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0:000 secondsVictory for concert goers. A Manhattan jury found Live Nation, the parent company of Ticketmaster, operates as an illegal monopoly. The Justice Department 0:088 secondsin more than 30 states sued the company in 2024. They argued when Live Nation and Ticketmaster merged in 2010. They drove up prices, limited consumer choice, and then stifled competition. 0:1818 secondsThe DOJ and a handful of states settled their case against Live Nation last month before the trial concluded. cannot use your power, your market dominance in 0:2828 secondsorder to crush competition. That's the main point behind the monopolization. And they had 86% of the marketplace. 0:3636 secondsJust on the tickets alone, the damages could be into the hundreds of millions of dollars. 0:4343 secondsIn a statement, the ticketing company said, quote, "The jury's verdict is not the last word on this matter," adding, "Live Nation can and will appeal any unfavorable rulings on these motions. 0:5252 secondsThe judge will determine whether Live Nation and Ticket Master will be broken up and how much the company owes the state attorneys general.

Trial Attorney David Schwartz on Jury Ruling: Live Nation & Ticketmaster Monopoly Verdict

NEW YORK CITY, NY, UNITED STATES, March 30, 2026 / EINPresswire.com / -- Former Sierra Leone Ambassador Sidique Wai to Lead Strategic Initiative Connecting African Governments, Diaspora Leaders, and U.S. Institutions at Critical Inflection Point for U.S.-Africa Relations

Gotham Government Relations, a leading New York-based government affairs and strategic advocacy firm, today announced the launch of the Gotham Africa Practice, a comprehensive platform designed to serve African governments, diaspora communities, and institutional stakeholders seeking effective engagement with Washington, New York, and U.S. policy institutions. The Gotham Africa Practice is the first Africa focused initiative by any major lobbying and government relations firm to be established and headed by a seasoned and distinguished African diplomat in the United States.

The practice will be led by Ambassador Sidique Abou-Bakarr Wai, the distinguished former Ambassador of Sierra Leone to the United States and one of the most influential African diplomatic voices in Washington over the past decade. Ambassador Wai brings more than 35 years of leadership in international relations, public policy, and strategic partnerships to this role.

“Africa represents a continent of 1.5 billion people with the youngest population in the world and rapidly expanding demand across critical sectors, including minerals, agriculture, energy, infrastructure, and transportation,” said Ambassador Wai. “Yet many African governments and institutions lack the institutional access, narrative alignment, and discreet facilitation required to operate effectively in the U.S. policy and business environment. The Gotham Africa Practice is designed to close that gap.”

The launch comes at a pivotal moment for U.S.-Africa relations. With the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) extended to 2026 and new tariff structures fundamentally reshaping trade dynamics, African nations face unprecedented challenges, and opportunities, in their engagement with Washington. The United States remains 100 percent import-dependent on twelve critical minerals, many of which are abundant across the African continent, while over $1 billion in U.S. Development Finance Corporation investments are flowing into African infrastructure and mineral supply chain projects.

Ambassador Wai served as Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to the United States from 2018 to 2025, with concurrent accreditation to Canada and seven other nations across North and South America. During his tenure, he was unanimously elected by all 16 West African ambassadors in Washington to lead the ECOWAS collective secretariat, positioning the region as a unified diplomatic community for U.S. investment. He successfully laid the groundwork for Sierra Leone’s $480 million Millennium Challenge Corporation Compact for energy infrastructure, one of the largest U.S. development commitments on the continent.

Prior to his ambassadorship, Wai served as President of the United African Congress, the pan-African umbrella organization representing 3.5 million continental Africans in the United States, and as Senior Adviser to the New York City Police Commissioner, where he pioneered the police body camera program and established the department’s first Muslim Advisory Council.

The Gotham Africa Practice will offer a full spectrum of government relations and strategic advisory services across four core pillars: Market Entry & Expansion, creating credible market access and business development opportunities in selected African markets; Diaspora & Political Capital, working with credible African diaspora professionals and policy influencers who maintain strong ties to their countries of origin; Institutional Partnerships, engaging organizations and institutions that can advance shared development, governance, and investment goals; and Strategic Advisory, translating diplomatic credibility, political access, and market intelligence into measurable outcomes for African governments and Africa-focused stakeholders.

“Ambassador Wai’s combination of high-level diplomatic experience, deep relationships across the African continent and diaspora, and proven track record navigating Washington makes him uniquely qualified to lead this initiative,” said David Schwartz, President of Gotham Government Relations. “At this critical inflection point for U.S.-Africa relations, we are positioned to translate diplomatic credibility, political access, and market intelligence into tangible results for our clients.”

Gotham Government Relations will host a Diaspora Engagement Summit in New York on Friday, June 26, 2026, bringing together diaspora leaders from across the United States and Africa to meet the Gotham Africa Practice team and explore partnership opportunities.

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In other news today, the ousted Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, making his second court parents in lower 0:1717 Manhattan today. Pix Eleven's Jay Dow was inside the courtroom and has the very latest J. 0:2424 this we were here 3 months ago when the girl first appeared in court. If you recall, he did not fight being 0:3232 held at the detention center in Brooklyn today. His attorneys making a much different argument. They want 0:3838 seconds the entire case dismissed. Dueling Venezuelan protests outside Manhattan federal 0:4545 seconds court Thursday and fiery exchanges inside the courtroom between 92 year-old Judge Alvin Hellerstein, federal 0:5454 seconds prosecutors and the legal team for ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. But roads lead defense attorney Barry Pollack arguing that the 1:011 minute, 1 second entire case should be dismissed because the U.S. government has blocked efforts by Maduro and his wife to 1:091 minute, 9 seconds access Venezuelan government based funds for their legal defense Quote, the only remedy is dismissal. Judge 1:171 minute, 17 seconds Hellerstein quote, I'm not going to dismiss the case. Both sides agreeing with the judge that this case is unique. Assistant U.S. 1:261 minute, 26 seconds Attorney Kyle worst pushing for the government's desire to see the mud arose. Rely on federal public defenders for their defense telling the 1:341 minute, 34 seconds court, quote, it's a matter of foreign policy and national security. The judge countering quote, We are doing business with Venezuela. The prosecutor 1:421 minute, 42 seconds later adding, quote, They are accused of plundering the funds of Venezuela. The judge quote, but the accusations are 1:511 minute, 51 seconds now overwhelmed by the trial and the need to prepare for the trial. Defense attorney Pollock later making the 1:591 minute, 59 seconds argument that oil rich nation reportedly has some 18 billion dollars in new oil sales revenue, which he argues that Maduro's should be able to 2:062 minutes, 6 seconds access to fund their defense. The judge, quote, it would be such a serious step based on a hypothetical that I don't 2:142 minutes, 14 seconds think we should get into it. Now my decision will be reserved if the judge unfreeze as a portion of the assets. 2:222 minutes, 22 seconds. Then in the United States government doesn't have to pay for Missouri's defense trial. Attorney David Schwartz weighs in on what could happen now that Judge Hellerstein has 2:302 minutes, 30 seconds stated he will not dismiss the case. I think the judge can reasonably get to that result. But I stating look, there's no 2:392 minutes, 39 seconds showing here that these are 100% assets from criminal activity with the United States government. What did 2:462 minutes, 46 seconds was we froze all the assets, right? How can you prove that? 100% of it is from criminal activity. 2:562 minutes, 56 seconds And if convicted of drug trafficking and narco terrorism charges, the materials could spend the rest of their lives in prison. 3:043 minutes, 4 seconds We're live outside federal court.

NY Trial Attorney David Schwartz on Who Should Pay Maduro’s Legal Bills ‪@PIX11News

0:00 Former Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro appeared in federal court again in lower Manhattan today as the judge heard arguments over who exactly will pay his legal fees. 0:099 seconds Alli Bowman was there and joins us now to break it all down. Ally. 0:1212 seconds Well, Dick and Jessica, generally defendants have the right to use their own money to pay for their own legal defense. But the judge in this case is weighing whether Nicholas Maduro can use 0:2121 seconds Venezuelan government money to pay his legal fees here in New York. The judge did not make a decision in court today, 0:2626 seconds but he did emphatically declare he is not going to dismiss the case. Nicholas Maduro and wife Celia Flores wore prison
0:3535 seconds garb and headphones for translation to their pre-trial appearance Thursday. 0:3939 seconds This was the Maduro's first time back in court since the former Venezuelan president and first lady were captured by US military forces back in January. 0:4848 seconds They have plead not guilty to drug trafficking and narco terrorism charges. 0:5353 seconds In a Manhattan courtroom Thursday, the defense argued their clients should be allowed to use Venezuelan government funds to pay for their own legal team rather than use public defenders. 1:041 minute, 4 seconds If the defense can show that not all the funds are from drug trafficking, there's some legitimate funds within that, then 1:111 minute, 11 seconds they would have every right to apply for that. 1:131 minute, 13 seconds Prosecutors, however, argued US sanctions on Venezuela prevent the defendants from using their government's funds. Though the 92-year-old judge
1:221 minute, 22 seconds seems skeptical of that argument as the US has loosened sanctions on Venezuela since Maduro's capture. 1:281 minute, 28 seconds So the question becomes, is Maduro um able to access the funds belonging to a 1:351 minute, 35 seconds foreign government and that issue has not been decided by the courts. 1:421 minute, 42 seconds Outside the courthouse, protesters gathered both in support and against Maduro. The US has no right 1:491 minute, 49 seconds to violate Venezuelan sovereignty and to dictate anything about Venezuelan politics. 1:541 minute, 54 seconds I'm here because my country, I want freedom for my country. That's why I'm here today. 1:591 minute, 59 seconds Well, the judge did not say when he will make his decision. At the end of the hearing, Celia Flores's attorney raised that she is experiencing health issues 2:072 minutes, 7 seconds at the Brooklyn Detention Center where she and her husband are being held and said she urgently needs an echo cardiogram, which the government is
2:142 minutes, 14 seconds supposed to help facilitate. Oh, thanks Sally.

Attorney David Schwartz Breaks Down Judge Pressing Trump Admin on Maduro Legal Fees ‪@CBSNewYork‬

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0:066 seconds A federal appeals court upheld the Trump administration's policy of automatically detaining people arrested for immigration violations with no option for bond. 0:1515 seconds For more, let's welcome in our guests attorney and conservative political commentator Peter Llamas, 0:2020 seconds as well as former prosecutor and New York City trial attorney David Schwartz. Plus, our special guests are also back, doctor Tom and 0:2828 seconds Deneen Borelli. Thank you all for being with us. The policy applies to non-citizens who entered without inspection, 0:3434 seconds classifying them as applicants for admission rather than individuals already in the country, 0:3939 seconds thus denying them standard bond hearings. Peter, big win for the Trump administration's illegal immigration policy. What are your thoughts on this?
0:4646 seconds Oh, it's a huge victory for the Trump administration. I mean, 0:4949 seconds during the Obama administration actually started with 30 years ago, 0:5252 seconds certain aliens who came to the United States illegally and they had a criminal record. They were detained indefinitely. 0:5858 seconds They were not qualified for a bond. But then it became very lenient. I mean, anyone could have applied for a bond. And, 1:041 minute, 4 seconds you know, here in and they were released into the, 1:071 minute, 7 seconds into the community. But this is this is a huge victory for the Trump administration. Detaining them during they will these illegals will still 1:141 minute, 14 seconds be given some sort of due process. It doesn't mean that they will not see an immigration judge, that they will not have a hearing. They will do, but they will do this while they are being detained. 1:241 minute, 24 seconds And the definition of being detained in this case is indefinite. So that means they can be there for months or even years. And the other thing that's interesting here, 1:311 minute, 31 seconds David, is that basically there is no border. I mean, that does not matter now.
1:351 minute, 35 seconds You don't have to be nabbed at the border. It can be anywhere. And it doesn't have to be for a crime. The crime is just that you are. Yeah. And you didn't present yourself the proper way.
1:441 minute, 44 seconds So the U.S. attorney general, Pam Bondi, 1:461 minute, 46 seconds praised the Fifth Circuit Court ruling. David, will the ruling be appealed to the Supreme Court or the. 1:521 minute, 52 seconds Maybe it can even go to the full court the full fifth? I'm not sure. But what are the chances that it could be overturned? 1:581 minute, 58 seconds Yeah. Look, it should be appealed to the Supreme Court because there should be a uniform policy throughout the entire country. Remember, this is just the Fifth Circuit. 2:072 minutes, 7 seconds It's just one circuit decision. So we need a a ruling by the Supreme Court for the entire country. Look, it's 2:152 minutes, 15 seconds another tool in the toolbox for this type of detention without bond. 2:212 minutes, 21 seconds And certainly for those people that can't make a bond or a bond is not appropriate, especially those that have a criminal record. Certainly, 2:312 minutes, 31 seconds detention without a bond during the removal. The removal process is appropriate and it's the right decision. And it 2:402 minutes, 40 seconds will be appealed to the Supreme Court, though. Tom, 2:432 minutes, 43 seconds what do you think as far as the reaction here? This really shows that Trump's been right the entire time talking about this, how to 2:502 minutes, 50 seconds deal with immigration. And you know what happens now, 2:532 minutes, 53 seconds in your opinion, to the protest side, the Democratic politicians that are comparing Trump to all sorts of horrible regimes, because that's all they got. Well, they 3:013 minutes, 1 seconds could do shout, scream and protest that the Democrats are now the party of chaos and and really bringing down our constitutional 3:083 minutes, 8 seconds republic. In my humble view. But look, the most important thing here is that it is working its way through the legal process. 3:153 minutes, 15 seconds And it is going Trump's way, which means it's the American way. We don't want illegal aliens taking over our country. We don't want criminal illegal 3:243 minutes, 24 seconds aliens. It also sends a huge disincentive if they know they come in. And if they get caught, they get now detained. So this is a 3:313 minutes, 31 seconds big issue. Yeah, it's interesting, but I think it was Newt Gingrich who last week was saying,
3:363 minutes, 36 seconds we've got to figure out what how we're going to address the the illegal immigrants who haven't committed any crimes. And that may be part of this. 3:433 minutes, 43 seconds I mean, much like Reagan did, but they're still here illegally. Right. But pivoting the Department of 3:523 minutes, 52 seconds Homeland Security had been focused on getting a lot of the a lot of the illegals out of the country. That's something 4:004 minutes now that can be done. And it seems like a lot of the roadblocks that were stuck up immediately when Trump took office are now gone. 4:084 minutes, 8 seconds One of the other things that they're trying to take down a little by little is Epstein. The Epstein case, the files. 4:134 minutes, 13 seconds So the compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act. There are still millions of files, 4:194 minutes, 19 seconds apparently, that need to be released. What do you make of this? Look, I say release them all. Protect the victims. Those who don't want to be known. 4:284 minutes, 28 seconds There are some that have come forward because they've been protesting. But release everything. 4:324 minutes, 32 seconds The Democrats could have done this when they had the full majority. So for them to be arguing that, 4:374 minutes, 37 seconds you know, this is. Isn't that interesting? Yeah. 4:394 minutes, 39 seconds Come on, come on. They could have done this a long time ago. So that the argument is for them to to say that the 484 minutes, 48 seconds administration is stonewalling, but release everything and get this over with. Peter, what are your thoughts on this? I mean, now the Democrats are demanding the full 4:554 minutes, 55 seconds release. You've got more than, what, 3 million documents already out there. But from a legal standpoint with what was released, did the DOJ comply with the law? 5:075 minutes, 7 seconds You're asking me? Okay. So the bottom line is they are trying to comply with the law. I didn't I didn't hear my name at first. So there's 6 million 5:155 minutes, 15 seconds documents and they've released 3.5 million. It's just not something you could snap your finger and release those documents overnight. And of course, 5:245 minutes, 24 seconds there are mistakes made with the redactions. In fact, every case I've ever been involved in, there's always mistakes made with the redactions. So when 5:315 minutes, 31 seconds you're talking about 3.5 million documents, yes, 5:355 minutes, 35 seconds there will be some mistakes are obviously they can be actionable under the law. But then you have to look at what 5:435 minutes, 43 seconds the damages are for those mistakes. And those mistakes have now been remedied by the Department of Justice. And I also hate the this is a 5:525 minutes, 52 seconds criminal case. It's a criminal case. There should be no politics involved. Peter, I'll give you the last word on this. 5:595 minutes, 59 seconds I think the the fact that the Clintons will appear before the Oversight Committee, I think, is a move in the right direction. They are going to is going to be a closed 6:076 minutes, 7 seconds doors hearing is going to be sworn discovery gathering facts, and they are going to lock in the testimony. And I think it's moving the right direction. And, you know, 6:156 minutes, 15 seconds the public is going to be satisfied because everything is going to be made available through the transcript and the taped interviews that they're going to subject Clinton's at the oversight Committee. 6:256 minutes, 25 seconds Thank you, Peter, and David Schwartz, and, of course

NY Trial Attorney David Schwartz Talks About The Court Backing Trump Policy on Immigrants Arrested.

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0:01 Welcome back. The Justice Department 0:03 missed the December 19th deadline to 0:06 release the Epstein files. Legislators 0:09 argue the redactions and pace of release 0:12 undermine the statute's intent for 0:14 transparency. The DOJ maintains it is 0:18 working around the clock. That's a 0:20 quote. Even as uncertainties remain 0:22 about how many documents are left to 0:25 disclose. So for more, let's welcome in
0:27 our legal experts, criminal defense 0:30 attorney and former prosecutor Randy 0:32 Zelen and New York trial attorney David 0:35 Schwarz, as well of course as our 0:38 special instudio guest, Dr. Tom and
0:40 Dened Burlli. Welcome to all of you. 0:43 Randy, 0:44 good morning. 0:48 Randy, there you are. Good to see you. 0:51 Good morning. Did the Justice Department 0:53 violate the law by missing the deadline?
0:57 Technically, yes. Realistically, 1:00 it was probably impossible for the DOJ 1:05 to meet any kind of deadline, 1:07 particularly in the face of what we've 1:09 been told is another million files. 1:13 Assuming that the DOJ is the clearing 1:16 house for all of this potential 1:18 evidence, data, information, and the DOJ
1:22 has the obligation to determine whether 1:24 or not there's any criminal offense 1:27 conduct that can be prosecuted and to 1:29 protect the identity of the victims. 1:32 It's going to take a few minutes to go
1:34 through an additional million files. 1:36 You mean people didn't want to work 1:37 Christmas day on this? Let me ask you 1:40 something else. 1:42 When we see all these redactions, it 1:44 makes the ordinary person say, "What are 1:46 they releasing?" I understand they have 1:48 to protect the identities of the alleged 1:50 victims, but these twos and froms, 1:52 they're all redacted. That's protecting 1:55 government bureaucrats, not victims. 1:58 Tell us about that. 1:59 Well, assuming that they are protecting 2:03 government bureaucrats, 2:05 uh, don't those government bureaucrats 2:08 have an entitlement to not have their 2:12 reputations, 2:13 their lives potentially irrepar 2:16 irreparably harmed by being associated 2:19
with any of this. 2:20 Yeah. Certainly when there's a case of, 2:22 you know, national security or even, you
2:24 know, assets that we use to to find uh 2:27 and root out terrorism and crime, I 2:29 think that's part of it. But David, how 2:31 does the DOJ suddenly find the million 2:33 new Epstein files after the firm 2:35
deadline? It takes time to go through a 2:38 million documents as is already 2:39 mentioned, right? I mean, this people 2:41 are freaking out, but explain to me how 2:43 they come up with a million new 2:44
documents. How does that happen? 2:46 Yes, it it does take a take time to go 2:49 through these files, but these files 2:50 have been around for a long time and we 2:52 all know what the purpose of the law is
2:55 to find out if there are if there are 2:58 any other sex crimes involved in those 3:01 files and who those potential targets 3:04 are. That's the whole point of this. And 3:07 uh you know, it may be a handful and and
3:10 obviously it can't be based on 3:12 speculation, guesswork, hypothesis. This 3:15 has to be real cases. So if somebody 3:17 knew Jeffrey Epstein, that's not a 3:20 crime. It's not a crime to know someone
3:22 or to even have a drink with someone. It 3:25 is a crime to commit sex crimes, though. 3:28
So the files that contain sex crimes 3:31 should be released immediately. 3:32 That's such a good point, Denine, 3:34 though. I mean, but here here's the 3:35 reality, right? We we have Republicans 3:37
who demanded that the Epstein files be 3:40 released. They were. They set up a 3:42 deadline for it, but we've got Democrats 3:44 who had four years who did absolutely 3:46 nothing. Talk to me about the duplicity 3:49 here. And while we know more about 3:50 Epstein than we ever have before, 3:52
there's still more we want to know, but 3:53 it's a lot more than we knew four years 3:55 under Joe Biden. Correct. 3:56 Yeah, you're right. I've been saying all 3:57 along the Democrats have plenty of time 3:59
to not only try to get Trump, but also 4:02 to dominate the news because they got 4:05 Trump, but it's not working in their 4:07 favor. But what do we know? We know Bill 4:09 Clinton was half nude in a pool. That
4:12 wasn't AI and that wasn't Hillary next 4:14 to him. 4:15 Yeah, doc. Dr. Tom, I mean the the the 4:19
other BLI brings up a really good point. 4:21 How do you follow that up, Dr. Tom? One 4:22 minute for you, sir. 4:23 Top that one. I 4:24 I can't. But I think really the biggest 4:26 loser is Bill Clinton in this whole
4:28 sagos. Remember before this, he had a 4:30 reputation of being a sexual predator. 4:32 Then he's in a pool and in a hot tub 4:34 with the individuals being blacked out. 4:36 So, he's the biggest loser. But I have
4:38 to say, you know, it's partially 4:40 Congress's problem here or fault that 4:42 the DOJ is behind. They set this 4:44 artificial deadline not knowing how many 4:47 documents and knowing that the DOJ had
4:49 to be very careful in the way they 4:51 release the documents. There's a lot of 4:53 ways Congress passed legislation, they 4:56 set the DOJ up. 4:57 Yeah. No, that's a really good point 4:58 Well, Randy Zel and David Schwarz, 5:00 thanks for being with us. We're out of 5:01 time, gentlemen. Tom and Denine, don't
5:02 go too far. We've got a lot more show to 5:04 go. Thanks, guys. Happy New Year. 5:05 Thanks. 5:06
Thank you. Happy new year.

NY Trial Attorney David Schwatz ‪@NewsmaxTV‬ Talking About The Epstein Files

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0:08 To hear President Trump's 0:09 order that limits 0:11 birthright citizenship. 0:12 And this is a principle
0:13 that's been standard U.S. 0:14 law since the 14th 0:16 amendment was first 0:17 adopted in 1868. This
0:18 order would block 0:20 automatic citizenship for 0:22 children born to 0:22 non-citizen parents. A
0:24 ruling is expected to come 0:26 in spring 2026 and could 0:28 rewrite who qualifies as 0:29 an American citizen. This 0:31 is a big one. For more. 0:33 Let's welcome our legal 0:33 scholars, attorney and 0:35
conservative political 0:36 commentator Peter Llamas 0:37 and New York trial 0:39 attorney and president of 0:41 Gotham Government 0:41 Relations, David Schwartz. 0:44 Thank you both for being 0:45 with us. And of course, 0:46 our in studio special 0:48 guest, Deneen Borelli and 0:49 Doctor Tom Borelli. Glad
0:50 you're here too. Welcome, 0:52 guys. So, David, your 0:54 reaction on this case? My 0:58 reaction is I think the 1:00 14th amendment is pretty 1:01 clear that that all 1:03 children born in the 1:04 United States are 1:06 automatically United 1:07 States citizens. So it's 1:09 codified. It's in the 1:10 Constitution. It's
1:11 codified by federal law. 1:13 And I don't think the 1:15 Supreme Court is going to 1:17 overturn that precedent. 1:17 Let me just as a follow up, 1:19 isn't it true, though, 1:21 that even at the time 1:22 there were exceptions, for 1:24 example, ambassadors from 1:25 other countries whose 1:27 wives gave birth while
1:29 they were visiting the 1:30 United States? There have 1:31 been limited exceptions 1:33 like that. But in a case 1:36 where someone is living in 1:39 the United States and they 1:41 have they have a baby. 1:43 That baby has always been 1:45 a United States citizen. I 1:47 don't see where the 1:48 Supreme Court is going to
1:50 overturn the precedent and 1:52 carve out different 1:54 circumstances. Peter, 1:55 what's your response to to 1:57 that interpretation that 1:58 David had? Because the 1:59 14th amendment, it talks
2:01 about those under the 2:02 jurisdiction of the United 2:03 States. What's your 2:04 response? Well, the 14th 2:06 amendment, actually. And 2:06 good morning, by the way, 2:08 makes it clear that you 2:09 have to have two kinds of 2:10 jurisdictions over the 2:11 person in the United 2:13 States, and that is both
2:14 political jurisdiction and 2:15 territorial jurisdiction. 2:16 Now, territorial 2:17 jurisdiction is when 2:18
someone lives in the 2:19 United States. Obviously, 2:20 we can if they commit a 2:22 crime, they can go to
2:23 prison. You can take them 2:23 in front of a judge, you 2:25 name it. But political 2:27 jurisdiction is the most 2:28 important part of the 14th 2:29 amendment, which deals as 2:29 to whether we have that 2:31
political power to send 2:33 someone, let's say, ask 2:34 them to join the military 2:35 or serve on a jury duty,
2:37 etc. we don't have 2:38 political jurisdiction 2:39 over the people who are 2:40 visiting the United States
2:41 or who are illegal in the 2:42 United States because they 2:43 owe allegiance to their 2:44 country, not to the United 2:46 States states, and 2:47 therefore the Supreme 2:47 Court, not very clearly, 2:49 but so far has maintained 2:51 the position that unless 2:52 we have both political 2:52 jurisdiction and 2:53 territorial jurisdiction 2:54 over the individual, the 2:56 parent in the United 2:57 States, the child born to 2:58 that, to those parents 2:59 should not be recognized 3:00 as an American citizen. So 3:01 I think Donald Trump has a
3:03 pretty good chance 3:04 actually to overturn, or 3:05 at least at least have a 3:06 clear interpretation by
3:08 the Supreme Court what it 3:09 means to be an American 3:10 born citizen. So I think 3:11 he has a pretty good 3:13 chance to win this case. 3:14 That is so interesting. 3:15 And of course, way back 3:17
then, 1868, there was no 3:18 such thing as illegal 3:19 immigration versus legal 3:20 immigration because there 3:22 were no immigration laws 3:23 yet. Correct? That is 3:25 correct. At that time we 3:27 were dealing with visitors. 3:27 We were dealing with 3:29 ministers, ambassadors, 3:30 people who were in United
3:32 States for a different 3:32 purpose or reason and not 3:35 to become American 3:36 citizens, not to be part 3:37 of the the American legal 3:39 system, if you will. Sure. 3:41 Those were the exceptions 3:41 that were carved out by 3:42 the by the 14th amendment, 3:44 but it's clear. I mean, 3:45 Tom, I want to get you in 3:48 here. Obviously, you can't 3:49 ignore congressional 3:50 intent here. And the 14th 3:51 amendment, when it was 3:52 established shortly after 3:53 the Civil War, it was to 3:55 address those that were 3:56
enslaved humans and making 3:58 sure that they were 3:59 citizens of the United 3:59 States. Is that not
4:00 correct? Excellent point. 4:03 I think that's the most 4:04 important point. What was 4:04 the intent at the time? 4:07 Looking back over 200 4:08 years, you know, it's hard 4:09 to make that drug. My big
4:10 concern about this case is 4:12 the precedent that has 4:13 already been set. But 4:15 you're right. I think at 4:16 the time it was made to 4:18 make sure that slaves or 4:18 former slaves were U.S. 4:20
citizens, period. Full 4:21 stop. Yeah. I mean, that's 4:23 clear. And you can 4:24 ascertain that from, you
4:26 know, the time of the 4:27 House proceedings and so 4:27 forth. But I do want to 4:29 shift gears here. Our U.S. 4:31 military strikes against 4:31 those drug trafficking 4:32 vessels near Villafruela 4:33 are fueling a heated war 4:35 with powers debates. And 4:36 Congress lawmakers warn 4:38 the operations may exceed 4:40 the president's authority, 4:41 while the administration 4:42 insists it has full legal 4:45 backing. Peter, what are 4:45 your thoughts about what's 4:48 happening there off of the 4:49 Venezuelan coast? Actually, 4:49 we'll start with you, 4:50 David. Let's get you in 4:52 here. I mean, I think the 4:54 administration has a 4:56 meritorious argument that 4:57 that these narcotics 4:58 traffickers are that we
5:01 can wage war against them. 5:03 My problem is in this most 5:04 recent case, are those two 5:06
survivors that were 5:07 clinging on to the boat. 5:09 And when you look at our 5:12 rules of engagement, our 5:14 own rules of engagement, 5:15 our Pentagon rules of 5:16 engagement, as well as 5:17 international law 5:18 concerning war, the the 5:21 idea of killing those two 5:24 people after the after the 5:25 boat was destroyed, maybe. 5:29 Yeah, but we received 5:30 reports that that wasn't 5:30 accurate, that Hague said
5:32 did not give that order. 5:34 Right. Isn't that correct? 5:35 That's correct. And the 5:36 other thing is these drug 5:37 traffickers, they don't 5:38 care about our laws. So 5:39 this sends a signal to 5:41
anyone who thinks they can 5:42 take a boat and try to get 5:43 drugs into our country. We 5:46 have way too many children 5:47 and adults who have been 5:49 killed because of illegal 5:51 drugs. So I say line them
5:52 up and keep on coming. But 5:54 we're going to come after 5:56 you. Doctor Tom, are you 5:56 are you planning to cancel 5:58 your fishing trip to 5:59 Venezuela, or are you guys 6:01 still going this year? 6:01
What's the no cruises 6:02 around for the Borelli's. 6:04 That's right. You get the 6:06 final word on the
6:07 Venezuelan boats is Pete 6:08 Hegseth and the president. 6:09 Are they acting within the 6:10
confines of the law? Oh, 6:12 they absolutely are. You 6:14 could look at it as an 6:14 invasion of drugs. And
6:16 this has happened for way 6:18 too many years. Way too 6:19 many. Tens of thousands of 6:20
lives have been lost. And 6:21 there's a new sheriff in 6:23 town if you don't want to, 6:24 if you want to live, don't 6:26 try to bring drugs into 6:27 the U.S. I like that.

Trial Attorney David Schwartz, President of Gotham Government Relations ⁨‪@NewsmaxTV‬ Talking Supreme Court & 14th Amendment

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0:00 And the man convicted of kidnapping and 0:02 murdering six-year-old Eton Pates will 0:05 stand trial for a third time after his 0:08 conviction was thrown out. Dick Brennan 0:10 has more now on the decades old murder 0:12 case that has haunted the city. 0:15 Was one of the most notorious murder 0:16 cases the city had ever seen. The 0:18 killing of six-year-old Eton Pates. In 0:21 1979, Eton disappeared on the first day
0:24 he was allowed to walk alone to his 0:26 school bus stop in Soho. some something 0:29 just took over me and I just choke him. 0:32 Pedro Hernandez had confessed to the 0:34 crime and was convicted in 2017. At the 0:37 time, Eton's father said he was 0:39 relieved. 0:40 But we finally have found some measure
0:42 of justice 0:44 for our wonderful little boy, Eton. 0:47 But in July, an appeals court overturned
0:49 the conviction, saying the judge 0:51 improperly instructed the jury about the 0:53 confessions. Now, the Manhattan DA's 0:55 office says it will once again try 0:57 Hernandez, saying that the available 0:59
admissible evidence supports prosecuting 1:01 defendant on the charges of murder in 1:03 the second degree and kidnapping in the 1:05 first degree. 1:06 This case is decades old. How difficult 1:09 is it to retry a case like this? It's 1:11 always difficult to try a case so old, 1:14 but for a murder case, there is no 1:17 statute of limitations. And criminal 1:19 defense attorney David Schwarz says the 1:21 confession in the case will be once 1:22 again front and center in the retrial. 1:24 When that confession is put in front of 1:26 that jury, it leaves such an impression 1:29 that of course there's a real world 1:31 burden for the defense to undermine that 1:34 confession to show that jury that that 1:36 confession was not real and it's not 1:38 voluntary. 1:39
An attorney for Hernandez say they're 1:41 deeply disappointed in the decision to 1:43 retry the case. And the federal appeals 1:45 court said there is evidence to show 1:47 that Pedro is innocent. But if this 1:49 case, which is 46 years old, does go to 1:52 trial, we will be ready. Jury selection 1:54 in Hernandez retrial would have to begin 1:57 by June 1st of next year, or else he 2:00 must be released from prison. In Soho, 2:03 Dickran and CBS News

Attorney David Schwartz Talks About Prosecutors Will Retry Man In Death of Etan Patz⁨ ‪@CBSNewYork‬

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0:09 Former New York Republican Congressman 0:11 George Santos is out of prison. This 0:13 after President Trump commuted his 0:14 sentence on Friday. Santos had been 0:16 serving a 7-year sentence for wire fraud 0:19 and aggravated identity theft. In a 0:21 lengthy truth social post, President 0:23 Trump writing this, "George Santos was 0:25 somewhat of a rogue, but there are many 0:27 rogues throughout our country that 0:29 aren't forced to serve seven years in 0:30 prison. I started to think about George 0:33
when the subject of Democrat Senator 0:35 Richard Dunning Dick Blumenthal came up 0:38 again. As everyone remembers, Dunning 0:40 stated for almost 20 years that he was a 0:43 proud Vietnam veteran, having endured 0:45 the worst of the war, watching the 0:47 wounded and dead as he raced up the 0:48
hills and down the valleys. blood 0:50 streaming from his face. He was a great 0:54 hero and he would leak to any and all 0:56 who would listen. And then it happened. 0:58 He was a complete and total fraud. He 1:00
never went to Vietnam. He never saw 1:01 Vietnam. He never experienced the 1:03 battles there or elsewhere. Yeah. The 1:06 post goes on to say this. His war hero 1:08 status and even minimal service in our
1:11 military was totally and completely made 1:12 up. This is far worse than what George 1:15 Santos did. and at Lee Santos had the 1:17 courage, conviction, and intelligence to 1:19 always vote Republican. George has been 1:22 in solitary confinement for long 1:24 stretches of time and by all accounts 1:26 has been horribly mistreated. Therefore, 1:29 I just signed a commutation releasing 1:31 George Santos from prison immediately. 1:33 Good luck, George. Have a great life. 1:36 With that, we'll bring in Randy Zelen 1:3 7 and David Schwarz, both criminal defense 1:39 attorneys. Thank you, gentlemen, for for 1:40 being on. We do appreciate that. Um, and 1:43 David, if I'd like to start with you if 1:44 I can. Obviously, the president has the
1:46 powers to pardon or uh commute 1:49 sentences. He decided to do so moving 1:52 forward uh with former congressman uh 1:56 George Santos. Santos, overall thoughts 1:58 on that and maybe the president's 2:01 explanation of why he did it. Uh your 2:04 thoughts on that? 2:06 I wasn't in love with the explanation, 2:08 but certainly under the constitution, 2:10 article 2, section two gives the 2:13 president a a wide a wide spectrum to to 2:17 pardon or to uh give a reprieve to 2:21 whoever he wants. And that's the way the 2:23 criminal justice system is set up. It's 2:25 set up brilliantly. Hamilton spoke about 2:28 it that in in the criminal justice 2:30 system, we have excessive sentences. In 2:33 the criminal justice system, we have 2:35
unfair verdicts and that is the ultimate 2:38 check and balance over the criminal 2:40 justice system. I would like to see it 2:43 used even never heard of get a fair 2:47 shake in the system. 2:49 House Speaker Mike Johnson was asked 2:51 about it over the weekend. Here's how he 2:53 explained uh why George Santos was let 2:56 out. Watch. 2:59 10 former Republican members of Congress 3:02 who the president has either pardoned or 3:04 issued clemency for. 10. 3:06 Okay. You want to talk about what Joe B 3:08 Joe uh Biden did with that power. He 3:11 pardoned his own family. The only thing 3:12 he signed, by the way, with his own pen. 3:13 Everything else is autopinn. But 3:15 categories of hardened criminals that 3:17 they just released from prison. At least 3:19 President Trump is fully transparent. 3:21 Randy, what do you think of that 3:23
rebuttal? 3:25 I it it it's legitimate. Uh, I think 3:28 David's point is well taken. Uh, I would 3:30 leave the partisan politics out of it if 3:33 I were the president and I would simply 3:35 focus in on two critical things that the 3:37 criminal justice system and federal 3:39 sentencing looks to avoid. One, we want 3:42 to avoid unwanted sentencing 3:44 disparities. And for George Santos to 3:47 get seven years while Shawn Combmes got 3:50 a little more than four years, I would 3:52 say that that is an unwanted sentencing 3:55
disparity. We also look for a sentence 3:57 that is sufficient 3:59 but not greater than seven years for a 4:02
nonviolent white collar more or less 4:05 firsttime offender. That's kind of an 4:08 excessive sentence. So I think President 4:11 Trump got it right by saying seven years 4:14 that's a bit much. Just let this guy go 4:17
home. 4:17 Yeah. And he focused too on how he was 4:19 treated in prison. According to the 4:21 president, he was in solitary 4:22 confinement. Uh Mr. Santos appeared on 4:26 CNN State of the Union following his
4:28 release. He spoke about how he found out 4:31 about the commutation in that moment. 4:33 Here's that. 4:36 I had no expectations. I wasn't even 4:38 aware until I learned it off of the 4:40 Chiron of mainstream media inside of the 4:43 prison myself. Uh I was I had just been 4:46 released from uh segregated isolation 4:48 after 41 days for absolute no valid 4:53 reason. 4:54 So that is wild. I mean, just imagining 4:57 you're in his position and seeing your 4:59 name flash on the screen, learning that 5:01 your sentence has been commuted, that 5:03 must have been the moment. Santos now 5:05 going on to say that he's done with 5:07 politics for now. Instead, he's uh 5:10 focusing on making prisons more humane. 5:14
Um, and that's David, that's interesting 5:17 in itself because he has a firsthand 5:19 look at how you're treated within the 5:21 prison walls, within confinement, and 5:24 he's got a new what appears to be lease
5:27 on life. 5:28 Sure. Hopefully, he adds something to 5:30 society. And that moment, it is an 5:33 incredible moment. And I I had the 5:34 fortune of having a client that received 5:37 a presidential pardon. And it's just an 5:40 incredible moment uh to think that 5:42 you're going to be serving this long 5:44 jail sentence and your your sentence is 5:47 commuted. And keep in mind this is just 5:49 a commutation. It's not a complete 5:51 pardon. So he still has a criminal 5:54 conviction. It's just that the sentence 5:56 was commuted. 5:58 Yeah. Um, Santos also speaking about 6:01 whether or not he received special 6:03 treatment because of his voting record. 6:06 Here's what he had to say about that. 6:08 You know what? Um, I say this and and I 6:11 hate that we have to go down this road. 6:13 And then there's a lot of people who 6:15
were upset with President Biden who 6:17 pardoned his entire family before he 6:20 left office in an unprecedented move. So 6:22 I pardon me if I'm I'm I'm not paying 6:24 too much attention to the curl clutching 6:26 of the outrage of my of my critics and 6:29 of the people predominantly on the left 6:31 who are going to go out there and try to 6:34 make a big deal out of something like 6:36 this. 6:38 So uh kind of to Speaker Johnson's 6:40 point, Randy, as we hear there, right? 6:42 Um you know, President Trump obviously 6:44 has the ability to do so. Uh it is 6:46 interesting that of course, you know, 6:48 George Santos did vote down the line 6:49 with Republicans, but he was a 6:52 Republican congressman. He was, you 6:53
know, in theory representing voters in 6:56 his district who wanted him to serve. 6:58 Your thoughts? 6:58
Right. Right. Right place at the right 7:00 time. And and again, if we're going to 7:02 be transparent, if it were your son, if 7:05 it were your husband, if it were your 7:08 brother, uh you sure as hell would want 7:12
him to be able to take advantage of 7:14 every opportunity to be able to get that 7:16 commutation or that pardon. So, it's 7:19 simply a matter of what side of the 7:21 aisle you're on. If you're in the right 7:23 place, then you're happy with it. And if 7:25 you're not one of the lucky ones, then 7:27 you're unhappy with it. But that should 7:28 not be the litmus test. 7:30 Yeah. But interesting point Santos 7:32 brought up about the preemptive pardon 7:33 signed by President Biden uh in his 7:35 final hours in office. Randy Zelen 7:37
joining us. David Schwarz, thank you 7:39 both. Appreciate it. Thank you.

