CLEVELAND, Ohio – Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bernie Moreno was served with a subpoena Monday in the messy divorce between his daughter Emily Moreno Miller and Republican U.S. Representative Max Miller.
The subpoena was filed against Bernie Moreno by Max Miller’s attorney Larry Zukerman at 10 a.m. on Nov. 6, the morning after the high-stakes election between Bernie Moreno and Cleveland’s incumbent Democratic state senator, Sherrod Brown. We are asking you to appear at our office.
It also ordered Bernie Moreno to pay money he sent to his daughter over the past three years in connection with the purchase of the Westlake home in which his daughter currently resides, reflecting attorney fees he paid on behalf of his daughter in the divorce. We request that you provide us with all documents and records obtained. year. His wife Bridget was also issued a similar summons, requiring her to appear in court at noon on November 4, the day before the election.
Cleveland.com has reached out to Bernie Moreno’s Senate campaign and Emily Moreno Miller’s attorney for comment on the subpoena.
Earlier this month, Max Miller filed a discovery request against his estranged wife, asking her to admit that her August 2022 prenuptial agreement lists her net worth as $122,500 and zero debt. He criticized his wife for listing the value of his assets in 2023 as between $2.5 million and $8.5 million. U.S. House of Representatives Financial Disclosure Report filed on August 5th.
“Mr. Miller admits that he alleges that his net worth increased by more than $2 million between August 11, 2022 and August 5, 2023,” Miller’s discovery request states. .
Emily Moreno Miller owns a 24% stake in several Moreno family companies, including Hyperbole Investments, LLC, valued at between $1 million and $5 million, according to her August financial disclosure report. Butterfly Properties NYC, LLC, valued at $500,000 to $1 million. Kylo Properties LLC, valued at $250,000 to $500,000. Pangolin Properties LLC, valued at $100,000 to $250,000. Aguila Calva Properties Ohio LLC is valued at between $100,000 and $250,000.
These spousal investments are also included in Max Miller’s 2022 Financial Disclosure Report.
Additionally, the discovery request required her to admit that a “person or entity” acting on her behalf purchased the Westlake home on July 1 without telling Max Miller. She reportedly took her baby and two dogs with her. On August 1, he removed her belongings from the couple’s residence “without informing the plaintiff or intending to return,” and the next day drove a mobile van to the couple’s residence to remove more household items, including baby care items. He said he sent it.
Last month, Emily Moreno Miller alleged that her husband made numerous false claims in legal filings, claiming in legal filings that her husband had made a number of false claims about her obtaining alone parenting time with their children. opposed.
“It is disgraceful that Plaintiff has attempted to defame his wife by making numerous false statements in public filings,” her earlier legal brief said. “Unlike Plaintiff, Ms. Miller has not made false allegations about her spouse and has chosen not to make those allegations public records.” Although he did not specify, he said the falsehoods “will be addressed more specifically in the hearing on this matter.”
The legal brief states that Emily Moreno Miller “has significant concerns about her husband’s decisions and choices in his personal life.” The brief said that, contrary to assertions made by Miller in previous legal filings, Moreno-Miller “left the marital residence for the safety, security, and welfare of herself and her young child.” .
Max Miller filed for divorce on August 27, two years after he married Emily Moreno at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey. At their wedding, Max Miller delivered a reception speech by Donald Trump, for whom he worked as a senior adviser during the Trump era.
The divorce filing comes three years after Max Miller’s ex-girlfriend and former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham wrote in the Washington Post that their relationship had turned physically abusive. He sued Grisham for defamation in a Cuyahoga County case, which was dismissed in August 2023.
Max Miller, the scion of the family that owns the real estate company Forest City Enterprises, is currently seeking a second term in Congress. Emily Moreno Miller briefly served as the Cuyahoga County Republican Party executive chair last year. Prior to that, he worked on the presidential campaigns of Mr. Trump and Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin.
The couple met while working on Mr. Rubio’s presidential campaign in 2015, then reunited when they became neighbors in Washington, D.C., and began working on Mr. Trump’s second presidential campaign.
Sabrina Eaton writes about the federal government and Washington, D.C., politics for cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer.
