"It was another installment in the illegal hush money 'reimbursed' to Cohen ... for [the Stormy Daniels] hush money payoff," the source said.
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NOT Don Jr - who signed hush money checks. Why?
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Lies about polling data and lies about hush money payments.
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He also maintains that Boies sought hush money from Wexner.
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Gates calls it philanthropy while Trump calls it hush money.
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It's delay, deny, pay hush money and avoid the consequences.
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The big picture: Cohen produced a $35,000 check during Congressional testimony he alleged was evidence of an installment of illegal hush money Trump reimbursed to him during his presidency for hush money to Stormy Daniels.
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" She added that she "absolutely" saw the offer as "hush money.
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He has denied that he endorsed the payment of hush money.
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He served 13 months in federal prison for the hush money.
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These "hush money" payoffs are still secret except in New Jersey.
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They included intimidation, hush money and a leading tabloid news business.
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MORE had been caught paying hush money to a porn star.
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But Trump admits having reimbursed Cohen for the hush-money payout.
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Cohen also used Essential Consultants to pay hush money to Daniels.
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Trump later admitted that he reimbursed Cohen for the hush-money payment.
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She would sign a nondisclosure form, and she calls that hush money.
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In December prosecutors gave AMI itself immunity in the hush-money probe.
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Among the big issues ... $130k in hush money and who directed payment.
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Cohen formed Essential Consultants to pay Daniels the $2171,2000 in hush money.
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Knowing she would be asked about the hush money, Sanders asked Trump.
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No name change, amount of fame or hush money can undo that.
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Investigators are examining whether the hush money constituted a campaign-finance violation.
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Questions have also arisen about whether other women were paid hush money.
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Then he denies that any hush money payments were made to her.
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In Ms. McDougal's case, we don't know who fronted the hush money.
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The Manhattan D.A. subpoenaed the Trump Organization over Stormy Daniels hush money.
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The Manhattan D.A. subpoenaed the Trump Organization over Stormy Daniels hush money.
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Trump has denied Daniels' allegations but reimbursed Cohen for the hush money.
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From foreign contacts to hush-money payments The Democratic-led committee is seeking a range of documents that span the gamut -- from details about contacts with foreign contacts to hush-money payments to silence affairs, which Trump had denied.
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In that moment, it became clear that our tips had been hush money.
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In August, Cohen pleaded guilty to his role in the hush-money payments.
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Initially, the indictment (above) didn't indicate why Hastert had been paying hush money.
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Avenatti began representing Daniels in litigation involving the hush money deal in 2018.
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It includes porn stars, hush money, caught-on-tape crudeness and tawdry tabloids.
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"Rumors that I have received hush money from Donald Trump are completely false."
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The president denies Daniels' claim, but repaid Cohen for the hush money payout.
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"Well I'm not very happy about it," he said of the hush money.
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Rumors that I have received hush money from Donald Trump are completely false.
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Cohen told Congress in February 2019 that Trump approved the hush-money payments.
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In exchange, Pecker agreed to provide federal prosecutors information on hush money deals.
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Read more: What could be next for the hush money investigation What's it about?
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The sprawling saga of Michael Cohen's hush money payoffs has taken another bizarre turn.
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The checks don't change the basic facts at issue in the hush money scandal.
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Cohen admitted to paying Daniels $130,000 in hush money out of his own pocket.
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You may disparage this practice as a cheap bribe, grease or even hush money.
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He participated in the payment of hush money to some of the Watergate burglars.
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And the hush money investigation in particular remains active and potentially dangerous to Trump.
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Hahn was later given a $265,000 hush money settlement, paid through the PLT ministries.
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Moreover, China does not shy away from offering its economic assistance as hush money.
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He's not even just someone who sent $130,000 in hush money to Stormy Daniels.
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But Trump has admitted he reimbursed Cohen for his hush money payment to Daniels.
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But the president has admitted reimbursing Cohen for the hush money payment to Daniels.
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Mr. Nixon used his personal lawyer to pay hush money to the Watergate burglars.
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The answer to that question -- If this wasn't hush money then what was it?