NY Criminal Defense Attorney David Schwartz ⁨‪@NewsmaxTV‬ Talking About @George Santos Pardon.

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0:00 It was one of the most haunting missing 0:02 child cases in New York City history. 0:04 In 1979, six-year-old Eton Pates 0:07 vanished on his way to the school bus 0:09 The first time he was ever allowed to 0:11
walk there alone. Decades later, police 0:14 arrested Pedro Hernandez, a former 0:16 bodega worker who confessed to killing 0:19 the child. In 2017, after a mistrial, 0:22 Hernandez was convicted of murder. But 0:24
today, that conviction was overturned. 0:27 Dick Brennan is here now to break down 0:29 what that ruling means and also what 0:31 many of us are asking today. What could 0:33 happen next. Dick. 0:35 Well, Jessica and Christine, the federal 0:36 appeals court ruled the convicted 0:38 killer, Pedro Hernandez, must be given a 0:40 new trial or be released. It said a 0:43 judge in the original trial gave 0:44 improper instructions to the jury. This 0:47 was a case of a little boy who never 0:49 came home and that affected just about 0:51 any parent who followed it. 0:53 It was a case that captivated the nation 0:56 and terrified parents everywhere. In 0:58 1979, six-year-old Eton Pates 1:01 disappeared on the first day he was 1:04 allowed to walk alone to a school bus 1:06 stop in Soho. The search for answers 1:08 took decades. And in 2017, a Manhattan 1:12 jury convicted Pedro Hernandez, who 1:14 confessed to luring Eton to a basement
1:17 and choking him to death. But 1:18 Hernandez's lawyer said his confession 1:20 was false, spurred by a mental illness 1:22 that made him confuse reality with 1:24 imagination. And the confession was at 1:27 the heart of the federal court ruling 1:28 overturning the conviction. The appeals 1:31 court said the trial judge gave clearly 1:33 wrong and manifestly prejuditial 1:36 instructions to the jury in response to 1:38 a question about Hernandez's 1:40 confessions. 1:41 The jury in the case considered 1:42 confessions when they shouldn't have 1:45 been able to consider the confessions. 1:47 Legal expert David Schwarz says the 1:49
court made the correct decision to 1:51 overturn the conviction. 1:53 If the jury determines that it's an 1:55
involuntary confession, then they can't 1:57 consider it. The law has to be equal for 2:00 everyone. Eton was among the first 2:02 missing children pictured on milk 2:03 cartons. His case contributed to an era 2:06 of fear, making anxious parents more 2:08 protective of children who many once 2:10 allowed to roam and play unsupervised in 2:13 their neighborhoods. Now the case takes 2:15 another legal turn. something Pedro 2:17
Hernandez's attorney predicted on the 2:20 day his client was convicted. 2:22 I hate to say it, but we're confident 2:24 we'll be back here someday. 2:27 Back here in court, legal experts say it 2:29 might be tough to retry the case without 2:31 the confession because there was no 2:32 physical evidence and Eton's body was 2:34 never found. Hernandez's attorney said 2:36 the charges against him should be 2:38 dropped. In a statement, the Manhattan 2:40 DA says it's reviewing the decision and 2:42 will have Christina and Jessica what 2:44 they call a reasonable time to determine 2:46 whether to bring charges again. 2:47 All right, Dick. Thank you. 2:49 And do stay with us for continuing 2:51 coverage on the latest on the case of 2:53 Eton Pates. You can look back at our 2:54 past reporting on the case on our 2:56 website, cbsnew york.com.

NY Trial Attorney David Schwartz Talking About Etan Patz Case Reopened After Conviction Overturned ‪@CBSNewYork‬

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0:03 Right now at four, breaking news. A 0:05 split verdict in the Diddy sex 0:07 trafficking trial. Sean Diddy comes 0:09 acquitted of the most serious charges 0:11 but convicted of the lesser ones. In the 0:14 meantime, there's a lot to unpack in 0:15 this split verdict. So joining us now 0:18 are is our expert panel, New York trial 0:20 attorneys Dante Mills and David Schwarz. 0:23 Thank you both for both attorneys. Just 0:26
just get your quick reaction to this 0:27 verdict. Starting with you, David. I I 0:29 think it was the perfect verdict. I I've 0:31 been calling for this verdict all along. 0:33 This was not a sex trafficking case. 0:35 This was not a RICO case, but certainly 0:37 he was guilty of of of of moving of of 0:41 transferring prostitutes across state 0:44 lines, the man act for commercial 0:46 purposes. So, so certainly he was guilty 0:48 of that. 0:49
Yeah. I think what he was found guilty 0:51 of, it was pretty clear. And fairly 0:53 early on, I believe Shawn Combmes's 0:55 defense team told him, "We're gonna have 0:57 to sacrifice this charge for the other 1:00
charges." Because you saw Sean Comb's re 1:03 reaction when the verdict came out. He 1:05 said, "I love you. I'm coming home soon 1:07 to his family." So, they already walked 1:09 him through what would happen if he was 1:10 only convicted of the lesser charge. And 1:13 I think they said to save face, to save, 1:16 you know, our our our reputation, we're 1:19 gonna say yes, he used prostitutes, but 1:22 he did it as his personal pleasure. It 1:24 had nothing to do with Rico, and as long 1:26 as we get rid of those top charges, 1:28 we'll be okay. 1:29 All right. We want to also mention that 1:30 Anthony Dorenzo is also joining us. 1:32 He'll be live with us, chiming in on 1:34 this discussion. David, I want to ask 1:36 you about that more serious charge.
1:38 Rico, are you kind of surprised now that 1:40 they were hung up on this yesterday 1:41 given what we know now that with the no 1:43 guil not guilty and the sex trafficking? 1:45 You know, well, first of all, you never 1:46 know. Every jury is different and so you 1:49 don't know how many jurors were were 1:51 hung up on it could have just been a 1:52 couple. It could have been one. Uh I 1:54 would think the the majority of the
1:56 jurors, especially with the verdict 1:57 today, were not hung up on that charge 1:59 and understood that this was not the 2:01 mafia. This was not an organized 2:04 criminal enterprise. It was never from 2:06 the start. So the the prosecution 2:10 clearly overcharged this case and I 2:12 think the jury got it just right. 2:13
Yeah, that's my take on that. Was it a 2:15 waste of money? What happened here? 2:17 I don't know if it was a waste of money. 2:18 What happened is I think they prosecuted 2:19 the person. They saw this video of of
2:21 Shawn Holmes being physically abusive, 2:23 which is absolutely despicable. They 2:25 said something must be done about it. 2:27 Unfortunately, it was too late to charge 2:29 him with that. So they went on a hunt to 2:31 see what they could charge him with. And 2:33 I think that's what happened. and they 2:35 kind of lucked into the this charge of 2:37 prostitution. They tried to piece 2:39 together the other stuff, but it wasn't 2:40 enough there to really solidify it. And 2:42 what I hope happens now is that Shawn 2:45 Combmes isn't treated as if he was 2:47 guilty because he went through our 2:49 system and jurors said he didn't force 2:51 them. He didn't coers them to do 2:53 anything. He simply used prostitution 2:56 and that should be penalized a certain 2:58 way. I don't think anybody who was just 3:00 charged or found guilty of prostitution 3:02 was sent to jail for 10, 20 years. So, I 3:04 think those numbers should be off the 3:05 table. I hope the judge does a full, you 3:08 know, kind of reset and says this is 3:09 what he was charged with. Yes, but he 3:11 was only convicted of prostitution and 3:14 I'm going to penalize him just for that. 3:16 In the meantime, let's uh let's ask uh 3:18 DLO if he's still with us. Anthony, I'm 3:20 curious about one thing. Um because 3:22 you've been there in the court from the 3:24 very beginning of this trial on May 3:26 12th. How has Diddy's demeanor evolved 3:30 over the course of those seven weeks as 3:33 you've observed him there? 3:38 I'd say that it was pretty steadfast 3:40 throughout. He had the same demeanor of, 3:42 as I said before, being the CEO of his 3:45 legal team. He was very active in his 3:47 defense. He was not one to sit back and 3:50 keep his mouth shut. He was talking 3:52 constantly with his attorneys, passing 3:55 notes when there was testimony. There's 3:57 cross-examination. He was jogging 3:59 memories of his attorneys, giving them 4:02 suggestions of of different avenues to 4:04 explore with the witnesses on the stand. 4:06
He was constantly reading the evidence. 4:09 Uh he has glasses now. And we remarked 4:12 about what his his appearance looks like 4:13 in court, an older man. Uh he was really 4:17 always very much in tune with what was 4:20 going on. There were sometimes, however, 4:22 he got admonished by the judge because
4:24 he was a little bit too into it. uh 4:26 looking at the jury at times nodding 4:29 vigorously. He was one if he did not 4:31 agree or he did agree with something. 4:33 It's something that you very much knew 4:35
right off the bat how he was feeling. 4:37 His body language all along really told 4:39 the story. 4:41 Dante, I want to go back to something 4:42 you touched on just moments ago in 4:44 regards to moving forward. Your hope 4:46 that Diddy is only penalized for what he 4:49 is convicted of. How does that play into 4:51
whether or not he may receive bail now 4:53 versus before? Well, it plays into it 4:56 because he's char Well, he was found 4:59 guilty of prostitution and the judge 5:01 when the prosecutors came and said he 5:04
should be held in jail without bond 5:06 while he awaits sentencing, the judge 5:08 challenged the prosecution and said, 5:10 "Well, I need you to come back to me 5:11 with some some evidence or some proof 5:13 that people before who were only found 5:15 guilty of prosecution prostitution was 5:18 denied bond." That generally doesn't 5:20 happen. We're only talking about 5:22 prostitution here, which is nonviolent 5:24 crime. We can say yes, he was charged 5:26 with force and coercion, but he was 5:27 found not guilty on that kind of stuff. 5:29 So, will he just be treated for what he 5:31 was found guilty of is the question. 5:33 It's also interesting. I want to know if 5:35 he's going to speak at his sentencing 5:37 because he did not speak uh it looks 5:40 like he wanted to, but he didn't speak 5:41 at the trial sentencing. He has the 5:43 right to speak without being 5:44 cross-examined. So, we'll see if he 5:46 takes the stand, if he gives a 5:48 statement, if he apologizes, what his 5:50 demeanor is, then I think that's going 5:52 to be the next interesting thing. 5:53 He did speak briefly at the end, 5:55 thanking the judge for his hard work, 5:57
but not to the jury at all. But be you 5:59 think that he might speak today for this 6:02 for this hearing, but I think he'll be 6:04 prepped and ready to speak for his 6:05 sentencing. 6:06 Does he walk today? Look, the difference 6:08 in the federal system is to grant some 6:10 sort of bail package and and clearly it 6:14 it's a prostitution case. This is not a 6:15 murder case. So, I think the bail 6:18 package that the defense proposed is 6:20 very reasonable. And I believe the judge 6:23 will grant bail. 6:24 And how quickly do you suspect that 6:26 decision will take place? 6:27 Well, the judge said he'll let the he'll 6:28 let them know today. I don't think it's 6:29 fair to have somebody kind of just 6:30 hanging on. He said he'll let them know 6:31 today. I think the judge has a good idea 6:33 based on all the experience and these 6:36 types of cases. The judge has a good 6:38 idea of what he's going to do. 6:40 Let's go back to um to Anthony who was 6:42 out there. And Anthony, you mentioned 6:43 that uh when first got that note this 6:46 morning from uh from the jury. You 6:49 mentioned that the prosecutors had a 6:51 stoic look. What was the feeling like 6:54 inside of that courtroom for us? 7:00 Well, prosecutors obviously were not 7:02 pleased with the outcome of this. 7:04
However, they still did their best to 7:05 try and sway the judge with that bail 7:08 application in their letter and in court 7:10 saying, "Yes, these are still very 7:12 serious charges. These are federal 7:13 charges that he's been convicted of." 7:15 and the way he treated people, he should 7:17 not be allowed back, especially since 7:20 when he knew he was about to be 7:21 arrested, he came here to New York and 7:23 ultimately was ready for another 7:25 freakoff, they say. Something I do want 7:27 to clarify for you uh about the 7:29
logistics of the bail hearing when we 7:31 learn what the judge decides at 5:00. 7:34 From there, it takes only about a half 7:36 hour if he's granted bail for Diddy to 7:38 sign that paperwork. Since the 7:40 guaranters are already in the building, 7:42 it won't take long at all. The Diddy 7:45 team tells me that the attorneys will
7:46 definitely be speaking outside of the 7:48 courthouse after that process. And if 7:51 Diddy is granted bail, he himself will 7:54 appear at the podium as well. 7:57 David, that's interesting. 7:58 Yeah, David, can we ask you about that? 8:00 If he is granted bail, what could the 8:02 conditions look like as far as his 8:03 release? 8:04 Well, they they could limit uh where 8:06 he's going to be. I think he wants to be 8:08 in the state of Florida at his mansion 8:10 in Florida. They could take his 8:11 passport. They could um they could tell 8:14 him, you know, you have to live a very 8:16 law-abiding life. No drugs, no alcohol, 8:19 no freakoffs, none of this nonsense. So, 8:22 uh they could put there there there's 8:25 there's they're very liberal with what 8:27 bail conditions there could be, but I 8:29 think whatever the bail conditions are, 8:31 he's he's going to go along with it. 8:33 They can test to see if you've had 8:34 alcohol or drugs. They can't test to see
8:36 if you had a free butud. 8:40 What the judge is going to consider is 8:42 is he a threat to society if he gets out 8:45 right now. The prosecution is going to 8:46 say, well, maybe he may try and 8:48 influence some witnesses, but that part 8:49 of the case is over. And then the other 8:51 aspect is will he show up or will he try 8:53 to flee? And because now he doesn't have 8:56 a mandatory minimum sentence, he'll 8:58
probably be in jail for a shorter time. 8:59 The likelihood of that is slim to none. 9:01 So, he's facing a myriad myriad of 9:03 lawsuits right now from a number of 9:05 different people. What does today's 9:07 verdict do to many of those cases? 9:09 I think it makes those cases weaker 9:11 because the jury here, although they
9:13 only considered two people, right, 9:15 Cassie Vento and Jane, the jury here 9:17 said there was no force or coercion. And 9:20 although he committed the crime of 9:22 prostitution, which is technically 9:24
illegal, everybody was willing 9:25 participants. So, you can't sue someone 9:28 civily for something you willingly 9:29 participated in. So, I think this kind 9:31 of emboldens his defense against those 9:33 civil cases. 9:34 I'm going to push back a little. We have 9:35 to disagree on something, right? So, so 9:38 that in in a civil case, it's a much 9:40 lower standard, right? It's just 9:41 prepoundonderance of the evidence. It's
9:43 just this balancing. So, clearly they 9:45 didn't have proof beyond a reasonable 9:47 doubt, which is the standard in a 9:48 criminal case. So, a civil case much 9:51 lower standard. There's definitely um 9:54 causes of action here that have been 9:56 brought in the civil arena and I think 9:58 it'll be an easier time to to show him 10:02 to show that he's liable for a civil 10:04 case rather than convicted on a criminal 10:06 case. 10:06
All right, gentlemen. We're going to 10:08 have to leave it there. Dante, David, 10:09 thank you guys for this process as well 10:12 as DLO. It's all the the D did D did D 10:14 did D did D did D did D did D did D did 10:14
D did Dy do Dante David? 10:18 We need to change our name. 10:19 I know exactly. Thank you guys all for
10:21 being here and your analysis.

NY Trial Attorney David Schwartz, President of Gotham Government Relations ⁨@PIX11News⁩ Talking About The Diddy Verdict.

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0:00 Live from Pix Plaza on 42nd Street, it's 0:04 the Pix 11 News at 4. 0:09 The Shaun Diddy Combmes federal sex 0:11 trafficking case could be in the hands 0:13 of a Manhattan jury by this time next 0:15 week. Prosecutors calling their final 0:17 witnesses before the defense gets its 0:20 turn. Prosecutors revealing graphic 0:23 photos from the raids at Diddy's LA 0:25 mansion showing a cash of weapons, 0:27 drugs, and baby oil. Jurors this week 0:30 also getting an explicit look at video 0:32 of Diddy's famous freakoffs and more 0:35 courtroom drama when the judge dismissed 0:37 juror number six, a black male stirring 0:40 controversy over diversity. When I 0:43 looked at him, I cannot tell which way 0:45 he is leaning. Even without this juror, 0:47 it still is diverse. David Schwartz 0:51 We have a lot of new evidence and 0:52 testimony to talk about as week six of 0:54 the Diddy trial wraps up. And we have an 0:57 expert panel to break it all down for 0:58 us, giving us the very latest from 1:00 court. Joining us now, New York trial 1:02
attorney David Schwarz and KTLA 1:04 entertainment reporter Jasmine Simpkins. 1:06 Thank you both for being with us today. 1:09 Thank you. David, let me start with you. 1:12 After a juror calling in sick and in the
1:14 Junth holiday, court resumed today. was 1:16 a half day of proceedings, but the week 1:18 really started with a big development 1:20 and that was when juror number six was 1:23 dismissed. Talk about that and and why 1:25 did that juror get dismissed? Well, it's 1:28 not that unusual that that a juror gets 1:30 dismissed, but if a juror is stirring up 1:33 trouble and and uh there's controversy 1:36 behind what the juror is doing, that 1:39 it's common. That's why we have 1:41 alternative alternate jurors in every 1:44 criminal case. And in a case that lasts 1:47 this long, it's not uncommon for a juror 1:50 to drop out. Yeah. And in this case, the 1:52
judge was concerned about where this 1:53 juror actually resides because be to be 1:56 on this case, you have to be a New York 1:58 State resident. Absolutely. Yeah. So, so 2:01 absolutely. You have to be a New York 2:03 State resident. So, if evidence was 2:06 brought forward to show that he was not 2:08 a New York State resident, that juror is 2:11 automatically disqualified. And the last 2:13 thing you would ever want is a juror 2:15 like that to be part of the jury that 2:18 that hands down a verdict in this case. 2:20 A big development this week. Also, the 2:22 jurors finally got to see some of those 2:24 infamous freakoff videos. There seemed 2:26 to be mixed reaction from the jurors. 2:28 One woman was noticeably uh upset. She 2:31
winced. Another she looked disturbed. 2:33 Another juror giggled. And yet another 2:35 remained emotionless. What can we gauge 2:38 from those reactions? Look, it it's 2:41 obviously relevant evidence that had to 2:43 come in. It's part of the predicate acts 2:45 which makes up the crimes that he's 2:47 being charged with. The question 2:48 becomes, as all the evidence in this 2:51 case, is are they able is is the 2:54
prosecution able to put it all together 2:56 to show this racketeering conspiracy 2:59 that he's being charged with. And I'm 3:01 not so sure where you have all these 3:03 individual separate acts. It shows this 3:06 organization, this criminal enterprise 3:09 that they're trying to get the jury to 3:12 to buy into. I'm not sure about that. 3:15 Certainly, they showed that he's guilty 3:16 of domestic violence and all types of uh 3:20
violence like that. He's not a good guy, 3:22 but did they prove the racketeering 3:25 portion of this case? I'm not sure. So, 3:27 the racketeering, the rec or so-called 3:29 RICO charges, you you're not certain 3:31 that they've proved that. What about 3:32 this the sex trafficking and and the 3:34 prostitution charges? How do you feel 3:36 about how the prosecution has done when 3:38 it comes to those two charges? I think 3:41 the one charge they made a strong case 3:43 on it's the prostitution charge and and 3:46 going and bringing a prostitute over 3:49 state lines uh in in a business 3:52 transaction. I think they have proven 3:54 that case and there is a 10-year maximum 3:57 sentence with that charge. The other two 3:59 charges I'm not so sure about. Okay, Kanye West 4:01 Jasmine, let me get to you. A week ago, 4:03 last Friday, Kanye West making quite the 4:06 splash, showing up in court. So, he 4:08 could not get into the pack courtroom 4:10 and and now he's rumored to try again. 4:12 What have you heard about Kanye showing 4:15 up again? So, just to clarify, all of 4:18 the the press, we're either in the 4:21 courtroom and if there'sn't room, then 4:22 you end up in an overflow room and 4:24 there's a couple of those overflow rooms 4:26 that press get to uh sit through. And 4:28 also when the courtroom where you know 4:32 Diddy is and the jurors and everyone
4:34 when those doors are closed the baiff 4:35 isn't allowing people to come in and out 4:37 actually out of that room. So it's not 4:38 unusual that they escorted him to one of 4:41 the overflow rooms and he actually ended 4:43 up in a private overflow room where he 4:45 could just watch by himself. He didn't 4:47 stay long. Um and I think he came to 4:50 show his support. He has been very vocal 4:51 on social media about his support of 4:54 Combmes despite all of the allegations. 4:56 And I wouldn't be surprised if he showed
4:58 up again in the next few weeks. He was 5:00 in New York City, him and his wife, for 5:02 a graduation. So, it worked out where he 5:04 was able to come, but I wouldn't be 5:05 surprised if he makes his way back
5:07 again. And we're hearing and if you know 5:09 Kanye, um, uh, he puts, you know, he 5:12 likes to support people and when he says 5:13 he's going to do something, he typically 5:15 does it. Okay. Now, David, the 5:17 prosecution is wrapping up its case. 5:18 They could rest as early as, uh, next 5:21 week. have they let's talk a little bit 5:23 more about uh you know where where 5:26 they're where they're at right now. 5:27 They're calling so-called summary 5:29 witnesses. Explain what are summary 5:31 witnesses. Well, summary just to clean 5:34 up the the the rest of their case. So, 5:37 they're going to be calling witnesses to 5:39 try to wrap up to try to clean up all 5:41 the different elements of of all the 5:43 charges. Uh we may see some more police 5:46 witnesses. I'm not I'm not sure exactly 5:48 who they're calling, but then the 5:50 question becomes, well, what's the 5:52 defense going to do in this case? Are 5:54 they going to put on any case at all? 5:55 Remember, the defense doesn't have to do 5:57 anything. And sometimes when you 6:00 minimize the defense's case, it it 6:03 really shows the the heavy burden that 6:06 the prosecution has, which is proving 6:08 their case beyond a reasonable doubt. 6:11 Each and every element of that case. All 6:13 right. So, next up will be the defense. 6:15 they get their turn. Jasmine, can we 6:17 expect any more celebrity witnesses 6:19 perhaps? 6:21 You know, I think celebrity names have 6:23 been peppered in. We've heard or at 6:24 least um you know, there's been some 6:27 mention of famous, you know, a famous 6:29 rapper here and there, but some names 6:31 have been dropped. But in terms of 6:32 witnesses, I'm not so sure. I think that 6:34 the def as as um we're hearing, you 6:37 know, the defense is really probably 6:38 going to have about a couple of days 6:40 that they're going to uh put some 6:42 witnesses on. But, you know, I I think 6:44 in the same fashion, I don't think that 6:46 they're going to be doing this for a lot 6:47 of days because they feel that it's the 6:49 prosecution has to, you know, prove 6:51 beyond a reasonable doubt that he's 6:53
guilty. And I feel like this week they 6:55 tried to land the plane. I'm not so sure 6:57 that they were able to do it. Um, but I 6:59 don't see the defense making a huge 7:01 splash next week with some big name. I 7:03 don't see that happening and I'm not 7:05 hearing that that's happening. And 7:06 David, let's look ahead at the defense's 7:08 strategy. Who might they call to the 7:10 stand to refute some of the most damning 7:12
testimony we've heard so far against 7:14 Diddy? Right. The key will be to show 7:18 the discrediting these witnesses, trying 7:22 to discredit the witnesses as much as 7:24 possible. So that's the type of 7:26 testimony that we're going to get. I 7:28 would I would say almost 100% that Shan 7:31 Combmes will not testify on his own 7:33 behalf, although he certainly has the 7:35 right to do that. But but we're going to
7:38 see witnesses that were there that will 7:40 discredit the testimony and also 7:43 discredit the the concept and the theory 7:46 of this RICO of this racketeering 7:48 conspiracy. You're going to have 7:50
witnesses testify. At least I'm 7:53 presuming that that these are all 7:56 separate individual acts. You know,
7:58 whether it was the drugs or the 8:00 prostitution, it's not part of a 8:02 criminal enterprise. This is not the 8:04 mafia that we're talking about. We're 8:06 talking about something that's not an 8:08 organized group and that although crimes 8:11 may have been committed, it's not being 8:13 committed uh pursuant to some sort of 8:16 racketeering. So, David, it sounds like 8:19 if Diddy was your client, you would in 8:21
no way put him up on the stand. And why 8:23 is that? What is the the damage and the 8:25 harm that he can do to his own case? 8:27 Absolutely not. I mean, just the the 8:30 amount of baggage that that the 8:32
cross-examination 8:34 would probably last 4 days of just 8:37 straight, you know, firing arrows at at 8:40 all the bad acts, although some of the 8:43 bad acts are probably are are precluded 8:46 from this trial, but just all the 8:48 domestic violence and and he he's not 8:51 going to have a good answer to any of 8:53 that. So, he needs to be kept off the 8:55 stand. the the the defense has to 8:58 challenge the the prosecution to meet 9:01 their burden approving each and every 9:03 element especially of the of this 9:04 racketeering conspiracy beyond a 9:07 reasonable doubt. I'm not sure that 9:09 they've tied up this package. So, if 9:11
they have the right jurors on this jury 9:13 that are going to look at this case 9:15 logically and challenged the prosecution 9:18 to their burden, that's easier said than 9:20 done, then they may have a shot at a 9:22
hung jury on some of these counts. And 9:24 Jasmine, today one of Diddy's sons, 9:26 Justin, was in court once again, as was 9:28 his mom and and also, I believe, his 9:30 godmother today. What can you glean from
9:32 the family members who have been 9:34 present? You know, the Sean has always 9:37 been very good about keeping his family 9:39 close. You know, uh that's that's the 9:41 kind of the duality of what we're seeing 9:43 with him. He was this family man, this 9:45 businessman, but he also had this dark 9:47 side. So, it's not shocking that his 9:48 sons particularly have been sticking it 9:50 out and coming to court even on Father's 9:53 Day. They all in unison posted messages, 9:55 the daughters as well as the sons. Um, 9:58 and they're showing a lot of support to 9:59 their father. His mother has been there 10:01 every day. He's even leaned over and 10:04 spoken to her uh a few times and been 10:06 able to communicate with her directly.
10:08 So, it's not shocking that he he's 10:10 always been very close to his children 10:12 and I feel like as the weeks go on and 10:14 the days go on in this trial, we will 10:16 see more and more of his family coming 10:18 out to support him. That we can count 10:20 on. All right, David Schwarz and Jasmine 10:22 Simpkins. Really great talking to you 10:23 both. We appreciate your perspective and 10:26 we thank you for joining us today.

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0:02 Another week of explosive testimony in 0:04 the Shaun Diddy Combmes federal sex 0:06 trafficking trial. Prosecutors calling 0:08 witnesses to try to corroborate Cassie 0:10 Ventura's testimony about abuse at the 0:13 hands of an often violent Diddy, a 0:16 former personal assistant going by the 0:18 name Mia, telling the jury about Diddy's 0:20 abuse of both Cassie and allegedly also 0:24 herself. It also corroborates Cassie 0:26 Ventur's testimony. We've heard from 0:28 several witnesses now that they've 0:30 personally seen that Combmes abused 0:34 Cassie. Today, Mia returning to the 0:36 stand as Diddy's defense team tries to 0:39 chip away at her testimony. 0:42 And witness after witness with bombshell 0:44 testimony this week and the Diddy trial. 0:47 Yeah. Joining us now to break it all 0:48 down is New York City trial attorney
0:50 David Schwarz and entertainment and 0:52 lifestyle reporter Jasmine Simpkins, who 0:54 has been covering the trial. Well, thank 0:57 you both for being here. David, let's go 0:59 let's go ahead and begin with you. What 1:01 are prosecutors trying to show with this 1:03 week's witnesses and basically former 1:06 staff members of Diddy's? Well, they're 1:08 trying to show that he's the most 1:10 horrible person in the entire world. 1:13 This is a despicable human being that's 1:15 involved with everything from just the 1:18 worst type of domestic abuse anyone can 1:22 imagine. He's involved with rape. He's 1:24 involved with just the the the horrible 1:27 sex acts. But the question 1:30 becomes, can they prove a racketeering 1:34 conspiracy case? That's the question. 1:36 They certainly have proven that he's a 1:38 horrible, despicable human being, but 1:41 I'm not sure they've made it there yet. 1:43 Well, David, a lot of people who are 1:45 courtroom observers who have been 1:46 reading the transcripts and those who 1:48 have been in the case in the courtroom 1:50 itself this week saw that around midweek 1:54 there was a pivot point where the 1:55 prosecutors started to prove their case 1:58 in the racketeering when they started 2:00 getting uh several different witnesses 2:01 on the stand. Did you not see that? 2:04 No, it's too loose right now. 2:06 Racketeering was meant for mob cases 2:09 where you had real connections between 2:12 parties, you know, committing uh acts in 2:15 furtherance of a crime which were part 2:17 of the whole racketeering scheme in the 2:20 first place. Here we have there's 2:23 certainly an enterprise there there 2:25 there is an organization. He certainly 2:28 has people doing things for him that are 2:31 criminal in nature. But the whole
2:34 conspiracy and whether or not this group 2:37 of people are working together uh to 2:40 form this criminal enterprise, I'm not 2:43 sure they've made it there yet. They've 2:45 certainly proven many underlying crimes 2:47 like rape and they've they've uh sexual 2:51 assault and abuse. Uh but I'm not sure
2:54 they've made it there yet. Uh the sex 2:56 trafficking is is certainly something 2:59 that they're close to proving and 3:01 certainly um bringing prostitutes over 3:04 state lines. That's something that they 3:06
have proven that crime. Jasmine, are you 3:10 there with us? Hi. Welcome. Hi. Let's 3:13 start with you. Um we're hearing from a 3:15 lot of former employees of Diddy this 3:18 week in court. Are you by any chance
3:21 surprised being that you've interviewed 3:22 Diddy many times that these people who 3:25 are making these claims and some who 3:27 have even said they've been sexually 3:28 assaulted by him then go on to work for 3:30 him for many years even up to eight 3:32 years. 3:34 Yeah, it's very shocking. Some of these
3:36 faces I've seen over the years. Uh 3:38 Capricorn Clark is someone who had 3:39 worked for him for a very very long 3:41 time. And so to hear her detail uh the 3:44 things that she went through during the 3:46
time that she worked for Diddy uh was 3:48 very shocking to be honest because she 3:50 always seemed like she was so excited. 3:53 Um always seemed like she was you know a 3:56 happy employee uh and and as the defense 4:00 pointed out continued to work for him 4:02 multiple times and they even showed 4:04
where she was asking to come back to be 4:07 employed. So if she was someone who was 4:09 so disgruntled, fearful, uh all the 4:12 things that she claimed, why she wanted 4:14 to continue to work for him. And so I 4:16 think we've been just as shocked hearing 4:18 these allegations from the stylist to 4:20 Mia who's also an assistant who's 4:22 testifying today. They said she'll be 4:24 back on Monday to finish her cross. So 4:26 very shocking to hear these allegations. 4:28 And Justin, you're very very immersed in 4:32 the entertainment world. What's the 4:33 scuttlebutt among the entertainment 4:36 industry folks that you're talking with 4:38 on any given day about how this trial is 4:42 developing and all the revelations that
4:44 we're learning from it? I think one of 4:46 the things that people have instantly 4:48 done, especially if they have a 4:49 celebrity status or if they know they've 4:51 attended a party of diddys or 4:53 acquaintance of his, they've tried their 4:55 best to distance themselves, especially 4:57 if they're asked by any of us 4:59 journalists. you know, over the last two 5:00 years it's come up. Have you been to a 5:02 freakoff? Have you been to a white 5:04 party? And a number of folks have said 5:06 no, they didn't know about this. I think 5:08 what we're realizing during this trial 5:10 is that this was some private behavior 5:12
that he had and only a circle of people 5:15 knew about um this dark underworld that 5:18 he was involved in and this lifestyle 5:20 that he was into. But a lot of his 5:23 friends and a lot of the people in the 5:24 entertainment industry, I think, are 5:26 just as shocked and just as tuned in to 5:28 this trial uh as all of us are, they're 5:31 interested to know, especially if 5:33 they've worked with him or have 5:34 partnered with him on projects. They're 5:36 trying to understand when was all of 5:38 this happening, you know, because you 5:40 would see him out and about working and 5:42 doing appearances. And while he seemed 5:45 like he was very serious and he was 5:46 about his work and we all know his black 5:49 excellence mantra, um I don't know that 5:51 anybody really knew that we were going 5:52 to be hearing about this type of 5:55 lifestyle to this degree. David, back to 5:57 you. Um especially today, we've been 6:00 hearing from Mia, the defense 6:02 cross-examining her, really trying to 6:04 show um kind of the opposite of what she 6:06 painted as far as Diddy on the stand, 6:09 accusing him of, you know, sexual 6:11 assault, abuse, and things like that. 6:13 but then going on to have make social 6:15 media posts that were very friendly 6:17 about him, referring to him as her best 6:19 friend. What do you think the defense's 6:21 strategy is with cross w with 6:23 crosswitnessing? Well, certainly the the 6:26 defense is consent, right? So, you know, 6:29 the these witnesses all consented to 6:33 this activity. They were part of it. 6:35 They were part and parcel with these
6:37 dark dark incidents and dark parties and 6:41 assault and and prostitution. Uh it was 6:44 a it was a very dark world and and all 6:47 the people that all the witnesses that 6:50 saw Ventura just being abused all these 6:53 years. Uh they were just bystanders 6:57 watching all of this happening. Yeah, 6:59 they're testifying now in court, but all 7:02 those years that they were just 7:03 bystanders watching this. So, I think
7:06 the tent was pretty wide open as to 7:08 people knowing of this behavior and 7:11 knowing what he was doing. But no police 7:13 reports were filed or else we would be 7:14 here on a rape case, right? We wouldn't
7:16 be here on an enterprise corruption 7:18 case, a racketeering conspiracy. 7:22 and and Jasmine, there were a couple of 7:24 names that got revealed during the 7:27 during the jury selection and it really 7:29
perked our interest. We heard Michael B. 7:31 Jordan. We heard Jay-Z when some 7:34 potential witnesses named those names 7:37 that were on a list. They weren't 7:38 supposed to at the time. This week, we 7:40
got a little bit of context to all of 7:42 that. Uh talk about that. So, Michael B. 7:46 Jordan specifically was someone whose 7:47 name came up. Uh, it came up during 7:49 testimony from Cassie. Um, she dropped
7:52 that bombshell that Diddy had accused 7:54 her at one point of starting up a 7:56 relationship with him, but she didn't 7:57 really go into detail. Deontay Nash, who 8:00 was her stylist, he explained that he 8:03
introduced Cassie to Michael B. Jordan 8:06 and that, you know, it was a lull in her 8:08 relationship with Diddy and thought that 8:09 the two of them should should hook up. 8:11 Interestingly enough, we were in in in 8:14 Los Angeles. We were in um in the 8:16 proximity of a party that did was 8:18 throwing in 2015 at Boa Steakhouse. It 8:21 was an afterparty for the BET Awards. 8:23 Michael B. Jordan is turned away. At the
8:26 time they told us that the party was at 8:28 capacity. A lot of paparazzi got photos 8:30 and videos and we were one of the people 8:32 that got that. And so a lot of the a lot 8:34 of the um uh details around some
8:37 interesting things that were happening 8:39 we're now getting more context to as 8:40 this trial is going on. Jay-Z obviously 8:43 is a great friend of of Shawn Combmes. 8:46 They've been friends for many, many
8:47 years growing up in New York City. So, 8:49 his name has come out, I think, because 8:50 a lot of people wonder, well, how much 8:52 did Jay know? You know, they seem like 8:54 they're confidants and they've been in 8:55 the music industry. Um, two highlevel 8:58 entertainers at this at in this uh 9:00 business. What does he know? Capricorn 9:03 brought his name up. Interesting indeed. 9:05 Get the backstory and all of that, 9:07 Jasmine, there. Thank you. Um, David, 9:09 really quickly, who won the week? Well, 9:12 again, innocent until proven guilty 9:14 beyond a reasonable doubt. So until the 9:16 prosecution does it, they they keep 9:19 losing the week, although they're 9:20 winning in the court of public opinion 9:22 and showing how horrible this

