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Republicans subpoena FBI for document alleging unspecified ‘criminal scheme’ involving Biden – The Hill
- Republicans subpoena FBI for document alleging unspecified ‘criminal scheme’ involving Biden The Hill
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- House subpoenas FBI file on Biden role in ‘criminal scheme’ as new whistleblower emerges New York Post
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Republicans allege unspecified Biden ‘scheme,’ fire off new FBI subpoena – POLITICO
- Republicans allege unspecified Biden ‘scheme,’ fire off new FBI subpoena POLITICO
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Defeat for Sony as FTC judge largely rejects its motion to quash Microsoft’s subpoena in Activision Blizzard merger case – FOSS Patents
- Defeat for Sony as FTC judge largely rejects its motion to quash Microsoft’s subpoena in Activision Blizzard merger case FOSS Patents
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Sony is officially fighting Microsoft’s subpoena in FTC’s Activision Blizzard merger case: public filing confirms PlayStation maker brought motion to quash on Friday – FOSS Patents
- Sony is officially fighting Microsoft’s subpoena in FTC’s Activision Blizzard merger case: public filing confirms PlayStation maker brought motion to quash on Friday FOSS Patents
- Report: Microsoft expects UK to block Activision merger deal [Updated] Ars Technica
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- Activision Blizzard Says Co, Microsoft Are Continuing To Engage With Regulators Reviewing The Transaction And Are Working Toward Closing It In Microsoft’s Fiscal Year Ending June 30, – Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ:ATVI) Benzinga
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Trump news latest: Trump reacts as Jan 6 panel withdraws subpoena
January 6 panel unveils report, describes Trump ‘conspiracy’
Former president Donald Trump has gloated against “political thugs” in a new Truth Social rant as he said he did “nothing wrong” after the House select committee investigating the Jan 6 attack announced it would be withdrawing a subpoena against him.
In a statement on Truth Social, Mr Trump wrote: “Was just advised that the Unselect Committee of political Thugs has withdrawn the Subpoena of me concerning the January 6th Protest of the CROOKED 2020 Presidential Election.”
“They probably did so because they knew I did nothing wrong, or they were about to lose in Court. Perhaps the FBI’s involvement in RIGGING the Election played into their decision. In any event, the Subpoena is DEAD!”
The panel will be dissolved upon the new Congress taking office on 3 January.
The withdrawal of the subpoena comes ahead of Mr Trump’s finances falling under the spotlight later this week when the House Ways and Means Committee is expected to release the former president’s tax returns on Friday.
Jan 6 committee releases another tranche of transcripts
The House select committee investigating the attack on the US Capitol on January 6 2021 has released another batch of interview and deposition transcripts.
Included in the latest release are some big names from Trumpworld, including Donald Trump Jr, Kimberly Guilfoyle, and Stephen Miller.
There are also White House insiders that turned against Trump including Stephanie Grisham and Alyssa Farah Griffin, and notably Ray Epps, a pro-Trump attendee of the January 6 rally who marched on the Capitol and was accused of working for the FBI by rightwing conspiracists.
Here’s the full list of what was released today:
The Independent will bring you highlights from these extensive interviews with key players relating to the events surrounding the Capitol riot.
Oliver O’Connell29 December 2022 16:06
Trump only realised his schedule was public weeks before leaving office, Jan 6 committee told
White House staff began distributing a bizarre statement claiming then-president Donald Trump was spending his days making “many calls” and having “many meetings” in lieu of releasing a detailed daily schedule after Mr Trump discovered the decades-old practice during the final weeks of his term in office, a former press aide to Mr Trump has said.
The amusing revelation is a sign of just how little Mr Trump understood (or, more accurately, cared) about the inner working of his job nearly four years after being sworn in.
Oliver O’Connell29 December 2022 15:52
Marjorie Taylor Greene spoke to Trump about QAnon before Jan 6
Marjorie Taylor Greene told Donald Trump days before the Capitol insurrection that some of her supporters who subscribed to QAnon were going to the January 6 rally, according to testimony from former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson.
The remarks by Ms Hutchinson were from her May and June interviews given to the Jan 6 Congressional committee investigating the Capitol riots.
The committee released additional sets of transcripts that revealed Mr Trump’s discussions involving the far-right conspiracy theory group.
