Jennifer Peltz

December 13, 2023 | Daily Business Review

Former President Donald Trump's lawyers were swatted down as they again asked Judge Arthur Engoron to cut the trial short and issue a verdict clearing Trump, his company and top executives of wrongdoing.

By Michael R. Sisak and Jennifer Peltz

5 minute read

December 06, 2023 | Daily Business Review

Spanning 17 acres with waterfront on two sides, the Trump estate and social club is his home, a place where the former president and current Republican 2024 front-runner has conducted high-profile meetings while in and out of office, and the spot where federal special counsel Jack Smith alleges he improperly stashed classified documents, which Trump denies.

By Jennifer Peltz

5 minute read

November 03, 2023 | Daily Business Review

"We're a major organization, a massive real estate organization—yes, I'm fairly sure I understand that we have financial statements," Eric Trump testified at the family's New York civil fraud trial.

By Jennifer Peltz and Michael R. Sisak

6 minute read

October 30, 2023 | Daily Business Review

The schedule sets up a blockbuster stretch in the trial of New York Attorney General Letitia James' lawsuit, which alleges that the former president overstated his wealth for years on financial statements that were given to banks, insurers and others to help secure loans and deals.

By Jennifer Peltz

4 minute read

July 24, 2023 | Daily Business Review

Lawyers for the two sides disclosed the settlement during a video conference with a judge Friday, three days before Michael Cohen's 2019 lawsuit was slated to go to trial in a Manhattan state court. Details of the agreement were not made public.

By Larry Neumeister and Jennifer Peltz

4 minute read

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

July 17, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Arminta Jeffryes was arrested while protesting police brutality. Then an NYPD lawyer stepped in to prosecute the jaywalking charge against her, in a low-level court that usually has no prosecutors at all. While many similar cases get dismissed without any admission of guilt, Jeffryes' lawyer says the police attorney wouldn't agree to a dismissal unless Jeffryes said her arrest was legitimate, which she contests.

By Jennifer Peltz and Colleen Long

5 minute read

August 02, 2016 | New York Law Journal

New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton is leaving the nation's largest police force, after a tenure in which he received credit for keeping crime down and navigated tension between police and minority communities.

By Tom Hays and Jennifer Peltz

13 minute read

November 17, 2015 | New York Law Journal

He's the player daily fantasy sports fans across the country are suddenly watching: New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who ordered industry giants DraftKings and FanDuel this past week to stop accepting play from New Yorkers, saying their business amounts to illegal gambling. And that was just Schneiderman's latest batch of national headlines this year.

By Jennifer Peltz

6 minute read

November 16, 2015 | New York Law Journal

He's the player daily fantasy sports fans across the country are suddenly watching: New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who ordered industry giants DraftKings and FanDuel this past week to stop accepting play from New Yorkers, saying their business amounts to illegal gambling. And that was just Schneiderman's latest batch of national headlines this year.

By Jennifer Peltz

6 minute read