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0:01 escorts rappers and recording artists. 0:04 Explosive testimony this week in the sex 0:07 trafficking trial of Shaun Diddy 0:09 Combmes. Pix 11 talking exclusively to 0:12 an escort named the Punisher just after 0:15 testifying he wouldn't have taken part 0:17 in the freakoffs if he thought Diddy was 0:20 forcing his ex Cassie Ventura. I can't 0:23 say that any part of my experience gave 0:26 me any cues that this was a woman in 0:28 distress. more of a fetish type of 0:30 scenario. Cassy's mother also 0:32 testifying, saying Col threatened to 0:35 release sex tapes of her daughter if she 0:37 didn't pay him $20,000. 0:40 And prosecutors calling Diddy's former 0:42 assistants to the stand as they try to 0:44 paint the picture of Diddy running a 0:47 criminal enterprise. But will the jury 0:49 see it that way? If someone has their 0:51 staff aiding to bet them doing something 0:53 that makes them a racketeering 0:54 enterprise, negative does not. 0:58 And that was just some of the most 1:00 dramatic testimony this week in the 1:02 Shaun Diddy Combmes trial. Yeah, Pix 1:04 11's Anthony Dorenzo has been in court 1:06 all week with us. He joins us now. But 1:09 also joining us are New York City trial 1:10 attorney David Schwarz and entertainment 1:12 and lifestyle reporter Jasmine Simpkins 1:15 who has also been covering the trial. 1:17 Thank you all for being here. Anthony, 1:18 let's talk start with you. What's your 1:21 biggest takeaway from this week? Well, 1:23
there was such a mixed bag, but of 1:25 course, the kid cuddy testimony was what 1:27 everyone was talking about because he 1:29 really went to the racketeering element 1:31 of it. And one of the predicate acts 1:33
that you have to prove with uh the RICO 1:37 conspiracy is that there was arson 1:39 involved. So, he specifically talked 1:41 about when his vehicle was blown up uh 1:44 when he was dating Cassie back in 2011,
1:47 2012. He also talked about the threats 1:50 that were made. Uh he talked about 1:52 someone that they both knew mutually 1:54 that possibly was threatening Kid Cuddy. 1:57 And so he talked all about these things 1:59 that really talked really based on the 2:02 enterprise is what prosecutors are 2:05 trying to prove. Interesting. David, 2:07 let's talk to you a little bit about 2:09 this as far as the prosecution is 2:10 concerned. We're in week two. Still a 2:12 long way to go as far as this trial. Um, 2:14 but do you think the prosecution has
2:16 really landed with the charges here or 2:19 does this present itself as being very 2:21 much a domestic violence case? 2:24 Like you said, it's only week three of a 2:27 of an 8week trial, but as of this moment 2:29
in time, they have not proven any type 2:32 of enterprise existed. I'm sure we're 2:35 going to be hearing evidence later on in 2:37 the coming weeks about an enterprise, 2:39 but right now, you know, and and the
2:42 underlying acts that make up this this 2:44 corruption, you don't have to prove the 2:47 underlying acts. You just have to show 2:49 that there was an agreement amongst the 2:51 co-conspirators to commit the underlying 2:53 acts. So, as of this moment in time, I 2:56 don't see how the prosecution has proven 2:59
their case right now. Yeah, but it is 3:01 really, really early. Jasmine, to you, 3:02 we're so happy to have you. Um, you've 3:04 been covering entertainment for quite 3:05 some time right now. You've interviewed 3:07
Diddy and Cassie several times. Has this 3:11 trial so far given you some context to 3:13 some of your interactions with those 3:15 two? Oh my gosh, I love that you use 3:17 that word context because I remember 3:19 being in the courtroom last week hearing 3:22 Cassie's testimony and thinking to 3:24 myself, "Oh my goodness, I had no idea, 3:27 none of us had any idea what she was 3:29 going through during that time." But to 3:31 have interviewed her on March 4th, the 3:34 day before the viral video that we've 3:36 now seen in the Intercontinental Hotel, 3:38 to know that she was undergoing such a 3:40 dark, crazy time in her life whilst also 3:44 promoting a film. And then just a few 3:47 days later, I talked to her again on the 3:48 red carpet after the incident has 3:50 happened. And she's jovial. She's 3:53 laughing, but her entire body is covered 3:55 in like bronze, you know, um, looks like 3:58 she had gotten a a severe spray tan. And 4:01 I remember commenting to her, I was 4:02 like, "Gosh, you look like a blond a 4:04 bombshell, this bronze bombshell, 4:06 because I had just seen her days 4:08 earlier." So, just little nuggets like 4:10
that over the years, speaking with Shawn 4:12 numerous times, not knowing that this is 4:15 a man that has created this amazing 4:17 enterprise. So much much great music has 4:20 come out of Bad Boy. I mean, he coined 4:21 this term black excellence. To know that 4:24 behind the scenes, behind this huge 4:27 empire and all the great things that he 4:28 had been doing, that he was living this 4:31 dark, very demented almost um lifestyle. 4:35 It just made me wonder what is going on 4:37 in the underbelly of Hollywood and we 4:38
think we know these celebrities and 4:40 what's going on and we have no they 4:42 focused a lot of time on that testimony 4:45 surrounding the Intercontinental Hotel 4:47 incident and the defense really was 4:51
picking apart Cassie at that moment 4:53 because they were bringing up her text 4:54 messages to Shawn Combmes around that 4:56 time where she was the one who wanted to 4:59 freak off. They said she was the one who 5:02 inspired that Intercontinental Hotel 5:04 stay. Uh when ultimately she was then 5:08 trying to flee from it because he had 5:10 found something out. She was trying to 5:13 leave that situation. But this was a 5:15 period when her movie was about to come 5:17 out. She was on the red carpet when she 5:19 was being interviewed uh just there. And 5:21 she told Shawn, you know, I really want 5:24 this to be a really special time in my 5:26 life. I want to make sure that all of 5:28 this is going to go perfectly. And she 5:31 said the reason why she wanted to freak 5:33 off was to satisfy him so that she 5:36 didn't have any problems surrounding 5:37 that premiere. But ultimately, you can 5:40 see how volatile the relationship was 5:42 because they still did have a major 5:45 incident where she had to cover herself 5:46 up and make up. Yeah, understandable. 5:48 Okay, David, we want to get back to you 5:50 and some of these witnesses. We know
5:51 that the defense did not even question 5:52 Cassie's mom, but do you feel that there 5:54 are any witnesses that we've seen so far 5:56 that have kind of benefited either the 5:58 prosecution or the defense?
6:01 Well, you know, as to the arson, you 6:04 know, the arson really fell flat because 6:06 the there was no proof at all that shown 6:09 that Shawn Combmes actually committed 6:11 the arson, which is certainly one of the 6:13 underlying crimes that they're trying to 6:16 show. And again, they don't have to 6:17 prove the underlying crimes, but that 6:20 they still have to make a showing that 6:22 there was an agreement to commit this 6:23 underlying crime. So, a couple of 6:25 problems there. Number one, you don't 6:27 know if Shawn Combmes committed the 6:29 arson. And number two, who did he have 6:31 the agreement with to commit this arson? 6:34 Remember, this is an enterprise. This is 6:36 this is a criminal enterprise that 6:38
they're trying to prove. And right now, 6:41 the you know, it's it's falling flat at 6:44 this moment in time. That's not to say 6:46 that there'll be more evidence in the 6:48 coming weeks. And Jasmine, you, as I 6:50
mentioned, you've been covering 6:50 entertainment for quite a bit out there 6:53 in Los Angeles. What go back to what you 6:56 were um leading to. What does this case 6:59 tell you about the greater entertainment 7:01 industry? 7:03 As I was saying, I think it really makes 7:04 us question a lot of us journalists. We 7:06 think we know these celebrities that we 7:08 talk to day in and day out and we really 7:10
have no idea what's going on behind the 7:12 scenes. What other lives they're 7:14 leading? Are they living these dual 7:16 lives like Shawn Combmes? Are there 7:18 people on their staff, people that are 7:20 working with them that are helping them 7:22 cover up um this other personality, this 7:25 other side of their life that in some 7:27 ways and and what we're finding with him 7:29 was extremely criminal. Um and in the 7:32 coming weeks, I think we're going to 7:33 finally hear from some of those folks. I 7:34 mean they brought up his chief of staff 7:37 assistant Christina Cororum DRock who 7:39 was with him for a very very long time 7:40 as his security. I've seen him with 7:42 DRock for many years. You kind of over 7:44 the last 10 years have seen some of the 7:46 same faces working around him. So I 7:48 think as this trial unfolds, we'll also 7:50 get a chance to to hear from them and 7:52 find out what the heck has been going 7:54 on. 7:55 So, we're talking about this Enterprise 7:58 and they've been calling witnesses up to 8:00 the to the stand that worked for Diddy 8:02 and we're going to continue to see that 8:04 next week. The Enterprise, of course, 8:05 people who worked under him. And we 8:07 heard from two assistants this past week 8:09 who were allegedly committing crimes 8:12 while they were working for Diddy, which 8:14 is why one of them was said he wasn't 8:16 going to testify unless that he was 8:18 guaranteed immunity. Oh, wow. Because he 8:21 was carrying large sums of cash. He was 8:24 buying drugs for Diddy. Uh, and he was 8:27 sitting idly by as these violent acts 8:30 went on. So, he said he was going to 8:32 plead the fifth unless the judge granted 8:35 him immunity and that's what happened. 8:36 Take us inside the courtroom. What is it 8:38 like? What does it feel like? How quiet 8:40 is it? Do you get to see the jurors at 8:42 all? Yeah, I see the jurors and playing. 8:45
So, they it depends. I think one of the 8:48 most interesting things was at the end 8:50 of Cassie's testimony, they all started 8:51 to seem really bored. The all the energy 8:54 kind of really feel felt like it was 8:56 sucked out of the room at that point. 8:57 She was on the stand for a combined 24 9:00 hours, I counted. So, even she was 9:03 feeling the weight of all of this 9:04 testimony, but they seemed to kind of 9:06 want to move on from that. Uh they had 9:09 some moments of levity when Kid Cuddy 9:11 was on the stand yesterday uh when he 9:13 was talking about his interaction with 9:15 Shawn on the phone and the the colorful 9:18 language that he used with him. Uh at 9:20 one point he called him that Marvel 9:22 super villain and they they broke out 9:24 into laughter. But Diddy is very very 9:27 much an active defendant. He is working 9:30
with his attorneys all the time, 9:32 speaking with them, passing them notes. 9:34 So he's he's very much involved. All 9:36 right. Uh David to you who won the week. 9:41 The defense won the week because of the
9:43 presumption of innocence and and the 9:46 prosecution has to prove guilt beyond a 9:48 reasonable doubt. And I think everything 9:50 right now is falling a little flat. 9:52 Certainly they proved a domestic 9:54
violence case. They pro they proved that 9:57 he has done horrible things and vicious 10:00 attacks. But that's not what this case 10:02 is about. This case is about this 10:04 criminal enterprise, which the statue
10:07 was basically made when it when trying 10:09 to prosecute the mafia way back when. 10:12 And the fact that he put together this 10:14 enterprise, I just don't see it yet. 10:17 Jasmine, before we let you go, there's 10:19 kind of been this unspoken rule in the 10:21 entertainment industry that you don't 10:23 talk badly about Diddy. Do you think 10:25 after this trial that changes for many 10:27 people? Oh god. Yeah. And I think little 10:29 by little you're you're starting to see 10:31 people distance themselves or at least 10:33
come out and say, "Hey, listen. I've 10:35 never been to a Diddy party. I've never 10:36 seen these things. I didn't experience a 10:38 freakoff." I think people really really 10:40 because I mean, you've had everyone from 10:42 Marthur Stewart to Donald Trump to Oprah 10:44 and and and all kinds of folks in 10:46 between who have been at these white 10:47 parties. I mean, he kind of put the 10:49 Hampton's on the map in terms of the 10:50 hip-hop culture at one point in time. 10:52 So, he's touched so many parts of the 10:54 entertainment industry and had so many10:56 friends that I I feel like even more 10:59 people are going to be making sure as 11:00 more things come out in this trial that 11:02 they distance themselves from him. All
11:04 right, Jasmine and David, thank you so 11:06 much. And we'll be right back with more 11:08 of our coverage of Diddy's trial. Yeah. 11:11 Up next, a look at what's happening in 11:13 court next week. Anthony will be with 11:15 us.

NY Criminal Defense Attorney David Schwartz ⁨@PIX11News⁩ Talking About Diddy's Trafficking Trial

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0:00 I don't know if mayor Adams is innocent 0:01 or guilty but in my view it's better for 0:04 him to walk free than permit the system 0:07 to bribe him with impunity now I want to 0:09 open up this discussion with my good 0:11 friends and esteemed lawyers Doug Burns 0:14 and David Schwarz David to you first is 0:18 this a bribe to the mayor it's not a 0:21 bribe judge you know I I agree with the 0:23 general premise that you laid out that 0:25 there is something wrong with a with a 0:27 Criminal Justice System where if the 0:31 defendant can do something for the 0:33 prosecution their case could be 0:34 dismissed but this is normal course of 0:36 business okay so deals are made all the 0:40 time in in federal court and this 0:44 situation is not a bribe it actually is 0:47 trying to undo a faulty case in the 0:50 first place of taking a couple of 0:52 upgrades on flights so so and other 0:55 things which I know we don't want to get 0:56 into here we we'll get into some of the 0:58 details after the break but I I have to 1:01 I have to get to Doug I know you don't 1:02
want to do this make the argument that 1:05 this is a bribe that there is a quid pro 1:08 quo councelor Burns well I'm very 1:10 familiar with your writings on this 1:12 topic and we have discussed before judge 1:15 that there was a Colarado case where a 1:17 judge determined that when prosecutors 1:20 make a deal with a cooperating 1:22 testifying defendant it's a bribe and 1:24 you know the argument obviously um 1:27 putting aside whether I agree with it or 1:29 not is that of course you're offering 1:31 something of value uh to coers a person 1:34 to behave in a certain way so it matches 1:36 up like a bribery thing here what's 1:39 worse though it's really not about the 1:41 bribery and it's not about the without 1:43 prejudice forget that because cases are 1:45 always dismissed without prejudice the 1:46 problem is in the memo of February 10th 1:49
they say we're going to re-evaluate the 1:51 case after the mayoral election that's 1:54 crazy because that makes it as you've 1:56 described it judge and I've been 1:57 watching you obviously a sort of Amic is 2:00 over his head right right hang on guys 2:02 we need to take a quick break don't go 2:04 anywhere we're going to continue this 2:06 conversation on how a bribery case 2:08 appears to be influenced by another 2:10 bribe right here when the freedom file 2:12 returns 2:14 [Music] 2:18 [Applause] 2:19 [Music]

NY Trial Attorney David Schwartz Talking about NYC Mayor Eric Adams & Potential Bribes @NewsmaxTV ‪@judgingfreedom‬

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0:00[Music] 0:07 welcome back to the freedom file I'm 0:08 joined once again by civil and criminal 0:11 defense attorney David Schwarz and 0:12 former Federal prosecutor Doug Burns 0:15 both longtime colleagues and friends of 0:17 mine I want to get into the uh legal 0:20 maneuvering in the mayor Adams bribery 0:22 case David to you first in an 0:25 unusual U clause in the New York state 0:29 constitution the governor of New York 0:32 can remove the mayor if she believes he 0:34 can no longer exercise his duties the 0:36 city Charter provides for the same thing 0:40 if the May if the governor believes that 0:43 the mayor is no longer free to exercise 0:46 his judgment but is only exercising in 0:49 in a way that he wants that he thinks 0:51 the feds want him to so they don't 0:53 regenerate the prosecution should she 0:56 remove him if she comes down to that uh 1:00 conclusion which I think is a faulty 1:02 conclusion in the first place she would 1:04 have every right to remove him but 1:05 removing him doesn't mean just pressing 1:07
a button judge and removing removing 1:10 there's due process so she could make 1:12 that decision and then the mayor would 1:15 have 30 days uh uh to defend that his 1:19 position and they would have an a 1:20
hearing on that and then 30 days she 1:22 would decide whether or not it's 1:24 permanent removal or not I think that 1:27 would be a ridiculous move on the 1:28 governor's part you know uh Doug 1:30 the there's due process and there's due 1:32 process this is a weird weird system 1:34 here in this hearing that David just so 1:37 nicely described the governor would be 1:40 both the judge and the prosecutor this 1:43 is ridiculous it's happened once before 1:46 with Franklin delanor Roosevelt and 1:48 Jimmy Walker that never even got to the 1:50 hearing uh to the hearing stage but if 1:53 she believes that his judgment is not is 1:57 is not impaired but is regulated by fear 2:00 of the feds shouldn't she do something 2:02 about it yeah but I think this one I 2:05 don't I predict confidently she won't do 2:08 that um because I don't think it rises 2:10 to the level of the Jimmy Walker 2:12 situation you know I watched you the 2:13 other day explaining it was a great
2:15 history lesson about the Jimmy Walker 2:17 and then he resigned mayor Walker but 2:19 the conduct was far far more serious 2:21 this thing again it's a mixed bag uh 2:24 real quick which is that it sounds like 2:26 you know they're hanging it over his 2:28 head but the converse argument is 2:30 they're just asking him to do that which 2:31 he's supposed to do anyway so it's 2:33 really the classic R Shack test okay 2:36 left is going to see it their way 2:38 right's going to see it their way and 2:39 that's very unfortunate in a criminal
2:41 case that should not be the case I wish 2:43 we could keep politics out of a criminal 2:46 case as I as I mentioned and I think you 2:47 both agree with me you're both 2:49 experienced criminal prosecutors and
2:51 defense lawyers when when when politics 2:54 enters the case it it often produces a 2:57 political result which is not not NE 2:59 necessarily consistent with right or 3:01 wrong uh or guilt uh and and innocence 3:05 back to uh judge hoe who's the 3:08 relatively new Biden appointed federal 3:11 judge in lower Manhattan uh who for 3:13 better for worse has this uh on his desk 3:16 should he have put should he have
3:18 brought all the lawyers in the courtroom 3:21 if it were me I would have had Danielle 3:23 Sassoon there and say why did you resign 3:25 what is wrong what did they want you to 3:26 do that you think was wrong how strong 3:28 is this case he didn't do that David no 3:31 no he didn't do that I I don't think you 3:33 know for the first hearing on this that 3:35 that should have been done certainly the 3:37 judge can do that at a later hearing if 3:39 the judge wants to inquire more into it 3:41 but like Doug laid out earlier the the 3:44
judge the prosecution has has wide 3:47 discretion to dismiss any case that they 3:50 want and ultimately this case will be 3:53 dismissed and even if though it's 3:55 dismissed without prejudice there is a 3:57 99.999 3:59 percent chance this case will never see 4:01 the light of day ever again let me uh 4:05 suggest the 4:06 unthinkable judge hoe appoints a retired 4:10 federal judge or retired prosecutor as a 4:13 special SL private attorney general to 4:16 prosecute the case douge what happens 4:19 yeah no that could happen but I think 4:20 the odds are very very low on that no an 4:23 independent counsel by analogy in a 4:25 state you know in that situation in 4:27 federal court and then they do the case 4:29 but I don't think it happen back to 4:31 David's point he's so right 39 years 4:33 just quick Point I've never seen a case 4:35 dismissed without prejudice come back 4:36 not once David have you ever seen a 4:38 private attorney general appointed by 4:40 the court because the feds or even the 4:43 local da didn't want to prosecute the 4:45
case but the court thought it should 4:46 have been prosecuted I've never seen it 4:48 maybe Doug has seen it but I've I've 4:51 never seen it in my career judge yeah I 4:53 I I saw it in another courtroom when I 4:56 was on the bench I didn't do it uh 4:59 myself this situation never confronted 5:01 me uh I think that the second circuit 5:04 would uh reverse judge hoe If he did 5:06 that douge what do you think no I agree 5:08 I don't think it's warranted I think it 5:09 would be reversed judge ho you know one 5:12 last thing it's interesting rule 48 of 5:14 the rules was changed and you needed 5:16 leave of court to dismiss so in a 5:18
political case the judge doesn't want 5:20 any part of having to be the one who 5:23 dismissed it you see what I mean but 5:26 doesn't the judge not want his court 5:29 room to be used for a political purpose 5:33
saving the meraly of this wounded Eric 5:37 Adams David yeah like Doug said before 5:40 politics should play no role a court 5:42 should be a laboratory where it's only 5:44 the evidence before the court that rules
5:46 the day gentlemen it's a pleasure thank 5:48 you very much I have thoroughly enjoyed 5:50 this conversation we'll have you back 5:52 again soon that is my show this week 5:55 special thanks to Doug Burns and David 5:57 Schwarz thank you for watching the 5:59 freedom file we will see you next week 6:01
have a great weekend 6:03 [Music] 6:14 [Applause] 6:14 [Music] 6:21 [Applause] 6:22 [Music]

NY Trial Attorney David Schwartz @NewsmaxTV Talking About If The NY Governor Remove NY Mayor Adams ‪@judgingfreedom‬

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0:00[Music] 0:06 welcome back to the freedom file once 0:08 again I'm here with former Federal 0:09 prosecutor Doug Burns and civil and 0:11 criminal defense attorney David Schwarz 0:13 I want to get right back to the 0:15 conversation we're having about bribery 0:17 in the case against mayor Adams Doug uh 0:19 to you first uh this time why is it that 0:23 prosecutors can offer something of value 0:26 to a witness to tailor the witness's 0:29 test testimony and if anybody else did 0:32 that like defense counsel he'd be 0:34
indicted for witness tampering well it's 0:36 the word tailor which has a little bit 0:38 of room to argue in but you've been 0:41 through this you know it's tailoring 0:43 course of course but the fact of the 0:44 matter is um they make the lame argument 0:48 oh no no no all we're doing is offering 0:50 you some leniency in return for the 0:52 truth and of course I'm smiling because 0:55 who determines what the truth is when 0:57
you're sitting in that conference room 0:59 so you're right 1:00 I mean of course I mean the prosecutor 1:02
wants to hear what they want to hear 1:04 they want to hear inculpatory 1:06 information against the bigger player in 1:08 the case if they don't hear that all of 1:10 a sudden they're not going to be lenient 1:12 if they start hearing that then they're 1:14 happy and they will be lenient so I 1:16 don't disagree with your scholarship 1:18 your writing about this bribery concept 1:20 but at the same time the criminal 1:22 justice system would just completely 1:23 fall on its face David this is another 1:25 sort of damle situation is it not where 1:29 the prose utor holds the sort of dles 1:32 over the witness's head if you testify 1:35 the way we want we don't prosecute you 1:37 or we enter into a a lame plea agreement 1:40 but if the words don't come out of your 1:42 mouth that we like we go back to 1:45 Prosecuting You full boore if you made a 1:48 threat like that or an offer like that 1:50 to a witness the government would come 1:52 after you right right so as a former 1:54 prosecutor that the the scenario you 1:56 laid out judge is a bad prosecutor you 1:59 know sometimes there are meritorious 2:01 situations where you need a cooperating 2:04 witness when you have a felony murder 2:07 and you you you you take the driver of 2:09 that murder and you you get them to 2:11
testify truthfully truthfully as to what 2:14 they saw what they heard in that in that 2:16 sitation but truthfully means whatever 2:18 the prosecutor wants to hear in in in a 2:21 lot of cases but I know when I was a 2:23
prosecutor when Doug was a prosecutor 2:25 you you're interviewing a defendant and 2:27 they tell you their whole story and then 2:29 you say okay we're going to make you 2:31 into a cooperating witness to take down 2:33 the other two defendants that's a 2:35 meritorious situation and that happens 2:37 most of the time what you laid out is is 2:41 a a situation in reality that does 2:44 happen and that's unfortunate judge yeah 2:47 um Doug let's get back to Mayor Adams is 2:50 there a sort of damle hanging over his 2:52 head right now as we speak there is 2:55 because of this language in the memo 2:58 that I held up saying we're going to 3:00 re-evaluate this case after the mayor 3:02 election that was never should have been 3:04 put in that memo if you take that out 3:07 and it's just oh it's without prejudice 3:10 To The World At Large yeah it seems that 3:13 way but honestly all cases are dismissed 3:15 that way so it's really not this is why 3:17 politics and law don't mix judge I've 3:19 said that a million times right right uh 3:22 David how bad does it look when seven 3:25 prosecutors ordered to do something by 3:28 Washington each refused to do it and
3:31 resign and in the case of several of 3:33 them I only know them by reputation 3:35 their reputations are extraordinary and 3:38 excellent one of them so good Danielle 3:40 Sassoon she was just made the temporary 3:43 head of the office by none other than 3:44 Donald Trump himself well first of all 3:47 It's Not Unusual that prosecutors resign 3:49 but in this particular case these 3:52 prosecutors were Prosecuting a case 3:54 which I believe they were forced to 3:56 prosecute in the first place because no 3:58 prosecutor in their right mind would 4:01 would prosecute a case like this against 4:04 mayor Adams for the allegations that 4:06 were contained in that indictment so 4:08 what was trying to be done is to really 4:10 using the wrong way to undo a wrong in 4:13 the first place obviously it's a blow to 4:15 the justice department where you have 4:17 good line prosecutors resigning from 4:19 their job but you know what there's a 4:21 lot of lawyers out there there'll be new 4:23 lawyers to take their jobs Doug should 4:25 the court go along with this or should 4:27 the court say I'm not going to have 4:28 anything to do with these a political 4:30 Shenanigans I'm going to dismiss it with 4:32 Pro with prejudice yeah well that you 4:34 know there's a huge conundrum which is 4:36 the judge has the right legally to 4:38 inquire into whether he or she thinks 4:41
that the deal was improper but it leaves 4:43 them nowhere they can't force the 4:45 government to do the case so to your 4:48 point the judge is going to say because 4:50 technically uh be a little bit of a nerd 4:53
in the weeds I don't think technically 4:54 the judge can direct the dismissal that 4:57 way it's up to the prosecutors judge 4:58 should say guys 5:00 you should seriously consider dismissing 5:02 this with prejudice let's take a 5:04 10-minute break we'll come back you tell 5:05 me what you want to do we're going to 5:07 take a two-minute break and when when we 5:09 come back we will delve even more deeply 5:13 uh into all of this when the freedom 5:15 file returns 5:19 [Music]

NY Trial Attorney David Schwartz @NewsmaxTV Talking About NYC Mayor Adam's Corruption Case @judgingfreedom

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NY Trial Attorney David Schwartz @PIX11News Talking About NYC Mayor Adams Trial

