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U.S. NEWS Diahuebs 1 Juli 2021

Charges expected Thursday for Trump's company, top executive

(AP) - Donald Trump’s subpoenaing documents and berg, who is 73.
company and his longtime interviewing witnesses, in-
finance chief are expected cluding Trump insiders and Trump, who’s been critical of
to be charged Thursday company executives. President Joe Biden’s immi-
with tax-related crimes gration policies, was in Texas
stemming from a New A grand jury was recently visiting the U.S.-Mexico
York investigation into empaneled to weigh evidence border on Wednesday. He did
the former president’s and New York Attorney Gen- not respond to shouted ques-
business dealings, people eral Letitia James said she was tions about the charges as he
familiar with the matter assigning two of her lawyers participated in a briefing with
told The Associated Press. to work with Vance on the state officials.
criminal probe while she
The charges against the continues a civil investigation Trump had blasted the inves-
Trump Organization and the of Trump. tigation in a statement Mon-
company’s chief financial of- day, deriding Vance’s office
ficer, Allen Weisselberg, ap- Messages seeking comment as “rude, nasty, and totally the Trump Organization, told turned over reams of tax re-
pear to involve non-monetary were left with a spokesperson biased” in their treatment the AP this week that there cords and other documents
benefits the company gave to and lawyers for the Trump of Trump company lawyers, was no indication Trump to investigators.
top executives, possibly in- Organization. Weisselberg’s representatives, and long- himself was included in the
cluding use of apartments, lawyer, Mary Mulligan, de- term employees. first batch of charges. “We have been working
cars and school tuition. clined to comment. The with prosecutors for many
Manhattan district attorney’s Trump, in the statement, “There is no indictment com- months now as part of this
The people were not autho- office declined to comment. said the company’s actions ing down this week against tax and financial investiga-
rized to speak about an ongo- were “things that are stan- the former president,” Fisch- tion and have provided a
ing investigation and did so Trump’s spokesperson did dard practice throughout the etti said. “I can’t say he’s out large volume of evidence that
on condition of anonymity. not immediately respond to U.S. business community, of the woods yet completely.” allowed them to bring these
The Wall Street Journal was a request for comment, but and in no way a crime” and charges,” Jen Weisselberg’s
first to report that charges Jason Miller, a longtime for- that Vance’s probe was an in- Weisselberg, a loyal lieuten- lawyer, Duncan Levin, said
were expected Thursday. mer senior adviser to the Re- vestigation was “in search of ant to Trump and his real Wednesday. “We are gratified
publican, spun the looming a crime.” estate-developer father, Fred, to hear that the DA’s office is
The charges against Weissel- charges as “politically terrible came under scrutiny, in part, moving forward with a crim-
berg and the Trump Organi- for the Democrats.” Trump Organization lawyers because of questions about inal case.”
zation would be first criminal met virtually with Manhat- his son’s use of a Trump
cases to arise from the two- “They told their crazies and tan prosecutors last week in a apartment at little or no cost. Allen Weisselberg has worked
year probe led by Manhat- their supplicants in the main- last-ditch attempt to dissuade for the Trump Organization
tan District Attorney Cyrus stream media this was about them from charging the com- Barry Weisselberg managed since 1973. The case against
Vance Jr., a Democrat who President Trump. Instead, pany. Prosecutors gave the a Trump-operated ice rink in him could give prosecutors
leaves office at the end of the their Witch Hunt is persecut- lawyers a Monday deadline Central Park. the means to pressure the ex-
year. ing an innocent 80 year-old to make the case that criminal ecutive into cooperating and
man for maybe taking free charges shouldn’t be filed. Barry’s ex-wife, Jen Weissel- telling them what he knows
Prosecutors have been scru- parking!” Miller tweeted, ap- berg, has been cooperating about Trump’s business deal-
tinizing Trump’s tax records, parently referring to Weissel- Ron Fischetti, a lawyer for with the investigation and ings.

Federal judge blocks Indiana ‘abortion reversal’ law

(AP) — A federal judge which involves taking a dif- similar requirements in clinics in Indianapolis and several Republican-led states
on Wednesday blocked an ferent medication rather than place, while laws in North South Bend. to further restrict medication
Indiana law that would the second of the two drugs Dakota, Oklahoma and Ten- abortion and ban telemedi-
require doctors to tell involved in the procedure. nessee have been blocked by Hanlon issued the ruling af- cine abortions.
women undergoing drug- legal challenges, according to ter holding a June 21 hearing,
induced abortions about Abortion-rights group’s that the Guttmacher Institute, a where Dr. George Delgado, Indiana’s Legislature has ad-
a disputed treatment for filed the lawsuit argued that research group that supports a San Diego-area physi- opted numerous abortion
potentially stopping the the law’s requirement would abortion rights. A similar law cian who is a founder of the restrictions over the past
abortion process. confuse patients and increase is set to take effect in July in Abortion Pill Reversal group, decade, with several later
the stigma associated with West Virginia. testified that the treatment is blocked by court challenges.
The ruling came just before obtaining an abortion, while safe. He cited “50 to 75 suc-
the so-called abortion rever- also forcing doctors to pro- The Indiana attorney gener- cessful reversals” he’s over- Among those challenges, a
sal law adopted by Indiana’s vide what they regard as du- al’s office, which is defending seen directly. federal judge in 2019 ruled
Republican-dominated Leg- bious medical information. the law, said it was reviewing against the state’s ban on a
islature was to take effect Medical groups maintain the the ruling to determine its Hanlon wrote that Indiana common second-trimester
Thursday. The temporary abortion pill “reversal” pro- next steps. officials had the option to abortion procedure that the
injunction issued by U.S. cess is not supported by sci- include information about legislation called “dismem-
District Judge James Patrick ence and that there is little The office has argued that the the reversal process on a state berment abortion.”
Hanlon in Indianapolis puts information about its safety. Legislature was acting to pro- health department website,
the law on hold while the tect “fetal life and women’s which abortion clinics must The U.S. Supreme Court in
lawsuit challenging it makes Republican legislators argued health.” already tell patients about. 2019 also rejected Indiana’s
its way through court. the requirement would en- appeal of a lower court ruling
sure that a woman had infor- The lawsuit maintains the Medication abortions ac- that blocked the state’s ban
Hanlon ruled that the abor- mation about halting a med- requirement wrongly sin- counted for 44% of the on abortion based on gender,
tion-rights groups had a ication-induced abortion if gles out doctors providing roughly 7,600 abortions per- race or disability. However, it
“reasonable likelihood” of she changes her mind. GOP abortion drugs and their pa- formed in Indiana in 2019, upheld a portion of the 2016
proving that the requirement Gov. Eric Holcomb signed it tients. The plaintiffs include according to the state health law signed by then-Gov.
would violate free speech into law in April. Planned Parenthood, which department’s most recent Mike Pence requiring the
rights of abortion providers. operates abortion clinics in statistics. burial or cremation of fetal
He also found that the state Six states — Arkansas, Idaho, Indianapolis, Merrillville, remains after an abortion.
had not proven the effective- Kentucky, Nebraska, South Bloomington and Lafayette, The Indiana law is part of a
ness of the reversal process, Dakota and Utah — have and groups that operate other wave of legislation pushed in