"All of them are dead," Mr. Purpura told the witness.
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"That's not the real call," Deputy White House counsel Michael Purpura said.
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"That's fake," deputy White House counsel Michael Purpura said of Schiff's remarks.
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One of El Chapo's lawyers, William Purpura, asked if that number was accurate.
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Mr. Guzmán then decided not to testify "knowingly and voluntarily," Mr. Purpura said.
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Moments into Trump's defense team's opening arguments, Purpura played a clip of Rep.
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Defense attorney William Purpura, on cross-examination, sought to poke holes in Martinez's testimony.
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"Would you say you're a pretty good liar?" defense lawyer William Purpura asked Galvan.
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"There can't be a threat without the person knowing he's being threatened," Purpura said.
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"There can't be a threat without the person knowing he's being threatened," Mr. Purpura said.
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Mike Purpura: What did President Trump say to President Zelensky on the July 25 call?
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Cipollone's top associates, Michael Purpura and Patrick Philbin, will also be on the Senate impeachment team.
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Deputy White House counsel, Mike Purpura, had to have known about it when he said this.
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Chapo was represented during his trial by three private attorneys: Jeffrey Lichtman, William Purpura, and Eduardo Balarezo.
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"I started hating Guzman when he betrayed me and ordered someone to kill me," Martinez told Purpura.
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Deputy White House counsel Michael Purpura rehashes a few 'core facts' that are not based in facts
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As Trump lawyer Mike Purpura showed the video, Schiff looked at him and watched along without expression.
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Purpura concluded that each of the "facts" he laid out are "enough to sink the Democrats' case."
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On Wednesday afternoon, after months of delay, one of Mr. Balarezo's partners, William Purpura, finally entered the case.
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During cross-examination, one of the defense attorneys, William Purpura, who is bald, asked about the hair transplant.
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Rounding out the team is William Purpura, who once worked for the Baltimore drug kingpin Richard Anthony Wilford.
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Ella Casano, now 12, was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease called Idiopathic Thrombocytopenia Purpura (ITP) when she was seven.
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Seated at the defense table, from left are, an interpreter, Guzman, and defense attorneys William Purpura and Eduardo Balarezo.
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The exhibition as a whole — organized by Allyson Purpura, senior curator at the Krannert Art Museum in Champaign, Ill.
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Trump lawyer Michael Purpura said top Ukrainian officials only learned about the hold on military aid through an Aug.
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John Barrasso (R-Wy.) nodded his head in agreement when Purpura said Trump was a better friend to Ukraine.
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As Purpura noted, the withholding of military aid was not brought up in meetings between Ukraine and US officials.
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Cipollone will also be assisted by his deputies in the White House counsel's office, Patrick Philbin and Michael Purpura.
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"The ambassador's mistaken belief does not become proof because he repeated it many times," Trump lawyer Mike Purpura said.
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Purpura acknowledged that because Trump released the summary of his call with Zelenskiy, it was not covered by executive privilege.
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The doctor thought the child had something more common and benign: an autoimmune disorder known as Henoch-Schönlein purpura (HSP).
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"We know there was no quid pro quo on the call, we know that from the transcript," Mr. Purpura said.
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" And, Mr. Purpura added, "none of the House witnesses ever testified that there was any linkage between security assistance and investigations.
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When asked about Hersl and his relation to Moose, Hersl's attorney, William B. Purpura Jr. withheld from commenting on the matter.
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This isn't the first time Purpura has put these "facts" out to prove Trump's impeachment and removal from office is unwarranted.
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But other senior Ukrainian officials, cited by Purpura, indicated they only learned about the aid freeze when POLITICO broke the story.
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"Most of the Democrats' witnesses have never spoken to the president at all, let alone about Ukraine security assistance," Purpura said.
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That includes notable talent and experience — especially his deputies: Patrick Philbin, a former Comey staffer, and George W. Bush alumnus Mike Purpura.
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Sondland's "mistaken belief does not become proof because he repeated it many times," Trump lawyer Mike Purpura said at the impeachment trial.