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0:01 WHAT'S NEXT FOR MAYOR ADAMS. 0:03 LET'S GO TO OUR PANEL. JESSE 0:05 WEBER, EWSNATION, LEGAL 0:06 CONTRIBUTOR AND LAW CRIME 0:07 NETWORK COAST. AND DAVID 0:09
SCHWARTZ, A CRIMINAL DEFENSE 0:09 ATTORNEY WHO WAS KNOWN MAYOR 0:10 ADAMS FOR A LONG TIME. OK, 0:12 BEFORE WE GET TO THIS, JESSE, 0:14 EXPLAIN ANYBODY LIVING OUTSIDE 0:15
NEW YORK CITY SHOULD CARE 0:17 ABOUT THIS STORY. THIS IS A 0:18 MUCH LARGER ISSUE THAN A
0:20 POLITICIAN ACCUSED OF 0:20 CORRUPTION. WHAT YOU HAVE IS 0:21 THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 0:24 TELLING LOCAL PROSECUTORS TO 0:25 DROP THE CASE. NOT BECAUSE OF 0:25 THEE SUBSTNCE NOT BECAUSE OF 0:26 THE MERITS, NOT BECAUSE 0:27 THERE'S A CHANGE IN LAW. 0:28
>> BUT ARGUABLY FOR POLITICAL 0:29 PURPOSES AND AT THE VERY LEAST 0:32 WHY? BECAUSE THE MAYOR'S JOB 0:33 IS TOO IMPORTANT. HE CAN'T 0:35 LEAVE. HE CAN'T BE PROSECUTED 0:37 FOR WHAT IS A LEGITIMATE CASE. 0:38 I DO MEAN A CASE THAT THE 0:38 PROSECUTORS WERE GOING TO WIN, 0:40 BUT A LEGITIMATE CAS SO I 0:41 THINK THE SAME CONCERNS THAT 0:42 PEOPLE HAVE WITH PREEMPTIVE 0:43 PARDONS OR EVEN THE PEOPLE WHO 0:45 SAY I THINK THE DOJ WAS 0:47
WEAPONIZED AGAINST DONALD 0:48 TRUMP AND HIS PROSECUTIONS. IF 0:49 YOU A CONCERNED ABOUT 0:50 POLITICIZE IT IS ASIAN OF THE 0:52 LEGAL SYSTEM. THIS IS TOTALLY 0:54 IN LINE WITH SHOULD CONCERN 0:56 YOU AS WELL. YES, THIS COULD 0:58 HAPPEN. WHEN HE'S THE MAYOR OF
0:59 ONE OF THE LARGEST CITIES IN 1:01 ME OR JUST HIT IT EXACTLY. AND 1:02 ALSO WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT 1:03 THAT, AGAIN, THE IDEAS SO THAT 1:06 WITH THE PRESIDENT'S POLITICAL 1:08
AGENDA AGENDA REGARDING 1:08 IMMIGRATION. WHAT PRECEDENT 1:11 DOES THAT SET MOVING FORWARD? 1:11 NOT ONLY FOR THIS 1:12 ADMINISTRATION BUT ONCE DOWN 1:14 THE ROAD. I THINK, DAVID, WHAT 1:15 HAS A LOT OF PEOPLE CONCERNED 1:16 IS THAT THE CHARGES WERE 1:19 DISMISSED PERMANENTLY. THEY'RE 1:20 JUST BASICALLY PUT ON HOLD. WE 1:22 CAN BRING THEM BACK ANY TIME. 1:23 THE DOJ SAYS. 1:26 >> ANY TIME, MEANING THAT YOU 1:27 DON'T COOPERATE WITH TRUMP'S 1:30 IMMIGRATION AGENDA, THAT 1:31 THAT'S NOT WHAT IT MEANS. AND 1:32 IT WAS A VERY SELECTIVE 1:33 PROSECUTION TO START OFF WITH. 1:35 >> ANYONE I SPEAK TO, 1:38 INCLUDING MYSELF, THEY CAN'T, 1:39 THE CASE WAS RIDICULOUS. IT 1:40 WAS IT WAS SELECTIVE 1:43
PROSECUTION AND THEY COULD 1:45 HAVE BROUGHT THAT CASE AGAINST 1:46 ANY ELECTED. WE'RE NOT TALKING 1:48 THOUGH, THAT. SO IT'S OF THE 1:48 CASE BECAUSE THE DOJ NEVER 1:50 TALKED ABOUT THE MERITS OF THE 1:51 CASE. THAT'S NOT AT ISSUE 1:52 HERE. WHAT'S AT ISSUE HERE IS 1:53
PA'S THE CASE. 1:55 >> SO THAT MAYOR ADAMS CAN 1:56 COOK AND I'M QUOTING EMIL BOVE 1:59 NOT ONLY RUN THE CITY AND HELP 2:00 WITH IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT 2:03 BUT CAMPAIGN FOR RE-ELECTION 2:04 SINCE WHEN DOES THE TRUMP DOJ 2:06 CARE ABOUT THEIR NOT BRING IN 2:07
THE CASE AGAIN, OK, LET'S SET 2:09 THAT STRAIGHT. THERE'S A 99.0. 2:12 9, 9%, CHANCE THIS CASE IS
2:12 GOING TO BE DISMISSED FOREVER. 2:15 AND IT'S GOING TO BE DISMISSED 2:16 FOREVER BECAUSE IT'S AN 2:18 UNWINNABLE CASE. LIKE JESSE 2:21 ALLUDED TO. SO SO THIS CASE IS 2:22 OVER. THE MAYOR CAN NOW RUN 2:24 THE CITY. AND I THINK DID DID 2:25 THE RIGHT THING TODAY AND HE 2:27 LAID OUT SOME REAL REASONS WHY 2:29 THE CASE SHOULD BE DISMISSED 2:30 WITHOUT PREJUDICE 2:33 >> I MEAN, NO, I DON'T KNOW IF 2:34 I CAN AGREE WITH THAT. LUCKY 2:36
FOR SAID THAT THE FORMER 2:37 UNITED STATES ATTORNEEY DAMIAN 2:39 WILLIAMS. 2:40 >> POLITICIZE ME MADE TOO MUCH 2:41 PRETRIAL PUBLICITY. HE HELD A 2:42 PRESS CONFERENCE WITH
2:44 PROSECUTOR HAS ANOTHER PRESS 2:45 CONFERENCE AND EVERY PROSECUTE 2:46 AND ALSO THE IDEA AGAIN, IT 2:47 WAS SAME THING THAT WE SAW IN 2:47 THE IMMUNITY ARGUMENT WITH 2:48
DONALD TRUMP THAT THE 2:51 PRESIDENT'S JOB IS TOO 2:51 IMPORTANT THAT HE CAN'T HAVE 2:52
AN INDICTMENT LOOMING OVER HIS 2:53 HEAD. THE SAME THING THAT YOU 2:54 CAN HAVE AN INDICTMENT LOOMING 2:56 OVER THE MAYOR'S HAD THAT. BY 2:57 THE WAY, THE MAYOR WAS ASKED
2:58 ABOUT THIS. WAS THERE QUID PRO 2:59 QUO, RIGHT? HE HAD A PRIVATE 3:00 MEETING. HE AND THE MEAL, 3:01 THOUGH THEY WERE ASKED POINT 3:03 BLANK UNDER OATH IS WAS THERE 3:04 A QUID PRO QUO? AND THEY BOTH 3:06 SAID NOW NOW NOW TO BE 3:06 DIFFICULT FOR A JUDGE TO SAY 3:07 THEY'RE NOT TELLING THE TRUTH 3:08 ABOUT WHAT DO WE KNOW? WE DO 3:10 WE KNOW. THERE WAS A MEETING. 3:10 WE KNOW THEY ASKED HIM 3:12 QUESTIONS ABOUT IS THE 3:12 INDICTMENT AFFECTING YOUR 3:13 ABILITY TO DO THE JOB? HE SAID 3:14 YES. I THINK PEOPLE LOOK AT 3:17 THAT AND SAY WAS THE 3:18 SUGGESTION IF THE INDICTMENTS 3:20 THAT THERE CAN YOU DO YOUR JOB 3:21 TO WRITE RACIAL LOOKING AT IS 3:23 COMPLETE SPECULATION. YOU 3:25 CAN'T USE SPECULATION AND 3:26 GUESSWORK TO ASSUME THAT 3:28 SOMEHOW THERE'S A QUID PRO 3:30
QUO. NOT IT'S NOT SPECULATION. 3:31 IT'S COMPLETE. SPECULATE HOLD 3:33 ON ONE OF THE PROSECUTORS, 3:34 RIGHT WHO RESIGNED TURNED IN 3:38 AN 8 PAGE SINGLE-SPACED LETTER 3:39
OUTLINING MEETINGS THAT SHE 3:41 SAT IN. 3:41 >> ON BETWEEN EMIL BOVE A AND 3:45 MAYOR ADAMS LAWYERS IN WHICH 3:47 THEY DISCUSSED EXACTLY READ, 3:48 QUOTE, A QUID PRO AND AFTER 3:51 WHICH EMIL BOVE A ASKED FOR 3:52 THEM ALL. GIVE ME YOUR NOTES. 3:54 YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO TAKE ANY 3:54 OF YOUR NOTES OUTSIDE. SO IT'S 3:58 NOT SPECULATE. ALL THEY BOTH
3:59 WENT TO PROSECUTORS INVOLVED 4:00 IN THE CASE WHO WAS THERE FOR 4:01 THE MEETING. THEY TESTED IN 4:02 COURT TODAY AND SWEAR TO TELL 4:05 THE TRUTH THAT THEY THERE WAS
4:06 NO QUID PRO QUO HERE. SO, 4:08 >> YOU KNOW, THIS SOUR GRAPES 4:10 OVER NOT BEING ABLE TO 4:13 PROSECUTE THE CASE AND LEAVING 4:14 THE JOB, THEN THEN SO BE IT. 4:15 BUT THIS IS NOT THIS IS THIS 4:18 WAS THE RIGHT DECISION. IS 4:21 STARTING BASE. WELL, THAT 4:22 WASN'T YOU'RE RIGHT BECAUSE 4:23 THE JUDGE IS STILL GOING TO 4:27 SPEAK. KNOW HAD I WAS THERE 4:29 YOU SEEM CONFIDENT THAT THE 4:30 CASE IS GOING OUT THERE I 4:30 CAN'T SAY THAT BECAUSE THIS IS 4:32 KIND OF RARE WHAT WE'RE 4:33 SEEING. AND I THINK WHAT YOU 4:34 SAW FROM THE QUESTIONING FROM 4:35 THE JUDGES HAVE HE ASKED ME I 4:37 MEAN, HAVE YOU SEEN A CASE 4:40 BEFORE WHERE THE DEPARTMENT OF 4:40 JUSTICE IS ASKED TO DISMISS A 4:41 CASE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY 4:42 PURPOSES? AND SAID NOW I THINK 4:44 THERE'S A STRONG ARGUMENT HERE 4:45 THAT THE JUDGE IS GOING TO GO 4:46 BACK. LOOK AT PRIOR DECISIONS 4:48 WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 4:49 IS ASKED TO DISMISS THE CASE 4:49 MAY BE AGAINST AN ELECTED 4:51 OFFICIAL. AND THERE'S ONE 4:52 THING THAT THE JUDGE CAN ORDER 4:54 IS A SEARCHING INQUIRY. A 4:55 FURTHER INVESTIGATION ALSO 4:56 APPOINT AN INDEPENDENT 4:57 PROSECUTOR TO LOOK OVER THIS. 4:59 NOW, THERE'S ALSO A CASE THAT 4:59 HE COULD SAY I'M JUST, YOU 5:00
KNOW, LOOK, GENERALLY 5:02 SPEAKING, JUDGES ARNOTT'S 5:03 PUBLISHED A DEFERRED, A 5:04
PROSECUTOR OUT. BUT THIS IS A 5:06 UNIQUE SITUATION I JUST DON'T 5:07 UNDERSTAND. THE ARGUMENT SEEMS 5:09 TO 5:23 BE THAT IF YOU'RE ANY SORT 5:24 OF ELECTED OFFICIAL AND YOU
5:25 GET INDICTED FOR A CRIME, YOU 5:26 CAN'T BE TRIED BECAUSE WOULD 5:26 DISTRACTING AND TRY AND DO 5:27 YOUR JOB THAT'S WRITING. HAVE 5:28 PLENTY OF EXAM. WE AN END AS 5:29 WE COULD GO TO A WEEK AGO ON A 5:29 LONG LIST OF EXAMPLES OF PRICE 5:30 OF ELECTED OFFICIALS WHO HAVE 5:31 BEEN INDICTED AND CONVICTED 5:31 AND HAVE GONE TO JAIL. I'M NOT 5:32 TALKING ABOUT WHAT ACTUALLY 5:33 HAS HAPPENED. I'M TALKING 5:33 ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT'S 5:34
ARGUMENT HERE ABOUT WHY THE 5:35 CASE SHOULD NOT HAPPEN. 5:35 >> AND I'LL SAY, LOOK, THE
5:36 OTHER ARGUMENT IS WHEN'S THIS 5:39 ELECTION NEXT MONTH, RIGHT? 5:39 IT'S VERY DIFFERENT THAN WHEN 5:40 WE TALKED ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT 5:41 OF JUSTICE HAS A LEGAL 5:42 COUNCILMAN MENU, NOT MEMO 5:43 WHERE YOU CAN INDICT A SITTING 5:46 PRESIDENT OR YOU CAN'T MOVE 5:47 ACTION FORWARD IN A 5:48 PROSECUTION AGAINST A SITTING 5:49 PRESIDENT WHEN IT'S SO CLOSE 5:50 TO ELECTION. THIS IS SOME TIME 5:52 AWAY. AND I THINK THAT
5:53 ARGUMENT DOESN'T QUITE WORK 5:54 HERE. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. YOU 5:56 KNOW WHAT? WE WERE NEVER GOING 5:58 TO SETTLE INTO CAR AT A YOU'LL

NY Trial Attorney David Schwartz & President of Gotham Government Relations @NewsNation Talking About NYC Mayor Adams Corruption Case

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0:01 right now on the 10:00 news the latest 0:04 developments surrounding mayor Eric 0:06 Adams his lawyers in Washington DC 0:08 meeting with the justice department 0:09 today Fox 5 Sharon Crowley live in The 0:11 Newsroom with what it could mean for the 0:12 future of the mayor's corruption and 0:14 bribery case Sharon yeah we're following 0:16 this story closely Fox 5 has learned 0:17 that the Department of Justice is 0:19 considering dropping charges against New 0:21 York city mayor Eric Adams the mayor's 0:23
defense team for his corruption case 0:25 meeting with the doj in Washington DC 0:28 today take a look here is a picture of 0:31 the mayor's defense lawyer Alex Spyro in 0:33 Washington DC this afternoon where he 0:35 met with doj officials as well as 0:38 Manhattan prosecutors handling the 0:40 mayor's criminal case now the mayor is 0:42 facing bribery charges which alleg he 0:45 accepted perks and campaign money in
0:47 exchange for influence he's pled not 0:49 guilty to the charges vowing to defend 0:52 himself against the federal bribery 0:54 counts now I spoke a short time ago with 0:56 a criminal defense lawyer and former New 0:58 York State prosecutor David Schwarz It's 1:01 Not Unusual for the doj to meet with 1:06 defense attorneys talk about the case to 1:09 see if there could be an amicable 1:11 solution to this case and the bottom 1:14 line is the the evidence in this case is 1:17 on very shaky ground to start with we 1:20 are talking about upgrades in flights we 1:24 are talking about what the government 1:26 says is a quid pro quo which where the 1:29 the links just don't the timing doesn't 1:32 link up to Favors done for the Turkish 1:36 Consulate which is a normal course of 1:38 business for the mayor of the city of 1:40 New York to accommodate all the various 1:43 diplomats and consulates that we have in 1:45 this 1:46 city so the mayor's criminal corruption 1:49 trial is set to start in April and legal 1:51 experts telling me it's not unusual for 1:54 a defense team to try to get the charges 1:56 dropped when a new Administration comes 1:58 into power president Trump has said 2:01 publicly he would consider giving the 2:03 mayor a pardon mayor Adams has recently 2:06 been to meet with President Trump at 2:08 maral Lago and attended his inauguration 2:11 we asked Governor Kathy hokel and 2:12 minority leader hakee Jeff about the 2:14 mayor's case earlier today I would have 2:17 no inside knowledge about that other 2:20 than what I see that you're reporting 2:22 I've repeatedly indicated he's entitled 2:24 to the presumption of innocence and to 2:27 work through the judicial process until 2:30 that judicial process comes to a close 2:32 I'll have nothing further to 2:34 add well mayor Adams did not go to DC 2:37 today he remains in New York City after 2:39 missing a few days of work earlier this 2:41 week because of medical reasons for now 2:43 I'll send it back to you Natasha all 2:45 right Shar

NY Trial Attorney David Schwartz Talking About DOJ Meeting With NYC Mayor Eric Adams' Lawyers About Dropping Corruption Case @fox5ny

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0:02have a lot of other news to get 0:04 to tonight. A big news day 0:05 today, the latest fallout for 0:07
former New Jersey Senator Bob 0:08 Menendez following his 0:09 conviction for bribery and 0:11 extortion. Federal judge 0:12 sentenced him today to 11 years 0:14 behind bars. Two New Jersey 0:16 businessmen also sentenced 1 to 0:18 7 years in federal prison, the 0:20 other eight. News 4's Checkey 0:22 Beckford live in West New York 0:24 with more on what happens next. 0:26 Checkey. Well, David, we know 0:29 appeals are what will happen 0:31 next. All three say they plan to 0:33 appeal. Senator. Former Senator 0:34 Menendez promising that as he 0:36 left court today, even as that 0:38 11 year sentence looms ahead in 0:41
New Jersey. Senator Menendez, 0:43 once one of the most powerful 0:45 lawmakers in the nation, today, 0:47 71 year old Bob Menendez 0:49 sentenced to 11 years in prison. 0:52 Outside Las Palmas Cuban 0:54
restaurant support still strong 0:56 for the son of Cuban immigrants 0:57 whose reign of power in New 0:59
Jersey and American politics 1:00 spanned decades. This man saying 1:05 he believes Menendez is an 1:07
innocent, honorable man who has 1:08 done nothing more than serve the 1:10 community. But veteran litigator 1:12 turned lobbyist David Schwartz 1:13 says Menendez is sentenced for 1:15 numerous crimes, including 1:16 bribery, extortion and acting as 1:19 a foreign agent sends a 1:21 completely different message. 1:22 The judge had to sentence Bob 1:26 Menendez to a sentence that 1:28 would send a message to the rest 1:30 of the elected officials. 1:32 Federal Judge Sidney Stein said 1:34 Menendez had taken, quote, 1:36 enormous amounts of bribes. 1:38 Menendez crying in court, citing 1:39 his years of public service. He 1:41 resigned in August following his 1:43 conviction. Outside no sign of 1:45 tears, a defiant Menendez taking

NY Trial Attorney & Lobbyist David Schwartz Talking About Ex-US Senator Bob Menendez Sentencing.
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NY Trial Attorney & Lobbyist David Schwartz Talking About Ex-US Senator Bob Menendez Sentencing.

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0:00 IN YONKERS, ALECIA REID, CBS2 0:02 NEWS 0:05 >>> ALEC BALDWIN COULD GET UP 0:06 TO 18 MONTHS IN PRISON FOR THE 0:07 MOVIE SET SHOOTING. 0:08 THE ACTOR IS FACING CHARGES OF 0:11 INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER. 0:12 CBS2'S ALI BALLWIN . 0:17 >> Reporter: THE SET WAS MADE
0:19 TO LOOK LIKE THE WILD WEST BUT 0:25 IT WAS AKIN TO THE REAL THING. 0:26 >> IT WAS A FAST AND LOOSE AT 0:28 THAT NOBODY WAS DOING THEIR 0:32 JOB. 0:32 >> Reporter: THE DA REVEALED
0:33 SHE FOUND THERE WAS ENOUGH 0:34 EVIDENCE TO CHARGE ALEC BALDWIN 0:35 WITH TWO COUNTS OF FELONY 0:38 INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER. 0:38 THE ACTOR WAS REHEARSING A 0:39
SCENE WITH CINEMATOGRAPHER 0:40 HUTCHINS IN 2021, WHEN THE GUN 0:46 FIRED ONSET, KILLING HUTCHINS. 0:47 THIS IS WHAT BALDWIN TOLD 0:47 DETECTIVES. 0:48 TOLD 0:48 DETECTIVES. 0:56
>> Reporter: ALONG WITH 0:56 BALDWIN, THE FILM'S WEAPON 1:01 SPECIALIST WILL ALSO BE CHARGED 1:02 WITH INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER. 1:03 ASSISTANT DIRECTOR WHO HANDED 1:04
BALDWIN THE GUN HAS AGREED TO 1:06 PLEAD GUILTY TO NEGLIGENT USE 1:10 OF A DEADLY WEAPON. 1:11 >> THERE ARE THREE PEOPLE THAT 1:12 HAD DONE THEIR JOB THERE DAY 1:13 AND THIS WOULD NOT OF HAPPENED. 1:17 >> Reporter: BALDWIN'S WIFE 1:18 IGNORED CAMERAS OUTSIDE OF 1:19 THEIR HOME ON THURSDAY. 1:20 BALDWIN CLAIMED TO ABC NEWS HE 1:23 DID NOT PULL THE TRIGGER. 1:24 >> I FEEL THAT SOMEONE IS 1:26 RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT HAPPENED 1:30 AND I CANNOT SAY WHO THAT IS 1:32 BUT I KNOW IT IS NOT ME. 1:33 >> Reporter: HANNAHS ATTORNEY 1:35
SAYS THAT SHE WILL BE EIGHT 1:40 >> Reporter: WHAT HE THINKS THE 1:50 ODDS ARE THAT ALEC BALDWIN SEES 1:51 JAIL TIME AT THE END OF THIS? 1:52 >> LOW. 1:53 CERTAINLY NOT AN EASY CASE FOR 1:54 PROSECUTORS. 1:55 >> Reporter: THE SCREEN ACTORS 1:55 GUILD DEFENDED BALDWIN, ARGUING 1:56 THAT A ACTORS JOB IS NOT TO BE 1:58 A FIREARMS EXPERT. 1:59 BUT THE DA CLAIMS THAT HE IS 2:00 CHARGED AS AN ACTOR AND A 2:01 PRODUCER. 2:01 >> HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN AWARE 2:07 THAT SAFETY WAS AN ISSUE ONSET. 2:09 >> Reporter: THE FAMILY OF 2:10 HUTCHINS SAY THAT THEY SUPPORT 2:11 THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY AND 2:12 AGREED THAT CHARGES ARE 2:13 WARRANTED. 2:13 THE CHARGES WILL BE FILED BY 2:14 THE END OF THE MONTH AND BALDWIN

NY Criminal Defense Attorney David Schwartz Talking About The Alec Baldwin Charges on CBS 2.

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0:03 reporting the illegal migrant 0:04 accused of burning a New 0:05 York City. subway Rider to 0:07 death on Sunday. that 0:09 migrant has been indicted 0:10 on murder charges. 0:12 Sebastian, zapeta indicted 0:13 on 1, count of Murder 0:14 in the first degree. 3 0:16 counts of murder in the 0:17 Second degree and 1 count 0:18 of arson, this after a 0:20 woman was lit on fire. and 0:22 burned to death on a 0:23 subway train in Brooklyn 0:25 New York. Now, the 0:26 indictment was filed 0:27 Thursday and was unsealed 0:29 at an arraignment hearing 0:31 that will actually happen 0:31 on January. 7th. Sea's 0:34 attorney telling the judge,
0:35 he spoke with his client 0:36 Friday, in Acts 0:38 for permission to wave his 0:40 client's appearance. So a 0:41 lot going on, the judge did 0:43 Grant that request. as we 0:45 further discuss. uh, this 0:46 topic we want to bring an 0:47 expert 0:48 into the conversation. None 0:50 other than David Schwarz, 0:51 New York, attorney. Uh, David 0:54 good morning to you. Thank 0:55 you so much for joining us 0:56 again to discuss this 0:57 topic. Good morning. So 0:59 David, I know you've 1:00 worked closely 1:02 with uh, the Brooklyn 1:03 da, Eric Gonzalez. I set the 1:04 stage for us. What happened 1:05 yesterday? how did we get
1:06 to this point? sure, this 1:08 is my former Office of 1:10 the Brooklyn DA's office. 1:11 and so what happened? and 1:13 this is what happens in 1:15 every case, That's in the 1:17 grand jury. That's awaiting 1:19
felony charges. So you 1:20 have the grand jury that 1:21 works separate from the 1:23 court and on Thursday 1:24 night. um, evidence was 1:26 presented all week to the 1:27 grand jury and on Thursday 1:29
night the grand jury voted 1:30 to indict on Murder 1:32 in the first degree. Murder 1:33 in the second degree. and 1:35 for arson. Nothing 1:37 unexpected whatsoever. The 1:38 fact that the attorney 1:40 waived the client's 1:41 appearance, in court is is 1:44 completely normal In a 1:45 case like this and all 1:47 that. happened was that the 1:49 case got extracted. from 1:51 Criminal Court, which is 1:53 where they where they would 1:55 decide in this court part. 1:56 where to send the case, and 1:58 now it's going to Supreme 1:59 Court, which is where all 2:00 the felonies are handled. 2:02 in New York. And in Supreme 2:05 Court. the the defendant 2:07 will have a Felony, 2:09 arraignment. David, a lot 2:12 of eyes on this case. as 2:14 this isn't something you 2:15 hear or see. uh, every 2:17 day, especially there in 2:18 the Big Apple. a lot of 2:19
eyes looking ahead to the 2:21 new year. Uh, January 7th, 2:23 when that arraignment 2:24 hearing, uh, will be held 2:25 a lot of terminology that 2:26 many people might not 2:27 understand. So, could you 2:28 break that down? What is 2:29 an arraignment hearing? And 2:30 what is expected to 2:31 happen, then? Sure. So the 2:33 uh, arraignment is where the 2:35 the charges are read to the 2:37 defendant and people are 2:38
probably wondering well 2:39 he just had an arraignment 2:40 right, Didn't he get an 2:41 arraignment? already? He 2:42 had an arraignment on the 2:44 complaints and that was 2:46 pre-grand jury. pre-. The 2:48
grand jury voting out 2:49 Felony charges, which has 2:50 to happen in every single 2:52 case. So then the case was 2:54 presented and now he's 2:55 going to be arraigned on a 2:56 new accusatory instrument, 2:58
which is called an 3:00 indictment And so the 3:01 indictment will be read3:02 to the defendant in court, 3:04 of course, the defendant 3:05 could waive the reading 3:06 of the entire indictment, 3:08 the judge will ask the 3:09 defendant. Uh, how does he 3:11 plead? He's going to say 3:12 not guilty. and then the 3:14
judge is going to set a a 3:16 various schedules. motion. 3:18 schedules. uh, discovery 3:21 schedules. and the case 3:22 will start and it will 3:24 move down the process. And 3:25 we'll see a lot of motions 3:27 A lot of hearings. A lot of 3:29 um, items that the defense 3:30 attorney will try to do 3:32 to protect His client's 3:33
rights in the case. And uh, 3:35 and then of course, we're 3:36 gonna have all the pre-trial 3:37 hearings and then it's 3:38 going to lead to a trial 3:40 or a plea bargain. Uh, 3:43 with this specific case, uh, 3:44 the person the suspect 3:45 they're on the screen being 3:46 referred to as an illegal 3:48 migrant. Do you think that 3:49 plays a role in how this 3:51 will play out? Uh, the 3:52 viewers have been talking? 3:53 Uh this has been top of 3:54 mind. They're saying, okay 3:55 with him not being uh, of 3:57 legal status here in 3:58
America, Does that play a 3:59 part in? how this judicial 4:00 process will play out? 4:01 Even if he, uh, doesn't 4:02 speak English? Well. plenty 4:06 of defendants don't speak 4:07 English and that's why they
4:08 have interpreters. So 4:09 there's an interpreter in 4:10 the picture that you just 4:11 showed at defense table. 4:12 So, the defendant will be 4:14 entitled to an interpreter 4:15 throughout all the 4:17 proceedings of this case. 4:19 And, and everything will 4:20 be interpreted. as far as 4:22 the migrant status goes. 4:24 the, on the criminal case. 4:25 it's not going to have 4:26 much an effect whatsoever. 4:28 The only time that has an 4:29 effect is after the 4:31 defendant is released from 4:32 jail. the defendant would 4:33 then be deported for a 4:36 felony. but in this type of 4:37 case, if he's convicted of 4:39 Murder in the first degree
4:40 and he's going to serve a 4:41 life sentence without 4:42 parole. the migrant status. 4:45 really uh, won't play any 4:46 type of role in this case, 4:48 whatsoever. Uh, David. 4:51 Lastly, I wanted to ask you 4:52
about Bond and how that 4:54 relates to this case uh, 4:55 viewers wanting to know uh 4:57 the possibility of that, Uh 4:58 it being revoked, how that 5:00 plays a role. uh Flight 5:02 Risk. We've heard those uh 5:04 terms being used. Could you 5:05 provide all of those 5:06 scenarios? The there. There 5:08 is no bond in the case. 5:09 the the defendant has been 5:12 remanded and the defendant 5:14 will remain. on remand. 5:16 status based on the 5:18 seriousness and the the 5:20 penis. act that he 5:21 committed, Uh there's no
5:23 way any judge in Brooklyn. 5:25 is going to allow this 5:26 defendant to obtain any 5:28 kind of bond, I think that's 5:30 a non-issue in this case. 5:33 Davis Schwarz. Always a 5:34 pleasure. Thank you so much 5:35 for joining us a second day 5:36 to further. Dissect this 5:38 case again our viewers have 5:39 been keeping 5:41 a close eye on the And 5:41 you can see why I mean, uh, 5:42 it's very emotional for 5:44 many And then, of course, 5:45 uh, of course, how low an 5:47 order. uh works out with 5:48 the judicial system. 5:49 Thank you so much for joining 5:50 us and happy holidays

Suspect In Deadly NYC Subway Fire Indicted On Murder & Arson Charges. Analysis With David Schwartz, NY Trial Attorney, Lobbyist, & President of Gotham Government Relations ‪@livenowfox‬

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0:01 big story here, the man 0:03 accused of fatally shooting 0:04 the CEO of United 0:06 Healthcare outside of a 0:07 hotel. in Midtown Manhattan 0:09 could be sentenced to death 0:11 if convicted Luigi Manion 0:13 was charged Thursday with 0:15 Federal counts of stalking. 0:16 and murder making him 0:18
eligible for the death 0:19 penalty. Manion is being 0:21 held without bail after 0:23 appearing in Manhattan
0:24 Federal courtroom, hours 0:26 after his court appearance 0:27 over, in Blair County, 0:28 Pennsylvania, not too far 0:30 from, where he was arrested 0:31 in Altoona. the 26 0:33 year old waived extradition 0:35
and was flown to New York 0:36 where Brian Thompson was 0:38 fatally shot back on 0:39 December 4th. in a 0:41 New York state Court, 0:42 indictment, the Manhattan 0:43 district Attorney's office 0:45 charged, mangioni with 0:46 quote murder as an act of 0:48 terrorism which does carry a 0:49 maximum penalty of Life in 0:51 prison. Manion's lawyer 0:53 said, it's a quote, 0:55 highly unusual. Situation. 0:56 for a defendant to face 0:58 simultaneously. State and 1:00 federal charges. 1:02 Investigators allege when 1:02 they took mangioni in the 1:04 custody at a McDonald's in 1:06 Altoona. he had the gun 1:07 used to kill Thompson and 1:09 they also say he had a 1:11 spiral notebook That 1:12 included handwritten Pages. 1:14 Expressing hostility toward 1:16 the health insurance 1:17 industry. and against wealthy 1:19 Executives. I do want to just
1:21 discussed this all just 1:22 a little bit further. So 1:23 let's bring in David 1:24 Schwarz, a New York. trial 1:25 attorney. and former 1:27 prosecutor. Thank you so 1:28 much for taking the time 1:30 to be here with us
1:31 today. Thank you. 1:33 of course. Well, I do want 1:34 to start talking about the 1:36 death penalty situation Now, 1:37 we know that, mangioni does 1:39 face those federal charges 1:41 now. So would the death 1:43 penalty be on the table if 1:44 not for those federal 1:46 charges? No. absolutely not 1:49 New York state does not 1:50 have a death penalty, but 1:51 there is a death penalty in 1:53 the federal code and 1:54 therefore on the federal 1:56 case of Murder by using a 1:58 gun. uh, it is death 2:00 penalty eligible. although 2:02 very unusual. If 2:04 eligible, although very 2:05 unusual. If Nan gone is 2:06 convicted, could he 2:07 actually be sentenced to 2:08 death? Is that a 2:09 legitimate option who makes 2:10 the call? I know that's 2:12 kind of hard to tell right 2:13 now. as all of this is 2:14 just developing, and, 2:16 you know, you have a case 2:17 by case basis situation, 2:18 but what can you tell me? 2:20 Yeah. so there there there 2:22 are several phases to this. 2:23 So, first of all, the 2:24 prosecutors make the call, 2:26 as to, whether or not 2:26
they're going to charge the 2:28 death penalty. and that 2:29 could be taken off the table 2:31 at any time even though 2:32 it's on the table right 2:33 now. and then, if it is a 2:36 death penalty case, uh, it 2:38 it has to go through 2:39 several phases. First, 2:41 there's the guilt. phase of 2:42 the case, And then after the 2:44
guilt phase, there's a 2:45 second phase. The death 2:47 penalty, uh, phase of the 2:48 case. And that's when the 2:49 jury decides whether or not 2:51 the defendant will face the 2:53 will get the death penalty 2:54 or life in prison without 2:57 parole. I do want to play 2:58 this sound bite right here. 2:59 This is a very short 1
3:01 that did come from the 3:03 actual attorney for 3:04 mangioni again. very 3:06 brief. We're going to 3:08 respectfully. decline to 3:09 make any comment at 3:11 this time. Uh, but Mr. 3:13 Manion appreciates
3:14 everyone's support. it 3:16 sounds as though his 3:17 attorney is pretty. well 3:19 known at this point. 3:20 Pretty high power. What 3:21 do we know about her? 3:24 Well, she's a very, she's an 3:25 excellent attorney. Uh he's 3:26 being very well 3:28 represented. Uh, she's known 3:30 in in in the circles, in 3:32 New York. and Beyond. So 3:34 he's gonna get excellent 3:35 represent. And then if he 3:37 is facing the death 3:39 penalty, he'll have another 3:40 attorney in court, 3:42 a special. death penalty, 3:43 uh, attorney who specializes 3:46 in um, in all the in 3:48 really bringing forth 3:50 mitigating factors So the 3:52 defendant would not get the 3:53 death penalty, but this is 3:55 all very unusual. right? 3:57 And I, I do have to ask 3:58
because you heard her at the 3:59 end of that. very brief 4:01 statement saying that uh 4:03 mangioni does. Thank all the 4:04 people out there for their 4:05 support. So my question 4:06 is that that factor in to 4:08
any of this? How much 4:09 support he is receiving 4:10 from folks there? in the 4:12 public we had people that 4:13 were lined up yesterday 4:15 outside of the courthouse 4:16 wearing uh Luigi hats from 4:18 the Mario brothers. So does 4:20 that factor in in any way 4:21 And is that good for the 4:23 defense? Well, the in a 4:24 case like this, there's 4:26 always the court of public 4:27 opinion. So of of of 4:29 course, you know he's being 4:32 couched in the public 4:32 opinion. a certain way. and 4:35 unfortunately, he has he 4:37 does have these supporters 4:38 that, you know, support him. 4:41 even though he committed a 4:42 cold-blooded murder on on 4:44 camera, Certainly. the 4:47 there's a certain portion of 4:50 this case that you're
4:51 trying. in the court of 4:52 public opinion. you have 4:53 to uh, as a defense 4:55 attorney. you would like
4:57 none of this to be 4:58 in the court. of public 4:59 opinion. and really 5:02 analyzed. uh by a jury. But 5:04 unfortunately in this 5:06 kind of case, the jury will 5:08 be influenced by what 5:09 they hear in the public 5:11 because you can't help but 5:12 not hear about this case 5:13 in the public domain. I was 5:15
going to say it's all over 5:16 the news all over 5:18 everything. So it is very 5:19 hard to find. People who 5:20
haven't heard about the case 5:22 overall. So, cameras were 5:24 not allowed in the courtroom 5:25 for manion's preliminary 5:27 hearing or the extradition 5:28 hearing what you're looking 5:29 at Is some of the photos. 5:30 the sketches that were 5:32 made by folks who were 5:33 allowed in there. as a 5:35 criminal defense attorney a 5:37 trial attorney there. and a 5:38 former prosecutor. how 5:40 do you feel about? cameras 5:41 being allowed in the 5:42 courtroom that can 5:43 broadcast? a hearing or 5:45 even a trial to the public? 5:46 So so everyone out there 5:48 can watch right? I I have 5:50 mixed feelings about it. I, 5:51
you know, certainly you know 5:53 you have to weigh the the 5:55 various factors of the 5:57 Public's interest in 5:58 watching the case and our 6:00 criminal justice. system 6:01 being shown to a a large 6:05 audience, you know. of a a 6:07 broad audience and certainly 6:09 that would favor cameras 6:11 being in the courtroom. 6:12 On the other hand. you have 6:14 to weigh that against the 6:16 defendant's right To a fair
6:17 trial and the question 6:19 always becomes, are they 6:19 getting a a fair trial? 6:22 with the cameras in the 6:23 courtroom are the attorneys? 6:25 performing for the cameras? 6:26 is the judge. Now going to 6:28
perform for the cameras you 6:30 would like to think that 6:31 the trial will be the same 6:33 exact trial whether or not 6:35 the cameras are there or 6:36 not. But the overwhelming 6:38 concern is the concern for
6:39 your client. and their Sixth 6:41 Amendment right? To a fair 6:42 trial, So, you have to 6:45 weigh that. Um, and and 6:46 again, I have mixed 6:47 feelings about it. I tend 6:49 to favor cameras in the 6:51 courtroom because I don't 6:52 think uh a defense attorney 6:55 will try their case any 6:57 differently whether or not 6:58 There's a camera in the 6:59 courtroom or not. And 7:00 I'd like to think that a 7:02 judge will perform the same 7:03 exact way. whether or not 7:05 there's a camera in the 7:06 courtroom or not. but it's, 7:08 it's certainly a concern for 7:08 the defense. We did hear 7:11 mangioni actually scream 7:12 toward the camera. not 7:13 yesterday. He was quiet, 7:15 then but uh, about a week 7:16 or so ago, we heard from
7:18 him, he made a very brief 7:20 comment as he was escorted 7:21 into either. the jail or 7:23 the courthouse. I would 7:24 imagine. criminal defense 7:26 attorneys do not want their 7:28 clients to be speaking. to 7:30 members of the media, as 7:31 all of this is unfolding. 7:34 Absolutely not you. You you 7:35
want your client. Um, to 7:37 remain silent throughout 7:38 all the proceedings including 7:40 before the proceedings. 7:41 That's where most of the 7:43 damage is done. uh those 7:45 that know that they 7:46
should when they're being 7:48 questioned by a government 7:49 official by a member of 7:51 law enforcement. is to stay 7:53 silent until you have 7:54 a chance to have your 7:55 attorney. uh present. So 7:57 that's what we always 7:58 advise our clients. This 8:00 can be used against him 8:01 later on and certainly you 8:03 don't want um 1 of those 8:05 scenes. where he's just 8:07 screaming at the cameras for
8:08 sure. my last question, 8:10 what happens to those 8:11 charges that he does have 8:13 in Pennsylvania again, he 8:14 was arrested. in Altoona 8:17 at a McDonald's. There. and 8:17 he was arrested on several 8:19
charges. So now that he's 8:21 over in New York, facing 8:22 state and federal charges 8:24 there, what happens to the 8:25 ones over in Pennsylvania? 8:27 Do they just kind of 8:28 disappear? I, I believe 8:30
they're going to disappear 8:31 if he's convicted on a 8:32 capital murder case. Uh, 8:34 facing uh life in jail
8:36 without parole or possibly. 8:38 as Slim as it is. The 8:40 death penalty. Uh, 8:42 you're you're going to see 8:42 those charges in 8:43 Pennsylvania. go away But 8:44 they're going to remain 8:45 open. uh, for a period of 8:47 time and they could remain 8:48 open and, and perpetuity 8:50 really but I I don't see him 8:52 ever going back to 8:53 Pennsylvania. after the 8:55 New York case. Uh, to face 8:57 those charges. All right, 9:00 David, thank you so much 9:01 for taking the time to 9:02 join us and help discuss 9:03 this a little bit further. 9:04 We appreciate your legal 9:06 expertise. Is there 9:07 anything else you want to 9:08 add about any of this 9:08 before I let you go? well, 9:11 you know, hopefully. uh the 9:13 defendant does have a fair 9:14 trial and hopefully all the 9:16 evidence is is brought in 9:17 against. I think it's very 9:18 important. that the process 9:20 you know, remain. the, the 9:22 way the way the process 9:24 intended and that he gets a 9:25 fair trial. uh, pursuant 9:27 to the sixth amendment and 9:28 um, and let the jury decide. 9:31
All right, thank you again

Luigi Mangione Charged with the Stalking and Murder. Analysis With NY Trial Attorney David Schwartz, Lobbyist, & President of Gotham Government Relations ‪@livenowfox‬

