Nick Kanin, the trustee before Montgomery, paid a discretionary distribution of legal fees to the firm Werksman Jackson & Quinn for Reiner's defense earlier in the year
“Petitioner is informed and believes, based on information conveyed by prior trustee Matthew Fishburn, that Settlor Michele Singer Reiner advised him that Nick was aware he could take his Age 30 Distribution from the Trust when he turned thirty, and that Nick instead let those funds remain in the Trust — thereby consenting …to the Trustee electing to keep the distribution in the Trust until he desired it,”
Jodi MontgomerySaid DATE NOT STATEDReported AUG 17verbatim · 1 source
From the trustee's cross-petition filed the prior week describing what she says happened in 2023.
US-Iran memorandum of understanding deadline expires without deal
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MarineTraffic data showed at least three commercial ships passed through the Strait of Hormuz over a 24-hour period, compared with a pre-war average of about 110 ships daily
“After we finish defeating Iran, which is being very badly defeated, pretty soon I’ll be declaring the Hormuz Strait a territory of the United States,”
Donald TrumpSaid AUG 14Reported AUG 16verbatim · 2 sources
Trump told supporters in New York he would declare the Strait of Hormuz US territory.
Trial opens for man accused of planning tire-in-road killing
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The case affidavit says investigators found three checks Fernandez Saldana wrote to Tenon in October 2022, and phone records show the men had more than 60 phone contacts
GPS evidence released by prosecutors shows Tenon allegedly driving Bridegan's route twice in the month before the shooting, which prosecutors called "a practice run of the homicide route"
Investigators have said Gardner was tired of sharing custody of the twins with Bridegan, and court documents say the former couple had been in a contentious custody battle for several years
The detective who investigated the case at the time said witnesses had "skedaddled", leaving police with little more than a description of a white car and a glimpse of "a black arm"
Wildfires in Belgium and Greece kill two near Athens
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The Belgian fire surpassed a 2011 fire that burned nearly 14 square kilometers in the same area, previously the country's largest wildfire on record according to the European Forest Fire Information System.
Liège provincial governor Hervé Jamar said more than 250 emergency personnel had been deployed, including over 100 Belgian and German firefighters, police and military officers and civil protection staff.
South Korea expresses hope for US-North Korea talks after drills downsized
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Trump said he recently asked President Lee Jae Myung if South Korea would join the U.S. in the "denuclearization" of Iran and that South Korea declined
South Korea's military had earlier said this year's Ulchi Freedom Shield exercises would be similar in scale to previous years, with about 18,000 South Korean soldiers taking part
The object showed broad, multi-peaked hydrogen-beta emission with a width around 3,036 kilometres per second, plus absorption in hydrogen-beta and hydrogen-gamma
Black-hole mass estimates for the object fall broadly around one million to ten million solar masses depending on assumptions, with some conventional calibrations returning larger values
“We think there is a central black hole that is 100,000 times as massive as the sun. And around this black hole, there would be this very extended envelope of gas that looks like a star the size of the solar system. It's huge.”
Rohan NaiduSaid DATE NOT STATEDReported AUG 16verbatim · 1 source
Naidu explains the proposed structure of the black hole star, with a central black hole surrounded by a vast gas envelope.