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During cross-examination, William Purpura, one of the defense attorneys representing Guzman, tried to poke holes in Flores' credibility and his recordings.
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Ms. Purpura said she and Mr. Olcott, a 66-year-old musicians' union official, put more than $100,000 into repairs and upgrades.
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Despite saying on Monday that he would not "repeat" the arguments that "we've already put forth," Purpura proceeded to do just that.
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"Most of the Democrats' witnesses have never spoken to the president at all, let alone about Ukraine," Trump attorney Mike Purpura said.
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Deputy White House counsel Michael Purpura lays out '6 key facts' about Trump and Ukraine that have no basis in the facts
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Sanofi is awaiting regulatory approval for Ablynx's Cablivi (caplacizumab) for the treatment of acquired thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (aTTP), which can be fatal.
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Promacta has been approved in more than 90 countries as a treatment for low platelet count in patients with chronic immune thrombocytopenic purpura.
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Purpura highlighted how Flores' cooperation with federal law enforcement included giving up information on childhood friends he once helped sell cocaine and heroin.
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Zambada gave his testimony about the bribes on the fifth day of trial under cross-examination by one of Guzman's lawyers, William Purpura.
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He asked Mr. Purpura to be sure to tell the jury that the people in the picture had not in fact been killed.
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"Most of the Democrats' witnesses have never spoken to the president at all, let alone about Ukraine," Trump attorney Mike Purpura said Saturday.
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Mr. Purpura & Company were asking senators to ignore the Bolton revelations and focus solely on the official record compiled in the House proceedings.
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Cipollone's deputies in the White House counsel's office — Patrick Philbin and Michael Purpura — are also likely to be involved in the defense preparations.
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The treatment, called Cablivi, is already approved in the European Union as a treatment for acquired forms of the disorder, called thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura.
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Indeed, Cipollone has been at the center of the Trump trial defense strategy alongside his top deputies — Patrick Philbin and Michael Purpura — and Sekulow.
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Mr. Purpura would go on to remind Mr. Zambada that he had previously stated that people who stole from the cartel would be killed.
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William Purpura, one of the Mr. Guzmán's lawyers, asked Mr. Zambada, for example, if he would "corrupt the president of Mexico" if he could.
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Michael Purpura, the deputy White House counsel, argued the president was awaiting information on anti-corruption efforts in Ukraine before releasing the security assistance.
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Deputy White House counsel Michael Purpura claims lead House impeachment manager Adam Schiff fabricated the details of Trump's July 25 call with Ukraine's president
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Purpura and another White House deputy, Patrick Philbin, a veteran of the George W. Bush Justice Department, has made the transition into impeachment matters.
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It occurred in February in a man in his 70s who recovered from Zika but succumbed to immune thrombocytopenic purpura, another type of autoimmune reaction.
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On Tuesday, for example, Mr. Purpura showed the jury a photo he had found by plugging the words "150 people" into a Google image search.
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Mr. Purpura noted that Juan José Esparragoza, Mr. Guzmán's mentor, who knew him better than anyone, was dead — and so was Mr. Guzmán's brother, Arturito.
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Mr. Purpura dismissed much of the prosecution evidence as hearsay, and played video clips of former officials saying they knew of no quid pro quo.
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Mr. Purpura dismissed much of the testimony collected by the House as hearsay and based on "presumption," playing video clips of witnesses using that word.
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These meetings, which are typically run by Cipollone's deputy Mike Purpura, are often limited in attendance because the White House is so prone to leaks.
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This can lead to a condition called solar purpura—a fancy word for purple spots that resemble bruises and don't blanch or go away, Lipoff says.
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Michael Purpura, deputy counsel to Trump, argued that Cummings' subpoena of Kline "unconstitutionally encroaches on fundamental executive branch interests," according to a letter obtained by CNN.
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Here's a rundown of what Purpura said:The July 25 call transcript shows that the president did not condition either security assistance or a meeting on anything.
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But that nomination never came, and Purpura ultimately left a high-paying, private-equity job in real estate to come work in the Trump White House.
