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The Inner City Press is an investigative reporting from the inner city to Wall Street to the United Nations. Matthew Russell Lee has been reporting for Inner City Press since 2007.
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By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE, April 26 – Arlene "A.J." Delgado sued the Trump campaign after she did not receive the West Wing job she said she was promised (but Jason Miller got).
On August 16, 2022 U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Magistrate Judge Katharine H. Parker held an in-person proceeding. Inner City Press went and covered it.
Jump cut to January 30, 2024: Delgado is now pro se and moving to depose Reince Priebus and Eric Trump. Inner City Press live tweeted, thread
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100 CENTRE ST COURT, April 27 - In the Trump trial the Saturday after the four days of testimony of National Enquirer CEO David Pecker, a book was published of what was said, and more: "Trump Trial: Pecker," by Matthew Russell Lee, e-book here, audio book on Audible here.
It begins: "The day of opening arguments in the Trump trial, the line started before dawn. The area beside 111 Centre Street was locked off; some attributed it to increased security after the self-immolation in Coll ..read more
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by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
SDNY COURTROOM, April 26 – Urologist Darius Paduch was arrested and arraigned on April 11, 2023. Inner City Press was there.
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Magistrate Judge Sarah L. Cave held Paduch's arraignment.
Though Paduch had filled out the affidavit to get a publicly paid lawyer, the CJA on duty David Stern said he was for now only representing him for the presentment, and possibly to put together co-signers for a bail package. He consented to detention. &nbs ..read more
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by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
100 CENTRE ST COURT, April 26 – On the third day of the Trump trial defense lawyer Emil Bove finally got to cross-examine the National Enquirer's David Pecker.
He got him to admit having provided similar catch and kill services for Ron Perlman of Revlon, and Rahn Emanuel after his Obama administration days.
On Tiger Woods, a story was purchased in order to extort Woods into granting an interview. So it goes in the world of checkbook journalism.
The day ended with Justice Merchan admonishing Bove for "misleadi ..read more
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by Matthew Russell Lee
SDNY COURTHOUSE, April 26 – Amid reports of investigation against Sen. Robert Menendez for taking gold bars, Inner City Press' sources on September 21 it to expect on Friday, September 22 an appearance in Federal court in Manhattan by Menendez and his wife Nadine Arslanian. This scoop was true.
Later a superseder was unveiled, including charges of bribes to act for Qatar...
On April 11, 2024 after Nadine Menendez and then the government asked for delay, to July or undefined, Judge Stein severed her case and reaffirmed May 6, Inner City Press thread ..read more
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by Matthew Russell Lee
100 CENTRE ST COURT, April 25 - In the Trump Trial on Thursday morning, the National Enquirer's David Pecker testified to some disagreement with Trump and Michael Cohen. Pecker was going to assign the lifetime rights to Karen McDougal's story to a Michael Cohen company - then reversed course.
He said he was concerned about campaign finance laws, of which he had become aware when he bought and killed a story for Arnold Schwarzenegger (and then lost one, he said, to the LA Times).
Pecker said he declined to let them go thr ..read more