Trump Organization hires criminal defense attorney
CBSN
The Trump Organization, facing a wide-ranging investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, has hired a criminal defense attorney.
Alan Futerfas, an attorney for the company, confirmed in an email that the lawyer Ronald Fischetti "has been added to the team." Fischetti is a veteran defense attorney whose high-profile cases include representing former Congressman Robert Garcia in a successful effort to get public corruption convictions overturned. Fischetti also led the effort to get civil rights charges dismissed against former New York police officer Charles Schwarz, who was accused of the 1997 assault of Haitian immigrant Abner Louima.Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.