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There will be other lawyers involved, primarily Mr. Cipollone's two top deputies, Patrick F. Philbin and Michael M. Purpura, two people familiar with the plans said.
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Hersl's attorney, William Purpura, argued that his client was a latecomer to the gun task force, making him less culpable than his colleagues, the station reported.
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Last month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Ablynx's most promising asset, the experimental drug caplacizumab for treating the blood disease Acquired Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura.
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Mr. Purpura did not deny that his client took money but said the thefts did not rise to the more serious charges of robbery or extortion.
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In February, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Ablynx's most promising asset, the experimental drug caplacizumab for treating the blood disease acquired thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura.
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Our word "purple" is derived from the Latin word purpura, which was often applied to the dye used to turn clothing to a rich blueish-red shade.
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Mr. Guzman's former ally, Amado Carrillo Fuentes — a brother of Rodolfo — was also deceased, Mr. Purpura said, having bled to death in 1997 while undergoing plastic surgery.
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Trump's top lawyer Pat Cipollone and his deputy Michael Purpura repeatedly sought to poke holes in the evidence that Trump pressured Ukraine to investigate his Democratic rivals.
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Mr. Purpura noted several times the "21 hours, or more than 21 hours," that Representative Adam B. Schiff, the lead House manager, and the other Democrats spoke.
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"We know there was no quid pro quo on the July 25 call," deputy White House counsel Michael Purpura said Saturday, referring to Trump's call with Zelensky.
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Solar purpura is most common among the elderly, but not unheard of among young people, according to a 2017 article in the Journal of Clinical and Aesthetic Dermatology.
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"A few days after his recovery, he returned to the hospital with signs of a bleeding disorder and was diagnosed with immune thrombocytopenic purpura, or ITP," Sharp said.
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After some intense blood work, doctors diagnosed her with thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (or TTP), an autoimmune disease that can cause dangerous blood clots to form in the body.
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"Murder is an infamous act and infamous acts go right to the heart of someone's credibility," one of the lawyers, William Purpura, said in court of Mr. Ramírez.
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"And once again, not a single witness in the House record … provided any firsthand evidence that the president ever linked a presidential meeting to any investigations," Purpura said.
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Mr. Purpura added that there could not have been an illicit quid pro quo, because the Ukrainians did not know about the aid freeze until a month later.
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One of Mr. Trump's lawyers, Michael Purpura, said the president's decisions regarding Ukraine were rooted in his desire to get European countries to pitch in more with aid.
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One of Mr. Trump's lawyers, Michael Purpura, said the president's decisions regarding Ukraine were rooted in his desire to get European countries to pitch in more with aid.
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By buying the company outright it will now get access to Ablynx's most promising asset, the experimental drug caplacizumab for treating the blood disease acquired thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura.
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But after Mr. Guzmán addressed the court, Mr. Purpura told Judge Cogan that he and his partners had explained to their client the legal perils of undergoing cross-examination.
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"Not a single witness testified that the President himself said that there was any connection between any investigations and security assistance, a presidential meeting or anything else," Purpura continued.
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In 2005, in the same journal, Annette Upfal gave a name to the blotching of the face—idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura—and proposed that Austen had died from Hodgkin's disease.
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By buying the company outright it will now get access to Ablynx's most promising asset, the experimental drug caplacizumab for treating the rare bleeding disorder acquired thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura.
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An administration official says Pat Cipollone will take the lead as the main lawyer in the potential senate trial supported by his deputies, including Mike Purpura and Pat Philbin.
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The condition that killed him, immune thrombocytopenic purpura, is similar to Guillain-Barré in that the Zika infection triggered his immune system to produce antibodies that attacked his own cells.
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Sharp said the man was diagnosed with a rare Zika complication known as immune thrombocytopenic purpura or ITP, an autoimmune disorder in which the immune system attacks blood cells, called platelets.
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The main attraction for Novo is Ablynx's experimental drug caplacizumab for the rare bleeding disorder acquired thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, which would complement Novo's line-up of blood products focused on haemophilia.
