Eric Tucker

July 20, 2018 | New York Law Journal

President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer secretly recorded Trump discussing a possible payment to a former Playboy model who said she had an affair with him, people familiar with an investigation into the attorney said Friday.

By Eric Tucker and Jennifer Peltz, Associated Press

1 minute read

May 09, 2017 | Daily Report Online

Her testimony, coupled with the revelation that President Barack Obama had warned Donald Trump against hiring Michael Flynn to be national security adviser shortly after the November election, made clear that alarms about Flynn had reached the highest levels of the U.S. government.

By Eric Tucker and Eileen Sullivan

11 minute read

October 20, 2016 | Daily Report Online

Fewer trained observers will be sent in the first election since the U.S. Supreme Court in Shelby County v. Holder invalidated a cornerstone of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

By Eric Tucker

9 minute read

April 12, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Goldman Sachs agrees to pay $2.4 billion in civil penalties plus $1.8 billion to distressed borrowers in the sale of shoddy mortgages before the housing bubble burst.

By Eric Tucker, Associated Press

5 minute read

April 12, 2016 | Daily Business Review

The Department of Justice urged a U.S. judge to keep secret many of the court records in the now-abandoned lawsuit over leaks in the investigation that led to the resignation of former CIA Director David Petraeus.

By Ted Bridis and Eric Tucker, Associated Press

6 minute read

February 10, 2016 | Daily Report Online

The federal government sued Ferguson on Wednesday, one day after the city council voted to revise an agreement aimed at improving the way police and courts treat poor people and minorities in the St. Louis suburb.

By Jim Salter and Eric Tucker

5 minute read

December 04, 2015 | New York Law Journal

Five current and former members of FIFA's ruling executive committee were among 16 additional men charged with corruption in an indictment unsealed Thursday as part of U.S. prosecutors' widening investigation into soccer corruption.

By Graham Dunbar, Eric Tucker and Ronald Blum

6 minute read

December 03, 2015 | New York Law Journal

Five current and former members of FIFA's ruling executive committee were among 16 additional men charged with corruption in an indictment unsealed Thursday as part of U.S. prosecutors' widening investigation into soccer corruption.

By Graham Dunbar, Eric Tucker and Ronald Blum

6 minute read

November 12, 2015 | New York Law Journal

The Justice Department on Tuesday sued to block a deal that would let United Airlines acquire 24 takeoff and landing slots at Newark from Delta Air Lines. Federal officials said the agreement would give United—already the dominant airline at the airport—an even greater competitive advantage that would lead to higher fares and fewer choices for passengers.

By Eric Tucker and David Koenig

4 minute read

November 10, 2015 | New York Law Journal

The Justice Department on Tuesday sued to block a deal that would let United Airlines acquire 24 takeoff and landing slots at Newark from Delta Air Lines. Federal officials said the agreement would give United—already the dominant airline at the airport—an even greater competitive advantage that would lead to higher fares and fewer choices for passengers.

By Eric Tucker and David Koenig

4 minute read