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For both Trump and Broidy, Cohen arranged hush money payments to cover up sex scandals.
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The third included various financial dealings, including the hush money payment made to Stormy Daniels.
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As you know, Daniels is suing Trump and Cohen over the $130,000 hush money agreement.
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And he has also repeatedly alleged that Trump directed him to pay the hush money.
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That's how he was able to shell out more than $1.5 million in hush money.
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Paying hush money to prevent a salacious story from being made public is entirely lawful.
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Those crimes related to hush-money payments to two women who alleged affairs with Trump.
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The original report about alleged hush money, however, was detailed in The Wall Street Journal.
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HUSH MONEY and DROWN OUT were particularly bonkers, as was FREEWAY, for this city dweller.
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"It certainly looks pretty obvious to me that this was hush money payment," Ryan said.
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Jaworski believed the payment of hush money constituted an ironclad case of obstruction of justice.
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Daniels says the payment was "hush money" intended to keep her quiet about the relationship.
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One can understand the argument that hush money seems to smack of bribery or blackmail.
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Dean pled guilty to giving hush money to the Watergate burglars to keep them quiet.
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Thus, the hush money payments made to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal may not qualify.
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The question is then whether or not this so-called "hush money" is a crime.
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At that point, prosecutors were looking for information on Cohen's hush money payment of $130,212 to Daniels on Trump's behalf, hush money payments to other women, efforts to suppress negative information about Trump during the 22018 campaign, and information about taxi medallions Cohen owns.
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The hush-money deal muzzled her from discussing an alleged affair with Trump from years earlier.
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Trump has denied knowing anything about the hush money, so Giuliani was directly contradicting his client.
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Unfortunately for Don Jr., the hush-money payments aren't the only activities investigators are closely scrutinizing.
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In the interview, Cohen tried to deflect some of the blame in the hush-money scandal.
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I thought this was interesting: She listed her hush money from Donald Trump under 'gross income.
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Late October 2016: Daniels's attorney, Keith Davidson, and Trump attorney Cohen negotiated a hush money deal.
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The hush money payment was paid to prevent a damaging story about Trump from being released.
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The only problem was the cash got intermingled with Russian oligarch funds and hush money payments.
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Stormy Daniels may have taken hush money from Donald Trump, and that's now paying handsome dividends.
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But since then, Cohen implicated Trump under oath in the illegal hush-money scheme with Daniels.
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It will also be scrutinized for any sign of the hush money payment made to Daniels.
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He allegedly never conferred with Trump or got his consent for paying $130,000 in hush money.
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Also, it&aposs a sad day in America when you can no longer trust hush money.
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She revealed that someone close to the movie mogul offered her $1955 million in hush money.
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And if her hush money counts as a campaign donation, that could be a huge issue.
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In August, he pleaded guilty to an array of crimes, including arranging the hush-money payments.
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"Giuliani said that Trump knew about and paid for Stormy Daniels's hush money," Jimmy Fallon noted.
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The Trump Organization reportedly booked the $130,000 hush money payment as "legal fees" paid to Cohen.
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Eventually, she signed the deal, as did Cohen, and he paid her $130,000 in hush money.
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Pecker was granted immunity last summer to provide federal investigators information on such hush money deals.
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Daniels received $130,000 in hush money from Michael Cohen, the president's personal lawyer at the time.
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When asked why she went back to work, she said, 'My Trump hush money ran out.
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How this policy might have played into SDNY's hush money investigation has yet to be determined.
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And the following month, Robert Khuzami — the prosecutor who oversaw the hush money probe — left government.
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However, her story diverges when it comes to the payment of what amounts to hush money.
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Unless Cohen could have demonstrated that his then-boss wrote "hush money" on the check memo.
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Avenatti made similar demands of Clifford's former manager, Gina Rodriguez, who helped engineer the hush-money deal.
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Investigators said the transactions involved $3.5 million he paid in hush money to one of his accusers.
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Russian hackers are said to be seeking hush money from liberal U.S. groups, reports Bloomberg's Michael Riley.
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Avenatti represented Daniels in lawsuits related to the hush money and later in negotiating a book deal.