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0:01 big story here, the man 0:03 accused of fatally shooting 0:04 the CEO of United 0:06 Healthcare outside of a 0:07 hotel. in Midtown Manhattan 0:09 could be sentenced to death 0:11 if convicted Luigi Manion 0:13 was charged Thursday with 0:15 Federal counts of stalking. 0:16 and murder making him 0:18
eligible for the death 0:19 penalty. Manion is being 0:21 held without bail after 0:23 appearing in Manhattan
0:24 Federal courtroom, hours 0:26 after his court appearance 0:27 over, in Blair County, 0:28 Pennsylvania, not too far 0:30 from, where he was arrested 0:31 in Altoona. the 26 0:33 year old waived extradition 0:35 and was flown to New York 0:36 where Brian Thompson was 0:38 fatally shot back on 0:39 December 4th. in a 0:41 New York state Court, 0:42 indictment, the Manhattan 0:43 district Attorney's office 0:45 charged, mangioni with 0:46 quote murder as an act of 0:48 terrorism which does carry a 0:49 maximum penalty of Life in 0:51 prison. Manion's lawyer 0:53 said, it's a quote, 0:55 highly unusual. Situation. 0:56 for a defendant to face 0:58 simultaneously. State and 1:00 federal charges. 1:02 Investigators allege when 1:02 they took mangioni in the 1:04 custody at a McDonald's in 1:06 Altoona. he had the gun 1:07 used to kill Thompson and 1:09 they also say he had a 1:11 spiral notebook That 1:12 included handwritten Pages. 1:14 Expressing hostility toward 1:16 the health insurance 1:17 industry. and against wealthy 1:19 Executives. I do want to just
1:21 discussed this all just 1:22 a little bit further. So 1:23 let's bring in David 1:24 Schwarz, a New York. trial
1:25 attorney. and former 1:27 prosecutor. Thank you so 1:28 much for taking the time 1:30 to be here with us
1:31 today. Thank you. 1:33 of course. Well, I do want 1:34 to start talking about the 1:36 death penalty situation Now, 1:37 we know that, mangioni does 1:39 face those federal charges 1:41 now. So would the death 1:43 penalty be on the table if 1:44 not for those federal 1:46 charges? No. absolutely not 1:49 New York state does not 1:50 have a death penalty, but 1:51 there is a death penalty in 1:53 the federal code and
1:54 therefore on the federal 1:56 case of Murder by using a 1:58 gun. uh, it is death 2:00 penalty eligible. although 2:02 very unusual. If 2:04 eligible, although very 2:05 unusual. If Nan gone is 2:06 convicted, could he 2:07 actually be sentenced to 2:08 death? Is that a 2:09 legitimate option who makes 2:10 the call? I know that's 2:12 kind of hard to tell right 2:13 now. as all of this is 2:14 just developing, and, 2:16 you know, you have a case 2:17 by case basis situation, 2:18 but what can you tell me? 2:20 Yeah. so there there there 2:22 are several phases to this. 2:23 So, first of all, the 2:24 prosecutors make the call, 2:26 as to, whether or not 2:26
they're going to charge the 2:28 death penalty. and that 2:29 could be taken off the table 2:31 at any time even though 2:32 it's on the table right 2:33 now. and then, if it is a 2:36 death penalty case, uh, it 2:38 it has to go through 2:39 several phases. First, 2:41 there's the guilt. phase of 2:42 the case, And then after the 2:44
guilt phase, there's a 2:45 second phase. The death 2:47 penalty, uh, phase of the 2:48 case. And that's when the 2:49 jury decides whether or not 2:51 the defendant will face the 2:53 will get the death penalty 2:54 or life in prison without 2:57 parole. I do want to play 2:58 this sound bite right here. 2:59 This is a very short 1 3:01 that did come from the 3:03 actual attorney for 3:04 mangioni again. very 3:06 brief. We're going to 3:08 respectfully. decline to 3:09 make any comment at 3:11 this time. Uh, but Mr. 3:13 Manion appreciates
3:14 everyone's support. it 3:16 sounds as though his 3:17 attorney is pretty. well 3:19 known at this point. 3:20 Pretty high power. What 3:21 do we know about her? 3:24 Well, she's a very, she's an 3:25 excellent attorney. Uh he's 3:26 being very well 3:28 represented. Uh, she's known 3:30 in in in the circles, in 3:32 New York. and Beyond. So 3:34 he's gonna get excellent 3:35 represent. And then if he 3:37 is facing the death
3:39 penalty, he'll have another 3:40 attorney in court, 3:42 a special. death penalty, 3:43 uh, attorney who specializes 3:46 in um, in all the in 3:48 really bringing forth 3:50 mitigating factors So the 3:52 defendant would not get the 3:53 death penalty, but this is 3:55 all very unusual. right? 3:57 And I, I do have to ask 3:58
because you heard her at the 3:59 end of that. very brief 4:01 statement saying that uh 4:03 mangioni does. Thank all the 4:04 people out there for their 4:05 support. So my question 4:06 is that that factor in to 4:08
any of this? How much 4:09 support he is receiving 4:10 from folks there? in the 4:12 public we had people that 4:13 were lined up yesterday 4:15 outside of the courthouse 4:16 wearing uh Luigi hats from 4:18 the Mario brothers. So does 4:20 that factor in in any way 4:21 And is that good for the 4:23 defense? Well, the in a 4:24 case like this, there's 4:26 always the court of public 4:27 opinion. So of of of 4:29 course, you know he's being 4:32 couched in the public 4:32 opinion. a certain way. and 4:35 unfortunately, he has he 4:37 does have these supporters 4:38 that, you know, support him. 4:41 even though he committed a 4:42 cold-blooded murder on on 4:44 camera, Certainly. the 4:47 there's a certain portion of 4:50 this case that you're
4:51 trying. in the court of 4:52 public opinion. you have 4:53 to uh, as a defense 4:55 attorney. you would like
4:57 none of this to be 4:58 in the court. of public 4:59 opinion. and really 5:02 analyzed. uh by a jury. But 5:04 unfortunately in this 5:06 kind of case, the jury will 5:08 be influenced by what 5:09 they hear in the public 5:11 because you can't help but 5:12 not hear about this case 5:13 in the public domain. I was 5:15
going to say it's all over 5:16 the news all over 5:18 everything. So it is very 5:19 hard to find. People who 5:20
haven't heard about the case 5:22 overall. So, cameras were 5:24 not allowed in the courtroom 5:25 for manion's preliminary 5:27 hearing or the extradition 5:28 hearing what you're looking 5:29 at Is some of the photos. 5:30 the sketches that were 5:32 made by folks who were 5:33 allowed in there. as a 5:35 criminal defense attorney a 5:37 trial attorney there. and a 5:38 former prosecutor. how 5:40 do you feel about? cameras 5:41 being allowed in the 5:42 courtroom that can 5:43 broadcast? a hearing or 5:45 even a trial to the public? 5:46 So so everyone out there 5:48 can watch right? I I have 5:50 mixed feelings about it. I, 5:51
you know, certainly you know 5:53 you have to weigh the the 5:55 various factors of the 5:57 Public's interest in 5:58 watching the case and our 6:00 criminal justice. system 6:01 being shown to a a large 6:05 audience, you know. of a a 6:07 broad audience and certainly 6:09 that would favor cameras 6:11 being in the courtroom. 6:12 On the other hand. you have 6:14 to weigh that against the 6:16 defendant's right To a fair
6:17 trial and the question 6:19 always becomes, are they 6:19 getting a a fair trial? 6:22 with the cameras in the 6:23 courtroom are the attorneys? 6:25 performing for the cameras? 6:26 is the judge. Now going to 6:28
perform for the cameras you 6:30 would like to think that 6:31 the trial will be the same 6:33 exact trial whether or not 6:35 the cameras are there or 6:36 not. But the overwhelming 6:38 concern is the concern for
6:39 your client. and their Sixth 6:41 Amendment right? To a fair 6:42 trial, So, you have to 6:45 weigh that. Um, and and 6:46 again, I have mixed 6:47 feelings about it. I tend 6:49 to favor cameras in the 6:51 courtroom because I don't 6:52 think uh a defense attorney 6:55 will try their case any 6:57 differently whether or not 6:58 There's a camera in the 6:59 courtroom or not. And 7:00 I'd like to think that a 7:02 judge will perform the same 7:03 exact way. whether or not 7:05 there's a camera in the 7:06 courtroom or not. but it's, 7:08 it's certainly a concern for 7:08 the defense. We did hear 7:11 mangioni actually scream 7:12 toward the camera. not 7:13 yesterday. He was quiet, 7:15 then but uh, about a week 7:16 or so ago, we heard from
7:18 him, he made a very brief 7:20 comment as he was escorted 7:21 into either. the jail or 7:23 the courthouse. I would 7:24 imagine. criminal defense 7:26 attorneys do not want their 7:28 clients to be speaking. to 7:30 members of the media, as 7:31 all of this is unfolding. 7:34 Absolutely not you. You you 7:35
want your client. Um, to 7:37 remain silent throughout 7:38 all the proceedings including 7:40 before the proceedings. 7:41 That's where most of the 7:43 damage is done. uh those 7:45 that know that they 7:46
should when they're being 7:48 questioned by a government 7:49 official by a member of 7:51 law enforcement. is to stay 7:53 silent until you have 7:54 a chance to have your 7:55 attorney. uh present. So 7:57 that's what we always 7:58 advise our clients. This 8:00 can be used against him 8:01 later on and certainly you 8:03 don't want um 1 of those 8:05 scenes. where he's just 8:07 screaming at the cameras for
8:08 sure. my last question, 8:10 what happens to those 8:11 charges that he does have 8:13 in Pennsylvania again, he 8:14 was arrested. in Altoona 8:17 at a McDonald's. There. and 8:17 he was arrested on several 8:19
charges. So now that he's 8:21 over in New York, facing 8:22 state and federal charges 8:24 there, what happens to the 8:25 ones over in Pennsylvania? 8:27 Do they just kind of 8:28 disappear? I, I believe 8:30
they're going to disappear 8:31 if he's convicted on a 8:32 capital murder case. Uh, 8:34 facing uh life in jail
8:36 without parole or possibly. 8:38 as Slim as it is. The 8:40 death penalty. Uh, 8:42 you're you're going to see 8:42 those charges in 8:43 Pennsylvania. go away But 8:44 they're going to remain 8:45 open. uh, for a period of 8:47 time and they could remain 8:48 open and, and perpetuity 8:50 really but I I don't see him
8:52 ever going back to 8:53 Pennsylvania. after the 8:55 New York case. Uh, to face 8:57 those charges. All right, 9:00 David, thank you so much 9:01 for taking the time to 9:02 join us and help discuss 9:03 this a little bit further. 9:04 We appreciate your legal 9:06 expertise. Is there 9:07 anything else you want to 9:08 add about any of this 9:08 before I let you go? well, 9:11 you know, hopefully. uh the 9:13 defendant does have a fair 9:14 trial and hopefully all the 9:16 evidence is is brought in 9:17 against. I think it's very 9:18 important. that the process 9:20 you know, remain. the, the 9:22 way the way the process 9:24 intended and that he gets a 9:25 fair trial. uh, pursuant 9:27 to the sixth amendment and 9:28 um, and let the jury decide. 9:31 All right, thank you again

NY Criminal Defense Attorney David Schwartz @livenowfox Talking About The Latest On UnitedHealthcare CEO Murder Suspect Luigi Mangione.

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0:00 mayor Adam's former top advisor faced a 0:02 judge on bribery and conspiracy charges 0:05 dick Brennan was in the courtroom and 0:07 has more now on the case centering 0:08 around a Porche and her son ingred Lewis 0:12 Martin led into court and handcuffs just 0:15 last week she was Chief advisor to the 0:16 mayor now a defendant facing corruption 0:19 charges today's indictment alleges and 0:22 portrays a clear 0:24 picture you do this for me and I will do 0:27 that for you the indictment spells out a 0:29 p to play it charges that two 0:31 businessmen May davidi and Rada Ved 0:34 allegedly paid a $100,000 bribe to leis
0:37 Martin and her son Glenn Martin which he 0:40 used to buy a Porsche and other luxury 0:42 goods the benefits Lewis Martin 0:44 allegedly provided to her 0:46 co-conspirators include her personal 0:49
assistance and intervention with the 0:51 Department of buildings in service of 0:53 their construction projects but Arthur 0:55 idala Lewis Martin's attorney says she's 0:58 done nothing wrong and they like to say 1:00 the highest ranking City official next 1:03 to the mayor is going to take a bribe in 1:06 the form of a check and put it into her 1:09 checking account come on folks idola 1:13 claims Lewis Martin only did what she's 1:14 done thousands of times help 1:16 constituents cut through government red 1:18 tape it is now harder for prosecutors to 1:22 prove a quid pro quot criminal defense 1:25 attorney David Schwarz says the Supreme 1:26 Court has raised the bar for prosecutors 1:29 making corruption cases against public 1:31
officials now the Supreme Court has 1:32 ruled on quid proquo and bribery and 1:35 there has to be a tight connection 1:37 between an official act and receiving 1:40 something in value now of course mayor 1:42
Adams is charged in a federal case this 1:45 is a Manhattan da case two different 1:48 cases and Alvin brag said today that he 1:50 wanted to make it clear that the two 1:52 cases have nothing to do with each other
1:55 in l Manhattan dick Brennan CBS News New 1:57 York

NY Criminal Defense Attorney David Schwartz Talking About Ingrid Lewis-Martin, Former Adviser to Mayor Adams, Indicted on Bribery Charges

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The survey of likely voters in CD4, shows a razor-thin margin between incumbent Republican Anthony D'Esposito and Democratic challenger Laura Gillen. With 46% of likely voters supporting D'Esposito and 45% backing Gillen, the race is currently too close to call, falling well within the poll’s margin of error.

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• Sample size: 734 respondents

• Margin of error: ±3.62% at a 95% confidence interval

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• D'Esposito leads with 46.0% of the likely vote, supported predominantly by men (48%), older voters, and Republicans.

• Gillen trails closely with 45.0%, gaining strong support from women (59%) and Democrats.

• 6% of voters remain unsure about their choice, and 1.8% say they will vote for neither candidate.

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• D’Esposito is winning a greater portion of independent voters (26% vs 19%) and more cross over votes (18%) compared to Gillen (11%).

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• Perhaps the most significant challenge to Gillen is that 49.3% of survey respondents believed generic Republican candidates would be more likely to act on their favored issue, while Democrats garnered only 46.2%.

• Conversely, the challenge to D’Esposito is that he is potentially trailing generic Republican sentiment by over 3% points. That provides opportunities for both candidates to capture the 6% that were still undecided but likely to vote.

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• 18.7% prioritize reproductive rights, particularly among women voters.
• 17.4% focus on immigration.
• Other concerns include crime and public safety (6%) and the U.S. role in global affairs (6.9%).

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The poll was conducted by Gotham Polling & Analytics between October 11 and October 19, 2024, to assess voter preferences in New York’s 4th Congressional District (CD4) ahead of the November general election.

Key Details:
• Sample Size: 734 total respondents, 703 of whom qualified as "likely voters" or had already voted.
• Survey Mode: Text message invitations were sent to respondents.

• Population: The poll targeted registered voters in CD4 who had voted in the last presidential election, drawn from the L2-data.com voter registration database.

• Sampling Method: Respondents were randomly selected from the voter registration database, with efforts to ensure representation across key demographic groups such as age, gender, and party affiliation. Surveys were completed by those who qualified as likely voters or had already voted.

• Weighting: The data were weighted to reflect the demographic and partisan composition of the district, modeled around voter turnout in the 2020 presidential election. The weighting accounted for variables such as age, gender, and party registration. Race and ethnicity were self-identified by respondents but not included in the weighting model.

• Margin of Error: ±3.62% at a 95% confidence interval. This margin applies to the full sample of 734 respondents.

• Survey Completion: Respondents who indicated they were either likely to vote or had already voted were eligible to complete the full survey.

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NY-4 Congressional Race Locked in a Statistical Tie as Key Issues Drive Voter Preferences

A cutting-edge polling and analytics firm founded by analytical and political experts Stephen Graves, President; David Schwartz, Chairman; and Denny Salas, Executive Vice President, launched today, releasing a survey conducted on NY’s 4th US Congressional District (CD4).

NY-4 Congressional Race Locked in a Statistical Tie as Key Issues Drive Voter Preferences

The survey of likely voters in CD4, shows a razor-thin margin between incumbent Republican Anthony D’Esposito and Democratic challenger Laura Gillen. With 46% of likely voters supporting D’Esposito and 45% backing Gillen, the race is currently too close to call, falling well within the poll’s margin of error.

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0:00 [Music] 0:01 and I look 0:02 forward to defending myself and 0:06 defending the people of this city all
0:10 right joining us now with more on all 0:11 this is New York Daily News City Hall 0:13 reporter Chris sumers felt he's on the 0:15 phone former Federal prosecutor Francy 0:18 hakes and criminal defense attorney 0:20 David Schwarz he's known and worked with 0:22 mayor Adams for years Chris you're the 0:25
city hall reporter so I want to start 0:26 with you maybe my bar for bribery is 0:29 high after Senator Mendez was found with 0:32 stacks of gold bars and bags of cash and 0:34 a mercedesbenz but did Adams allegedly
0:38 really sell his soul for free flights in 0:40 hotel 0:41 rooms it sounds like it based on the 0:45 indictment but I will still say we are 0:47 talking about 0:50 $125,000 worth of free flights free 0:53 hotel rooms for him and multiple of his 0:56 associates according to indictment but 0:58 perhaps even more serious is the fact
1:01 that the mayor is being accused of 1:03 having received tens of thousands of 1:06 dollars in illegal campaign donations 1:09 that are coming from Turkish Nationals 1:11 or being funded by Turk Turkish 1:14
Nationals the way that New York City's 1:17 campaign Finance system works is that 1:19 these allegedly illegal donations 1:23 unlocked nearly $10 million in what's 1:27 called public matching fund 1:30 right which is City taxpayer dollars 1:32 that were able to prop up the mayor's 1:34 campaign quite a lot and what the
1:37 prosecutors are alleging is that he 1:39 should have gotten none of this money 1:41 because of the illegal Turkish donations 1:43 that he allegedly uh received all right 1:46 David the indictment says that not only 1:48 did the campaigns Adam Adams campaign 1:51 take this money they did it explicitly 1:54 at the direction of Adams himself 1:56 according to text messages in this 1:58 indictment right so we have to look at 2:00 the text messages we have to look at all 2:02 the surrounding circumstances I agree it 2:04 would be it would be very serious if 2:06 Adams knew about it or he directed it 2:09 but right now there is no evidence an 2:12 indictment is evidence of nothing okay 2:15 an indictment is a prosecutor preparing 2:18 a 57 page document which outlines what 2:22 they think their case is going to show 2:24 the only time it's relevant is when 2:26 there's a conviction so an indictment is 2:28 evidence of nothing uh there has to be a 2:31 quidd pro quo here so although well the 2:34 allegation is he took all this money 2:35 from turkey and from Turkish interests 2:38 and then he when they couldn't get a 2:40 building approved to be open he told the 2:42 fire inspector if you don't agree to 2:44 open this building I'll fire you and I 2:46 think that's all hypothesis and that's 2:48 speculation and the Supreme Court was 2:50 very clear on on this issue there has to 2:53 be an exact quid proquo there has to be 2:56 the exchange between what I'm benefiting 2:58 from and what you're benefiting from has 3:00 to be very tight and and so far I don't 3:04 I don't see that I see some upgrades I
3:07 don't see gold bars going to Eric Adams 3:09 I don't see sacks of cash going to Eric 3:12 Adams where did Eric Adams benefit 3:14 personally from when from my reading of 3:16 that indictment yes the campaign may 3:18 have benefited he had upgrades he had 3:21 hotel rooms but that's not benefit he 3:24 had some free there there are text 3:25 messages to the extent that you know he 3:27 was he was flying and staying in hotels 3:30 not just upgraded but for free or 3:32 sometimes paid a nominal fee but we'll 3:34 get we'll those are technical violations 3:36 yes okay not a crime Francy indict the 3:39 indictment was handed down last night 3:40 he's going to appear in court tomorrow 3:42 it was sealed I'm just curious why did 3:45 the feds raid the mayor's home this 3:47 morning after the indictment was handed 3:50 down well they must think Elizabeth that 3:53 they can find more evidence they must 3:55 think that since the indictment was 3:57
unsealed that there is something at Eric 4:00 Adams house that they can find that 4:02 proves their case which is a little 4:04 concerning typically speaking when you 4:06 unseal the indictment the investigation
4:09 is largely over other than maybe 4:11 flipping codefendants or even the 4:13 defendant himself or some other 4:15 Witnesses so it is a little bit curious 4:17 I have to agree with David though 4:19 Elizabeth this is this indictment is a 4:21 little bit small ball and the Civil 4:24 campaign Finance violations have been 4:26
handled civil rather than criminally in 4:29 many cases in the past so it makes me 4:31 curious as to why the Department of 4:34 Justice has brought this indictment 4:35 because if you look at the Hillary 4:37 Clinton campaign the Barack Obama 4:38 campaigns they had very serious very 4:41 high dollar campaign Finance violations 4:44 that could have been prosecuted 4:46 criminally but were instead handled 4:48 civil and Donald Trump with the stormmy 4:50 Daniels payments and now Eric Adams with 4:53 this campaign Finance scheme as they 4:55 call it is being handled criminally so 4:58 I'm curious as to the different 4:59
treatment uh it's it also it's not just 5:01 the seizure by the way Francy of the 5:03 mayor's own devices 10 months ago and 5:05 again this morning the feds have also 5:08 searched and seized the phones of so 5:10
many senior AIDS in the Adams 5:12 Administration this is unusual and very 5:15 aggressive well this is them trying to 5:18 prove what they've got in the indictment 5:21 which is all these conversations I'll 5:23 give you a great example of something 5:24 that can be argued either way they said 5:26 they have a text message that Eric Adams 5:28 at one point said regarding uh campaign 5:31 contributions everyone has to be a US
5:33 citizen his defense attorneys are going 5:35 to say that Eric Adams was describing 5:38 the lawful donation that it has to be 5:41 from US citizens but what the government 5:43 is saying is that he was in effect 5:46 inviting a fraudulent and criminal 5:49 scheme so that's just one place where I 5:51 want to see the evidence that I think 5:53 can be found if it exists on all these 5:56 different devices all right super quick
5:58 Chris C governor Kathy hokel says quote 6:00 this is a very serious matter that is 6:03 unfolding and that she would quote 6:05 deliberate before deciding whether or 6:06 not she's going to remove him from
6:08 Office what do you think is going to 6:11 happen it's very hard to tell at this 6:14 point uh Governor hokel has been a 6:16 steadfast Ally standing by Eric Adams 6:18 throughout a lot of scandals and as you 6:21 mentioned there have been quite a few 6:22 even before this indictment was handed 6:26 down the fact that she did not come out 6:29 and offer support immediately for the 6:31 mayor stood out to me just given how 6:35 supportive she has been for him for a 6:38 long time oh all right whether or not 6:40 that means that we should know that we 6:42 should read into that that the governor 6:43 is going to try to actually unseed them 6:46 we we can't tell at this point do you 6:47 think you survived 10 seconds I believe 6:49 in the presumption of innocence so um 6:51 that's not the same that's not what I'm 6:52 asking I believe I believe the facts 6:55 will come out I'm not too sure right now 6:57 oh you're not sure you're not sure he'll
6:59 I'm hoping survives because the 7:01 presumption of innocence Chris 7:03 sommerfelt David Schwarz Francy hes 7:05 thank you so much all of you for joining 7:07 us on that political hurricane of sorts 7:10 in New York City

Attorney David Schwartz Talking About NYC Mayor Eric Adams @NewsNationTV

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0:00 good evening I'm Maurice tuac Christine 0:02 is off the mayor is trying to push 0:04 forward with City business despite the 0:06 historic nature of his criminal 0:08 indictment in a lower Manhattan 0:09 courtroom today the mayor pleaded no 0:11 guilty to Federal bribery conspiracy and 0:14 campaign finance charges and now new 0:17 information after his chief advisor 0:19 ingred Lewis Martin had her home 0:21
searched and her phone seized by federal 0:24 agents we have Team coverage of today's 0:26 big developments let's start with Lori 0:27 bordonaro at Gracie Mansion tonight 0:30 Maurice ingred Lewis Martin says she's 0:32 done nothing wrong and plans to stick by 0:34 mayor Adams who went back to work after 0:37 court mayor Eric Adams backed to 0:40 business attending a birthday party at a 0:42 harlem Senior Center just hours after 0:44 pleading not guilty to Federal 0:46 corruption charges the mayor gave a
0:48 thumbs up outside the courthouse while 0:50 his attorney condemned the charges this 0:53 case isn't even a real case this is the 0:55 airline upgrade corruption case 0:58 according to the indictment mayor Adam 1:00 sought and accepted improper gifts like 1:02 more than $100,000 in luxury travel and 1:05 illegal campaign contributions from 1:07 wealthy foreign business people and at 1:09 least one Turkish government official in 1:11 exchange for his political influence 1:14 there are no emails text messages or any
1:17 coroporation whatsoever that the mayor 1:19 knew about anything having to do with 1:21 these campaign donations the next week 1:23 we'll be filing a motion to dismiss we 1:25 expect these charges to be dismissed the 1:28 investigation into the alleged 1:29 corruption plaguing the Adams 1:30 Administration is widening on Friday 1:33 investigators searched the Brooklyn home 1:35 of ingred Lewis Martin the mayor's
1:37 longtime friend and chief adviser police 1:40 they were watching the house they were 1:41 taking out files and stuff leis Martin 1:44 spoke on her attorney's radio show later 1:45 in the day she says her phone was seized 1:48 at the airport Friday morning as she 1:50 returned home from Japan Federal 1:52 authorities also served her with a 1:54 subpoena I don't know anything I've done 1:56 nothing and I don't think that there's 1:58 anything to know none of a perfect we 2:00 are far from perfect because we're human 2:02 beings we are imperfect but we're not 2:05 thieves Lewis Martin's attorney says she 2:07 is not the target of the investigation 2:10 as for mayor Adams he is scheduled to be 2:12 back in court on Wednesday on the Upper 2:14 East Side Lori bordo CBS News New York 2:17 tonight many people are wondering 2:18 whether the mayor can hang on to the job 2:20 and for how long Adams faced even more 2:23 calls today to resign but he insists 2:26 he's not going anywhere dick Brennan 2:27 here now with more on how Adams is 2:29
trying to push through all this dick 2:31 well Maurice we can tell you that 2:32 innocent until proven guilty the most 2:34 important words in our justice system 2:37 but what about running the city of New 2:38 York can Eric Adams pull off the 2:40 juggling act depends on who you ask 2:43 facing a Federal indictment and 2:44
investigation still swirling around his 2:46 administration the pressure is building 2:48 on mayor Adams despite a court 2:50 appearance today he's determined to go 2:52 about the business of the city a kind of
2:55 what me worry POS but the demands for 2:57 his resignation will only get louder can 2:59 the May survive this the mayor can 3:01 survive this the problem is what happens 3:03 when the other investigations are 3:05 concluded when the arrests are made 3:06 which is likely with the four other 3:08 investigations involving City officials 3:10 in his administration Governor hok 3:12 theoretically has the power to remove
3:14 Adams from office but has not indicated 3:16 she would take that major step and the 3:18 man next in line to take over if 3:20 necessary says Adams needs to do some 3:22 soul searching can you do the job of
3:25 making government continue to run uh and 3:28 can you continue to 3:30 uh exude trust for the people of the 3:33 city of New York those are questions 3:35 that I'm hoping the mayor's really 3:37 grapping with it in Earnest some legal 3:39 experts say while the case made in the 3:41 indictment appears strong it's not a
3:43 slam dunk an indictment is evidence of 3:46 nothing so the mayor should not be 3:48 forced to leave his job he should be 3:50 able to fight these charges as long as 3:53 he's able to also represent the interest
3:56 of the people of the city of New York 3:57 Adams attorneys would be happy to make 3:59 it go away and will try that legal long 4:02 shot the motion to dismiss it would be 4:04 great for Eric Adams if his case were
4:06 dismissed is it likely this is too big 4:08 this is the office that took down 4:09 Senator Bob Menendez from New Jersey 4:11 just a few weeks ago this is a big one 4:13 and are they going to give up easy the 4:15
answer is the feds never give up easy 4:17 and in that court hearing next Wednesday 4:19 Adam's attorneys say he will be 4:21 demanding evidence from the prosecution 4:24 in addition once again to asking the 4:25
judge to throw the whole case out 4:28 Maurice okay dick thank you you and for 4:30 the latest on the mayor including the 4:32 full indictment at a breakdown of the 4:33 major players in the investigations head 4:36
over to our website CBS new york.com

Attorney David Schwartz Talks About NYC Mayor Adams Pushing Forward With NYC Business @CBSNewYork

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0:00 as Ali mentioned prosecutors say Adams 0:01 let Turkish officials buy his influence 0:04 yeah just to review here one part of 0:06 that indictment centers around this 0:07 building the Turkish Consulate in 0:09
Manhattan Adams alleged allegedly 0:12 pressuring the FDNY to open that 0:15 building despite safety concerns dick 0:17 Brennan joins us now live from City Hall 0:19 with more on that part of the story 0:22 dick well Christine marce here it is 0:24 that 57 page indictment we've all been 0:27 talking about filled with allegations of 0:29 corrupt ion against the mayor of the 0:31 city of New York but the big question is 0:33 does this add up to a 0:35 conviction the US attorney says Eric 0:38 Adams was being showered with gifts some 0:40 $100,000 in travel benefits from 0:43 officials in turkey and in exchange even 0:45 pressured to get a consulate open before 0:47 it was ready he intervened in the New 0:49 York City fire department's inspection 0:51 process for a building owned and 0:53 operated by the Turkish government 0:55 allowing it to open even though it had 0:57 not passed the fire inspection the 35 St 1:00 consulate stands across the street from 1:02 the United Nations Headquarters it's 1:04 common that the fire department is 1:06 actually in some cases the last agency 1:08 to to do final inspections of the 1:09 building before it opens and of course 1:11 all the pressure of opening falls on the 1:13 Fire Department fire protection engineer 1:16 Glenn Corbett says some buildings can 1:18 open with outstanding issues but only if 1:21 they're not major ones at the end of the 1:23 day the fire department has that 1:24 responsibility of making sure that if 1:26 they do allow the building to open with 1:28 for example a temporary CFO that there's 1:30 a fundamental acceptable level of Fire 1:33 Protection in the building Adams now has 1:35 to defend himself against charges of 1:37 bribery and soliciting illegal campaign 1:40 contributions he allegedly took steps to 1:42
conceal those illegal contributions and 1:45 personal benefits and involved city 1:48 employees and campaign staff in that 1:51 concealment are these cases hard to 1:53 prove these cases are extremely hard to
1:55 prove defense attorney David Schwarz 1:57 says recent US Supreme Court rulings 1:59 have made public corruption cases more 2:01 difficult to prove for prosecutors we 2:03 certainly have upgrades on flights we 2:07 have hotel rooms which May challenge 2:10 certain ethical obligations but that 2:13 does that cross into the criminal Arena 2:15 Eric Adams didn't take gold bricks he 2:18 didn't take jewelry he didn't take he 2:21 didn't have cash in his freezer this is 2:25 a campaign that was benefiting 2:30 now the mayor says he's going to leave 2:32 his legal case up to his lawyers to run 2:35 in the meantime he says he will continue
2:37 to run the city of New York we're live 2:39 at City Hall dick Brennan CBS News New 2:41 York dick thank you now

NY Attorney David Schwartz Talking About NYC Mayor Eric Adams Being Indicted @CBSNewYork

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0:01 [Music] 0:07 former US senator Bob Menendez of New 0:09 Jersey who was convicted of bribery 0:11
obstruction of justice and serving as a 0:13 foreign agent for the Egyptian 0:15 government in July has asked the trial 0:18 judge to reverse the guilty verdicts and 0:20 find him not guilty as a matter of law 0:23 the Senator's lawyers have argued that 0:25 even if he did what the government 0:27 demonstrated at trial it does not itute 0:30 criminal Behavior as the Supreme Court 0:32 has interpreted it does he have a shot 0:35
back with us of course is trial attorney 0:38 and my friend David Schwarz so David you 0:40 and I both know the case of Governor Bob 0:43 McDonald of um of Virginia uh who was 0:46 convicted of bribery for accepting a 0:48 Rolex watch and the payment of the of 0:51 the bills for his daughter's wedding by 0:53 a guy had who had some business before 0:55 the state and then the Supreme Court 0:57 reversed that conviction N9 to nothing 0:59 say yeah he got all those gifts but he 1:01 didn't do anything out of the ordinary 1:03 in return to get the gifts that is 1:06 basically what Bob Menendez is going to 1:09 argue that what he is accused of doing 1:12 is what Senators always do Lobby for 1:15 constituents and he would have done it 1:17 anyway what do you think how how does an 1:19 argument like that rest on the ears of 1:22 the trial judge who presided at the 1:25 case so the facts in the McDonald case 1:28 are different than the facts in the 1:29 Menendez case so although that it's true 1:33 you know he was evicted of the of the 1:35 bribery you have to have this close 1:37 connection between the the act of taking 1:41 something of value whether it's uh 1:44 watches uh gold bars or Furniture in 1:47 this case or cash and connect it to the 1:50 official act that the senator is accused 1:53 of doing so it's going to be a fact 1:56 specific case uh certainly the jury felt
1:59 there was enough of a connection and 2:01 we'll see uh what the judge decides I 2:04 believe there overwhelmingly that the 2:06 judge will uphold the jury the jury 2:09 conviction well most trial judges as you
2:12 know do but I'm going to make you the 2:15 chief judge of the United States court 2:17 of appeals for the second circuit for 2:19 the purposes uh of this uh argument but 2:23 judge Schwarz my client did not exercise 2:27 the official levers of power in behalf 2:31 of the Egyptian government or any of his 2:34 codefendants and that phrase official 2:37 levers of power is directly out of the 2:39 McDonald case we suggest to you that the 2:42 trial judge misunderstood what the 2:44 Supreme Court told him he should have 2:46 understood how do you rule yes counselor 2:50 but the way I rule is the official 2:52 levers of power were directly tied to 2:56 these gold bars to the cash and to to 3:00 the furniture that Menendez received and 3:03 he actually got his wife involved to be 3:06 the recipient of all that and the 3:09 evidence is overwhelming at trial that 3:12 those official acts in in helping the 3:15 Egyptian government were were tied to 3:18 the receipt of those things of value so 3:22 in this particular case we can 3:24 distinguish it from the McDonald case 3:27 and uphold the jury verdict that's how 3:29 would rule here's now now you're back to 3:31 being good old David Schwarz criminal 3:33 defense lawyer so here's one from way 3:36 out of left field his wife's trial 3:39 starts next month what happens to Bob 3:42 Menendez if he takes the witness stand
3:45 and says I did it I did everything she 3:47 had nothing to do with it let her 3:50 go well I I I certainly think that would 3:54 be some good evidence on her behalf and 3:58 and that's something that that he may 4:00
consider doing you never know but but 4:03 certainly if he did that uh you know 4:06 that would adversely affect the the the 4:09 case that he has on appeal that would be 4:11 an interesting scenario judge you you
4:13 hit me with a a curveball there but um 4:16 you know certainly that would help his 4:17 wife if he testified in that fashion I 4:19 threw the curveball but you hit it into 4:21 the Outfield David Schwarz what a
4:23 pleasure my dear friend I hope you'll 4:24 come back and join us again I hope so 4:27 thank you judge of course that's my show 4:29 for for this week thank you for watching 4:31 have a great weekend 4:33 [Music]

Gotham Government Relations President David Schwartz on Newsmax THE FREEDOM FILE with Judge Andrew Napolitano discussing Senator Bob Menendez Fights Guilty Ruling

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0:02 [Music] 0:07 welcome back my friends attorneys for 0:08 former president Donald Trump have asked
0:10 Justice Juan mean to push back 0:13 sentencing for his conviction for 0:15 falsifying business records sentencing 0:18 is now tentatively scheduled for midep 0:21 but Trump's legal team is asking for a 0:23 delay until after the election there are 0:25 a few key technical reasons for the 0:28 request here to help break it down down 0:30 with me is veteran trial lawyer and my 0:33 longtime friend and colleague attorney 0:34
David Schwarz David uh welcome here I 0:37 was telling some of the sure I was 0:40 telling some of the folks here at 0:42 Newsmax that in my career I have 0:43 sentenced more than a thousand people I 0:46 have never heard the government say it's 0:49 up to you judge it's always they have 0:51 their own opinion they tell you what 0:52 they want to do why do you think when 0:54 Trump's people obviously do not want the 0:57 sentencing before election day the 0:59 government said it's up to you 1:02 judge well I I think on the part of the 1:04 government it was a good strategic move 1:06 look they got their conviction at trial 1:09 they got their pound of Flesh I I I 1:11 think politically and not to interfere 1:15 with the election I think it was a good 1:16 move on the government on the 1:18 government's part to at least appear 1:21 impartial and they're not supposed to be 1:23 impartial obviously they're advocates 1:25 for the state but to at least appear 1:27 indifferent as to sentencing so the 1:31 government is going to say everything 1:33 that Trump did Even though some of his 1:35 behavior in this case signing checks to 1:37 Michael Cohen was done in the White 1:40 House the government's going to say none 1:41 of it was official and everything he did 1:44 was personal the reason they're going to 1:46 make this argument is because Trump's 1:48 leers are going to say oh that immunity 1:50 decision that the Supreme Court came 1:52 down with judge Miran you have to 1:55
extract from what we uh what the jury 1:58 heard that would was official I don't 2:01 think any of Trump's behavior in this 2:04 case could be characterized as official 2:08 as exercising the powers of the 2:10 presidency do you well that started you 2:13 know before the presidency but even 2:15 while he was President this clearly was 2:18 you know a personal uh matter that that 2:21 he was taken care of it was had nothing 2:23 to do with the His official du duties or 2:27 pursuant to any duty to the presidency 2:30 whatsoever so I I I would agree with 2:33 that the sentencing itself now you have 2:37 dealt with a lot of sentences I've 2:39 sentenced over a thousand people in my 2:41 career there's a couple of questions 2:42
that judges asked themselves to begin 2:45 with uh does the defendant have any 2:47 priors no uh is the defendant a danger 2:51 to society no how badly has the 2:55 defendant harmed the victim I would say 2:57
what victim do you think 3:00 uh that Justice Miran will impose a 3:04 sentence of incarceration and perhaps 3:06 suspend it uh for appearance sake or do 3:09 you think he'll say probation for two 3:12 years let's get this over with right 3:14 this should not be a tough decision 3:15 judge with a 78y old man who's never 3:18 been convicted of any crimes whatsoever 3:21 he was convicted of the lowest level you 3:23 know nonviolent felony falsifying 3:26 business records a Class E felony and 3:29 and how he was even bumped up to a 3:31 felony we know is very questionable so 3:35 there's two parts to the judge's 3:36 decision here one is is he going to 3:39 delay the sentencing uh I think it's a 3:42 no-brainer sentencings get delayed all 3:44 the time for a a myriad of reasons so 3:47 there's no reason why the judge for 3:49 appearance purposes shouldn't delay it 3:52 for two months after the election the 3:54 second the F the question that you asked
3:56 though I don't believe uh the judge uh 4:00 Sean should sentence Trump to any jail 4:02 time whatsoever based on those factors 4:05 that it's a nonviolent crime that he's 4:07 at a clean history and and the the 4:10 questions uh as to this crime in the 4:13 first place you know and one of the 4:15 questions will be presidential immunity 4:17 I I I I believe the threeyear the 4:20 probationary period would be in sentence
4:23 got it David I'd like you to stick 4:25 around because former Senator Bob 4:27 Menendez was back in court to see if he 4:29 could get his guilty verdict overturned 4:32 David and I will talk about his chances 4:35
on this when the freedom file returns in 4:37 just a moment

Gotham Government Relations Founder David Schwartz @newsmax TV''s THE FREEDOM FILE with Judge Andrew Napolitano discussing TRUMP and Legal Reasons for Sentencing Delay.

