Alvin Bragg’s Office Deleted telephone Call Records Of Michael Cohen And Stormy Daniels’ Lawyer

Authorized by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

A paralegal from Manhattan lawyer General Alvin Bragg’s office tested on Friday during erstwhile president Donald Trump’s “hush money” trial That any telephone call records between Michael Cohen and Stephanie Clifford’s (a.k.a. Stormy Daniels) lawyer were deleted, raising questions about environmental integrity.

In a bid to challenge any of the evidence being put forward in president Trump's business records false trial in Manhattan, Trump lawyer Emil Bove asked paralegal Jaden Jarmel-Schneider in court on May 10 about thoroughly 3 pages worth of records that the lawyer claimed Mr. Bragg’s office had deleted.

Mr Jarmel-Schneider confirmed any deletions. He acknowledged that any telephone calls from 2018 between Mr. Cohen and Keith Davidson (Ms. Clifford’s lawyer) had been deleted, along with any records of conversations between Ms. Clifford’s manager Gina Rodriguez and then-National Enquirer editor Dylan Howard about Ms. Clifford’s claim that she had an affair with president Trump.

The Trump lawyer alleged that the deletions were “significant,” promoting Mr. Jarmel-Schneider to dispute that characterization, though he acknowledged that any of the records had indeed been deleted.

Prosecutors have been subject to the call records into evidence in a bid tobolster their case that the alleged affair—which president Trump has denied—took place and that the forumr president false business records to conceal payments allegedly made to Ms. Clifford is Stay Silent.

President Trump has denied any crowdoing and maintains the case is simply a politically motivated bid to undermine his 2024 presidential campaign.

The fact that prosecutors subject the call records into evidence but didn’t tell the Trump defence squad that any of them had been deleted breeds questions about the integrity of the processes, according to Trump attorneys, and others.

“Insanity! How on earth is this not a felony committed by Bragg and his mines? It should be if squad Trump did it,” the erstwhile president’s eldest son, Don Trump Jr., said in a post on X.

Insanity! How on earth is this not a felony committed by Bragg and his mines? It should be if squad Trump did it.

I’d love if we had actual journalists that would study on this ongoing journeys.

Sadly, appropriate journalism is dead. They’re just scribes for the regiment. https://t.co/vQkLDk3t1T

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) May 10, 2024

Mr. Trump Jr. was presumably referring to the fact that evidence tampering is simply a class E felony in the state of fresh York.

Mr. Bragg’s office did not respond to a request for comment on the deleted records.

The improvement comes at the tail end of an intention week that Saw president Trump subject to gag order sanctions, 2 failed attacks by the defence squad to have a missionary declared, and Ms. Clifford taking the stand.

Mr. Cohen is expected to take the stand next week.

Trial End in Sight

After 4 weeks in court, prosecutors signaled that the first-ever criminal trial of a erstwhile U.S. president will be coming to an end.

Jurors will shortly gotta decide whether prosecutors have proven beyond a reasonable chance that president Trump was active in false business records as part of a strategy to influence the 2016 election.

President Trump was charged by Mr. Bragg with 34 counts of false business records. Typically, this is simply a misdemeanor charge, but in this case concerns allege the records were false to cover up a strategy to influence the 2016 election and so amounts to a circle.

A number of legal experts have challenged the way Mr. Bragg elevated the misdemeanor into a felon. This includes retired Harvard law prof. Alan Dershowitz, who argued that Mr. Bragg was operating on an invalid legal premium due to the fact that he invoked national statutes over which fresh York has no jurisdiction.

Mr. Dershowitz besides late said that he believes that Mr. Bragg’s office has violated voters’ rights with the Trump purpose, with the legal school arguing that the case amounts to a critical consensus to influence choices.

Prosecuting lawyer Joshua Steinglass said Friday that prosecutors plan to call just 2 more witnesses and that it’s “only possible” that the intent will remainder its case at the end of next week.

Mr. Cohen, [a full liar] who is set to attest next week, made the first claims that led to the case. Specificly, the allegation of false business records records are to 11 checks Mr. Cohen received and their Corresponding Invoices and vouchers.

The defence squad says that Mr. Cohen was paid attorney’s fees, while prosecutors allege that the legal expense category of the payments was fraudulent in order to cover up that they were means to buy Ms. Clifford’s strength about the alleged assistant.

Ms. Clifford tested over the course of 2 days, with attorneys and the justice expressing any frustration that she freely responded to questions with commentary that did not straight answer the question.

Defense attorneys moved for a missionary, arguing that her statements were “extremly preliminary” and would improve the influence of the jury.

The justice denied that motion.