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50 Years Ago, James Brown Took an Unlikely Stage: Rikers Island

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2 years ago

March 15, 2022

There was a stage on the entrance of the room and folding chairs arrange for the viewers. Caldwood watched Brown rehearse earlier than the live performance. “He acted like he was on Broadway or someplace,” Caldwood stated, including that when Brown would criticize one thing a band member did flawed, “They didn’t say nothing, they simply did no matter he stated.” However when it got here to the live performance itself, Caldwood couldn’t catch any of it. “My eyes needed to be on the gang, I didn’t take a look at the present,” he stated. “I couldn’t afford to loosen up and ended up lacking out on the entire rattling factor.”

Brown didn’t skimp on the Rikers present. “He had his complete troupe there, with backups and all that stuff. He was giving it 110 p.c,” stated Christopher Kende, who was an N.Y.U. regulation scholar working as a volunteer for the board. In line with the tour supervisor Leeds’s data, together with Brown, the group that day featured 18 individuals — musicians, backup singers, dancers and even a comic, Clay Tyson. “The inmates had been completely into it,” Kende recalled. “They simply grooved on it and had an exquisite time.”

Anne Norman, a dancer for the Brown revue, referred to as the gang “enthusiastic,” and stated there have been no incidents with the detainees. In a telephone interview from her New Jersey residence, she stated Brown talked to the children and served as “a motivator.”

“His entire factor was: ‘Have a look at me. Look the place I got here from and look the place I went. You may’t achieve success in case you’re not cautious with what you’re doing, with the way you current your self to the world.”

She recalled how earlier than Brown went into “Please, Please, Please,” he informed the viewers, “While you go away right here, you possibly can have life or you possibly can have a nasty life. Nevertheless you do it once you get out is as much as you.”

Brown confirmed his appreciation by giving Bond and her household tickets to his subsequent present on the Apollo. However was he paid for the Rikers gig?

“To not my data,” Leeds stated.

Anna Bond agreed. “I don’t suppose James Brown was paid for this present,” she stated, “except he was given an Afghan knit by my mom.”

New York

Transcript of Trump Manhattan Trial, May 14, 2024

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2 hours ago

May 16, 2024

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Transcript of Trump Manhattan Trial, May 14, 2024

Proceedings
SUPREME COURT
CRIMINAL TERM
NEW YORK COUNTY
PART 59
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
-against
DONALD J. TRUMP,
Defendant.
:
3503
INDICTMENT #
71543/2023
Falsifying Business
Records First Degree
BEFORE:
100 Centre Street
New York, New York 10013
May 14, 2024
HONORABLE JUAN M. MERCHAN,
JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT
APPEARANCES:
FOR THE PEOPLE:
ALVIN L. BRAGG, JR., ESQ.
New York County District Attorney
BY: JOSHUA STEINGLASS, ESQ.,
MATTHEW COLANGELO, ESQ.,
SUSAN HOFFINGER, ESQ.,
CHRISTOPHER CONROY, ESQ.,
REBECCA MANGOLD,
ESQ.,
KATHERINE ELLIS, ESQ.,
Assistant District Attorneys
FOR THE DEFENDANT:
BLANCHE LAW
BY: TODD BLANCHE, ESQ.
EMIL BOVE, ESQ.
KENDRA WHARTON, ESQ.
STEPHEN WEISS, ESQ.
NECHELES LAW, LLP
BY: SUSAN NECHELES, ESQ.
GEDALIA STERN, ESQ.
SUSAN PEARCE-BATES
Principal Court Reporter
LAURIE EISENBERG, RPR, CSR
LISA KRAMSKY
THERESA MAGNICCARI
Senior Court Reporters
Lisa Kramsky,
Senior Court Reporter

New York

Transcript of Trump Manhattan Trial, May 13, 2024

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1 day ago

May 15, 2024

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Transcript of Trump Manhattan Trial, May 13, 2024

M. Cohen Direct/Hoffinger
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was there at The Trump Organization about executives coming in
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to meet with Mr. Trump?
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Mr.
Trump had an open-door policy, which, if there was
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somebody in there, you waited; and if not, you knocked on the
door, and I would say, “Boss, do you have a second?”, and I
would walk right in.
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And others did the same, to your knowledge?
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To my knowledge, yes.
Now, when you met with Mr. Trump at The Trump
Organization, in his office, did you, generally, need
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I’m
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sorry.
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Did you, generally, record those meetings in your calendar?
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No, ma’am.
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As part of your work at The Trump Organization, did
you feel that it was part of your job to keep him updated on
matters that you were handling for him?
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Yes.
It was actually required.
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Tell us what you mean by that.
When he would task you with something, he would then
say, “Keep me informed. Let me know what’s going on.”
And what he was saying, what everybody did is, as soon as
you had a result, an answer, you would go straight back and
tell him. Especially if it was a matter that was troubling to
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him.
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So, two things, just to break that down.
Laurie Eisenberg, CSR, RPR
Senior Court Reporter

New York

Video: Michael Cohen Says Trump Discussed Reimbursement in Oval Office

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2 days ago

May 15, 2024

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Video: Michael Cohen Says Trump Discussed Reimbursement in Oval Office

Michael Cohen’s story of a hush-money arrangement struck in the White House was the only personal account tying Donald J. Trump to falsified documents. Jonah Bromwich, a criminal justice reporter at The New York Times, gives his takeaways.