December 13, 2018
VOL. 33, No. 96
Trump Threatens Government Shut-down Again Mexico Not Paying for the Wall!
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Francis Taylor, Asst. Editor
THE FORUM
illionaire Clippers owner Steve Ballmer wants to transform the four blocks of land along West Century Boulevard in Inglewood into a privately funded home for his franchise, with a state-of-theart competition venue, team offices, practice facility, sports medicine clinic and more. But almost a year and a half after the Clippers and Inglewood signed an exclusive negotiating agreement to explore the project, the land remains at the center of a legal brawl pitting Madison Square Garden Co., which owns the nearby Forum, against the franchise Ballmer bought for $2 billion and the city he would like his team to call home.
Donald Trump said he would “totally be willing” to shut down the federal government unless Congress authorized $5 billion to fund his long-promised wall along the U.S. border with Mexico, according to a Politico interview published on Wednesday. Trump also said on Tuesday, that the $5 billion request would pay for physical barrier alone, and that additional funding would be needed for other border security measures. In a separate interview he said that if Congress does not fund the wall he might try to get it done another way. He referred
FORMER TRUMP ATTORNEY
MICHAEL COHEN GETS 3 YEARS IN PRISON Francis Taylor, Asst. Editor
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A federal judge in Manhattan has sentenced Michael Cohen, the president’s former personal attorney, to three years in prison for crimes including campaign finance violation, tax evasion, and lying to Congress. Before leveling his sentence, U.S.
Judge William Pauley said “Cohen pled guilt to a veritable smorgasbord of fraudulent conduct” and “lost his moral compass,” according to a Newsday reporter inside the courtroom. Judge Pauley added that “as a lawyer, Mr. Cohen should have known better.”
Cohen pleaded his case for leniency in front of a federal judge in Manhattan, accusing President Trump – his former boss – of causing him to “follow a path of darkness rather than light” and “cover up his dirty deeds,” according to the Newsday reporter. Prosecutors in the Justice Department’s Southern District of New York charged Cohen with eight felony counts in August, including tax evasion, making false statements to a financial institution, and campaign finance violations. Special counsel Robert Mueller, tasked with investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, tacked on an additional count of lying to Congress last month. Cohen has pleaded guilty to all nine counts. In court on Wednesday, a New York prosecutor, Nicolas Roos, argued that Cohen “cannot have it both ways,”
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