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Michael Purpura, a White House lawyer, reached him by phone a few hours later, asking Mr. Sondland to come in for an interview since his name was mentioned in the document.
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Rigel's Tavalisse was approved to treat patients with immune thrombocytopenic purpura, a disease characterized by excessive bruising and bleeding caused by unusually low levels of platelets, which are integral to clotting.
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Mr. Purpura also suggested that Mr. Zambada was a liar who could say whatever he wanted since most of the people who could corroborate — or refute — his account were already dead.
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Most notably, Schiff played clips of Trump's lawyers Pat Cipollone and Michael Purpura during their opening arguments, in which they harangued the House managers for lack of first-hand witness testimony.
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In the White House counsel's office, Pat Cipollone started his tenure late last year by tapping Michael Purpura to lead a team of about 20 attorneys to handle Democratic oversight requests.
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"The government lumped Daniel Hersl's wrong conduct — there's no excuse for it — into a racketeering enterprise" that he had no role in, William Purpura, the detective's lawyer, told the jury last month.
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White House counsel Pat Cipollone and his deputy Michael Purpura noted that central witnesses in the House's impeachment hearings based their assessments on "presumptions" and "guesswork" rather than knowledge of Trump's intentions.
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"The president did not condition security assistance or a meeting on anything in the July 25 call," Mr. Purpura said Monday, ignoring testimony and other evidence describing a much longer pressure campaign.
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Cipollone, Purpura and Sekulow all are also preparing to take part in any cross examinations, even though Republican leaders have punted a vote on this issue until further along in the process.
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The president's defense is expected to be led by Cipollone, Sekulow and Cipollone's two deputies in the office, Michael Purpura and Patrick Philbin, both alums of the George W. Bush White House.
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The hematologist was particularly concerned about thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, or T.T.P., a disease in which the clotting system goes wild and starts making abnormal clots in small blood vessels throughout the body.
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" A letter from deputy White House counsel Michael Purpura to committee Chairman Elijah Cummings, a Maryland Democrat, on May 21 addressed the committee's request to interview Kobach about the citizenship question, saying, "Mr.
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The European Medicines Agency's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) in June had recommended the approval of caplacizumab, which is to be prescribed to adults suffering acquired thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (aTTP).
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One very recent example: White House associate counsel Michael Purpura about 15 minutes earlier in the session referenced a Daily Beast interview with a former Ukrainian official that had only been published Tuesday.
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" Here's a breakdown of these "facts" and other claims from CNN's Facts First team: Purpura said "the transcript shows that the President did not condition either security assistance or a meeting on anything.
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The defense stood by its contention that the House managers had produced, as Michael Purpura, deputy White House counsel, put it, "not a single witness" with firsthand knowledge of a quid pro quo.
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At first the man reported flu-like symptoms and later developed severe sepsis and purpura fulminans, an acute disorder that causes blood spots, bruising and discoloration of the skin as well as necrosis.
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In addition to Lichtman, Guzman's lawyers at the trial include Eduardo Balarezo and William Purpura, who previously defended Mexican drug lord Alfredo Beltran Leyva, once a partner and later a rival of Guzman.
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During the trial, Mr. Lichtman and the two other members of Mr. Guzmán's legal team — William Purpura and A. Eduardo Balarezo — largely spent their time attacking the credibility of the government's 14 cooperating witnesses.
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He'll be flanked by two of his deputies, Michael Purpura and Patrick Philbin, who will be stationed at the president's defense table ready to parse the Democratic prosecution's arguments and cross examine any witnesses.
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Cipollone, who has written several searing letters to Democrats critical of their efforts, will take the lead during the trial with assistance from two of his three top deputies, Michael Purpura and Patrick Philbin.
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"Not a single witness testified that the president himself said that there was any connection between any investigations and security assistance, a presidential meeting, or anything else," deputy White House counsel Mike Purpura said.
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Purpura did not include the testimony of Laura Cooper, the Pentagon official who mentioned emails her office received from Ukrainians about the aid on the same day as Trump's phone call with the Ukrainian President.