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Trump's longtime lawyer set up a company called Essential Consultants to pay Daniels $130,000 in hush money.
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Keri's initial decision to accept the hush money shocks Amy – as does Rosa's (Beatriz) support of it.
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Cohen leaked a conversation with Mr. Trump he secretly taped about hush money for a Playboy model.
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Daniels has filed a separate lawsuit over a $130,000 hush-money agreement stemming from the alleged encounter.
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Russian hackers are reportedly targeting liberal groups from the U.S. in an effort to collect hush money.
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The following month, in March, Robert Khuzami — the prosecutor who oversaw the hush money probe — left government.
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This story was updated to reflect Giuliani's attempts to clarify his statements on the hush money payment.
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In that capacity, he negotiated multiple hush-money agreements with women who had sexual relationships with Trump.
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Attention will now shift from foreign threats to our nation's electoral system to porn star hush money.
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Last August, Mr. Cohen pleaded guilty to a litany of crimes, including for arranging hush money payments.
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In October 7003, Cohen created Essential Consultants LLC as a vehicle to pay hush money to Daniels.
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Anatomy of a Crime: Sex, Hush Money and a Trump Fixer's Guilty Plea Cohen Implicates President Trump.
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Hush money can purchase silence but, regardless of who pays it, it does not erase anyone's memory.
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Mike Rounds suggested Trump made hush-money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels to protect his family.
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There's no place for the government to pay hush money for a privileged set of federal employees.
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It has also aided the investigation into alleged hush money paid to former porn star Stormy Daniels.
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Of course, bribery is not the same thing as depriving voters of information by paying hush money.
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The thing is, the hush money scheme is very likely the crime that got him the office.
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The New York Times reported on Friday that Trump has known about the hush money for months.
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" ON HIS FORMER LAWYER, MICHAEL COHEN, AND HUSH MONEY PAYMENTS "Number one: it wasn't a campaign contribution.
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Cohen may have some legal exposure stemming from the hush money, for which he was reimbursed by Trump.
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Donald Trump presumably wanted to keep the Stormy Daniels hush money hushed, but his lawyer left a trail.
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According to CNN, he will talk about the hush money payments as well as Trump and his children.
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According to Cosby's lawyers, Huth sued the comedian only after unsuccessfully trying to extort him for hush money.
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Cohen said Trump directed the "hush money" payments for the women's silence about their sexual relations with Trump.
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Daniels says she was paid $130,000 in what she called hush money over an alleged affair with Trump.
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Hastert pleaded guilty last year to evading bank reporting requirements for paying millions in a hush money scheme.
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Mr Cohen's role in the hush-money payment landed him in prison for violating federal campaign-finance laws.
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Federal prosecutors are reportedly looking into whether others within the Trump Organization knew about the hush money payments.
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Cohen paid her the hush money through Essential Consultants, and was reimbursed by Trump through a monthly retainer.
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The White House has said Trump was unaware of the "hush money" payment and has denied Daniels's allegations.
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The threads -- hush money for claims of affairs and interactions with Russians -- are becoming impossible to keep separate.
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These actions would include paying hush money to accusers, failure to report campaign contributions and ordinary economic activities.
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Michael Avenatti is believed to want to ask Trump and his lawyer about hush money paid to Daniels.
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The Times reports that agents were looking for records about the hush money payments to Daniels and McDougal.
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They're also investigating claims about hush money payments to the porn star Stormy Daniels and attacks against critics.
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Records suggest that others in President Trump's circle may have also had a role in hush money payments.
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Now, your questions Michael, Canada: The Manhattan District Attorney subpoenaed the Trump Organization relating to hush money payments.
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But can prosecutors prove that Mr. Trump authorized hush money to protect his campaign, not just his reputation?
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State prosecutors in Manhattan are seeking the records as part of a criminal investigation into hush-money payments.
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The White House and Trump have said that he has done nothing wrong relating to the hush money.
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But behind the headlines, the government hush money, and the addition to troubling statistics, there was a boy.
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In that role, he shredded incriminating documents and paid hush money to people involved in the break-in.
