By ERIC LIPTON and ADAM LIPTAK JAN. 22, 2017 CLICK IMAGE for direct link to the piece @NYT.com WASHINGTON — A team of prominent constitutional scholars, Supreme Court litigators and former White House ethics lawyers intends to file a lawsuit Monday morning alleging that President Trump is violating the Constitution by allowing his hotels and other business operations to […]
Paul Blumenthal 01/20/2017 12:54 pm ET CLICK IMAGE for direct link to story: WASHINGTON ― Moments before Donald Trump took the oath of office to become the 45th president of the United States, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a massive Freedom of Information Act request for documents related to his multi-billion dollar business and conflicts of interest. The civil […]
EMMA GREY ELLIS BUSINESS DATE OF PUBLICATION: 01.11.17. 7:09 PM. PRESIDENT-ELECT DONALD TRUMP campaigned on his business acumen. His image as a hyper-successful, tough-talking real estate mogul is crucial to his appeal—whether it’s true or not. Still, concerns that Trump’s sprawling network of business entanglements creates an equally expansive web of conflicts of interest have dogged […]
By SUSANNE CRAIG, JO BECKER and JESSE DRUCKERJAN. 7, 2017 On the night of Nov. 16, a group of executives gathered in a private dining room of the restaurant La Chine at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in Midtown Manhattan. The table was laden with Chinese delicacies and $2,100 bottles of Château Lafite Rothschild. At one […]
By Franklin Foer November 2nd, 2016 On Monday, I published a reported piece that raised questions about a server owned by the Trump Organization. The server appeared to be unusually configured, and to communicate almost exclusively with two servers registered to Alfa Bank in Moscow. The piece followed a group of computer scientists who had stumbled […]
By Sean Colarossi on Mon, Oct 31st, 2016 at 8:47 pm While the media continues to focus on what is increasingly becoming a non-story – FBI Director James Comey’s vague letter regarding more emails related to Hillary Clinton – news about Donald Trump’s ties to Russia continues to gain steam. Not only did NBC just […]