposition. I want him to say
that I’m not a liar. I just want him to admit that he lied and that,
yes,
it happened.”
“I’m ready. I’m excited,” says Kaplan. In the Carroll case, Kaplan >> believes that Trump’s proclivity for false and misleading statements,
with
more than 30,000 of them during his White House term, according to The
Post, will be tested when he is under oath. During a 2007 Trump
deposition, lawyers caught him making exaggerated claims 30 times,
according to a 2016 Post investigation.
“When we depose you, you’re not going to get away with that,” Kaplan >> says.
“He had the mantle of the presidency, and that’s now gone.”
Mary Trump hired Kaplan to sue President Trump, his sister Maryanne
Trump
Barry and the estate of his late brother Robert Trump “because I want
justice for my daughter, and for me, and for my dad. If Donald Trump is
not going to be held accountable for other things, he needs to be held
accountable for this,” she says, adding: “Maybe that will start the
dominoes to fall. Maybe other people will feel that they, too, have
options and will come forward.” Kaplan’s firm regularly fields inquiries >> from potential clients who wish to sue Trump.
Carroll cannot wait for her day in court with Trump. She’s already
picked
out her outfit. Black. Armani.
She also views her lawsuit as symbolic, saying, “It’s for all the women >> in
the country who have been harassed or assaulted by powerful men, and
feel
helpless to do anything about it.”
So Carroll’s doing something about it.
“I don’t have to be brave,” she says. “Because Robbie Kaplan is brave
for
me.”
(have snipped some of the yada-yada about her life & career etc...)
### - lol with only 2 days to go before he's evicted the wolves are
already gathering at trumpy's door? :)))
plus, by the looks of things, he's gots an awful lot to answer for &
to??
(damn right!)
all his pots of money representing nothing less to these wolves than an
almost bottomless pit of future legal salaries haha, a lawyers banquet
no
less! they's gonna tear him to pieces??
gud! plus perhaps then (heh) we'll actually see some of that so-called
'trickle-down' effect in action for once as he's slowly stripped of all
his ill-gotten gains? (double-gud!)
and because one monster less in the world can only be a 'good' thing!
ooOOOWWwwwwwoo... OOOoooowWWWWWwoooo!
what's that? did ya hear that don?? (really laffing haha)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiaF4kuxJco
"and when you lose control
you'll reap the harvest you have sown..."
big fat piggy on the block wolves! chow time!
(cue gathering crowd chanting: 2 more days! 2 more days!)
ahaha ;)
Nah. Trump's a slippery bloke and this won't faze him. He has
enormous resources.
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