Trump has been buying bonds worth $ 100 million since January

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Trump has been buying bonds for $ 100 million since taking office

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A New York federal judge rejected the application of the US Ministry of Justice to make documents from the procedure against the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein from 2019. As the business magazine “Forbes” reports, the decision concerns protocols and evidence that the jury was presented with at the time of the indictment. The advance originally went back to the Trump government, which had reacted to public criticism of a note from the Ministry of Justice that no further files in the Epstein case should be published.

Judge Richard Berman justified his decision with the strict legal requirements for the publication of jury materials. Although he recognizes the great public interest in the case, but this rich is not legally evident in order to justify an exception. In addition, Berman referred to the protection of the privacy and security of the victims as a further argument against disclosure.

Instead, the judge recommended that the Ministry of Justice release his own documents to the Epstein case. The ministry is “the logical party” to provide information and has far more important data than those contained in the jury files, says Berman. Two other dishes had previously rejected similar applications for the publication of jury documents in the cases Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

According to government documents, US President Donald Trump has bought bonds from companies, states and municipalities worth over $ 100 million since his took office in January. This emerges from documents from the US Authority for Government Ethics, which have now been published. According to this, the President has done more than 600 financial transactions one day after his second inauguration. For example, Trump acquired corporate bonds from Banks Citigroup and Morgan Stanley as well as the Facebook mother Meta and the Telekom subsidiary T-Mobile US. There was initially no statement from the US Presidential Office on Wednesday.

Trump, who worked in the real estate business before his political career, had stated that he had transferred his companies to a foundation managed by his children. However, his annual declaration of assets in June showed that income from various sources ultimately flowed to the President, which brought him the accusation of conflicts of interest.

His now acquired bonds also affect companies that could benefit from important decisions by his government such as financial marketing. Its crypto investments alone should be $ 1.6 billion.