Oliver O’Connell29 December 2022 15:33
ICYMI: Trump lashes out at McConnell and wife over government funding bill
Former president Donald Trump took to social media to attack Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and the Kentucky Republican’s wife, who served as Mr Trump’s transportation secretary during his administration, after Mr McConnell declined to block a government funding bill.
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Oliver O’Connell29 December 2022 15:14
Trump launches new attack on FBI citing stale claims
Donald Trump took to Truth Social on Thursday morning to launch a new attack against the FBI – citing many of his favourite baseless claims.
“So, if the FBI illegally suppressed all of the really bad information on the Biden family (laptop!) at a level never seen before, (’it was Russian disinformation,’ they said), while at the same time not letting the many positive things accomplished by ‘Trump’ get out to the public, but would instead put out ‘bad stuff,’ that would be the very definition of the Government’s RIGGING of an Election,” he thundered.
“Pollsters projected this Scam made a difference of Millions of votes. What are the CONSEQUENCES?”
Megan Sheets29 December 2022 14:30
Trump gloats after Jan 6 committee withdraws subpoena
Donald Trump has slammed the Jan 6 special committee after it decided to withdraw its subpoena as it concluded its investigation into the Capitol insurrection.
Megan Sheets29 December 2022 14:00
‘Stop the steal’ organiser pushes blame onto far-right allies during Jan 6 testimony, transcript reveals
The organizer of the rally that preceded the Capitol riot reportedly threw his MAGA-world peer Charlie Kirk to the wolves during a meeting with the House Select Committee investigating the Capitol riot.
Ali Alexander, who organised “Stop the Steal,” told the House Select Committee during a closed-door deposition last year that right-wing media figure and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was among those at fault for the riot.
Read more about the infighting and backstabbing taking place on the far right in The Independent:
John Bowden29 December 2022 13:00
Biden won’t speak freely near Secret Service
President Joe Biden was so disturbed by the Secret Service’s handling of text messages sought by the House January 6 select committee that he stopped speaking candidly in the presence of special agents assigned to his protection detail, a new book on the Biden White House has revealed.
The agency has been sharply criticised by lawmakers and others after text messages sent by agents on the day of the attack vanished during a scheduled software update — even after the Secret Service was instructed specifically to preserve them.
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John Bowden29 December 2022 12:00
Trump declares he did ‘nothing wrong’
Donald Trump has reacted to the House select committee investigating the Jan 6 attack withdrawing its subpoena to him.
In a statement on Truth Social, Mr Trump wrote: “Was just advised that the Unselect Committee of political Thugs has withdrawn the Subpoena of me concerning the January 6th Protest of the CROOKED 2020 Presidential Election.”
“They probably did so because they knew I did nothing wrong, or they were about to lose in Court. Perhaps the FBI’s involvement in RIGGING the Election played into their decision. In any event, the Subpoena is DEAD!”
The panel will be dissolved after the new Congress takes office on 3 January.
Former US president Donald Trump is displayed on a screen during a meeting of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 attack on the US Capitol in the Canon House Office Building on Capitol Hill on 19 December 2022 in Washington, DC
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Sravasti Dasgupta29 December 2022 11:52
Cassidy Hutchinson says Mark Meadows burned official papers in his office
Cassidy Hutchinson, the former aide to Mark Meadows, has revealed in her testimony to the Jan 6 House committee how the ex-chief of staff routinely burned documents in his office.
A fresh batch of transcripts released by the committee investigating the Capitol riots on Tuesday revealed Ms Hutchinson’s testimony from May in which she had told the committee that she saw Mr Meadows burn documents in his office fireplace around a dozen times – about once or twice a week – between December 2020 and mid January 2021.
John Bowden29 December 2022 11:00
The Jan. 6 committee is abandoning efforts to subpoena phone records as it wraps up its investigation
Former President Donald Trump, whose third White House bid has already become mired in controversy, is facing a myriad of legal issues, alongside his business and allies.
Aside from the Jan. 6 committee’s probe, here are some other notable investigations involving Trump:
Tax returns.The House Ways and Means Committee finally got access to the former president’s tax returns after the Supreme Court dealt a massive defeat to Trump, paving the way for the Internal Revenue Service to hand over the documents to the Democratic-led House. The committee’s chairman, Richard Neal, a Massachusetts Democrat, first sought the tax returns from the IRS in 2019, and the agency, under the Trump administration, initially resisted turning them over.
