Donald Trump’s former lawyer Joe Tacopina is leading a consortium that wants to buy English League Two side Tranmere Rovers and replicate Wrexham’s star-fuelled climb up the table.
The 58-year-old New Yorker has been in talks with Tranmere’s owners for at least six months and his proposed takeover is now only waiting for regulatory approval from the English Football League (EFL).
Based on the west bank of the River Mersey across from Liverpool in the north-west of England and currently playing in England’s fourth division, Tranmere have been owned by former Football Association chief executive Mark Palios and his wife Nicola, a lawyer, since 2014.
Tacopina has become famous in the United States for defending a string of celebrity clients, including the late Michael Jackson, former New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez and rapper A$AP Rocky, as well as being a regular commentator on legal matters on American television.
Tacopina quit Trump’s legal team in January but had previously worked on the cases involving the payment of hush money to the adult film actress Stormy Daniels and a civil suit brought by author E. Jean Carroll related to accusations of rape. Tacopina, a former prosecutor, has also defended Donald Trump Jr’s fiancee Kimberly Guilfoyle, now a key…
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