NYT: Foreign Payments to Trump Firms Violate Const., Suit Will Claim

NYT: Foreign Payments to Trump Firms Violate Const., Suit Will Claim

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 […]

HuffPost: The ACLU Announces Mass FOIA For Donald Trump’s Business Conflicts

HuffPost: The ACLU Announces Mass FOIA For Donald Trump’s Business Conflicts

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 […]

Wired: Trump’s Plan to Avoid Conflicts of Interest Won’t Avoid a Thing

Wired: Trump’s Plan to Avoid Conflicts of Interest Won’t Avoid a Thing

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 […]

slate: Trump’s Server Revisited

slate: Trump’s Server Revisited

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 […]