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De la Rosa called the hospital, hoping the labs would offer clues as to whether the girl might have leukemia; Henoch-Schonlein purpura, a disorder that can cause kidney damage; or just an allergic reaction.
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In the letter to attorney Lee Wolosky, White House Deputy Counsel Michael Purpura cited the doctrine of executive privilege, which is intended to protect communications between the president and close advisers to ensure candid, private advice.
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The reaction, called immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), has caused three deaths among people infected with Zika in Colombia, one death in Suriname and four deaths during French Polynesia's 2013-2014 Zika outbreak, reports the Washington Post.
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The September 25 presidential meeting Purpura referred to was a brief meeting on the sidelines of the UN. Zelensky himself said at the pull-aside that he was keen on meeting Trump at the White House.
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Over the course of a swift, two-hour session, Trump's top lawyer Pat Cipollone and his deputy Michael Purpura repeatedly sought to poke holes in the evidence that Trump pressured Ukraine to investigate his Democratic rivals.
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Moments later, Guzmán, 61 but without a gray hair on his head, would appear in a suit and tie, smiling and shaking hands with the attorneys handling his trial: Eduardo Balarezo, Jeffrey Lichtman and William Purpura.
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But since Purpura made that argument, a New York Times report has come out revealing that Bolton has said he was directly told by Trump about the quid pro quo between military aid and political investigations.
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"It's like living in the '50s here," said Karen Purpura, a 69-year-old flutist who moved to Ridgefield Park with her partner, Tom Olcott, from nearby Englewood last year after inheriting a house from a friend.
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"Not a single witness testified that the president himself said that there was any connection between any investigations and security assistance, a presidential meeting or anything else," deputy White House counsel Michael Purpura told senators on Saturday.
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The New York Daily News reports that Chapo has also hired A. Eduardo Balarezo and William Purpura, who represented Mexican kingpin and former Chapo ally Alfredo Beltran Leyva, along with Marc Fernich, another member of Gotti's defense team.
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Purpura, a former federal prosecutor from the Southern District of New York and George W. Bush White House aide, had been on the shortlist early on in the Trump administration for a lifetime judicial appointment based in Hawaii.
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Balarezo, who previously defended Mexican drug lord and Chapo rival Alfredo Beltrán Leyva, was the first to sign on to the case, and he has since been joined by William Purpura, a revered criminal defense attorney from Baltimore.
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According to Cosmopolitan U.K., she was initially told that she had Henoch-Schönlein purpura (also known as HSP), a disease in which blood vessels in the body become inflamed and swollen, causing bleeding into the skin and, therefore, rashes.
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"There is a lot of confusion from a customer standpoint … primarily about $0 premium plans they see in the marketplace and why that is when Trump cut the subsidies," said Nate Purpura, a spokesman for online insurance brokerage eHealth.
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Purpura served as a federal prosecutor from the Southern District of New York and later as a George W. Bush White House aide handling oversight issues when Democrats won control of the House and Senate in the 2006 midterms.
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"Not a single witness testified that the president himself said that there was any connection between any investigations and security assistance, a presidential meeting or anything else," the deputy White House counsel Michael Purpura told the Senate on Saturday.
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Among the points they made: Trump counsel Mike Purpura argued that EU ambassador Gordon Sondland's knowledge of any quid pro quo was based on his own "presumptions," an assertion highlighted by a supercut of Sondland's remarks on the subject.
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The condition, called acquired thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (aTTP), is a life-threatening, autoimmune disorder characterized by clot formation in small blood vessels throughout the body, cutting off blood supply to various body parts and potentially causing strokes and heart attacks.
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Details: In the White House letter, Michael Purpura, deputy counsel to President Trump, wrote Kline was instructed not to appear after the committee rejected a White House request for an Office of Counsel of the President representative to attend the deposition.
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Ukraine did not know about the hold on military aid Purpura claimed Ukraine did not know military aid was being withheld at the time of the phone call, so there could effectively be no quid pro quo between the parties.