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Committee members must ask Cohen to detail Trump's involvement in and knowledge of those illegal hush money payments.
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Cohen has already admitted to paying hush money to two women who claimed they had affairs with Trump.
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But $280,000 in undisclosed hush-money payments during a campaign's final weeks isn't a normal campaign-finance violation.
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District Attorney Cy Vance is investigating so-called hush money paid to women who alleged affairs with Trump.
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The latter included paying hush money to silence two women who said they had sexual encounters with Trump.
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" 'Having to send hush money to a porn star' Buttigieg excoriated Trump and one of his most high-profile supporters for questioning his marriage to his husband, Chasten, on Tuesday, telling an audience in Las Vegas that his marriage "never involved me having to send hush money to a porn star.
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The hush money, paid in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election, constituted violations of campaign-finance law.
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Other checks to reimburse me for the hush money payments were signed by Donald Trump, Jr. and Allen Weisselberg.
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Asked about the alleged affair and hush money, Republican lawmakers said they knew close to nothing about the story.
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Kobe, after all, was the original Laker to call out Shaq for paying women hush money. Deep. Complex. Mature.
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And he is raising an incredibly important issue here with the hush money and then whether there was intimidation.
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Cohen and Trump had both claimed that Trump was unaware of the hush money deal when it was made.
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The charges say that his arranging of hush money for McDougal and Daniels amounted to an illegal campaign contribution.
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Reports quoting anonymous sources have previously suggested that Cohen was making sex scandal hush money payments on Broidy's behalf.
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It was also a criminal cover-up — Cohen admitted knowingly violating campaign finance laws with the hush money payment.
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Trump's lawyers have said before that he reimbursed Cohen for a hush money payment he made to Stormy Daniels.
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The recording appeared to show Temer condoning hush money payments to silence a witness in a sprawling corruption scandal.
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Cohen himself has released a tape of a conversation he had with the president discussing one hush money payment.
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Daniels received hush money to keep quiet about an affair she claimed to have had with Trump in 2006.
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We know the money came from Trump and, according to federal prosecutors, he directed the entire hush money operation.
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In exchange, Pecker has agreed to testify about hush money paid to women who had sexual affairs with Trump.
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He also pleaded guilty to two more counts relating to campaign finance violations stemming from the hush-money payments.
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Mr. Hastert, 74, pleaded guilty to violating bank laws in seeking to pay someone $3.5 million in hush money.
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Earlier this month Trump told reporters he didn't know about a payment of $130,000 in hush money to Daniels.
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Cohen pleaded guilty in August to orchestrating the hush money payments, which he said Trump directed him to make.
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He added that the same candidate directed him to pay $130,000 in hush money, which the candidate later reimbursed.
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Michael Cohen – former attorney to President Trump – will answer key questions about Trump's business practices and hush money payments.
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This is the latest attempt by Trump to explain away the hush-money payments made during the 2016 campaign.
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She has alleged she had an affair with Trump a decade earlier, and that the payment was hush money.
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His investigation should focus on possible election law violations relating to the $130,603 hush money payment given to her.
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The political implications of testimony from the man with his hands on the hush money remain to be seen.
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That added to the stench from the rising swamp of sex scandals, hush money and lies around the president.
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The requests began a broad probe into possible corruption, abuses of power, hush money payments and collusion with Russia.
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Who, if anyone else, was involved in making hush money payments to two women right before the 2016 election?
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Last year, Pecker was granted immunity in the investigation into the hush money payments and subsequently admitted to them.
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Weisselberg had not known about the hush money payment to Daniels, according to a source quoted by the Journal.
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Separately, Mr. Cohen said one of his greatest misgivings surrounding the hush money involved the first lady, Melania Trump.
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Cohen said he'd helped orchestrate hush-money payments to women who'd claimed to have had sexual relationships with Trump.
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McDougal claims that Cohen, the Trump lawyer, was involved in her talks with the company about the hush money.
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The campaign finance crimes related to hush-money payments paid two women who claim to have had affairs with Trump.
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As for the "hush money" payment, Cohen, in the past, has said that payment was made on his own initiative.