Mar-a-Lago documents. Attorney General Merrick Garland has appointed special counsel Jack Smith to oversee the Justice Department criminal investigations into the retention of national defense information at Trump’s resort and parts of the January 6, 2021, insurrection.
The Justice Department investigation continues into whether documents from the Trump White House were illegally mishandled when they were brought to Mar-a-Lago in Florida after he left office. A federal grand jury in Washington has been empaneled and has interviewed potential witnesses to how Trump handled the documents.
2020 Election. The Justice Department has an investigation of its own into the post-2020 election period. While DOJ has not acted publicly during the so-called quiet period leading up to the midterms, a grand jury in Washington has been hearing from witnesses.
Meanwhile, Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis is overseeing a special grand jury investigating what Trump or his allies may have done in their efforts to overturn President Joe Biden’s victory in Georgia. The probe was launched following Trump’s call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, in which he pushed the Republican to “find” votes to overturn the election results.
Trump Organization. New York Attorney General Letitia James, after a lengthy investigation, sued Trump, three of his adult children and the Trump Organization in September, alleging they were involved in an expansive fraud lasting over a decade that the former president used to enrich himself.
James alleged the fraud touched all aspects of the Trump business, including its properties and golf courses. According to the lawsuit, the Trump Organization deceived lenders, insurers and tax authorities by inflating the value of his properties using misleading appraisals.
Read more about other investigations here.
House Finance Chair Rep. Maxine Waters has no plans to subpoena Sam Bankman-Fried over FTX collapse: report
Grit Capital CEO Genevieve Roch-Decter gives her take on investor-entrepreneur Kevin O’Leary’s response to the FTX scandal on ‘Making Money.’
FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried is not expected to be subpoenaed to testify at a hearing next Tuesday about the dive bomb his crypto exchange experienced last month, according to reports.
CNBC reported on Wednesday that House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters told Democrats she has no plans to subpoena Bankman-Fried, during a private meeting on Tuesday with Gary Gensler, the Securities and Exchange Commission chairman.
House Financial Services Chair Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) said on Friday said she wants FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried to testify at the panel’s Dec. 13 hearing on the cryptocurrency collapse (Getty Images / Getty Images)
Those with knowledge of the conversation declined to be named, according to the report, but said Waters wants to see if the committee can get Bankman-Fried to testify on his own.
EX-FTX BOSS SAM BANKMAN-FRIED ADMITS HE SHOUL’VE DONE MORE STRESS TESTING BEFORE CRYPTO FIRM’S COLLAPSE
Bankman-Fried faces a barrage of legal repercussions over his involvement in the collapse of FTX, which led him to file for bankruptcy in November.
A full-fledged liquidity crisis forced FTX to file for bankruptcy, and Bankman-Fried’s wealth, which was estimated to be $15.6 billion just before the declaration, plummeted to the point of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index estimating he had no material wealth.
Sam Bankman-Fried, co-founder and chief executive officer of FTX, in Hong Kong, China, on Tuesday, May 11, 2021. FTX, the digital-assets trading platform launched two years ago by Bankman-Fried, said it handled enough volume last month to make it one (Photographer: Lam Yik/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)
He became a billionaire after creating FTX, as well as a subject of media fascination. Bankman-Fried was also a philanthropist and donated to causes that address issues like pandemics and climate change, along with donations to Democrats and liberal PACs.
MAXINE WATERS PRAISES FTX FOUNDER BANKMAN-FRIED FOR ‘CANDID’ INTERVIEWS AFTER BILLIONS GO MISSING
With those donations, he became a major player in Washington.
Waters, a Democrat, will lose her post as leader of the committee on Jan. 3, 2023, as Republicans take control of the House of Representatives.
Once that power transitions to Rep. Patrick McHenry, it will be on him to decide whether to subpoena Bankman-Fried to testify in the next session if he declines to do so on his own.
SAM BANKMAN-FRIED SAYS HE WILL TESTIFY BEFORE HOUSE WHEN HE’S ‘FINISHED LEARNING AND REVIEWING WHAT HAPPENED’
CNBC reported that Waters invited the FTX CEO to testify voluntarily, though she has the option to change her mind and subpoena him before Tuesday.
Waters told Bankman-Fried in a series of tweets that the information he has as CEO is sufficient for a testimony, and not only would it be “meaningful” to the members of Congress, but “critical” to the American people.