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0:00 now to the Israel Hamas warrant today 0:02 the justice department announced charges 0:04 against six senior leaders of Hamas 0:07 Federal prosecutors say they 0:08 orchestrated the murders of dozens of
0:10 Americans in the October 7th attack in 0:13 Israel dick Brennan is here now with the 0:15 details dick well Christine and Maurice 0:17 in the indictment us officials say at 0:19 least 43 American citizens were among 0:21 the approximately 1,200 people killed in 0:24 the October 7th Terror attacks but this 0:27 indictment is sweeping covering crimes 0:28 that go back to the 19 0:30 1990s Federal prosecutors say they're 0:32 holding the masterminds of the October 0:34 7th attacks criminally responsible for 0:37 the deaths of dozens Americans and now 0:39 senior Hamas leaders are facing charges 0:42 for financing and directing a decades 0:45 long campaign to murder American 0:47 citizens and endanger the security of 0:50 the United States this comes after word 0:52 this weekend that Hamas executed six 0:54 hostages including Israeli American HS 0:57 Goldberg Poland his mother spoke at his 0:59 funeral for 23 years I was privileged to 1:03 have the most stunning honor to be 1:05 hersh's 1:07 Mama I'll take it and say thank you I
1:11 just wish it had been for longer this 1:13 case was filed in February but it's 1:15 unsealing now after the death of the six 1:17 hostages is likely not a coincidence 1:20 this was a carefully timed complaint 1:24 certainly it came in conjunction with 1:27 the horrible tragedy that took place 1:29 this weekend including the death the 1:32 murder of one American citizen legal 1:35 expert David Schwarz says while some of 1:36
the defendants are dead and others are 1:39 abroad and in hiding there are 1:40 indications that at least one could 1:42 still be taken in as I read this 1:44 complaint and you have to read between 1:46 the lines I believe the southern 1:48 district is fairly confident they are 1:51 going to bring at least one of these 1:53 defendants to Justice in Israel tonight 1:56 thousands took to the streets demanding 1:58 a ceasefire and the family of
2:00 22-year-old Omar Neutra an Israeli 2:02 American and Long Island native still 2:04 being held believes the protest could 2:06 spur renewed action leading to the 2:08 release of their son we're just hoping 2:10
that this outrage that we see in Israel 2:13 is going to affect the government and 2:15 bian himself to uh to reach that so 2:20 desired deal and get the hostages back 2:22 as we know this is ENT legal experts say 2:25
it's not clear if or when a case could 2:27 be brought in New York that would 2:29 require one of the defendants being 2:30 brought back to the US to face trial 2:33 Christina Maurice thank you dick

Attorney David Schwartz Talks About The Justice Department Charging 6 Senior Leaders of Hamas.

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0:00 disgraced former Congressman George 0:01 Santos is expected to plead guilty 0:03 tomorrow in the fraud case against him 0:05 Lisa Rosner has been covering the case 0:07 against Santos even traveling to
0:09 Washington for his historic expulsion 0:11 she has more on what that plea means for 0:13 his case Monday in federal court in 0:15 Central Islip the disgraced ex- New York 0:18 congressman is expected to plead guilty 0:20 to at least some of the 23 counts 0:22 against him which include wire fraud 0:24 money laundering theft of public funds 0:27 making false statements to the Federal 0:28 Election Commission and identity theft 0:31 certainly is not in the Public's benefit 0:33 to go through that whole Terin to me the 0:36
sooner he's gone the better Jody cfle 0:38 led a citizen group to Washington to OU 0:40 Santos from his seat he shouldn't get a 0:43 plea deal Sunday finle wrote prosecutors 0:45 her group Demands a full trial to reveal 0:47 the extent of Mr Santos crimes against 0:50 New York District 3 following his 0:52 election in 2022 Santos was accused of a 0:55 Litany of Lies including graduating from 0:57 Baro college and New York University 1:00 being a descendant of Holocaust 1:01 Survivors and working at Goldman Sachs 1:04 the night before Congress voted to expel 1:06 him I asked why are you still in office 1:08 so these are allegations that I am not 1:12 at this time prepared or able to have 1:15 those discussions over the weekend by 1:17 phone he told Marsha Kramer he'll be in 1:19 court Monday but when she asked if he's 1:21 taking a plea deal he said he couldn't 1:22 talk about it David Schwarz is a new 1:24 york-based criminal defense attorney one
1:27 thing for certain he will be getting a 1:29 lot less of a harsh sentence by pleading 1:33 guilty right now by accepting 1:36 responsibility and being remorseful than 1:38 he would have if he gone if he went to 1:40 trial if convicted on all counts 1:42 according to sentencing guidelines 1:44 Santos would have faced up to 20 years 1:46 in jail the judge though does not have 1:48 to rely on that guidance in fact he 1:51 doesn't even need to accept a plea deal 1:54 but legal experts tell me that would be 1:56 rare Lisa Rosner CBS News New York and

NY Attorney David Schwartz Talking to About Former Congressman George Santos Expecting To Plead Guilty To Fraud Charges on CBS 2 NY

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0:00 tonight concerns about anti-Semitism 0:02 could mean a ban on face masks for some 0:05 people in the city CBS 2's dick Brennan 0:07 here in studio now to explain dick well 0:09 Christina Maurice this is not about 0:10 people wearing a mask because they have 0:12 a cold or want to avoid covid when they 0:14 ride the subway it's about people who 0:16 protest and the Revival of a law that 0:18 was around for more than 150 years a law 0:21 some civil Libertarians think is a 0:23 terrible idea it seemes like this one 0:26 protesters outside a museum on Wall 0:28 Street where an exhibit honors victims 0:29 of October 7th along with the defacing 0:32 of homes of Brooklyn Museum officials 0:34 spray painted with red triangles the 0:37 symbol Hamas uses for targets Marked for 0:39 Death that as many demanding protesters 0:41 show their faces cowards hide their 0:44 faces there's no room for hate against 0:46 any group in this city and now mayor 0:48 Adams insists that protesters no longer 0:50 be able to wear masks at demonstrations 0:52 or even if they're carrying on in the 0:53 subway system I agree with those who are 0:56 calling for removal of the band not only 0:58 for protesters who use in Vile language 1:01 but also criminal Behavior city and 1:03 state officials want to revive a law 1:04 that had been around since the 19th 1:06 century that law was repealed because of 1:09 the pan pandemic and the fact that 1:11 people were wearing masks so sadly we 1:14 have seen a Resurgence of Jew hatred in 1:17 the United States and in the world 1:19 Assembly Judiciary chair Charles LaVine 1:21 tells CBS 2 there's already a bill that 1:23 would make it illegal to wear a mask to 1:25 conceal your identity and the governor 1:27 is on board we will not tolerate 1:28 individuals using masks to evade 1:31 responsible for criminal or threatening 1:34 behavior but not everyone agrees the New 1:36 York civil liberties Union said in the 1:37 statement the governor's concerns about 1:39 mask disguising criminal activity won't 1:41 be quelled by Banning Anonymous peaceful 1:44 protest mask bans were originally 1:46
developed a squash political protests 1:48 and like other laws that criminalize 1:50 people they will be selectively enforced 1:52 legal experts say the law has stood up 1:54 to challenges before and likely may have 1:56 some updates most likely the law will 2:00 distinguish between a surgical mask 2:02 where someone is trying to protect their 2:05 health versus a mask that's that's made 2:08 to protect some one's identity in 2:11 committing a criminal act now here's one 2:13 big wrinkle to bringing back that law 2:15 the legislature has already ended its 2:17 session and they would have to be called 2:19 back to Albany for a special session to 2:21 vote on it and that remains to be seen 2:24 Christine dick thank you

NY Attorney David Schwartz Talks About Some NY Leaders Calling For A Face Mask Ban For Protesters ‪@CBSNewYork‬

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0:00 Tik Tok could end up getting banned 0:02 across the country under a new law just 0:04 signed today so what will this mean for 0:06 its millions of users cbs2's dick 0:08 Brennan here now with more on that dick 0:10 well Christina marce for now it means 0:13 nothing but that could change us 0:14 lawmakers say the popular app is 0:16 actually a national security threat and 0:19 now they've given the Chinese parent 0:20
company by January of 2025 to sell it it 0:24 says Tik Tock does it's ready to fight 0:27 back you can't tell by the way 0:32 my Tik Tok is a national sensation used 0:35 by 170 million Americans and kids of all 0:39 ages do you hear me I'm not I'm quy I'm 0:42 tired I worked hard at school but today 0:45 as part of a foreign aid bill it's a 0:47 good day for America President Biden 0:49 signed into law a potential ban on Tik 0:51 Tok it requires Tik tok's Chinese own 0:53 parent company to sell the app in 9 0:55 months time legislators have long been 0:58 concerned that Tik Tok could share data 1:00 with the Chinese government government 1:02
of China is literally using Tik Tok and 1:04 we know this using Tik Tok both to 1:06 collect data on individuals right on on 1:09 families 150 plus million families in 1:11 America and two uh that they are using 1:14 it to spread disinformation but the US 1:15 says it's not looking for a ban we're 1:18 basically saying we got to pay attention 1:20 to who the owner of Tik Tok is and pay 1:22 attention to what that presents in terms 1:24 of National Security issues we do not 1:25 want a ban Tik Tok make no mistake this 1:28 is a ban a a ban on Tik Tok and a ban on 1:31 you and your voice Tik Tok CEO posted on 1:35 Tik Tok of course that the company is
1:37 planning a legal battle rest assured we 1:39 aren't going anywhere we are confident 1:42 and we will keep fighting for your 1:43 rights in the courts the facts and the 1:46 Constitution are on our side but the big
1:48 question does Tik Tock have a chance in 1:51 court it'll really be a fact-based issue 1:54 as to who wins at the end of the day the 1:56 United States because it's a 1:58 constitutional issue they will need 2:00 strong arguments they will need a 2:02 compelling interest to overcome the 2:05 First 2:06 Amendment now under the law Biden could 2:08 extend the deadline another 90 days if 2:10 he determines the company has made
2:11 progress toward a sale but core 2:14 challenges could delay things for years 2:16 beyond that so for now you can hold on 2:18 to your app Christina maray going to be 2:20 an interesting nine months we'll see all 2:21 right dick thank you

NY Attorney David Schwartz on How TikTok Users Will Be Affected If App Is Banned In USA @CBSNewYork

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0:03 well either We're a nation of laws or 0:06 we're not a nation of laws and I have to 0:08 thank uh assemblywomen Raj Kumar Senator 0:11 Comer for finally taking action every 0:15 single day we New York State uh every 0:19 year is losing $2.4 billion dollar with 0:23 a fee due to Illegal untaxed cigarettes 0:27
illegal Vapor Products and of course 0:30 illegal cannabis and it's got to stop 0:32 now the city of New York is losing 0:35 hundreds of millions of dollars we've 0:37 had thousands of small convenience 0:39 stores bodegas new stands shutting down 0:43 because of this proliferating illegal 0:46 Market thousands of illegal shops 0:49 opening up on our streets and and you 0:52 know for the kids that are here not only 0:54 is this a Scourge on society but $2 0:57 billion dollar a year of being taken 1:00 away from you they're taken being taken 1:02 away from police and fire and everything 1:04 else the city and state has to pay for 1:07 every single year so finally we're going 1:10 to be a nation of laws and it's because 1:11 of your hard work and your hard work 1:14 that we're going to get this in the 1:15 budget get it signed and get this passed 1:18 and get rid of these stores they are 1:21 cheating the taxpayers of much needed 1:23 Revenue the city and state of New York 1:26 deserves better our children deserve 1:29 better and if you're going to buy 1:31 cigarettes they should be taxed in a 1:34 legal brick and mortar store in the city 1:36 of New York and also you know we've lost 1:40 thousands of licenses we have to get 1:43 those licenses back because those are 1:45 the legal Market we need to bring 1:48 everything to the legal market right now 1:50 as we speak there are trucks traveling 1:54 up the I95 Corridor right now as we 1:57 speak from North Carolina from Virginia 2:00
from Georgia bringing up untaxed illegal 2:04 cigarettes and now they have a great 2:06 place to bring it right these thousands 2:08 of illegal markets that have opened up 2:11 so I'm going to ask the our leaders to
2:14 not forget about the illegal tobacco 2:16 problem these aren't just illegal stores 2:19 these are criminal Enterprises they they 2:22 are not only selling illegal cannabis 2:24 but the cigarettes that they're selling 2:26
robbing us of much needed revenue and 2:29 the flavored Vapes the illegal flavored 2:32 Vapes they're selling uh we have to stop 2:34 it now thank you so much for what you're 2:36 doing we're finally taking action thank 2:39 you thank you

David Schwartz, Director of NYAWD Talking About "The Smoke Out Act". This legislation aims to shut down illegal shops that sell untaxed cigarettes.

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0:01 GRANT THOSE RIGHTS TO 0:05 NONCITIZENS BUT REPUBLICANS 0:05 CHALLENGED THE MEASURE AND WON. 0:06 TODAY'S RULING UPHOLDS THAT 0:07 DECISION. 0:11 >>> NOW TO A MURDER 0:12 INVESTIGATION PUT ON HOLD AND 0:13 IT ALL COMES DOWN TO POLITICS. 0:14 THE MAN WANTED IN CONNECTION 0:36 WITH THE DEATH OF A WOMAN AND 0:38 SOHO IS BEHIND BARS IN ARIZONA 0:38 BUT PROSECUTORS WILL NOT LET 0:39 HIM LEAVE THE STATE. NAVEEN 0:39 DHALIWAL IS LIVE TO SORT OUT 0:40 ALL THE DETAILS. 0:40 >> Reporter: RAAD ALMANSOORI IS 0:41
IN ARIZONA AND POLICE SAY HE 0:42 LBUT ARIZONA PROSECUTORS 0:42 SAY THAT'S NOT HAPPENING. 0:44 >> WE WILL NOT BE AGREEING TO 0:45 EXTRADITION. 0:46 >> MARICOPA COUNTY ATTORNEY 0:49 RACHEL MITCHELL MAKING A BOLD 0:50 STATEMENT SAYING SHE WILL NOT 0:51 ALLOW RAAD ALMANSOORI BACK TO 0:53 NEW YORK AS PROSECUTORS HERE 0:55 SAY HE IS CONNECTED TO THE 0:57 KILLING OF 38-YEAR-OLD AT A 1:02 HOTEL TWO WEEKS AGO. 1:05 >> HAVING OBSERVED THE 1:06 TREATMENT OF VIOLENT CRIMINALS 1:07 IN THE NEW YORK AREA BY THE 1:11
MANHATTAN DA ALVIN BRAGG I 1:13 THINK IT IS SAFER TO KEEP HIM 1:14 HERE. 1:19 >> THE DAS OFFICE ACCUSING 1:20 ARIZONA PROSECUTORS OF PLAYING 1:21 POLITICAL GAMES IN A MURDER 1:24 INVESTIGATION. 1:24 >> I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF A 1:26 STATE NOT GRANTING THE 1:28 EXTRADITION FROM ANOTHER STATE 1:31 . 1:31 >> CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY 1:32 AND FORMER PROSECUTOR DAVID 1:33 SCHWARTZ CALLING THE STATEMENT 1:34 UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND 1:37
POLITICALLY MOTIVATED. 1:40 >> TO HOLD SOMEONE BECAUSE YOU 1:43 THINK THAT THE LAWS IN THE 1:44 OTHER STATE ARE NOT GOING TO 1:46 PROTECT THE PEOPLE BASED ON 1:50 BAIL. IT IS SUCH A RIDICULOUS 1:51 ARGUMENT. 1:51 >> WHILE ALMANSOORI HAS NOT 1:56 BEEN CHARGED WITH THE KILLING 1:57 OF DENISSE OLEAS-ARANCIBIA YET 1:59 , HER FAMILY REMEMBERING HER 2:00 LOVING WAYS SAYING SHE WAS 2:02 ALWAYS MAKING EVERYONE LAUGH 2:02 AND HAD SUCH A HUGE HEART. SHE 2:04 DID NOT DESERVE TO BE MURDERED. 2:06 MY FAMILY IS COMPLETELY 2:07 HEARTBROKEN AND THEY WANT 2:08 JUSTICE. THE NEW YORK 2:11 PROSECUTORS ARE DETERMINED TO 2:13 BRING THAT. 2:14 >> THEY ARE MORE THAN QUALIFIED 2:15 TO TRY THIS CASE OF A CRIMINAL 2:17 DEFENDANT THAT UNDOUBTEDLY IS 2:21 GOING TO BE HELD WITHOUT BAIL . 2:30 2:30 >> Reporter: THE COUNTY 2:32 ATTORNEY IN ARIZONA SAYS NEW

Attorney David Schwartz on man linked to woman killed in NYC @CBSNewYork

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A promising legislative proposal that’s not garnering much media buzz. A major project that needs to generate local buy-in. A bombshell corruption or abuse allegation.

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0:00 was born on the island of nidos which is 0:04 Greece has two volcanic islands one is 0:06 Santorini and the other one is lisos and 0:09 it must be that volcanic water Rec and 0:12 uh uh why did I write the book well like 0:17 I 0:18 said you know I was approaching 70 years 0:20 old 71 years 0:22 old I didn't want to get all-times and 0:26 forget and and and I I thought that was 0:29 important I wanted my kids my 0:33 grandkids to know where they came from 0:36 and I and I'm telling everybody out 0:39 there that's in his 60s start thinking 0:42 about writing a book uh because we all 0:46 go through Journeys and we all have kids 0:49 and 0:50 grandkids and you want them to know 0:53 where you came from uh and uh you know 0:57 my two my two grandfathers 1:00 came from the old 1:02 country in 1:05 1913 and they came to the Old Country 1:07 looking for the streets paved with gold 1:12 well it took me over 100 years to find 1:13 it uh it's 1:17 uh you know and they all came and they 1:21 all worked 100 hours a week my two 1:24 uncles came in 1925 1930 they left my 1:28 father in the old country to take care 1:31 of his three 1:32 sisters and his 1:35 mother and uh my father uh for 17 years 1:39 worked on the lighthouse by 1:42 himself we went to this Lighthouse and 1:45
it's a piece of Rock with a lighthouse 1:48 on it 17 years by himself with a few 1:51 goats and whatever and uh it was owned 1:55 uh those islands at those times was 1:58 owned by the Italian government 2:00 and I'm a member of the Columbus Club 2:03 why am I a member of the Columbus Club 2:05 could when I 2:06 was food great food when I was when I 2:11 was conceived you know the War World War 2:14 II was over in 1945
2:16 46 when I was 2:19 conceived those islands were part of 2:21 Italy when I was 2:23 born it part is Greece because what 2:27 happens the Brits who ran everything in 2:31 Europe they they said Italy you on the 2:34
wrong side we're taking all those 2:36 islands away from you and we're giving 2:39 it we're giving it back to Greece and uh 2:42 so that way I was conceived the GRE 2:45 Italian born a Greek but when I do my 2:48 DNA it turns out because the Greeks the 2:52 Italians the Jews you know it's one it 2:55 was one one people Mediterranean and I 2:58 was uh 28% 3:01 Italian uh 60% Macedonian Greek because 3:05 I guess my mother was from 3:08 Constantinople Northern where it's 3:11 called eul now and there's a lot of Jews 3:14 up there because all the Jews that came 3:16 from Spain and they moved over when they 3:19 were thrown out of 3:20 Spain um and I'm 6% Jewish why 6% when 3:26 you read the books you find out that if 3:29 it's 6% either your great grandmother or 3:33 one of your great-grandfathers was 3:35 Jewish so I tell all my Jewish friends 3:37 you know what I talk about my Jewish 3:40 friends one of my great-grandfathers was
3:43 screwed by a Jew 3:46 oh you 3:49 know you know most I tell you most of my 3:53 friends are Jewish most of my friends 3:54 are Italian so you you when you're one 3:58 of them or one of us one of all of us 4:03
you you feel good and you you know in 4:05 the old days we were all choked around 4:08 with each other I I grew up in uh 4:14 Western Harem on 135th Street between 4:19 Broadway and westand 4:21 Avenue and lewison stadium was up there 4:25 City College was there I went to ps12 4:28 that was just built up there and we all 4:32 one big happy family we had Irish we had 4:37 Jews we had Spanish we had we had 4:41 everybody and we all all lived together 4:45 I remember so many times I had friends 4:48 in Historia we would walk up Amsterdam 4:52 Avenue all the way down Amsterdam avue 4:55 all the way across 125th Street and 4:59 there was no 5:01 problems you know people said to me well 5:03 when did the problems happen in 5:05 Harlem I'm going to tell you a sad thing 5:08 because I'm older than a lot of you guys 5:09 and I'll tell you when it 5:12 happened 5:14 Vietnam when the kids came back from 5:18 Vietnam and a lot of them were drug 5:21 addicts that's when Harlem 5:23 turned and it was very sad that we 5:27 couldn't save some of those kids some of 5:29 those 5:31 uh I got involved on Fifth Street 5:34 William Fitz Ryan yeah uh was my 5:38 congressman he gave me the Congressional 5:42 nomination to go to West Point because I 5:44 always wanted to go either the Air Force 5:46 Academy or West 5:47 Point well I came home my mother cried 5:52 my father yelled I was an only 5:55 child okay I didn't go we ended up going 5:59 to NY you uptown campus when there was 6:01 an uptown campus and 6:06 um it's uh it was a great school and uh 6:11 uh my friend Jonathan frus is uh from 6:14 Alexander stores we went to school 6:16 together up there and uh uh we uh I 6:21 remember his mother donated like 7 6:23 million dollars to NYU at that time and 6:26
to build new buildings and everything 6:28 was great until years later n while you 6:31 ended up going broke and and they had to 6:34 sell the uptown campus um I don't know 6:37 where to begin end uh I get I'm so
6:42 involved with so many uh Charities I'm 6:44 so involved with a lot of businesses I 6:47 started in the supermarket business and 6:51 um all my 6:54 vendors like me all my vendors like me 6:58 all my uh I I ended up um how did we 7:03 grow uh I had a law firm Stein Rosen and 7:08 onstein all Greeks all 7:12 Greeks somebody told me I have to have a 7:14 Jewish 7:15 lawyer and 7:17 and Sam 7:20 Stein and his brother was Lewis Stein 7:23 who was chairman of food fair and that 7:25 goes on and on and on samstein owned a 7:28
Wholesale grocery company in in New 7:31 Jersey called filigre 7:33 foods and he got the liking to me I 7:37
opened up one store and it's a long 7:40 story that one store then 7:44 samstein there was no I had no banking 7:46 experiences I was in I was going to 7:48 school for 7:50 engineering well every time I needed
7:53 money samstein would call up the 7:56 controller of filigre foods which is the 7:58 wholesale grocer and said give John more 8:01 money and I started with one grocery 8:06 store uh when I was a a what I a senior
8:11 in I didn't graduate you know I tell I 8:15 told all my friends I was a credit short 8:17 you know I would look at that calculus 8:19 equation and I would say how how the 8:22 hell am I going to make any money 8:24
solving that capitalist equation I no 8:28 way there was no way so I was a credit 8:30 short mostly in my cence class uh and 8:35 uh we ended up with I started with one 8:39 store uh when I was still going to NYU
8:42 and in those days 8:44 NYU five days a week what what is this 8:47 crap where where my daughter went to NYU 8:50 and my son went to NYU you know they 8:53 schedule their courses three days a week 8:55 and you're off the rest of the week I 8:56 mean that's a that's a lot of crap I 8:58 mean nobody works 9:00 anymore right you know and uh uh we 9:06 ended up with Sam Stein's help and 9:09 another guy from a company called World 9:11 Dairy Lou Israel 9:14 up kept giving me money build another 9:17 store build another store when I build 9:18 more stores they were doing more 9:21 business no bank 9:24 that and we built like 10 stores by the 9:28 age of 23 9:30 24 and I started Marg you're talking 9:34 what I'm sorry I was grateful and was 9:37 making a million dollars a year which is 9:40 a lot of money in 9:42 1970 9:44 73 that wasn't a million dollars was 9:46 really worth a million 9:48 dollars and uh I just kept going and 9:51 going and I didn't care about money I 9:55 cared about success and I try to talk 9:58 about the book I cared more about 10:01 success than I cared for money I just 10:04 kept I work work work and don't forget I 10:08
wanted to be a pilot I wanted to be this 10:11 I wanted to do that 10:14 and eventually and I ended up going into 10:17 the real estate business why the real 10:19 estate 10:20 business when my lease came up in one of
10:23 my 10:24 stores the landlord wanted Triple R I 10:29 said oh crap I said if you don't own the 10:33 real estate I tell that to all real 10:35 estate all all store owners if you don't 10:39 own the real estate guess what someday 10:42 you're going to get 10:43 screwed and 10:46 it's I started buying real estate and I 10:50 took the excess cash out of the 10:51 supermarket business what real estate so 10:55 then by 3 4 years later we were real 10:59 real estate business we were in uh 11:02 Supermarket business and uh we kept 11:05 buying in 1977 the end of the world was 11:07 coming to New York the end of the world 11:10 I remember 1977 oh my God and on 30 in 11:16 of 11:18 snow 11:20 and and uh it 11:23 was uh I wanted to learn how to fly 11:27
airplanes so I went out and started to 11:30 learn how to fly an airplane and I 11:33 wanted to you you start with a single 11:35 engine 11:36 airplane by the age of 28 11:39 29 I was successful in real estate I was 11:42
successful in in 11:44 supermarkets I said I'm going to go on 11:47 and buy a 11:48 jet and we ended up being successful in 11:51 the aviation business we went we built 11:54 up that Aviation business the corporate 11:56 jet company to 4 eight corporate fets I 12:00 used to fly them 12:02 all 12:04 and we were supplying Atlantic City uh 12:08 how do we Supply Atlantic City you know 12:10 when you live in New York City or 12:12 Philadelphia they used to send a 12:13 limousine to pick you 12:16 up I convinced Atlantic 12:20
City that you can bring in more 12:22 customers if you do it within a 500 mile 12:25 radius rent my Jets 500 mile radius you 12:31 bring in the suckers I mean 12:34 customers so you know you pay us $55,000 12:37
for the jet for the round trip they'll 12:39 lose $20,000 and everybody's 12:42 happy so we went into the 12:52 a creation business we I was a dreamer 12:56 we ended up buying an airline we end up 12:58 end up uh buying an oil company we ended 13:01 up I kept buying in 13:05 1986 uh I don't a lot of you uh Ron 13:08
Perman bought Pantry PR 13:13 supermarkets he ended up selling me the 13:17 supermarkets in Florida and I gave him 13:20 the money to help buy Revlon I was there 13:23 it happened 13:26 and yes I'm I'm sorry 13:32 back um and 13:35 and so I ended up with supermarkets all 13:39 over Florida I ended up with 13:41
supermarkets all over the Virgin Islands 13:43 I ended up uh with supermarkets in New 13:45 York and I I I and we had what do we 13:50 have and I was stationed in Nashville 13:54 smura Tennessee running the 13:56 airline it goes on and on on and on 14:00 cavities I didn't I couldn't make up my 14:02 mind what to get involved in so you know 14:04 what we did got involved in all of them 14:07 got involved in kids Traves P Boy
14:12 Scouts uh Margot uh got involved in uh 14:17 diseases Parkinson's disease Alzheimer's 14:21 I got involved in diabetes which it was 14:23 diabetes in my family so my advice to 14:26 everybody when you don't know what to 14:28 get involved in get involved in 14:30 everything why not you know uh and um 14:35
and have fun at the same 14:37 time uh work hard have fun help people 14:44 uh one of my I have many mentors that 14:48 help me get where I'm getting uh and 14:50 I'll tell you let's say if I had 10 14:52 mentors probably eight of the 10 were 14:55 probably Jewish uh they help me in the 14:57 food industry they help helped me in 14:59 Charities one of them was Bob morthor a 15:02 DA uh and I worked very closely with Bob
15:05 morthor and he ran the police 15:08 athletically and for 40 years I worked 15:10 with him until he passed he passed away 15:13 at 99 years old and like 10 months which 15:18 was very sad we were planning his 100 15:20 birthday but now I'm chairman of Police 15:23 Athletic League following Bob Morgan th 15:26
trying to help the kids of the inocent 15:29 and you know I was a Democrat I I ran 15:32 Bill Clinton's campaigns back in the 15:34 '90s and then my my daughter married a 15:39 republican 15:40 uh so to have peace at the uh at the uh 15:44 table at Thanksgiving day uh I converted 15:49 to being a republican but I ran I ran as 15:51 a familiar in 2013 as a republican 15:54 liberal I go to stat Island and says 15:57 you're liberal what are you going to do 15:58 what a liberal I said look you know what 16:01 a liberal is a liberal is a PE person 16:05 who cares about our kids in the inner 16:08 city and you know I after I talked to 16:11 them they said yeah yeah you're right 16:14 you know look you can't help the whole 16:18 world and that's my argument with 16:20 President Biden you can't help the whole 16:22 world let's help our kids of the inner
16:25 city Let's help our poor of the inner 16:28 city 16:29 Let's help our vets the homeless in the 16:32
streets of New York before we worry 16:34 about helping the people from South 16:36 America of Africa I think we worry about 16:39 United States of America First Look they 16:43 they need help in in Africa they need 16:45 help in Central America send them money 16:48 send them food you know and 16:52 that's you know important uh I got 16:56 involved with uh the Greek Orthodox 16:59 church I am now the head of the Greek 17:01 Orthodox Church the highest 17:03 ranking uh lay person uh reporting to 17:08 the Archbishop and reporting to the to 17:10 the uh patriarch in 17:13 Constantinople uh I work with the eal 17:16 patriarch with uh our Communications 17:19 with the Jewish uh community in 17:22 Communications with with the Pope uh and 17:25 in New York I love cardal golden he's a 17:27 wonderful 17:29 uh Rabbi schne is my Rabbi New York and 17:32 Rabbi pachik and Rabbi butman every year 17:36 for 30 years I've been lighting that 17:38 manora uh and this year I was looking 17:41 around very carefully that I was liting 17:47 um on and on and on uh we're in 17:52 the like I said Supermarket business 17:55 Aviation business uh I was a banker one
17:59 time uh I was chairman and CEO of the 18:02 first New York Bank 18:04 uh and it's so many stories I I can't 18:07 tell them all so i' rather i' rather uh 18:11 give you the opportunity to ask some 18:14 questions and 18:16 um tell me what you want to he I mean 18:19 Where Do We Begin DAV I'll ask the first 18:22
question tell me first this way we'll 18:24 we'll get it all going so uh in the book 18:28 I was fascinated fascinated with 18:32 Sunshine okay and and and you know you 18:37 were you were married you got divorced 18:40 and you had this woman who was your 18:43 assistant working in your off right next 18:46
to you in fact in the first office the 18:48 way you describe it she was you couldn't 18:51 even if someone came in you described 18:53 Frank Purdue came into your office was 18:55 trying to uh sell you some chickens and 18:58 and and um there was someone Consulting 19:01 with you but Frank couldn't even see the 19:03 person next to you so you've always had 19:05 this boy that's why it's so appropo you 19:08 know the the the comments because she's 19:10 been always in your head making comments 19:14 directing you and from from the book 19:17 Margot had such a huge part of this 19:20 whole thing that was built absolutely so 19:24 so I just want you to comment on when 19:27 you saw father Alex that day and you 19:29
were telling them you were telling them 19:31 about your life and what were you going 19:32 to do personally and then out of your 19:35 mouth came I want Sunshine can you just 19:38 describe that and what Sunshine means to 19:40 you you know D no matter how tough of a 19:45 day you know it's very important to 19:47
Marry 19:48 well uh no matter how import tough of a 19:52 day I 19:53 had uh when I came home Margo was my 19:57 sunshine 19:58 and I would always laugh and smile along 20:02 with her thank you 20:08 Mor just one more question go ahead okay 20:11 first of all I want to acknowledge my 20:13 sunshine Heather 20:15
and and Courtney is here or or was here 20:19 she is okay all right so those are my 20:21 sunshines but next one I want you to 20:24 talk about your mom and dad uh again 20:28 fascinated in fact 20:57 your 21:12 that

John Catsimatidis, Author of How Far Do You Want to Go? At Gotham Government Relations

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0:03 Tuesday 37-year-old NYPD Sergeant Eric 0:06 Duran entered his plea and then minutes 0:09 later learned from a judge that bail 0:11 would indeed be set in his case I will 0:14 set bail at 0:17 $150,000 Duran seen on surveillance 0:19 video throwing a cooler at 30-year-old 0:22 Eric Dupri a suspect in a drug bust last
0:25 August in the Bronx that's Dupri on a 0:28 scooter riding down the sidewalk 0:30 attempting to flee the scene Dupri was 0:32 knocked off that scooter and later died 0:34 from his injuries the case brought by 0:36
New York State Attorney General Leticia 0:38 James a grand jury recommended criminal 0:41 charges of second deegree manslaughter 0:43 criminally negligent homicide and first 0:46 and second degree assault the defendant 0:48 knew or should have known that throwing 0:51 the cooler at Mr depri would either harm
0:54 him or distract him and ultimately cause 0:56 a collision Eric is dead because of Eric 1:00 action he drove directly at Sergeant 1:02 Eric Durant as well as two detectives 1:04 who didn't know he was coming this was a 1:07 momentary decision dei's relatives did 1:09 not speak after the hearing but Hawk 1:11 Nome head of the black lives matter 1:13 greater New York Chapter had this to say 1:16 usually when they kill us they do not 1:18 receive bail so today we can Rejoice for 1:22 this small step towards Justice the 1:25 president of the Sergeant's benevolent 1:26 Association Duran's Union released a 1:28 statement which reads in part quote the 1:30 message that was sent today is pretty 1:32 clear the top law enforcement office in 1:34 New York state would rather prosecute 1:36 members of law enforcement than career 1:38 criminals make no mistake the SBA will 1:40 aggressively defend Sergeant Durant 1:42 throughout this egregious judicial 1:44 ordeal criminal defense attorney and 1:46 former prosecutor David Schwarz it's 1:49 going to be a lot more than just the 1:51 video and we'll it's one of those close 1:54 calls in my 1:58 opinion if con Ed on just the top charge 2:01 alone Sergeant Duran faces a maximum of 2:03 up to 25 years in prison he's du back in 2:06 court on April 2:09 18th