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Mike Purpura, deputy White House counsel, accused Democrats of not showing impeachment testimony that Ukrainian officials were unaware of the freeze on security assistance at the time of the July 25 telephone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
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Pat Cipollone, the White House counsel who has written several blistering letters to Democrats critical of their efforts, is primed to have the lead speaking role and will be backed up by his top deputies, Michael Purpura and Patrick Philbin.
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"We believed that the private interview format would satisfy the committee's stated desire to obtain information from Mr. McGahn," Michael Purpura, a top White House lawyer, told the court earlier this month in a declaration submitted as part of the case.
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And as with the lesions on the boy's legs and ankles, pressure didn't make the rash blanch — an indication that the dots were actually tiny pools of blood deposited within the layers of the skin, a kind of rash known as purpura.
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En directa contradicción con el relato de Bolton, Michael Purpura, abogado adjunto de la Casa Blanca, afirmó que "todos los que hablaron con el presidente dijeron que él aclaró que no había relación alguna entre la ayuda de seguridad y las investigaciones".
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Though Purpura is leading the White House's response to requests from the Hill, sources said Cipollone has been engaged, working the phones to discuss oversight requests with those affected and even sitting down with Cummings, as he acknowledged in a recent letter.
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Read: El Chapo's lawyer says there's evidence he was just a middle manager Chapo eventually hired Eduardo Balarezo, who previously represented Mexican drug lord Alfredo Beltrán-Leyva, and William Purpura, a veteran attorney who has been involved in several high-profile cases over the years.
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" In an earlier letter sent to Cummings on April 18, Purpura argued that the White House would need to participate in the deposition to ensure that the questions are limited to the proper scope and that any disclosure of details covered by executive privilege is "properly authorized.
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Speaking to reporters after the hearing, one of Mr. Guzmán's lawyers, William B. Purpura, speculated that the marshals would house Mr. Guzmán at — or near — the Brooklyn courthouse during trial days, but, he said, he wasn't sure if his client would return to Manhattan for the weekends.
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Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) stared straight at the video monitor behind Mike Purpura, a Justice Department veteran serving on the president's legal team, as the White House lawyer opened his presentation with the video of the House chairman's much-criticized summary of the Trump phone call.
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Michael Purpura, a deputy White House counsel, noted that Mr. Trump did not explicitly link American aid to his demand for investigations during his July 25 phone call with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, and pointed to Mr. Zelensky's public statements that he did not feel pressured.
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Then Trump's legal team — White House counsel Pat Cipollone, White House Counsel's Office attorneys Michael Purpura and Patrick Philbin, White House adviser Pam Bondi, Trump's personal attorneys Jay Sekulow and Jane Raskin, and outside attorneys Ken Starr, Robert Ray, and Alan Dershowitz — will present their opening arguments.
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Although multiple sources said Cipollone, Sekulow, Philbin and Purpura have carefully laid out plans for the defense, even the senators who will ultimately decide Trump's guilt or innocence don't know exactly how the trial will unfold -- leaving room for twists in the process to alter Cipollone's course.
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The bombshell revelation in former National Security Adviser John Bolton's forthcoming book, "The Room Where it Happened: A White House Memoir," was impossible to ignore, and yet, that's precisely and bizarrely what Trump attorney Mike Purpura asked the Senate jurors -- and the rest of us -- to do.
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" Trump's track record on support for Ukraine Purpura argued that Trump has "been a better friend and stronger supporter of Ukraine then his predecessor" while Trump's lawyer Jay Sekulow noted that Trump, not Obama, took the "concrete step" of "actually providing Ukraine with lethal weapons, including javelin missiles.
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" Deputy White House Counsel Michael M. Purpura sent a letter to Wolosky on Thursday reiterating that "whether or not the House authorized the 'impeachment inquiry' after Dr. Hill's October 14 deposition, Dr. Hill is still obligated to protect potentially privileged information acquired during the course of her service.
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Michael M. Purpura, a deputy White House counsel, said in a letter to Mr. Kline's lawyer, Robert N. Driscoll, that the White House wanted to ensure that questioning "was limited to the proper scope" and that Mr. Kline not be pressed into revealing information that could be covered by executive privilege.