“Once I have finished learning and reviewing what happened, I would feel like it was my duty to appear before the committee and explain,” Bankman-Fried replied. “I’m not sure that will happen by the 13th, but when it does, I will testify.”
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Trump defied Jan 6 committee subpoena, panel says
Nov 14 (Reuters) – Former President Donald Trump did not show up for deposition testimony before the congressional committee investigating his supporters’ attack on the U.S. Capitol last year, the panel said on Monday.
In doing so Trump defied a subpoena issued by the panel in October, Chair Bennie Thompson, a Democrat, and co-Chair Liz Cheney, a Republican, said in a joint statement.
“The truth is that Donald Trump, like several of his closest allies, is hiding from the Select Committee’s investigation and refusing to do what more than a thousand other witnesses have done,” Thompson and Cheney said.
The panel did not say what next steps they might pursue against Trump. Thompson told the New York Times in an interview that he would not rule out seeking contempt of Congress charges against the former president.
“That could be an option. And we’ll have to wait and see,” Thomson told the Times. “The first thing we’ll do is see how we address the lawsuit. At some point after that, we’ll decide the path forward.”
Trump filed a lawsuit on Friday seeking to avoid having to testify or provide any documentation to the Jan. 6 committee.
The congressional committee has held a series of hearings as it seeks to make its case to the public that Trump provoked his supporters into storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, while lawmakers met to formally declare his loss to Democrat Joe Biden.
The subpoena ordered Trump to submit documents to the panel by Nov. 4 and for him to appear for deposition testimony beginning on or about Nov. 14.
On Nov. 4, it said it had agreed to give Trump an extension before producing the documents but the Nov. 14 deadline remained in place.
Republicans are expected to dissolve the panel if they win control of the U.S. House of Representatives in the mid-term elections.
Reporting by Tyler Clifford and Dan Whitcomb; Editing by Leslie Adler
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Supreme Court allows Jan. 6 committee to subpoena Kelli Ward’s phone records
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday declined to block the release of Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward’s phone records to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.
The justices rejected an emergency request filed by Ward, meaning that phone records associated with her T-Mobile cellphone will be disclosed to the House committee. Two conservative justices, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, noted in the brief order that they would have granted the application.
A committee spokesman declined to comment.
Thomas has faced scrutiny over his participation in cases concerning the 2020 election because his wife, Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, has questioned the results of the presidential election and given testimony to the Jan. 6 committee herself. Justice Thomas also participated in a January 2022 decision in which the court declined former President Donald Trump’s bid to prevent White House records being disclosed to the committee.
Liberal Justice Elena Kagan last month temporarily prevented the Ward subpoena from being enforced while the justices weighed what steps to take.
Ward and her husband, Michael Ward, were among 14 of 84 so-called alternate electors subpoenaed this year by the Jan. 6 committee, which cited their association with bogus documents claiming then-President Donald Trump had won the 2020 election in their states.
Lower courts, including the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, rejected Ward’s arguments to block the subpoena.
The couple, who are both doctors, have argued, among other things, that disclosing their records would violate medical privacy laws. The committee is pursuing only Kelli Ward’s records. At the Supreme Court, Ward argued that the subpoena violates her right to freedom of association under the Constitution’s First Amendment.
“If Dr. Ward’s telephone and text message records are disclosed, congressional investigators are going to contact every person who communicated with her during and immediately after the tumult of the 2020 election. That is not speculation, it is a certainty,” the couple’s lawyers wrote in court papers.
The subpoena focuses on a T-Mobile cellphone account linked with Ward. Among the information it seeks are all phone numbers, IP addresses or devices that had any communication with the phone in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election.
Ward and fellow Republicans had created a competing slate of electors for Arizona declaring that Trump won, despite election results showing Joe Biden got more votes in the state. Those actions have come under scrutiny by the Justice Department as well as the Jan. 6 committee.
Under the normal process, which Arizona government officials followed, certification of the state’s vote by a group of appointed electors is a formality after a winner is determined by the popular vote. Trump and his allies in 2020 pursued a far-fetched theory that if the states submitted competing election results to Congress, lawmakers meeting in the Capitol to certify the results on Jan. 6, 2021, could have prevented Biden from becoming president.
In addition to other faults in the plan, Vice President Mike Pence, who had a ceremonial role in the certification process, refused to go along with it. The attack on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob was intrinsically linked with efforts to overturn Biden’s victory.