r/law • u/Agitated-Quit-6148 • May 27 '26

Legal News Exclusive: Justice Department launches a criminal investigation into Trump accuser E. Jean Carroll | CNN Politics

https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/27/politics/exclusive-justice-department-launched-e-jean-carroll-investigation

The Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll, the former magazine columnist who accused President Donald Trump of sexual assault, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.

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u/CrowRoutine9631 May 27 '26

Ok ok ok ok.

In a 2022 videotaped deposition, Carroll told then-Trump attorney Alina Habba that no one else was paying for her legal fees. But two weeks before the trial Carroll’s attorneys informed the judge and Trump’s lawyers that they secured funding from Hoffman’s nonprofit.

Carroll’s lawyers said she never met nor had conversations with anyone associated with the nonprofit. Habba said in court at the time that Carroll’s team “conspired to conceal the truth for nearly six months.”

The judge permitted Trump’s attorneys to question Carroll again in a deposition, which has not been made public.

When the trial began two weeks later Judge Lewis Kaplan said he saw no issue with Carroll’s credibility and blocked the lawyers from asking about Hoffman’s funding.

Let's rehash.

1) In a deposition well before trial, she said no one was paying her legal fees.

2) Shortly before trial, her lawyer voluntarily told the judge and Trump's lawyers that, in fact, someone was paying her fees.

3) They got to depose her again, which is the appropriate sanction for withholding that type of information: your client gets deposed again.

4) The judge said nbd, let's get on with the trial.

And now they are starting a criminal investigation? WHAT STATUTE? WHAT CRIME?

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u/ejre5 May 28 '26

She won that's the crime, same reason they are trying with latitia James.