NY Criminal Defense Attorney David Schwartz Talks About NYPD Sergeant Who Threw Cooler At Motorcyclist, Posts Bail ‪@PIX11News‬

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0:00 new tonight a grand jury has indicted 0:02 Alec Baldwin on an involuntary 0:04 manslaughter charge in the 2021 fatal 0:06 shooting on the set of the movie Russ 0:08 CBS 2's John Diaz live in our Newsroom 0:10
now with the latest developments John 0:12 yeah well Morris and Christine a grand 0:13 jury indicted the Alis actor this 0:15 afternoon after earlier this week 0:17 special prosecutors brought the case 0:19 before them in Santa Fe New Mexico but 0:21 it will be a criminal trial that will 0:23 determine if Baldwin should be convicted 0:26 years after a fatal shooting on set of 0:28 the western movie run 0:30 Alec Baldwin who was the lead actor and 0:32 co-producer is now facing new legal 0:35 problems a new analysis by experts in 0:37
ballistics on the gun used on set back 0:40 in 2021 determined the trigger had to 0:43 have been pulled or depressed 32 Santa 0:46 Fe one female shot in the chest Baldwin 0:48 admitted he was holding the gun but had 0:51 repeatedly denied pulling the trigger 0:53 saying he only pulled back the hammer 0:55 and then the gun went off the actions 0:58 led to the death of cinematographer 1:00 Helena Hutchin and wounded a director I 1:03 take the gun out slowly I turn I [ __ ] 1:05 the pistol bang it goes up she hits the 1:06 ground lawyers who represent Hutch's 1:08 parents said in part quote it is a 1:11 comfort to the family that in New Mexico 1:13 no one is above the law we support the 1:16 charges we spoke with a legal expert as 1:19 far as this rising to the level of a 1:21 crime on the part of Alec 1:23 Baldwin I don't think so we're told the 1:26 experts conducted this new analysis by 1:28 using forensic testing relied on 1:31 replacement parts that were used to 1:33 reassemble the gun Baldwin was holding 1:36 after parts of the gun were broken 1:38 during testing by the FBI in April 1:41 special prosecutors dismissed an 1:44 involuntary manslaughter charge against 1:46 Baldwin saying they were informed the 1:48 gun might have been modified before the 1:51
shooting and malfunctioned there's a lot 1:54 of Defense here where number one Alec 1:57 Baldwin was told that there was no live 2:00 ammunition in the gun or at the site and 2:04 earlier an FBI report said Firearms of 2:06 that design could go off without pulling 2:09 the trigger if force was applied to an 2:12 unlocked Hammer now lawyers for the rust 2:15 movies said that they do not plan on 2:16 making a comment and Baldwin's legal 2:18 team well they were just recently 2:20 responding saying quote we look forward 2:22 to our day in court live in The Newsroom 2:25 John Diaz CBS 2 News okay John thank you

Attorney David Schwartz Talking About Alec Baldwin Being Indicted On Involuntary Manslaughter Charge In Rust Shooting ‪@CBSNewYork‬

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0:00 residents on the Lower East Side are now 0:02 fil filing a class action lawsuit to 0:05 stop congestion pricing they are the 0:07 latest group to claim the MTA is 0:09 disregarding the environmental impact on 0:11 their Community CBS 2 political reporter 0:14 Marsha Kramer here now with more on this 0:16 Mar Maurice and Christine first it was 0:18 New Jersey governor Phil Murphy followed 0:20 by the mayor of Fort Lee and the burrow 0:22 president of Staten Island now is people 0:25 who live on the low E side saying 0:26
congestion pricing will adversely impact 0:29 their lives and they are demanding a 0:31 full scale a fullscale environmental 0:33 impact study before the tolling plan 0:36 goes into effect but I feel that my 0:38 voice and the voices of my neighborhood 0:40 have been ignored and dismissed lowy 0:42 side resident Trevor Holland one of many 0:44 sign caring protesters worrying about 0:47 the increase in pollution caused by 0:49 congestion pricing which will charge 0:51 drivers steep fees to drive into 0:52 Manhattan Central business district 0:54 below 60th stre the ntaa lies when it 0:57 says that congestion pricing will have a 0:59
positive impact on the central business 1:00 district and that it will help the 1:02 environment their own environmental 1:04 report shows that congestion pricing 1:06 will actually increase pollutants In 1:08 This Very Community the residents joined 1:11 by numerous public officials in filing a 1:13 class action suit several lawmakers 1:16 represent so-called Transit deserts 1:18 where residents are forced to drive due 1:20 to the lack of mass transit options why 1:22 isn't there an environmental impact 1:25 study on such a it's going to push uh 1:29 obvious pollution around to other 1:31 neighborhoods why not you know why 1:34 because they might not like the results 1:36 the MTA they wouldn't like the results 1:38 they did an environmental assessment 1:40 study which is essentially a rubber 1:43 stamp that's how serious the MTA is and 1:46 with congestion pricing set to raise a 1:47 billion dollars a year for Capital 1:49 Improvements others questioned the 1:51 ability of the agency to spend money 1:53 wisely simply throwing more and more 1:55 money down the black hole of of a broken 1:59 system is is not the answer the MTA 2:01 defended his 4,000 page environmental 2:03 assessment and insisted that the 2:05 environmental concerns will be 2:07 re-evaluated for the adopted tolling 2:09 structure before tolling commences it's 2:12 time to move forward and deal with the 2:13 congestion that's clogging roads and 2:15 slowing down emergency vehicles buses 2:17 and commerce while also polluting the 2:19 airway breed said the mta's John 2:21 McCarthy legal experts said residents 2:24 may have a good case for a re-evaluation 2:26 of the policy there's a lot of moving 2:29 Parts here but certainly the the court 2:31 is going to be given enough to chew on 2:34 that that they need to you know they 2:36 need to at least uh put the mta's feet 2:38 to the fire about this environmental 2:42 impact now the MTA hopes to begin 2:44 congestion pricing in the spring but 2:46 with so many different suits it's
2:48 unclear whether they actually will be 2:50 able to Christine Maurice which sounds 2:52 like we're a longer way off at this 2:54 moment right lot people are hoping it 2:56 right it could be thanks Mara Mara

Attorney David Schwartz, Gothan Government Relations Talking About NYC Residents Suing To Stop Congestion Pricing ‪@CBSNewYork‬

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0:00 the giggle beach murder suspect is due 0:02 in court today where he's expected to be 0:04 hit with a fourth murder charge Rex hman 0:07 has already been charged with killing 0:09 three women whose bodies were found on 0:12 gilgal beach back in 2010 authorities 0:14 have said hman is also the prime suspect 0:17
in the killing of a fourth woman he is 0:20 pleaded not guilty and we are going to 0:22 dive into this a little more joining us 0:24 now is New York criminal defense 0:26 attorney and former prosecutor David 0:28
Schwarz to help put these new 0:30 developments into perspective welcome 0:32 thanks so much for joining us thanks for 0:34 having me so let's get right into it h 0:37 what's expected to happen today can you
0:40 walk us through the timeline of events 0:43 sure uh you know today is not going to 0:45 be that that big of a deal what they're 0:47 going to do is they're going to bring hu 0:49 uh hman into court uh this morning uh 0:52 hman is going to be uh arranged on the 0:55 fourth indictment uh he will probably 0:58 wave the reading of that indictment so 1:00 the whole indictment won't be read to 1:01 the court uh H hurman will uh plead not 1:05 guilty and uh baale will remain uh with 1:09 with no bail conditions and he'll be 1:11 remanded to the uh suffi County prison 1:14 so that that's really all that's going 1:16 to happen this morning uh the da may 1:18 give some facts in court I know the I 1:21 Know da Tierney is going to have a press 1:24 conference afterwards to talk about the 1:27 fourth uh Gilgo murder victim and David 1:30 the last time we heard from
1:32 investigators we were told that this 1:33 case was quote winding down can you take 1:36 us behind the scenes uh what has been 1:39 happening since then right well it was 1:42 the investigation for the first three so 1:45 so humman was uh indicted and remanded 1:48 for the first three murders they want 1:50 they they made the Strategic decision to 1:53 make the arrest at that moment in time 1:55 because they were already surveilling 1:57 him for about a year and uh they they 2:00 just didn't want anything to go wrong so 2:02 they made that arrest and in the 2:04 meantime they were investigating the 2:06 fourth murder and they were uh waiting 2:09 for the uh mitochondrial DNA analysis on 2:12 the fourth murder and this is a 2:14 scientific case this is a DNA case and 2:17 that's what da tyranny did there were no 2:20 eyewitnesses to this case so it's a
2:21 circumstantial case plus scientific 2:24 evidence okay so if Rex hman is indeed 2:27 charged with a fourth murder would that 2:30 change the case how would it change the 2:32 case well it it it makes the case you 2:36 know you have to prove each and every 2:37 element of each and every crime on each 2:40 and every murder so so it it makes the 2:44 case more complicated but actually you 2:47 know when you're when you're trying a 2:49 serial killer it it actually tightens up 2:52 the case in certain ways but in other 2:54 ways you still have to prove the 2:56 scientific evidence DNA is not a layup 2:58 everybody thinks DNA is a layup it's not 3:01 a layup because they didn't use nuclear 3:04 DNA which uh specifically points to a 3:07 particular person they used 3:09 mitochondrial da because DNA because of 3:12 13 years later all this time went by 3:15 which excludes 3:17 99.6% of the population so it's 3:20 scientific evidence plus circumstantial
3:22 evidence they have his truck they have 3:24 phone records they have uh all Ty all 3:28 types of other evidence that they're 3:30 going to piece this case together so I 3:31 expect this case to be a complicated 3:33 case and I expect to last a a good 3:36 amount of time a long time all right 3:38 David thank you so much for your 3:39 insights David Schwarz New York criminal 3:40 defense attorney former prosecutor 3:42
thanks for being here this morning thank 3:44 you

NY Attorney David Schwartz Talking About Rex Heuermann's Court Appearance on @CBSNewYork

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0:00 suspect has been charged with killing a 0:02 fourth woman Rex hman due back in court 0:04 February 6 let's get more on this 0:07 joining us live is David Schwarz a New 0:09 York criminal defense attorney and a
0:11 former prosecutor David do we have any 0:13 idea why it took until now for hman to 0:16 be charged with this killing of a 0:18 Connecticut woman presumably linked to 0:21 the others right Bridget well I mean
0:24 first of all it took 13 years to even 0:26 bring the first arraignments what 0:28 happened was they were prevailing H uh H 0:31 hman for an entire year building a case 0:34 up and they had the first three cases 0:37
because the uh mitochondrial DNA came 0:40 back um which is a whole another story 0:43 but they didn't get it on the fourth uh 0:45 victim and so what they decided to do is 0:48 make the arrest for the first three
0:50 while uh this defendant is incarcerated 0:54 to to investigate for the fourth and 0:56 that's why we have the supplemental 0:58 indictment today okay as far as the 1:02 prosecution and their potential evidence 1:06 um we understand it involves belts one 1:08 with the initials wh believed to be from 1:11 the late grandfather of Rex hman um how 1:16 strong a case does this seem to be to 1:19 you well a a circum a circumstantial 1:23 case is sometimes much stronger than a 1:25 case where there's an eyewitness or 1:27
direct evidence so this is what tyranny 1:30 the DA has been building up ever since 1:32 he took office is to develop this 1:34 circumstantial case if the da had to 1:37 rely on scientific evidence alone the 1:40 way it the way the S the DNA lays out 1:43 they wouldn't be able to get a 1:44 conviction just on the DNA alone because 1:47 all the DNA does it doesn't show that 1:50 hurman himself committed these murders 1:53 it just it it it it takes away about 1:56 99.6% of the rest of the PO population 2:00 but doesn't doesn't exclude huran so 2:02 that's an important piece of evidence 2:04 but you have to take that in conjunction 2:06 with all the other circumstantial 2:07 evidence you mentioned the belt we have 2:09 the truck we have the phone records 2:12 there's a lot of circumstantial evidence 2:14 that we don't even know about right now 2:15 this is going to be a long trial and 2:18 it's all about putting the pieces of the 2:20 puzzle together uh in order to uh
2:23 convict him of these four murders as I 2:26 mentioned at the beginning you're a 2:27 former prosecutor you're also a crial 2:30 defense attorney how would you defend 2:32 Rex hman well certainly I would go after
2:35 the DNA which which you know can be 2:38 successful in the defense the problem 2:40 with the defense because you can show 2:42 that it doesn't show that hman himself 2:46 committed the murder just didn't exclude 2:48 him which is a very very big deal uh you 2:50 could go after the years and years of 2:53
decay of the DNA evidence of the hair 2:56 fibers but look you got to attack a each 3:00 piece of circumstantial evidence 3:02 directly and then tell that jury that 3:04 there's not enough that there's not 3:06
enough there's no eyewitnesses and and 3:09 they did not um connect each link of 3:11 that circumstantial uh chain you know 3:15 and and of course the da is going to say 3:17 use your common sense there is 3:19
overwhelming evidence circumstantial 3:21 evidence to convict this defendant David 3:23 Schwartz New York criminal defense 3:25 attorney and former prosecutor David 3:27 thank you so much WCBS news time 1108 3:30 your update next on traffic

Attorney David Schwartz, Former Prosecutor Talking About Rex Heuermann's Court Appearance on 88 WCBS

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0:03 stop trying to jump into his grab bag of 0:06 ineffective Solutions Mar W with the New 0:09 York immigration Coalition says New York 0:11 City's lawsuit against the bus companies 0:14 that transport Asylum Seekers is a waste 0:16 of time and money has nothing to do with 0:19 creating lasting change we really need 0:21 to be investing in ensuring that we are 0:25 funding programs that are actually going 0:26 to help people in this moment the 0:28 16-page lawsuit alleges that 17 charter 0:32 bus companies that transported more than 0:34 30,000 migrants to the city violated New 0:38 York's Social Services law 149 it states 0:41 in part that any person who knowingly 0:44 brings a needy person from out of state 0:46 into the state for the purpose of making 0:48 him a public charge shall be obligated 0:51 to convey such a person out of state or 0:54 support him at his own expense we are 0:56 suing to recoup approximately $700 0:59 million already spent to care for 1:02 migrants bus here in the last two years 1:05 by the state of Texas the suit claims 1:07 the bus companies operated with bad 1:09 faith and evil intent and received 1:11 roughly 1:13
$1,650 per person on the bus attorney 1:17 David Schwarz says the suit shows the 1:19 Adams Administration is thinking outside 1:21 the box it's a very Innovative lawsuit 1:24 certainly the transportation companies 1:26 could argue that they were just merely 1:28 hired by the state of Texas the 1:30 transportation companies can probably 1:32 bring in uh Governor Abbot as well 1:35 attorney Rada Castro with USA for all 1:38 immigration law agrees it's Innovative 1:40 but adds as a lawyer I don't see um any 1:44
kind of recovery he's seeking a pretty 1:46 high amount in Damages and I personally 1:48 as a lawyer don't see how the bus 1:50 companies would be 1:55 liable and I asked the mayor's office 1:57 why was this lawsuit filed only now when 2:00 that law has been around for a while but 2:02 we did not get an answer to that 2:03
specific question as for the bus 2:06 companies only one of the 17 responded 2:08 to us wind Transportation said they only 2:11 took over in February of last year and 2:13 they say they do not have a contract 2:15
currently with the state of 2:21 Texas

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Gotham Government Relations Recognized as NYC's Top 50 Lobbyists

Manhattan-based lobbying firm Gotham Government Relations cut all ties with Stuart Seldowitz on Tuesday after a viral video emerged showing him harassing a halal cart vendor in the Upper East Side. “I did have an argument with a food vendor,” Seldowitz told City & State. “It is quite possible that it's me. I mean, I've not seen the video, but I believe it's probably me.”

Seldowitz, who worked in the U.S. State Department’s Office of Israel and Palestinian Affairs and then served as Acting Director of the National Security Council South Asia Directorate in the Obama administration, was named Foreign Affairs Chair at Gotham Government Relations last year.

“Gotham Government Relations has ended all affiliation with Stuart Seldowitz,” the lobbying firm announced in a statement. “The video of his actions is vile, racist and beneath the dignity of the standards we practice at our firm.”

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City & State: Gotham Government Relations cuts ties with former Obama administration official caught harassing halal cart vendor

“By the way, I’ll represent the food vendor pro bono if he wants to bring a lawsuit,” Gotham Government Relations president David Schwartz said.

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0:00 this is New York's number one News 0:03 Channel 7 Eyewitness News some new 0:05 developments tonight in the federal 0:06 fundraising investigation involving the 0:08 campaign two years ago of New York mayor 0:10 Adams a week after the FBI seized the 0:13 mayor's cell phones and his iPad we 0:15 learned that investigators are looking 0:16 into if and how Mr Adams might have 0:19 helped the Turkish government get fire 0:21 department clearance to open the Turkish 0:23 Consulate near the UN before Adams 0:25 became mayor the investigation became 0:27 public after the FBI raid on the mayor's 0:29 Chief fund rer 11 days ago I would rep 0:32 NJ Burkin with the story and the latest 0:33 he's live at City Hall for us 0:36 n yeah right Bill the FBI is following 0:39 the money tonight where did it come from 0:42 where did it go and why for the mayor at 0:44 least for the moment it's business as 0:49 usual it's the image mayor Adams is 0:51 determined to project that he's focused 0:54 and in control we talking about 0:58 helicopters deflect questions about the 1:01 investigation while praising the 1:03 potential of electric helicopters you 1:05 have to be focused uh no distractions 1:08 and grind and that's what this 1:09 Administration is about straight ahead 1:11 and that's what Eric Adams tried to do 1:13 today even as the questions persist it 1:16 was 11 days ago that FBI agents raided 1:19 the home of the mayor's Chief fundraiser 1:21 Briana Suggs amid a federal 1:23 investigation into whether Adam's 2021 1:26 campaign received illegal contributions 1:29 from citizens and government officials 1:31 in Turkey sources confirm that 1:33 authorities are now investigating 1:35
whether Adams Then the Brooklyn burough 1:37 president played a role in fast-tracking 1:39 a certificate of occupancy for the 1:41 Turkish Consulate which opened that same 1:44 year text messages indicate that Adams 1:46 raised the issue with then fire 1:48 commissioner Dan Nigro but sources say 1:51 Adams apparently made no specific 1:53 request the messages recovered after the 1:56 mayor was ordered to surrender his cell 1:57 phones to FBI agents in a surprise 2:00 encounter last week Rich Frankle is a 2:03
former FBI special agent in charge they 2:06 believe he's got evidence of criminal 2:09 activity on his phone he may be a 2:12 witness and it may not actually 2:13 implicate him but the fact that the FBI 2:15 did it in that manner surprising former 2:18 prosecutor David Schwarz there has to be 2:20 an exact tie in to the mayor and this 2:24 money and there's no evidence of that 2:26 whatsoever that we know of so far that 2:28 we know of so far council member Gail 2:30 Brewer says it's not uncommon to 2:32 intervene with the FDNY to get 2:35 inspections done I help people with the 2:37 fire department all the time because the 2:38 fire department has very few inspectors 2:40 and so I'm always calling the fire 2:42 department to please hurry up and get 2:44 the inspection done on the restaurant so 2:46 we can 2:48 open Miss ruard told me that the case 2:50 has not become a distraction for city 2:52 government at least not so far as for 2:54 the mayor he says he will answer 2:56 reporters questions here tomorrow live 2:59 tonight at Hall and J Burke at channnel
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FBI Seized NYC Mayor Eric Adams' Phones In Fundraising Investigation. Legal Analysis With NY Attorney David Schwartz on WABC7

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AP News: Gotham Government Relations LLC Joins Forces with The Auxiliary Police Benevolent Association of The City of New York

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Yahoo Finance: More Downstate Voters Rejecting Major Parties & Registering Independent

NEW YORK, Oct. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Voters in New York City and Long Island are increasingly scrapping the two major political parties to register as independents – a trend that underscores the importance of candidates appealing to voters 50-plus, a new AARP New York-sponsored analysis of voter rolls shows.

Calone, a former prosecutor who works in the private sector, touted his business experience as being the best fit for the job while Romaine maintained that his decades of service as an elected official in the county and Town of Brookhaven makes him the ideal choice for voters.

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Dan's Papers: Calone, Romaine Make Their Cases to Long Island Seniors at AARP Forum

Democrat Dave Calone and Republican Ed Romaine each argued why they are the best person to be the next top-elected official on eastern Long Island while making their case to the region’s largest voting bloc — seniors — during the AARP’s Suffolk County executive candidate forum on Oct. 10.

PoliticsNY: Calone, Romaine Make Their Cases to Long Island Seniors at AARP Forum

Democrat Dave Calone and Republican Ed Romaine each argued why they are the best person to be the next top-elected official on eastern Long Island while making their case to the region’s largest voting bloc — seniors — during the AARP’s Suffolk County executive candidate forum on Oct. 10.

The forum will be held at Stony Brook University and is sponsored by AARP New York, WABC-TV and Schneps Media, the parent company of the Long Island Press, Dan’s Papers and Noticia. The forum will be moderated by Chantee Lans, WABC-TV’s Long Island correspondent and will offer voters the chance to hear directly from the candidates.

The forum is scheduled for 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 10 at the Charles B. Wang Center, 100 Circle Rd., at Stony Brook University. RSVPs are required for in-person attendance at countyexecforumaarpli.com

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Dan's Papers: AARP Suffolk County Executive Candidate Forum Is Oct. 10

Republican Brookhaven Town Supervisor Ed Romaine and Democratic ex-prosecutor David Calone will focus on issues facing voters age 50 and older during the next Suffolk County Executive Forum scheduled for Oct. 10.

Long Island Press: AARP Suffolk County Executive Candidate Forum Is Oct. 10

Republican Brookhaven Town Supervisor Ed Romaine and Democratic ex-prosecutor David Calone will focus on issues facing voters age 50 and older during the next Suffolk County Executive Forum scheduled for Oct. 10.

Long Island News 12: Nassau County adding new liaison office, service bus for seniors

Some help is now on its way for Nassau County seniors, officials announced.

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>> JUST A SHOCKER AND SO SAD. 0:06 THE NEW INDICTMENT AGAINST 0:07 FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP AND 18 0:09 OTHERS CHARGED WITH CRIMES OF 0:13 TRYING TO OVERTURN THE ELECTION
0:14 IN GEORGIA. 0:18 TRUMP AND GIULIANI ARE THE FOCUS 0:23 OF THESE INDICTMENTS. 0:25 GEORGIA OFFICIALS USING A LOCAL 0:28 VERSION OF THE FEDERAL RICO ACT. 0:30 IT WAS USED BY GIULIANI WHEN HE 0:31 WAS A FEDERAL PROSECUTOR. 0:39 NOW IT COULD LAND HIM IN PRISON. 0:50 >> THE PROSECUTION IS TURNING 0:52 THE TABLES. 0:54 WE ARE OUTSIDE MADISON AVENUE.
0:58 WE SPOKE AND THEY LISTED THE 1:03 HIGHLIGHTS OF HIS RESUME. 1:04 HE WENT ON THE RADIO AND 1:06 DEFENDED HIMSELF, BUT WITHOUT 1:10 QUESTION, THESE CHARGES ARE A 1:11 STUNNING TURN OF EVENTS FOR THE 1:13 FORMER MAYOR. 1:13 >> IT IS A FOURTH INDICTMENT 1:17 AGAINST DONALD TRUMP, CHARGING 1:19 HIM WITH MULTIPLE CRIMINAL 1:20 COUNTS IN A PLOT TO CHANGE THE 1:23 OUTCOME OF THE VOTE COUNT. 1:28 >> WEATHER ABIDE BY THE PROCESS 1:31 FOR LEGAL CHALLENGES, THEY 1:34 ENGAGED IN A RACKETEERING 1:38 ENTERPRISE TO OVERTURN GEORGIA'S
1:40 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION RESULTS. 1:42 >> TRUMP IS CHARGED WITH 18 1:45 OTHERS, INCLUDING MARK MEADOWS 1:46 AND RULING GIULIANI. 1:50 TRUMP MADE MULTIPLE CALLS TO 1:52
GEORGIA REPUBLICANS, INCLUDING A 1:54 PROMINENT STATE CENTER, THE 1:55 GOVERNOR, THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, 1:58 AND THE SECRETARY OF STATE WHOSE 2:01 CALL LAUNCHED THE INVESTIGATION. 2:04 >> I JUST WANT TO FIND 11,780 2:08 VOTES, ONE MORE THAN WE HAVE, 2:13
BECAUSE WE WON THE STATE. 2:18 >> THERE IS A LOT OF MISS 2:19 INFORMATION FOR A NUMBER OF
2:21 YEARS. 2:24 >> MY HOPE IS THAT AMERICANS AND 2:27 REPUBLICANS BELIEVE US. 2:29 >> HE IS A CENTRAL FIGURE IN THE 2:34 CONSPIRACY, ACCUSED OF MAKING 2:34 FALSE CLAIMS TO THE SENATE.
2:41 >> IT IS QUITE CLEAR THEY ARE 2:42 STEALING VOTES. 2:52 >> IT IS A TOUGH CASE BECAUSE 2:55
YOU COULD BE LOOSELY CONNECTED 2:57 AND CONSPIRACY AS PART OF THE 3:00 RICO STATUTE. 3:01 YOU DON'T HAVE TO PROVE THE 3:02 UNDERLYING CRIMES, JUST PROVE 3:04 THERE IS A CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT 3:07 THE UNDERLYING CRIMES. 3:12 >> THE FORMER MAYOR DEFENDED 3:14 HIMSELF ON THE RADIO. 3:17 HERE IS SOME OF WHAT HE SAID. 3:22 >> I AM INDICTED FOR BEING A 3:30 LAWYER. 3:30 I THOUGHT WHEN I WAS DOING THIS 3:33 I WAS PROTECTED BY THE FACT THAT
3:34 I WAS DEFENDING HIM. 3:36 I AM SUPPOSED TO ARGUE IN HIS 3:40 FAVOR. 3:44 >> MORE ON THE ALLEGATIONS AND 3:45 THE CONTEXT FOR ALL OF THIS 3:47 COMING UP AT 6:00

NY Criminal Defense Attorney David Schwartz Talks About Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani & The Indictment By Georgia Grand Jury on WABC 7.

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ABC News: Attorney David Schwartz Talks About Former Mayor Giuliani & The Indictment By Georgia Grand Jury.

NY Criminal Defense Attorney David Schwartz Talks About Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani & The Indictment By Georgia Grand Jury on WABC 7.

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0:00 the 17 year old high school student 0:02 charged in the stabbing death of 0:04 28-year-old O'Shea Sibley will be tried 0:06 as an adult Sibley had been dancing with 0:09 friends at a Brooklyn gas station when 0:10 police say they got into a confrontation 0:12 with another group CBS 2's Alice Gainer 0:15 was in court for the suspect's 0:16 arraignments 0:18 seventeen-year-old Dimitri Popov entered 0:20 the courtroom and looked at his family 0:21 in the gallery as they waved they said 0:23 nothing after you have any comment at 0:25 all hop-off's attorney entered a knock 0:27 guilty plea on his behalf on charges 0:29 that include second-degree murder as a 0:30 hate crime for the stabbing death of 28 0:32 year old O'Shea Sibley he regrets what 0:35 happens certainly does but it doesn't 0:37 mean that he's guilty of a crime on July 0:39 29th Sibley was dancing with friends at 0:41 a gas station in Midwood Brooklyn the 0:43 NYPD says a group of teens got into an 0:45 argument with Sibley and his friends and 0:47 spewed homophobic slurs and anti-black 0:49 statements at them security camera video 0:51 shows both groups walking away Sibley 0:53 then comes back to confront Popoff who 0:55 was recording with his phone allegedly 0:57 continuing to say hateful remarks Sibley 1:00 is seen following the teen then lunging 1:01 at him the Brooklyn D.A says Popoff
1:03 allegedly reached into his pocket and 1:05 pointed a knife at one of Sibley's 1:06 friends threatening to stab him the 1:08 stabbing happened out of view of the 1:10 cameras allegedly at the hands of Popov 1:12 the Brooklyn D.A notes Sibley did not 1:14 have a weapon defending yourself from 1:16 being an anti gay or an anti-black 1:19 comment and arguing back is not a cause 1:23 for someone to take a weapon and do what
1:27 was done pop-off's attorney claims his 1:28 client did not hurl hate speech and I 1:30 suspect that other people did that were 1:33 not arrested he says they're looking 1:35 into self-defense but it's early 1:36 criminal defense attorney David Schwartz 1:38 who is not involved in the case explains 1:40 what that would require what the defense 1:42 needs to show is that this um Act was 1:46 justified and that the defendant 1:49 reasonably believed that his life was in 1:52 harm or he was in danger of physical 1:54 harm the defendant first had to try to 1:58 retreat from the harm before invoking 2:01 the self-defense rallies and vigils have 2:04 been held in Sibley's honor in support 2:05 of the lgbtqia plus Community it robs 2:08 not just the family but an entire 2:11 community of the sense of Safety and 2:14 Security on the hate crime count if 2:16
convicted it's a minimum 20 years behind 2:18 line bars the maximum 25 to Life 2:20 popoff's next court date is October 10th 2:22 outside of the courthouse in downtown 2:24 Brooklyn Alice Gainer CBS 2 News

17 Year Old Pleads Not Guilty In O'Shae Sibley's Stabbing Death. Analysis With NY Criminal Defense Attorney David Schwartz on CBS 2.

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ABC News: NY Criminal Defense Attorney David Schwartz Talks About Daniel Penny Pleading Non Guilty

NY Criminal Defense Attorney David Schwartz Talks About Daniel Penny Pleading Non Guilty on ABC 7 NY

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CBS News - NY Criminal Defense Attorney David Schwartz Breaks Down Daniel Penny Manslaughter Charge

NY Criminal Defense Attorney David Schwartz Breaks Down Daniel Penny Manslaughter Charge on CBS 2-NY

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0:01 1 News Channel 7 Eyewitness News now to 0:05 the indictment of Daniel penny in the 0:07 subway choking death of Jordan nearly in 0:09 the former Marine Fleet and not guilty 0:10 to charges of second-degree manslaughter 0:12 and criminally negligent homicide today 0:14 he insists he was defending himself and 0:17 others on the train that day today 0:19 prosecutors revealed new information in 0:21 the case against Penny here's Albany 0:22 news reporter Angie Burkett 0:25 Daniel Petty rushed from Criminal Court
0:27 surrounded by bodyguards and said 0:30 nothing to reporters the indictment 0:32 charges penny with manslaughter and 0:34 criminally negligent homicide that the 0:37 former Marine Corps Sergeant recklessly 0:39 caused the death of Jordan Neely his 0:42 attorneys predicted that Penny will be 0:43
exonerated by a sympathetic jury the 0:46 reality is that there is not a living 0:48 breathing soul in Manhattan that has not 0:51 experienced A variation of What Not only 0:54 Mr Penny but the other individuals 0:57 experienced on that subway car in the 0:59 day in question Penny admitted to 1:01 detectives that he subdued nearly after 1:03 nearly burst onto an F train and began 1:05 ranting throwing trash and threatening 1:08 Riders nearly was very aggressive going 1:11 crazy that people in the subway were 1:13 afraid for their safety I just came up 1:15 behind him and put him in a Chokehold he 1:18 said he was threatening everybody the 1:20 D.A says the evidence shows Penny acted 1:22 almost instantly wrestling nearly into a 1:25 Choco old within a minute and held him 1:28 that way allegedly putting Jordan nearly 1:30 in a deadly Chokehold for several 1:32 minutes until and after he stopped 1:35 moving former prosecutor David Schwartz 1:37 the whole case is gonna hinge upon how 1:41 long that Chokehold took place for and 1:44 did it reach a moment in time where Mr 1:47 Penny consciously disregarded a risk 1:50 that a death could occur nearly was 30 1:52 years old and homeless with the 1:54 documented history of mental illness and 1:56 dozens of arrests his supporters contend 1:59 he had not harmed anyone on the train
2:01 that day before he was subdued Daniel 2:03 Penny killed the man 2:05 he took a life 2:07 and for everyone who thought donating 2:10 three million dollars was somehow make 2:13 this go away 2:15 or buy his pass 2:18 is not going to happen prosecutors 2:20 revealed today that they have five cell 2:22 phone videos from three different 2:23 eyewitnesses as well as MTA surveillance 2:27 video Penny pleaded not guilty today and 2:29 remains free on bail tonight in lower 2:32 Manhattan NJ burka Channel 7 Eyewitness
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NY Criminal Defense Attorney David Schwartz Talks About Daniel Penny Pleading Non Guilty on ABC 7 NY

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0:01 WE ARE WORKING TO FIND OUT WHAT 0:03 HAPPENED BEFORE AND AFTER. 0:06 >>> A COURT VICTORY FOR THE 0:08 PARENTS OF GABBY PETITO. 0:09 A JUDGE RULED THAT A BURN AFTER 0:11
READING LETTER, WRITTEN BY 0:13 BRIAN LAUNDRIE'S MOTHER, WILL 0:14 NOT -- WILL BE ADMITTED INTO 0:17 EVIDENCE AS PART OF A LAWSUIT. 0:24 POLICE SAY BRIAN LAUNDRIE, 0:25 GABBY'S BOYFRIEND, KILLED GABBY 0:25 PETITO AND LATER HIMSELF IN 0:27 2021. 0:28 POTATOES FAMILY IS SUING THE 0:32 LAUNDRIES AND THEIR FORMER 0:33 ATTORNEY FOR EMOTIONAL 0:34 DISTRESS.
0:35 >> IT TALKS ABOUT PROTECTING 0:36 THE SUN AT ALL COSTS. 0:40 IT TALKS ABOUT HELPING THE SUN 0:41 DISPOSE OF A BODY. 0:43 THAT GOES TO THE HEART OF 0:44 INTENTIONAL INFLICTION OF 0:45 EMOTIONAL DISTRESS. 0:49 >> AGAIN, THAT BURN AFTER 0:50 READING LETTER, A JUDGE RULED 0:51 WILL BE ADMITTED INTO EVIDENCE 0:52 AS PART OF A LAWSUIT. 0:57 LAWYERS FOR THE LA

Gabby Petito’s Parents Get Letter From Brian Laundrie’s Parents In Civil Lawsuit. Analysis With NY Attorney David Schwartz on CBS 2

NY Attorney David Schwartz Weighs In On Subway Chokehold Death Case on WABC 7.