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They were first made public in March, but sections about the hush money agreement were heavily redacted at the time.
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"This tape, you could say, is a discussion about hush money, " Davis told NBC shortly after the recording was aired.
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The Justice Department is digging into the Trump Organization's role in hush money payments and the Trump inaugural committee's finances.
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Still, it's not every day that you hear the US president might have paid hush money to a porn star.
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Cohen also implicated Trump in illegal hush-money payments during the campaign to women claiming they'd had sex with Trump.
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The criminal inquiry centered on whether those payments, like the hush money Cohen gave to Daniels, violated campaign-finance law.
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Hill got Cohen to reveal that he has 11 checks — hush money reimbursements — that show Trump broke campaign finance law.
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We — as in all of us taxpayers — pay the hush money, because that's who foots the bills for these settlements.
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What's more, he admitted that "an unnamed candidate" directed him to make the hush money payments — that is, Donald Trump.
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Last year, he pleaded guilty to lying to Congress, financial crimes and campaign violations related to the hush money payments.
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I am not denying the affair because I was paid 'hush money' as has been reported in overseas owned tabloids.
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The cash withdrawals that got him into trouble with the F.B.I. were hush money intended for one of his victims.
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Employees were also asked to provide documents related to the hush-money payments made to women alleging affairs with Trump.
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And cooking the books over the hush-money payments may be just the start of Vance's inquiry into Trump's business.
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But the mountain of evidence already turned in the hush-money scheme puts Vance's subpoena on solid ground, lawyers said.
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But the president acknowledged the hush money deal and Cohen's reimbursement in a trio of tweets after Giuliani's initial revelations.
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In the movie, the killers extorted 30,000 renminbi, or about $4,475 at today's rates, in hush money for one death.
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That's significant because it shows Trump and Pecker had an understanding about hush money payments well before they actually happened.
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Specifically, the money went to the shell company Cohen used to funnel hush money to Stormy Daniels, Essential Consultants LLC.
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As we reported, he made it clear to Stormy's people his client, Donald Trump, was directing the hush money payment.
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During the campaign, Trump directed Cohen to pay hush money to women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump.
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It had been held together with hush money, fears of prison and, if all else failed, promises of presidential clemency.
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But as recently as February, a judge disclosed that the hush money inquiry focused on Trump Organization officials remained open.
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Trump also faced a defamation claim by adult film actress Stormy Daniels in her lawsuit over a hush money agreement.
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I am not denying this affair because I was paid 'hush money' as has been reported in overseas owned tabloids.
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Daniels has said the payment was used as hush money to stop her from publicly disclosing the affair with Trump.
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It also is not criminal for a candidate to pay hush money to women whose disclosures might endanger his campaign.
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Vance made the demand as part of his probe into hush-money payments made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels.
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Firm partners had chafed over his statements about hush-money payments like the ones made on behalf of Mr. Trump.
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The other concerned a letter that Trump's lawyers allegedly sent the special counsel over hush money payments to two women.
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AMI first got in trouble in late 2018 for making hush money payments to McDougal, potentially violating campaign finance laws.
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The agreement stemmed from prosecutors' investigation of Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen, who helped orchestrate that hush-money payment.
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Imagine for one moment if President Obama's personal lawyer had paid six figures in hush money to a porn star.
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Her lawyer also is seeking to depose the president's lawyer, Michael Cohen, who arranged the hush money deal with Daniels.
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Daniels had struck the hush money agreement with Trump's longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen shortly before the 2016 presidential election.
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Prosecutors have said Trump directed Cohen to make hush-money payments to women who said they had sex with Trump.
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Absent something extra like paying hush money to somebody or lying to a government investigator it just simply is not obstruction.
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But Trump lied about his knowledge of the hush money payments, and this latest filing makes it hard to see otherwise.
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She sued Trump and Cohen, alleging that the "hush money" contract was never signed by Trump himself and is therefore invalid.
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Daniels is suing Trump to dissolve a hush money payout agreement after the pair had an alleged sexual relationship in 2006.
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Hastert was recently sentenced to 15 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Thomas M. Durkin, in a hush money case.
