Legal troubles far from over as probe ends

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By David A. Fahrenthold and
Rosalind S. Helderman March 23 at 11:36 AM

The conclusion of the investigation by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign hardly spells the end of President Trump’s legal woes.

Nearly every organization Trump has run over the last decade remains under investigation by state or federal authorities, and he is mired in a variety of civil litigation, including a lawsuit filed in New York state by a former contestant on his reality television show that could force him to answer questions under oath later this year about his treatment of women.

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan sent a subpoena in February to the presidential inaugural committee, the entity that organized Trump’s $107 million festivities when he took office in January 2017. The request sought a broad range of records covering nearly every aspect of the committee’s activities, including documents related to its record-setting fundraising, vendor payments, perks for donors and other communications ...

New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) is suing Trump in state court because of what the state called “persistently illegal conduct” at Trump’s 30-year-old charity, the Donald J. Trump Foundation. The suit says that Trump used the charity’s money to buy paintings of himself, to pay off legal settlements for his for-profit businesses, and to give his own presidential campaign a boost during the 2016 Republican primaries ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-legal-troubles-are-far-from-over-even-as-mueller-probe-ends/2019/03/23/397fd1e8-4d68-11e9-93d0-64dbcf38ba41_story.html?utm_term=.eb7f29f0c2c3

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1. Camp celebrates but danger not past

David Smith in Washington
Sat 23 Mar 2019 08.16 EDT

... analysts urged caution, noting it is possible that Mueller, a former FBI director, is not bringing charges against some individuals because he has referred their cases to other prosecutors. It is also still possible his report will be damning, establishing collusion or obstruction of justice in the court of public opinion if not a court of law, fuelling demands for Trump’s impeachment and mortally wounding his chances of re-election ...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/23/mueller-report-donald-trump-latest-news-collusion-russia

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2. The ongoing investigations

MADELEINE CARLISLE
OLIVIA PASCHAL
MAR 22, 2019

... Prosecutors in the Southern District of New York are also reportedly looking into whether Manafort, as chairman of Trump’s campaign, illegally coordinated with a pro-Trump super PAC, Rebuilding America Now, and whether that super PAC also received donations from people connected to Qatar and other Middle Eastern countries ...

Three unresolved cases are in <the Eastern District of Virginia>. Kamil Ekim Alptekin, an associate of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, was indicted and charged for acting as an agent of the Turkish government and lying to the FBI. He has not appeared in court and, as far as we know, hasn’t been arrested; his case is unlikely to be resolved quickly for that reason. Another Flynn associate, Bijan Kian, is still awaiting trial for failing to register as a foreign agent after working on behalf of the Turkish government. Kian has pleaded not guilty ...

The ongoing cases in the D.C. District Court are almost all related to the WikiLeaks release of hacked emails from the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic Party. A number of Trump associates charged as part of the Mueller probe are still awaiting sentencing in this district as well ...

In August 2018, The Washington Post reported that the Department of Justice was investigating Elliott Broidy, a prominent Republican fundraiser, for possibly attempting to cash in on his connections with the Trump administration by requesting millions of dollars from foreign governments in exchange for pushing the administration to take actions benefiting those countries. ProPublica reported in March that federal investigators had, at some point during the previous year, raided Broidy’s Los Angeles office. Their search warrant authorized them to seize a wide range of evidence related to Broidy’s contacts with foreign governments, including the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, and China, as well as people including Rick Gates ...

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/03/after-mueller-ongoing-investigations-trump/585376/

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3. What's interesting are the obvious comparisons with the Nixon Administration

What's interesting are the obvious comparisons with the Nixon Administration...

For anyone who lived through that, there were multiple scandals investigated by multiple jurisdictions - including the bribery scandals in Maryland that led to the sitting vice president stepping down - that all came long before the Watergate hearings in Congress, as well as the multiple occasions in 1973 when Nixon tried the "exonerated" gambit.

Those in a position to comment on the media really need to get some historical knowledge.

As has been said, I'd like to read the Mueller report before trying to describe what's in the Mueller report, and what happens next in the Trump-Russia scandal(s).

As has also been said:

Don't just do something, stand there.