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Trump was likely behind a false statement to the DOJ about secret documents being held at Mar-a-Lago, legal analysts say

0xd07fbf216bf5f136f7e0742efc2c49c71c1c2ca2@newsletter.paragraph.com (Untitled) — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 03:26:50 GMT

New details from the affidavit used in the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago suggest that former President Donald Trump may have authorized a false statement his attorneys made to the DOJ, legal analysts said.

Experts zeroed in on a statement in the affidavit an attorney for Trump gave to investigators when they visited Mar-a-Lago to retrieve government records in June.

The details had previously been redacted, but were made public Tuesday on a federal magistrate's orders.

Investigators believe that Trump may have violated laws including the Espionage Act in holding onto the records, and also that Trump and his aides may have obstructed the FBI's investigation.

According to the newly released information, one Trump attorney told the DOJ "he was not advised there were any records in any private office space or other locations in Mar-a-Lago."

Christina Bobb, a lawyer for Trump, also signed a statement saying that all of the information requested by the government had been handed back.

This turned out to be false. When agents executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago on August 8, they found stashes of highly confidential records, including in Trump's offices, haphazardly kept alongside his personal items.

Analysts say the new evidence indicates Trump himself was likely behind the attorney's false claims.

"There's more of an implication in this newly released information that the former president did play a role in the provision of information about documents to whoever the lawyer who certified this information to the Justice Department," Joyce Vance, a former US attorney, said in an interview on MSNBC.

NFT Virtual Summit: The Videos

0xd07fbf216bf5f136f7e0742efc2c49c71c1c2ca2@newsletter.paragraph.com (Untitled) — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 04:10:50 GMT

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have energized the crypto world in the last six months, bringing new creators, collectors, fans, and participants to the space and spotlighting the underlying blockchain technology. This explosion of artistic, cultural, and entrepreneurial energy is beginning to have major impacts on society.

Andreessen Horowitz and the Stanford Center for Blockchain Research teamed up recently to host the NFT Virtual Summit, in which the best NFT builders and thinkers discussed the latest trends in NFTs, shared insights and use cases, debated the social and monetization impacts, and looked ahead to the future of NFTs in the crypto market.Chris and Dan discuss why NFTs matter, starting with a high-level overview of NFTs before diving deeper into how they represent a shift of power away from platforms and centralized services and toward creators and users. They also discuss how NFTs unlock new economic models and waves of creativity, and how the idea of composability makes it all possible. Finally they give a quick overview of the new and emerging use cases for the technology.

Bio Eats World: The Problem with Urgent Care

0xd07fbf216bf5f136f7e0742efc2c49c71c1c2ca2@newsletter.paragraph.com (Untitled) — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 04:03:07 GMT

When it comes to healthcare, the topic of how expensive it is and what we can do to lower costs is always top of mind. One area with particularly steep costs is the emergency department. These are hospital departments that can take care of pretty much anything from a cut to a car wreck. But going to an emergency department for something as simple as a cut can result in a high bill for both the patient and the insurer. This is where the urgent care center comes in. Urgent care centers are walk-in clinics focused on caring for minor illnesses and injuries — or in medical speak — low acuity conditions. They are way less expensive than a trip to the emergency department, so funneling these low acuity visits from the emergency department to urgent care centers should result in lower healthcare costs… right? On today’s episode, host Lauren Richardson is joined by a16z general partner Vineeta Agawala and bio deal team member Justin Larkin (who are both medical doctors and experts in healthcare), to discuss new research published in the journal Health Affairs, examining this key assumption. The conversation covers the issues with care utilization and care navigation, how urgent care centers impact healthcare costs, and the implications of these results for builders in the digital health space.