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The feds just happened to catch him withdrawing cash improperly to pay as hush money to one of his former victims.
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The Associated Press, which obtained the transcript, called the agency that Cosby said paid the hush money but got no comment.
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Those campaign finance charges were about hush money payments Cohen arranged in 2016 for women who alleged sexual encounters with Trump.
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The 22017 Heisman Trophy winner accused the NFL of essentially giving out "hush money" to prevent players from taking a knee.
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October 1303, 2016: The Trump Organization's Cohen created Essential Consultants LLC, as a vehicle to quietly pay hush money to Daniels.
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Here's what they found about the company's role in hush money payments to women who alleged affairs with President Donald Trump.
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O Globo reports that Temer paid hush money to an imprisoned former Senate colleague to keep quiet about a corruption investigation.
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Temer said a tape, which appeared to show the president condoning the payment of hush money to a lawmaker, was doctored.
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October 17, 2016: The Trump Organization's Cohen created Essential Consultants LLC, as a vehicle to quietly pay hush money to Daniels.
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Cohen has implicated Trump in the campaign finance charges stemming from a hush-money scheme, but the president has denied wrongdoing.
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Cohen pleaded guilty to tax evasion, a campaign finance violation and other crimes and implicated Trump in a hush-money scheme.
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He admitted to orchestrating hush-money payments, shortly before the election, to two women who said they'd had affairs with Trump.
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The poll found that 65 percent of women supported Mueller's hush-money investigation, while only 50 percent of men supported it.
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With Trump, few will argue that it's implausible he had an affair with a porn star and paid her hush money.
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Cohen has pleaded guilty to several federal charges since the raids, including campaign finance violations stemming from the hush money payments.
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Trump's team has denied he had an affair with Daniels and said he had no involvement in the hush-money agreement.
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Some of those documents pertain to the 2016 hush money agreement signed by Daniels and Michael Cohen, President Trump's personal attorney.
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The poll also found that 85033 percent of Americans believe Trump acted unethically in the hush-money payments but not illegally.
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Although Rudy Giuliani has been caught peddling the idea that those hush-money payoffs were just to protect Melania from heartbreak.
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The Daily Listen and subscribe to our podcast from your mobile device: Via Apple Podcasts | Via RadioPublic | Via Stitcher Hush money.
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Mr. Jenkins recorded the abuse with his cellphone and paid the girl with what he called "hush money," court documents said.
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Where do you see their investigation into Michael Cohen and Trump's hush money payments involving Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal going?
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Especially damaging: Mr. Cohen's admission to paying a porn star hush money at Mr. Trump's request, apparently violating campaign finance laws.
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The president also said if there were any laws violated by the hush money payments, it was Cohen's fault, not his.
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On Tuesday, Cohen pleaded guilty to eight criminal counts and implicated Trump himself in a hush money scheme outlined by prosecutors.
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She claims that Cohen gave her $130,000 as "hush money" in exchange for her silence about the alleged affair with Trump.
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That will be especially the case if Democrats do proceed with hearings about sensational issues such as the hush money payments.
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In exchange, they cooperated in the hush money case that ensnared Michael Cohen and implicated President Trump in campaign finance violations.
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Members have offered varied answers as to whether they will bring in the two women involved in the hush money payments.
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In his testimony on Capitol Hill, Cohen accused Trump of financial fraud and directing hush-money payments to women alleging affairs.
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In exchange, they cooperated in the hush money case that ensnared Michael Cohen and implicated President Trump in campaign finance allegations.
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When it came to paying back his fixer for the hush money, Mr. Cohen said the president turned to Mr. Weisselberg.
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Cohen was sentenced to prison on Wednesday on charges that included hush money payments to women before the 2016 presidential election.
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Read more:Newly unsealed court documents appear to contradict Trump&aposs denials that he knew of the hush-money payments made to Stormy Daniels before the electionTrump was reportedly in the room when Michael Cohen was discussing hush-money payments with the publisher of the National EnquirerInside the wild tabloid world of payoffs and porn stars that snared Michael Cohen
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He admitted facilitating hush-money payments to two women who claimed they had affairs with Trump weeks before the 2016 presidential election.
