Nick Akerman

With three weeks of witness testimony in the Trump criminal prosecution, the daily release to the public of the trial transcripts continues to provide a unique insight into the first criminal prosecution of a former U.S. president. The state court system also publishes on its website every exhibit admitted into evidence. These exhibits provide uncontested proof of Trump’s conspiracy to silence Karen McDougal, the former Playboy model, Stormy Daniels, the adult film star, and Dino Sajudin, the doorman.

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Trump transcripts detail the case: What Stormy Daniels said

May 13, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

With three weeks of witness testimony in the Trump criminal prosecution, the daily release to the public of the trial transcripts continues to provide a unique insight into the first...

Trump transcripts detail the case

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Trump transcripts detail the case

May 5, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

The transcripts from Donald Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan can be read by the public, thanks to persistent effort by many people, including myself, several Daily News editorials and a...

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg is pictured on April 4, 2023, in Manhattan.

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Bragg’s case is Trump’s Watergate

February 17, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

It is all but certain that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s prosecution of former President Donald Trump, starting March 25, will be the first of the four Trump criminal cases...

The other Manhattan case that can topple Trump: The federal defama-tion lawsuit of E. Jean Car-roll may produce a quick guilty verdict

The other Manhattan case that can topple Trump: The federal defama-tion lawsuit of E. Jean Car-roll may produce a quick guilty verdict

April 4, 2023 at 9:00 a.m.

Donald Trump is being arraigned today at 100 Centre St. in a criminal case that will take months to proceed, but a few blocks south, at the Man-hat-tan fed-er-al courthouse,...

The Mafia, Nixon and Donald Trump

The Mafia, Nixon and Donald Trump

July 6, 2021 at 6:35 p.m.

Donald Trump now has the honor of joining Richard Nixon as the only two presidents in U.S. history ever investigated for tax fraud. As an assistant special Watergate prosecutor, I...

Put Trump on the stand in the Senate

Put Trump on the stand in the Senate

February 3, 2021 at 10:00 a.m.

The upcoming Senate trial on the impeachment of Donald J. Trump appears to be heading for an acquittal without the requisite two-thirds votes necessary to convict. For there to be...

Why Trump doesn't want Roger Stone in prison for long

Why Trump doesn’t want Roger Stone in prison for long

February 19, 2020 at 7:00 a.m.

Roger Stone's sentencing is scheduled for Thursday. Stone is one of the central figures in the investigation into whether the Trump campaign coordinated and conspired with the Russian government during...

Mueller destroys Trump's lies

Mueller destroys Trump’s lies

May 29, 2019 at 10:01 p.m.

Robert Mueller today destroyed Donald Trump's claim of total exoneration. Mueller was clear that "if we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have...

Barr's letter cannot be the last word on the Mueller probe, or on Trump's dealings with Russia

Barr’s letter cannot be the last word on the Mueller probe, or on Trump’s dealings with Russia

March 27, 2019 at 4:58 p.m.

As a former Watergate prosecutor and a veteran of the United States Attorney's Office of the Southern District of New York, I have seen many eerie similarities between that scandal...

What Bill Barr doesn't understand about obstruction of justice

What Bill Barr doesn’t understand about obstruction of justice

January 15, 2019 at 4:55 p.m.

A major focus of the confirmation hearings of William Barr for attorney general will be his unsolicited memo in June 2018 to the Department of Justice arguing that a President...