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Pam Bondi, the former Florida attorney general who has been assisting the White House for weeks, Jane Raskin, an attorney brought in to bolster the President's legal team during the Russia probe, and two deputies from Cipollone's office -- Pat Philbin and Michael Purpura -- are expected to have speaking roles on the Senate floor.
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Michael M. Purpura, a deputy White House counsel, said in a letter to Mr. Kline's lawyer, Robert N. Driscoll, that the White House wanted to ensure that the questioning "was limited to the proper scope" and that Mr. Kline not be pressed into revealing information that could be covered by executive privilege.
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White House deputy counsel Mike Purpura homed in on the testimony of U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon SondlandGordon SondlandLatest Bolton revelations are no game-changer Trump legal team begins second day of arguments under Bolton furor House impeachment manager: 'Evidence against the president is overwhelming' MORE's admission that he presumed Trump was behind the pressure campaign.
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For instance, deputy White House counsel Michael Purpura played several moments from impeachment hearings in which witnesses -- former US Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor, former special envoy for Ukraine Kurt Volker and former National Security Council staffer Tim Morrison -- said the first time they knew the Ukrainians expressed concern about security funding being frozen was in August.
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In a brief phone interview, Mr. Lichtman said he had taken the case with three other lawyers: Marc Fernich, who helped him successfully defend Mr. Gotti against racketeering charges in 2005; A. Eduardo Balarezo, who represented one of Mr. Guzmán's chief rivals, the Mexican trafficker Alfredo Beltrán Leyva; and William Purpura, a lawyer for the notorious Baltimore drug kingpin Richard Anthony Wilford.
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White House counsel Pat Cipollone will lead the team, and it will also include Trump's personal lawyer Jay Sekulow, as well as Michael Purpura and Patrick Philibin from the White House Counsel's Office as well as Ken Starr (the independent counsel who helped spur Bill Clinton's impeachment), Robert Ray (who succeeded Starr in that post), and celebrity lawyer Alan Dershowitz.
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Although Starr, Dershowitz and Robert Ray, Starr's successor during the Clinton administration, are expected to play more limited parts on behalf of Trump, Sekulow and Cipollone are leading what a person familiar with the preparations described as the "core team" of Bondi, Raskin, Philbin, Purpura and others who have helped them prepare over long sessions since even before the House voted to advance articles of impeachment.
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Inside the Trump White House counsel's office, Cipollone retained John Eisenberg, McGahn's No. 2 for national security issues, and also added three new deputies: Kate Comerford Todd, the former head of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's litigation arm, for judicial nominations; Patrick Philbin, a former top George W. Bush Justice Department official, to deal with policy matters; and Mike Purpura, an ex-Bush White House attorney, to spearhead a team of about 20 attorneys tasked with challenging many of the Democratic oversight efforts.
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Cipollone is spearheading the defense teamMichael Purpura, Cipollone&aposs deputy in the White House counsel&aposs officePatrick Philbin, another deputy in Cipollone&aposs officeJay Sekulow, Trump&aposs personal lawyerJane Raskin, Trump&aposs personal lawyerKenneth Starr, the former Whitewater independent counsel Robert Ray, who succeeded Starr as independent counsel in the Whitewater investigationAlan Dershowitz, a Harvard emeritus law professor and constitutional and criminal law scholarPam Bondi, the former attorney general of FloridaThe president&aposs legal team has argued that the charges against him — and the impeachment process as a whole — is "constitutionally invalid" and should be dismissed.
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" Michael Purpura, deputy counsel to President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE, wrote to Cummings in a letter sent Monday that White House acting chief of staff Mick MulvaneyJohn (Mick) Michael MulvaneyDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Chris Wallace becomes Trump era's 'equal opportunity inquisitor' Appropriators warn White House against clawing back foreign aid MORE had told Kline, the former White House personnel security director, not to appear before the Oversight Committee because the panel was not allowing a representative of the White House to attend his deposition "in order to preserve and protect Executive Branch confidentiality interests.
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