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Cohen, once a Trump loyalist, implicated the President in a hush money scheme when he pleaded guilty in federal court last year.
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But the payment of hush money to avoid an inconvenient story about an extramarital affair falls a long way short of that.
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And he is heard on one of theinfamous White House tapes barely flinching over the prospect of raisinganother million in hush money.
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Cohen pleaded guilty to tax evasion, bank fraud, and campaign finance violations involving those hush money payments to two women, including Daniels.
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Is a hush money payment to a porn star from President Donald Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen an "expense" or a "liability"?
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Yesterday, Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to eight felony counts including paying hush money at Trump's direction—a violation of campaign finance laws.
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He pleaded guilty to eight criminal charges -- including two related to his attempts to mask hush-money payments to McDougal and Daniels.
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Hastert will wait until April to be sentenced in connection with a $3.5 million hush money scheme, according to The Associated Press.
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The campaign finance violations stemmed from hush-money payments made to two women who say they had affairs with Trump years ago.
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It also revealed evidence that Trump was directly involved in the arrangement of the hush money payments despite his later public denials.
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Cohen is under federal criminal investigation, and authorities are reportedly looking into whether the hush money violated banking or campaign finance laws.
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Cohen pleaded guilty last year to violating campaign finance laws with hush-money payments to Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal.
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Cohen is two weeks into his three-year prison term after pleading guilty to campaign finance violations, including the hush money payment.
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Ten days later it was used to transfer $130,22018 in hush money to the account of Stormy Daniels, real name Stephanie Clifford.
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Cohen is currently serving three years in prison for campaign finance violations stemming from the hush money payments, among other federal crimes.
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As part of her arrangement, she received $130,000 in hush money through the president's personal lawyer at the time, Michael D. Cohen.
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When the burglars were caught, the Nixon administration tried to cover it up by destroying records, committing perjury and paying hush money.
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He zeroed in on Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, who sent $130,000 in hush money to Stephanie Clifford, the pornographic film actress.
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Just last month, President Trump told the American people that he knew nothing about how Stormy Daniels received $130,000 in hush money.
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He can argue that the contract is valid -- but that will involve acknowledging that he agreed to pay her the hush money.
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Federal prosecutors also revealed in charging documents that AMI was involved in the illegal hush money payment to porn actress Stormy Daniels.
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So if candidate Trump paid hush money to his two accusers, there would be no violation of any campaign or other laws.
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Southern District of New York prosecutors alleged that Cohen paid the hush money in coordination with and at the direction of Trump.
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As a bonus, he has never paid hush money to a porn star or made big campaign donations to New York Democrats.
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Joni Ernst, also suggested she wasn't fully aware of the hush money when asked if the committee should look into the scandal.
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Cohen testified the check was one of several installments to reimburse him for the $130,000 total hush money payment to Stephanie Clifford.
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In the second case, Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance is looking into "hush money" paid to women who claimed affairs with Trump.
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We have hush money, secret recordings, an adult film star, a former Playboy playmate, witnesses "flipping" and a whole lot of tweets.
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Vance is also investigating a $150,000 hush-money payment to Playboy model Karen McDougal, which former National Enquirer publisher American Media Inc.
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Daniels has described having an affair with Trump before he became president and receiving hush money through his former lawyer Michael Cohen.
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Cohen reportedly wired Daniels's attorney $130,000 in October 2016, a month before the presidential election, as part of a "hush money" agreement.
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Cohen implicated the president in his crimes, saying he made hush money payments in violation of campaign finance laws at Trump's direction.
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It started with reports that raised new questions about his role in facilitating hush money payments to women alleging affairs with the president.
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But Trump's lawyers had previously said that Trump reimbursed Cohen for the $130,000 hush money payment he made to porn actress Stormy Daniels.
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That allegation first appeared in a January Wall Street Journal report that claimed the payment was "hush money" to cover up the affair.
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Temer was accused of taking bribes and condoning the payment of hush money to a jailed politician in testimony by meatpacker Joesley Batista.