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0:00 you and right now we're being joined by 0:01 former prosecutor and defense attorney 0:03 David Schwartz David thank you for 0:05 joining us good morning first off Daniel 0:08 he was charged Daniel Penny rather 0:09 charged with second degree manslaughter 0:11 so why did the district attorney opt for
0:12 this charge 0:13 yeah I think this charge makes a lot of 0:16 sense you know from a charging 0:17 standpoint the the D.A would have three 0:20 options you'd have the basic murder 0:22 charge you have manslaughter and you 0:25 have criminally negligent homicide now 0:26 we don't know what the grand jury is 0:28 going to decide this is just the initial 0:30 charge for the arraignment uh the D.A 0:33 decided to make the arrest and to and to 0:36 charge with the Reckless manslaughter uh 0:40 but then it's going to be presented to 0:41 the grand jury next week and we'll see 0:43 what they actually charge out but the 0:45
reason why um this manslaughter charge 0:48 was was brought forward is because it's 0:51 based on a recklessness standard was 0:53 there a reckless and unjustifiable risk 0:56 to human life and that's going to be the 0:58 question for the jury and one of the 1:00 questions people will ask is second 1:01 degree manslaughter rather than first 1:03 what's the difference there well yeah so 1:06 the first degree manslaughter is an 1:09 intentional act where a a killing where 1:12 where a Honda side occurs this second
1:16 degree is based on this recklessness 1:18 standard was there an unjustifiable risk 1:21 taken 1:22 um in in this particular case was the 1:24 show called a reckless act where the 1:27 defendant didn't intend to kill uh Mr 1:30 Neely but but a death did occur by this 1:34 Reckless act and that's what the jury is 1:36 going to have to 1:38 um tackle when looking at this so so 1:41 David these charges came without a grand 1:42 jury indictment first of all is this 1:44 normal and will they have to be convened 1:46 at some point 1:47 yes it's it's very normal probably 99.9 1:51 of the cases are handled this way where 1:53 there's an arrest there's an arraignment 1:55 charge and then and then the defendant 1:57 has brought uh you know then the grand 1:59
jury presentation is made so this is the 2:03 actual normal way a case occurs it would 2:05 have been the exception if there was a 2:08 silent indictment meaning a presentation 2:11 to the grand jury and then the arrest 2:14 occurs so this is the usual way it 2:16 happens and one of the issues in this 2:19 case was this question of self-defense 2:22 Daniel Penny's lawyer says he stepped in 2:24 to protect himself and others what is 2:26 the burden of proof for self-defense 2:28 under New York law 2:30 yeah so so basically that that's an 2:33 affirmative defense self-defense it's 2:35 this was the was it justifiable this act 2:39 was it justifiable and under under New 2:43 York law uh the affirmative defense has 2:46 to be disproven by the prosecution 2:48 beyond the Reasonable Doubt so the 2:51 defense doesn't even have that burden 2:52 under this the prosecution would have to 2:55 disprove that if this case ever went to 2:57 trial so bottom line is was it 3:00 justifiable and you know we've seen the 3:02 videos but the videos don't tell the 3:04 whole story you have you have to look at 3:06 all the evidence in in the case now six 3:09 minutes is very problematic for the 3:11 defendant in this case it's extremely 3:14 problematic that this stroke holds was 3:16
for six minutes long although I think 3:19 many people could sympathize with the 3:21 defendant here you know protecting 3:22 himself and protecting the lives of 3:24 others possibly we don't know what all 3:27 the evidence is going to show and Dave 3:29 Dave does that surprise you that we have 3:30 haven't heard from the other Witnesses 3:31 or even the other people that were also 3:33 holding Mr Neely down and hey will they 3:36 be charged as well do you think 3:39 I I don't think they'll be charged I 3:41 think I think this is the only charge 3:43 we're going to see I think the other 3:45 Witnesses were mere uh bystanders and I 3:48
think a lot of them reasonably thought 3:50 that Mr Neely was being restrained after 3:53 acting erratically obviously this is a 3:57 tragic event that a death occurred in 3:59 this particular situation that probably 4:01
there was didn't seem like there was 4:03 that intent to kill which would have 4:06 made it rise to a murder case that's why 4:09 you're seeing a manslaughter I think the 4:11 case is well charged at manslaughter and
4:13 then there's going to be defenses and I 4:15 think there should be no rush to 4:16 judgment and for all the politicians to 4:18 get up and start pontificating about the 4:21 evidence in the case of what needs to 4:22 happen I think that should be left to 4:24 the courts in the in the jury 4:27 David Schwartz thank you very much 4:29 former prosecutor and defense attorney

NY Criminal Defense Attorney David Schwartz Breaks Down Daniel Penny Manslaughter Charge on CBS 2-NY

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0:00 now New York's number one News Channel 7 0:04 Eyewitness News it's been nine days 0:06 since 30 year old Jordan Neely was held 0:09 in a Chokehold on a subway and died 0:11 still no announcement on any charges in 0:14 his death and some city leaders are 0:16 losing their patience While others like 0:18 Manhattan D.A Alvin Bragg are saying to 0:21 let the process play out eyewitness news 0:23 reporter Entei Burkett is live in SoHo 0:25 with the very latest NJ 0:29 and right show day the Manhattan D.A is 0:31 not the only one saying that mayor Adams 0:33 has been urging patients with the 0:35 process since last week but many leaders 0:38 in his own party say that's not good 0:40 enough 0:42 we all saw it we all know what we saw 0:45 public Advocate Jamani Williams says 0:48 prosecutors need to act that Daniel 0:51 Penny should be charged in the Chokehold 0:53 death of Jordan Neely that he should 0:55 have been arrested in the hours after 0:58 the incident Jordan Neely was unjustly 1:00 killed 1:01 and charges must be 1:04 against person who killed him Williams 1:07 and several others in city government 1:09 insist the video speaks for itself that 1:12 Penny suffocated merely and that is 1:15 enough to arrest him perhaps on murder 1:17 charges even before an investigation 1:19 City comptroller Brad Lander New York 1:22 City is not Gotham we can't be a city 1:26 where you could choke someone to death 1:28 who's experiencing a mental health 1:30
crisis without any consequence but some 1:33 witnesses said Neely was ranting 1:35 threatening Riders and throwing trash so 1:38 far Manhattan prosecutors have opted to 1:41 wait instead interviewing Witnesses and 1:43 Gathering additional video before 1:45 presenting the case to a grand jury it's 1:48 our solemn obligation 1:50 to assess the facts and apply the facts 1:53 to the law mayor Adams is warning 1:54 against what he calls a rush to judgment 1:57 while offering sympathy to Neely's 1:59 family friends and supporters many of 2:01 whom have demonstrated in recent days 2:03 the circumstances from around in his 2:06 death are still being investigated 2:08 and while we have no control over that 2:11 process 2:12 one thing we can control is how our city 2:15 responds to this tragedy former 2:18 prosecutor David Schwartz says the mayor
2:20 is right the Chokehold he says was 2:23 likely not justified but the charges 2:25 should be decided by a grand jury I 2:28 don't believe this is a murder case this 2:31 case may be closer to criminally 2:32 negligent homicide it may be closer to a 2:34 manslaughter case the D.A should submit 2:37 all the charges to the grand jury submit 2:39 all the facts give the defendant a 2:42 chance to testify because these are very 2:44
close calls 2:46 a grand jury presentation would now 2:49 appear inevitable when that will happen 2:51 is still not clear what is clear is that 2:54 this investigation is not over tonight a 2:57 lot tonight in SoHo and Jay Burke at 2:58 Channel 7 Eyewitness News

NY Criminal Defense Attorney David Schwartz Talking About Potential Daniel Penny Charges on WABC 7.

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0:00 a man died after being put in a 0:02 Chokehold on the subway sources tell us 0:04 a former Marine restrained a pastor 0:06 who'd been acting erratically CBS 2's 0:08 Alec browman obtained video from the
0:10 incident we want to warn you you may 0:11 find the images disturbing 0:13 the video is hard to watch so we're only 0:16 showing still frames from it you can see 0:18 a 24 year old Subway Rider putting a 30 0:21
year old man into Chokehold he holds the 0:24 30 year old around the neck for two 0:26 minutes and 55 seconds of this video at 0:29 some points two other Riders try to 0:31 restrain the 30 year old's arms before
0:33 all three let him go lifeless on the 0:35 floor this happened Monday afternoon on 0:38 the F train at the East Houston and 0:40 Lafayette Street Station in SoHo police 0:42 sources tell us the 30 year old man in 0:44 the video had been acting erratically on 0:46 the subway car allegedly throwing trash 0:48 and yelling at passengers we're told the 0:51 24 year old man who's a former Marine 0:53 stepped in to try and quell him things 0:55 turned physical and sources say the 0:57 Marine put him in a Chokehold while 0:59 telling those around to call 9-1-1 when 1:02 police eventually got there they brought 1:03 the 30-year-old man to the hospital 1:05 where he was pronounced dead sources 1:07 tell us police took the 24 year old 1:09 Marine into custody for questioning but 1:12 released him without any charges the 1:14 NYPD is still investigating and waiting 1:16 for the medical examiner to determine 1:18 the official cause of death 1:20 you could only assert as much force as 1:23 necessary in that particular situation 1:26 so was force even necessary I don't know 1:29 we have to see what the investigation 1:31 unfolds criminal defense attorney and 1:33 former prosecutor David Schwartz says 1:35 self-defense may be a tough legal 1:38 argument in this situation was there 1:40
another uh way to subdue this person 1:43 besides getting getting him into a 1:46 Chokehold he says whatever happened 1:47 before this video starts could determine 1:50 which way the case goes was this person 1:52 just causing Havoc or were they 1:55 threatening the lives of others on the 1:57 subway I think the city of New York has 2:00 created conditions as such where things 2:03 like this are gonna happen police
2:04 sources tell us the man who died had 2:06 more than 40 prior arrests at an active 2:09 warrant out for his arrest from a felony 2:11 assault charge in SoHo Ali Bauman CBS 2 2:14 News

Man Acting Erratically On Subway Dies After Being Restrained. Legal Analysis With NY Criminal Defense Attorney, Former Prosecutor David Schwartz on CBS 2 NY.

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0:00 NYPD launching an internal investigation 0:02 after video emerges showing officers 0:04 punching a man as they arrest him CBS 0:07 2's Jessica Moore is live in the Mont 0:09 Haven section of the Bronx with the 0:11 exclusive video for us today Jessica 0:15 will Christina Marie's the video shows 0:17 officers from the 40th Precinct 0:19 restraining a man while one of their 0:21 fellow officers repeatedly punches him 0:23 in the head and a warning before we roll 0:25 the story the video is difficult to 0:27 watch 0:28 video shows the violent arrest of a 0:31 black man by NYPD officers 0:33 it happened at Prospect Avenue and East 0:36 149th Street around 9 15 p.m on Sunday 0:40 April 16th you see the man in the white 0:42 shirt getting up in the face of an NYPD 0:44 officer in a matter of seconds four 0:47 officers surround him three officers 0:49
hold his arms down as one repeatedly 0:52 punches him in the head 0:53 before throwing him to the ground at 0:56 which point the female officer appears 0:58 to employ the unauthorized tactic of 1:00 leaning on the man's neck to make the 1:02 arrest the NYPD says officers were 1:04 conducting an investigation when 1:06
29-year-old Francis Romain approached 1:09 them quote aggressively and refused 1:11 multiple orders to back away when 1:13 officers tried to arrest him police say 1:15 Romaine choked a sergeant the police 1:18
officer that started punching this 1:20 individual in the face that's very 1:22 problematic but former Federal
1:24 prosecutor David Schwartz also says the 1:27 video doesn't tell the whole story you 1:29 can never quite tell from a video how 1:32 bad the situation is because you just 1:34 not in the Heat of the Moment these 1:37 police officers have really really hard 1:40 jobs too many people are quite frankly 1:42 are confronting the police the police 1:44 are losing their respect in this city 1:47 that is a very dangerous path 1:51 Francis Romaine was arrested on multiple 1:53 charges including assault on a police 1:55 officer and resisting arrest he has 1:57 since made bail and is out of jail 1:59 meanwhile the nypd's internal 2:01 investigation continues we're live in 2:04 the Mott Haven section of the Bronx 2:05 Jessica Moore CBS 2 News okay Jessica 2:07
thank you

NYPD Investigating Video Of Officer Punching Suspect. Legal Analysis With NY Criminal Defense Attorney David Schwartz on CBS 2 NY.

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0:00 the 3rd school to be upgraded 0:03 in the district in 5 and 0:05 signing up right now, hoping 0:06 for a chance Beyonce tickets 0:08 and hoping it will cost less 0:09 than the comes after 0:10 Ticketmaster fell under 0:12 federal tough scrutiny for 0:14 problems. Number of Taylor 0:15 Swift ticket sales Jay Dow 0:17
Live in Harlem. A look at what 0:18 they're going to do 0:19 differently. Heather, J. 0:24 >> Hi, and Kori. You know, we 0:24 had a hard time to be honest 0:27 finding Beyonce fans here 100 0:28 25th Street who thought they 0:29 had a fair shot at getting 0:33 tickets to one of these 0:34 Beyonce concert in our area
0:35 later this summer. Still, 0:37 Ticketmaster says it's doing 0:38 everything it needs to do to 0:41 make that It's easy to imagine 0:43 millions of Beyonce fans 0:45 across the country logging 0:46 into their Ticketmaster online 0:47 accounts this week and 0:48 thinking. A declaration of 0:53 sorts made by weary concert 0:54 goers who wonder if the 0:55 company has truly learned its 0:57 lesson. 0:58 >> After a botched Taylor 0:59 Swift concert ticket rollout 1:00 outraged the Swifties. So as 1:02 one Beyonce fan tweeted, 1:06 Ticketmaster better get it 1:06 together because the Beehive 1:07 does not play at all. who we
1:11 met Thursday night in Harlem 1:13 says there's just too much 1:14 money at stake. I believe 1:18 learned a lesson came because 1:19 they didn't with the bottom 1:19 line. 1:22 >> it for Beyonce's upcoming 1:24
Renaissance World Floor 1:25 Ticketmaster announced there 1:26 will be staggered ticket sales 1:29 utilizing its verified fan 1:31 technology to avoid butts and 1:32 issuing access codes to 1:33 purchase tickets by lottery 1:36 registration. Time. Windows 1:37 will vary by location. 1:39 Attorney David Schwartz says 1:40
even after Ticketmaster's 1:42 recent congressional 1:44 testimony, it's unclear 1:45 whether these new measures 1:46 will result in easier access 1:49 to concert tickets. You've got 1:51 such a volume of people 1:54 controlled by one company in 1:55 how much they pay for their 1:56 ticket prices. It's one thing. 2:01 >> We're ticket prices may too 2:02 high on tertiary markets. 2:04 >> But when it's so high on 2:06 the market coming out of the 2:08 first party like Ticketmaster 2:11 is that's a major problem. 2:12 This mom says she hopes this 2:14 time around that ticket prices 2:15 are more accessible and 2:20 affordable. that fallen to you
2:21 have to be a multi-millionaire 2:22 to be able to go to Dubai. 2:24 Know I can't even should be 2:26 able my child to be able to 2:30 and artists who have it is not 2:31 the only be on Sunday should 2:32 be able to see in August that 2:33 had enough for flies. 2:39 >> Kori and tamsan, you know, 2:40 out of one of the blamed at 2:41 home or out here on the street 2:43 for handing out a Roni U.S. 2:46 information about this tour. 2:48 So I'm going to recommend 2:49 everyone go straight to the 2:50 Ticketmaster website to get 2:51
their updates. I did that. And 2:54 Ticketmaster just a short 2:55 while ago posted a demand 2:57 update. I'm going to read it 2:58 verbatim. So mess it up. It 3:01 says fandom and already 3:02 exceeds the number of tickets 3:05 available by more than 800%. 3:08 Good luck, everybody. We're 3:09 live in Harlem tonight. Jay
3:10 Dow PIX11 news. You know that 3:13 day saying he had only

NY Attorney David Schwartz Talks About Ticketmaster's Potential Issues With Beyoncé‘s Tour on PIX11.

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0:03 of this news earlier today that actor 0:05 Alec Baldwin will be charged for that 0:07 deadly shooting on the set of his movie 0:08 rust now sadly this is nowhere near the 0:11 first time somebody has lost their life
0:13 on a movie set here in the U.S since 0:15 1990 it's happened at least 43 times and 0:18 on top of that more than 150 people have 0:20 suffered life-altering injuries while 0:23 filming but far more rare are there
0:26 circumstances we're talking about right 0:27 now with charges as serious as 0:29 involuntary manslaughter the nature of 0:32 that crime varies from state to state 0:33 Although our investigative reporter 0:35 Kristen Thorne sat down with defense 0:37 attorney and legal expert David Schwartz 0:39
earlier today to better understand 0:40 exactly what we're talking about with 0:41 the magnitude of the charges 0:44 first I want to get your reaction to 0:47 this charge today the news of this 0:48 charge 0:51 well I'm 0:52 entirely surprised the 0:55 the fact-based charge and and there was 0:57 a long investigation and I think the 1:01 prosecutors could have gone either way 1:03 they could have not charged Alec Baldwin 1:05
but they also had enough negligence in 1:09 this case and that's the standard is a 1:11 negligent standard where they where they 1:14 created a high enough bar to bring 1:18 criminal charges let's explain to people
1:20 what involuntary manslaughter is I'm 1:24 familiar with that because of what I do 1:25 you're familiar with that what does that 1:28 mean 1:29 sure you know in New York it's it's 1:31 different than New Mexico so in New 1:33 Mexico 1:34 the theory is where there's a lawful 1:37 activity going on at that time but there 1:40
was negligence involved with the 1:42 activity meaning that a reasonable 1:45 person would not have acted the way Alec 1:48 Baldwin did a reasonable person would 1:50 have taken other precautions before 1:53 firing the weapon so 1:55 um you know so it's a different standard 1:58 so it's that reasonable person's 2:00
standard and the fact that he was 2:02 handling a gun involves an enhancement 2:05 so the enhancement uh brings it up to a 2:09 potential of five years in jail the 2:11 regular involuntary manslaughter charge 2:14 is a year and a half speaking of jail 2:18 prison time do you think he's going to 2:19 do any 2:21 I don't think so if he does do jail time 2:23 it'll be minimal jail time uh either 2:26 this case is going to have a disposition 2:29
where there's a plea bargain and Alec 2:32 Baldwin will have to plead guilty to a 2:34 crime and and then that would involve 2:37 probably little to no jail or he's going 2:40 to go to trial and face the maximum of 2:43 five years in jail we'll see what 2:45 happens if he goes to trial it'll be one 2:47 of those Blockbuster trials that's for 2:49 sure but there's a good chance that this 2:51 case could settle uh before that point 2:54 his attorney called this a quote 2:57 terrible miscarriage of Justice what do 2:59 you think 3:00 if I were his attorney I would say the 3:03 same exact thing I think Alec Baldwin 3:05 has a lot of arguments I think Alec 3:07 Baldwin has the argument that this is 3:09 just a horrible horrible accident that 3:12 took place but there was no negligence 3:14 on his part and if there was no 3:16 negligence on his part why should he be 3:18 charged he's claiming that he had no 3:21 idea and would have no idea that there 3:24 could be live ammunition in that gun as 3:27 opposed to the prosecutors are saying 3:29 wait a second you should have known that 3:32
this was a dangerous situation there was 3:34 a danger involved in this whole episode 3:37 there was negligence throughout there 3:39 was cutting of corners and they feel 3:42 they have enough evidence to show that 3:44 Alec Baldwin was negligent so his 3:48 attorney is going to argue look this is 3:50 a civil case not a criminal case and the 3:52 civil case was already 3:54 um uh you know the civil case uh has had 3:58 a disposition already 4:00 what do you think one thing that's 4:03 bothered me I don't know if it's 4:04
bothered you is how did that bullet end 4:07 up in that gun in the first place 4:09 doesn't that seem to be kind of really 4:12 an issue here 4:13 it's a huge issue and the prosecutors 4:17 need to explain that issue because you 4:19 would think if they had a person that 4:23 actually put the live round in that gun 4:25 well aren't we talking a little bit more 4:27 about voluntary manslaughter and maybe 4:29 even murder aren't we talking about that 4:31 if somebody takes a gun that's going to 4:34 be used on a set and instead of putting
4:36 blanks in knowingly puts in live 4:38 ammunition I think we're more on the 4:40 murder realm so it leads me to believe 4:42 that they don't have that that the 4:45 prosecutors have not figured out how 4:47 that live rounds got into that gun and 4:50 if it goes to trial I don't think it 4:52 will either but if it does that will 4:54 obviously be a huge discussion 4:58 absolutely I mean if you're the defense 5:01 attorney just saying you know where 5:03 where's the proof like who put this live 5:06 live live bullet in this gun certainly 5:09 Alec Baldwin did not because he's not 5:12 being charged with that so you know I I 5:15 think the prosecutors have a lot of 5:17 barriers to overcome in this case I 5:19 think the defense does have a viable
5:21 case but so does the prosecution it's 5:24 one of those close calls which makes 5:26 this case a very interesting case and 5:28 it's very fact specific and it could be 5:31 based on many different nuances that we
5:33 don't know about right now yeah because 5:35 if it goes to trial that is not going to 5:37 be a good look for law enforcement and 5:39 prosecutors here that they have not been 5:41 able to pinpoint who did that because 5:43 the really lucky person here is whoever 5:46 put that bullet in that gun it didn't do 5:48 it by itself it didn't walk into the 5:51 chamber and into the gun someone did it 5:53 and I am still very curious and and 5:56 think that person needs to be held 5:58 account as well 5:59 Kristen that sounded like an opening
6:01 statement right there a hundred percent 6:03 a hundred percent that that is what the 6:06 defense is going to argue but we don't 6:08 know what's happening right now right is 6:11 the investigation over who knows Kristen 6:13 we may see somebody charged with putting 6:16 that bullet in the chamber so we don't
6:18 know what's about to come next but I'm 6:20 led to believe at least by these charges 6:23 today that they don't have that person 6:25 and they're they're going strictly on a 6:29 negligence standard as it goes to Alec 6:31 Baldwin what he should have known did he 6:34 act like a reasonable person did he 6:37 exercise the reasonable amount of care 6:39 that he should have in that situation 6:41 when handling a gun
6:44 if you were his attorney right now or 6:46 maybe you can give us some insight what 6:48 are they talking about right now 6:50 well first they're talking about 6:51 shutting him up okay he can't do any 6:53
more interviews he can't go out in the 6:55 Press he needs to stop talking because 6:59 everything he says could be used against 7:01 them at this point and before this point 7:04 so that's the first thing the second
7:07 thing is they're trying to get as much 7:09 information from him as possible but I'm 7:11 sure they have their own team of 7:12 investigators right now who are 7:15 conducting uh their own interviews their 7:17 own analysis and their own investigation 7:20 so their own investigation could come up 7:23 big in this case as well 7:25 well thank you so much I hope you'll 7:27 stay in touch with us we know that this 7:29 is the charges are formally you know are 7:31 going to be announced later this month 7:33 and so we know that this will still be 7:35 be going on so thank you so much for 7:37 being with us 7:38 thank you Kristen 7:40
coming up next on the Eyewitness News 7:42 countdown uh discussion about what is on 7:44 the line when it comes to raising the 7:45 federal debt limit in the United States 7:49 [Music] 7:50 welcome back to the Eyewitness News 7:52 Countdown the U.S has now hit its debt 7:54 ceiling and that means the clock is now
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Alec Baldwin To Be Charged In Deadly ‘Rust’ Shooting. Analysis w/ NY Attorney David Schwartz -WABC 7

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0:00 joining us live on newsline is David 0:02 Schwartz who has worked as a New York 0:04 criminal defense attorney he is also a 0:07 former prosecutor David good to have you 0:09 here this morning I'm curious about this 0:12 I want to play you this clip in which 0:14 Alec Baldwin was asked this in the past 0:18 take a quick listen do you never pull 0:19 the trigger no no no no no I would never 0:22 point the gun that I'm going to pull a 0:23 trigger at them never okay so that's 0:25 what he said in that interview with 0:26 George Stephanopoulos today we find out 0:29 he is going to be charged with 0:30 involuntary manslaughter is that to say 0:33 prosecutors believe that he did indeed 0:35 pull the trigger or what 0:37 well well it doesn't necessarily mean 0:40 that he that he uh believed he pulled 0:42 the trigger first of all it was a very 0:44 fast set of events but the involuntary 0:47 portion of the manslaughter means that 0:50 Alec Baldwin at least they're accusing 0:52 Alec Baldwin of handling this gun 0:54 without you caution and circum 0:58 circumspection so with which is more 1:00 like a criminal negligence concept where 1:04 he didn't act as a reasonable person 1:06 would in that situation in handling the 1:09 weapon and safeguarding that weapon so 1:12 they might have some facts where they 1:15 have they have concluded that 1:17 involuntary manslaughter is the right 1:19 charge for him so so if you're his 1:23 defense attorney then what do you argue
1:25 do they say well look you know they 1:28 handed me the gun you know how am I 1:29 supposed to know right you're that's 1:32 exactly what you're arguing you know 1:34 this is a horrible horrible accident a 1:37
tragic accident but my client out 1:41 Baldwin has no culpability whatsoever he 1:44 did not pull the trigger he did act as a 1:47 reasonable person and sometimes in life 1:50 horrible things happen accidents happen
1:53 and that's why this should be handled as 1:55 a civil case which it was the civil case 1:57 was was settled but it should not enter 2:00 the arena of criminal case and that's 2:03 where you have the tug of war between
2:05 criminal defense attorneys and 2:06 prosecutors because prosecutors uh they 2:09 they have concluded something different 2:11 that that this uh does enter the word 2:13 world of criminal culpability and it's 2:17 more than just an accident that there 2:19 was some degree of recklessness involved 2:22 on the part of Alec Baldwin and that's 2:24 going to be litigated in court right so 2:27 the special prosecutor David uh had this 2:29 quote this morning saying if any one of 2:32 these three people including Alec 2:33 Baldwin had done their job that was the 2:37 quote had done their job Helena Hutchins 2:39 would be alive today it's that simple 2:42 but it doesn't sound that simple again 2:45 what's the defense to that in terms of 2:47 what Baldwin's job was supposed to be 2:50 well and what the prosecutor means by 2:53 that is that that Baldwin was acting in 2:56 a reckless Manner and if he wasn't 2:58 acting in a reckless manner if he took 3:00 all the precautions if he looked to see 3:02 if the gun was loaded if he examined the 3:05 gun you know and and and it you know who 3:08 looks up to the jury to see what a 3:10 reasonable person would do Under the 3:12
same set of circumstances that's where 3:15 the push and the pull comes it's a very 3:17 interesting case it's very highly 3:20 um reliable on the the specific facts of 3:24 what exactly happened and look the 3:26 prosecutors have done their 3:27 investigation and they have concluded 3:30 that there are enough facts to support 3:32 this charge and we'll just have to see 3:34 how that all plays out in court but 3:37 certainly out involved into the criminal 3:38 case has many many defenses and and 3:41 again you land at the same defense that 3:44 this is a horrible accident but Alec 3:46 Baldwin acted reasonably so that's what 3:49
you're basically going to argue as his 3:51 defense attorney right so David do we 3:53 see this uh go to a a public trial is 3:56 this something that's going to be um you 3:58 know all over Court TV and more or what
4:01 well your your guess is as good as mine 4:03 if if there's certainly uh room here for 4:07 a plea to be had and I'm sure the plea 4:10 uh could involve minimal jail time uh so 4:14 certainly that's going to be a 4:15
possibility here there's there's a lot 4:18 of room for negotiation but if the 4:20 negotiations don't work then the case is 4:23 going to go to trial and and you know 4:25 Alec Baldwin has a giant ego and he may 4:28 just take this all the way to trial who 4:30 knows your your guess is as good as mine 4:32 at this point right I guess we'll find 4:34 out together David but um as for this 4:37 charge this typically comes with what 18 4:41
months in prison if convicted yes yes 4:44 under the New Mexico law there is uh 4:47 there's an enhancement involved it could 4:49 be five years but generally speaking I I 4:51 believe it's 18 months I I haven't read 4:54 the sentencing charts yet in New Mexico 4:56 right and if people take please in a 4:59 case like this a matter of months in 5:03 jail time or no jail time again I know 5:05 we're we're all just trying to get the 5:07 particulars of New Mexico right right in 5:10 an involuntary manslaughter situation 5:13 where look the the Alec Baldwin has 5:16 settled the civil case uh in this type 5:19 of situation you can see a non-jail 5:22
disposition with probation certainly a 5:25 felony plea and maybe some other 5:28 attachments restitution which seems to 5:31 have been covered in the civil case 5:32 fines 5:34 things like that but there can be some 5:36 jail time too 5:37 one last quick thing if you were his 5:40 lawyer Alec Baldwin would you tell him
5:41 not to give any interviews at this point 5:43 absolutely no interviews no public 5:46 statements uh and you know I understand 5:49 there's the court of public opinion but 5:52 in a criminal case there's just too much 5:53 on the line to allow your client to be 5:56 out there uh uh giving interviews David 6:00 Schwartz a New York criminal defense 6:01 attorney and former prosecutor David 6:04 thank you so much 6:05 thank you it was a pleasure thank you 6:07 very much 6:09 the news watch never stops 6:12 this is 10 10 wins at 92 3 FM you give 6:17 us 22 minutes we'll give you the world 6:20 [Music]

NY Criminal Defense Attorney David Schwartz on 1010 WINS Talking About Alex Baldwin Charges.

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0:00 all right this is a complicated and 0:01 emotional case here to help us 0:03 understand the legal development is New 0:04 York criminal defense attorney David 0:06 Schwartz who you just saw in that piece
0:07 a second ago by Ali Bauman and filmmaker 0:10 Laura Pellegrini to give us a little 0:11 perspective thank you both for taking a 0:13 few minutes to join us here thank you 0:14 David I'm going to start with you here 0:16 um explain the charges and why two 0:17 counts of involuntary manslaughter 0:20 yeah so you have two counts of 0:22 involuntary manslaughter which is really 0:24 based on this negligent standard did did 0:27 uh Alec Baldwin act as a reasonable 0:30 person in would act in that situation so 0:33 you have the one based on a negligence 0:36 standard and then there's an enhancement 0:38 where it's more of a reckless standard 0:41 but it's because he's handling a gun so 0:44 it's engaging in a lawful act so he was 0:48 engaging in a lawful act but he was 0:50 acting with this sort of extreme 0:52 negligence and because he was handling a 0:55 gun in that act that's where the 0:57 enhancement comes so the jury will be 0:59
given either the regular involuntary 1:02 both the involuntary manslaughter and 1:04 the enhancement and they'll have to 1:06 choose between the two the regular and 1:08 voluntary has a year and a half Max the 1:11
enhancement is five years now David also 1:13 the the New Mexico chief medical 1:15 investigator linked to the manner of 1:17 death as a quote accident now what will 1:18 the prosecutor have to do to prove in 1:21
order for there to be a conviction here 1:23 well it is an accident that's where you 1:26 have this fine line between is this a 1:28 civil case 1:31 or Arena so it's an accident I don't 1:34 think anyone is accusing Alec Baldwin of 1:36 intentionally firing the weapon and 1:38 killing this this person so bottom line 1:42 is uh even though it's an accident if if 1:46 the accident happened where Alec Baldwin 1:49 was acting with extreme negligence in 1:51 the entire situation not just the firing 1:54 of the weapon but the entire scene it 1:56 sounds like it was a scene where there 1:58 were multi multitude of negligent acts 2:01 and so if they can find that then Alec 2:03 Baldwin can be guilty and David there 2:05 was a settlement that was already paid 2:06
correct 2:07 right so unusual the civil case was 2:10 settled before the criminal case yeah 2:12 well no one knew there would be a 2:14 criminal case yeah I think that's why 2:15 this was that came as such a surprise
2:16 yesterday when these charges were handed 2:18 down Laura let me bring you in now 2:19 what's the reaction been from the film 2:21 Community following yesterday's 2:23 announcement 2:24 certainly a mixed reaction Chris you 2:26 know um I know the Santa Fe DA office 2:28 has done a really thorough investigation
2:30 independently to try to get to the 2:31 bottom of this this has been going on 2:33 for 16 months 2:35 um it's a blurry line you know Baldwin 2:36 he was a co-producer and he was an actor 2:38 in the project he didn't necessarily 2:41 oversee all aspects of production so he 2:44 chose that very fine line you know I 2:46
think at the end of the day we have to 2:48 ask ourselves did he violate protocol 2:50 and on any set that Stefano defray my 2:52 co-director and I have worked on there's 2:54 a very clear line of command you have a 2:57 prop master who hands the gun to an 2:59 armorer a licensed professional and they 3:01 in turn have to check the firearm to 3:04 make sure that it's a cold gun then it 3:06 gets handed to the assistant director
3:07 and they're tasked with the 3:09 responsibility of declaring a cold gun 3:11 to the actor before they use it so in 3:14 that circumstance you know Alec Baldwin 3:16 his responsibility was to trust the line 3:18 of command that took place on that day 3:20 yeah so let me ask you this this so 3:22 that's your protocol and the prosecutors 3:23 alleged there was a lack of safety 3:25 standards on set in your expertise from 3:27 what you've seen and heard what really 3:29 stood out to you where was The Real 3:31 miscarriage here and Justice of the 3:33 proper gun and the proper you know 3:35 weapon being provided to the proper 3:36 actor at the proper time 3:38 that's a great question you know I think 3:40 it really boils down to the armor I'm 3:43 not entirely sure that that vetting 3:45 process was as thorough as it could have 3:47 been and that might have been for many 3:48 reasons Chris you know from what I 3:50 understand it was a low budget sag indie 3:52 film and under that contract some things 3:54 get lost in in the mix you know they 3:56 tend to slip from the Wayside so there 3:58 there might not have have been protocol 4:00 during pre-production when they were 4:02 doing 4:03 um you know safety training during 4:04 rehearsals also you're not supposed to
4:06 have a gun during rehearsal and secondly 4:08 you're supposed to respect a 20-foot 4:10 rule which judging by the video footage 4:12 of that day I don't necessarily think it 4:14 was respected okay now let me ask you 4:16 both of this question here excuse my 4:18 ignorance on this but this is a movie 4:20 set why is there live rounds of 4:24 ammunition on a movie set well 4:28 the bottom line is it makes no sense and 4:32
that's why the the investigation where 4:34 is the investigation at this point the 4:36 missing the million dollar question here 4:39 is how did a live round get into that 4:41 gun in the first place and how do we not
4:43 know who put that live round into that 4:46 weapon because that is the real guilty 4:48 party and if anyone knowingly 4:49 intentionally put a live round in that 4:52 weapon well that could be a murder case
4:54 that and that's what I don't understand 4:55 I mean as an actor you're on a film set 4:57 why would you even think that there 4:59 would be a live round in there and I 5:01 guess you know that kind of goes to 5:02
exactly what you just said why is live 5:04 ammunition there who put the lobby 5:06 ammunition in that gun that's what they 5:09 really need to get to the bottom of 5:09 David let me know if you guys do this 5:10 there's a third person who the district 5:12 attorney names assistant director David 5:14 Halls now he's taken a plea deal for 5:16 negligent use of a deadly weapon how 5:18 could that impact the charges being 5:20
brought against Baldwin well I'm sure 5:22 he's going to testify you know for that 5:25 uh that guilty plea he may be testifying 5:28 as a witness for the state as well so 5:30 why I'll have to see how that all plays 5:32 out he seems to be the most culpable 5:34 yeah so now you have Alec Baldwin I 5:36 think both of you may have had a case 5:37 that you know maybe Alec Baldwin's not 5:40 that culpable here especially the 5:41 analysis that was just given so it seems 5:44 like this person is much more culpable 5:47 than Alec Baldwin or his co-defendant 5:49 and Laura it's been over a year since 5:51 this tragic event how have safety 5:53 protocols now changed on sets is it now 5:55 one of those things where there's just 5:56 so many different layers before a weapon 5:59 whether it's live or not not that it 6:01 should ever be live is placed in an 6:02 actor's hands yeah absolutely I mean 6:05 listen just to harken back to your point 6:06 under no circumstance should there be 6:08 live rounds on set yeah I just wrapped a 6:11 crime drama with with Steph no defray it
6:13 was co-produced by the Russo Brothers 6:15 um we made sure that we were working 6:17 with a licensed armor and that there 6:19 were absolutely under no circumstances 6:20 live rounds on set I think you know it 6:23 took a senseless tragedy to discover 6:24 that there are alternative options for 6:27 for firearms being put in films it's 6:28 something that you can settle in 6:30 post-production you you can use CGI 6:32 gunfire you know so it it has led to 6:36 other outcomes in that sense and David 6:38 I'm gonna give you the last 15 seconds 6:39 here what are the next steps for those 6:40 involved in this the next steps are that 6:43 there'll be an arraignment and we're 6:44 going to go through the discovery 6:46 process and there could be please and if 6:48 there's not if there's no plea in this 6:49 case then we're going to see a 6:50
blockbuster trial unbelievable all right 6:52 David Schwartz this is Lauren Pellegrini 6:54 thank you both for being here greatly 6:55 appreciate it good to see the two of you 6:57 thank you all right stay with cbs2 for
6:59 the very latest on the Chargers we'll 7:00 have more details as they come in and on 7:02 our website cbsnewyork.com and stay with 7:04 us we'll be right back

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