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She's the woman leading the charge to expose President Trump's alleged affairs and the hush money he offered to women over the years.
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And that&aposs without getting into Michael Cohen, Michael Avenatti, the hush money to Stormy Daniels, and other allegations swirling around the president.
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People might care that the president used hush money in such a flagrant way, violating campaign finance norms and perhaps laws as well.
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Broidy's name has come up before in Trumpian drama — specifically related to the hush money payments made by former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen.
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In 2012 federal prosecutors failed to convict John Edwards, a Democratic politician, for spending donor funds on hush-money payments to a mistress.
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"Rumors that I have received hush money from Donald Trump are completely false," the statement distributed by Cohen and attributed to Daniels reads.
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Cohen first document is what he says is a wire transfer from him to Daniels's attorney to complete the $130,00 hush money payment.
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The Manhattan U.S. Attorney essentially said Trump committed a felony by violating campaign finance laws in the hush money payout to Stormy Daniels.
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Dominique had dissed Camilla as a "hood rat" and a "ho" who was just trying to get "hush money" from the NFL star.
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The White House has denied the affair or that Trump had anything to do with the $203,00 in hush money paid to Daniels.
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Indeed, they're far more clear cut when it comes to the president's involvement with Cohen's hush-money payments, which violated campaign finance laws.
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Cohen said Trump directed "hush money" payments he made for two women's silence before the election about their alleged sexual relations with Trump.
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"President Trump's former attorney, Michael Cohen, is now going to prison in part for his role in these hush-money payments," Cummings wrote.
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Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, claimed to have received hush money not to discuss her alleged affair with Trump in 2006.
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When word got out that the Treasury secretary was paying hush money, his political opponents accused him of covering up corrupt financial dealings.
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But Trump's lawyers have previously said that Trump reimbursed Cohen for the $275,225 hush money payment he made to porn star Stormy Daniels.
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But if investigators find the payment was related to hush money Cohen paid Daniels, it could bring campaign finance violation allegations into play.
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He said that the money was a partial reimbursement for the payment he made to Daniels as part of the hush money deal.
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"It is just unbelievable to me that we would have taxpayers subsidizing rapists to give hush money to victims of crime," he said.
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It was later learned that Hastert had paid hush money to people he had allegedly abused as young boys during his coaching career.
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The president's lawyer Michael Cohen also admitted to "facilitating" giving Daniels $0003,000 in hush-money in 2016, during Trump's campaign for the presidency.
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The president's lawyer Michael Cohen also admitted to "facilitating" giving Daniels $130,000 in hush-money in 2016, during Trump's campaign for the presidency.
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That's a very different kind of violation than using campaign funds as hush money for women accusing the candidate of having an affair.
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The White House has denied Trump had sex with Daniels, but Trump has admitted reimbursing Cohen for the hush-money payment to her.
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If Joe Biden got into trouble over campaign financing, it wouldn't be over the legality of giving hush money to a porn star.
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Stormy Daniels' lawyer Michael Avenatti says he's now representing three other women claiming Donald Trump paid them hush money before the 2016 election.
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Federal prosecutors with the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District in New York investigated the hush money after a referral from Mueller.
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The punishment for President Trump's former lawyer was partly for his role in a hush-money scandal that could threaten Mr. Trump's presidency.
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Mr. Weisselberg's involvement in the hush money payments to women first surfaced last year, when federal prosecutors seized recordings from Mr. Cohen's office.
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The two men were discussing hush money paid to another woman, Karen McDougal, who claimed to have had an affair with Mr. Trump.
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Donald Trump played a key part in facilitating hush money payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.
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" Cohen also provided a statement he said was from Daniels, where she called the notion she received hush money from Trump "completely false.
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Republicans as well as Democrats see no end of talk about extramarital affairs, hush money and the tightening noose of the Mueller probe.
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Those tapes contained stunning evidence that Nixon took part in a conspiracy to obstruct justice by paying witnesses "hush money" to remain silent.
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At one point, he claimed to be the recipient of hush money to cover up a homosexual affair with a real Saudi prince.
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In August, Cohen pleaded guilty in a Manhattan US attorney's case to eight criminal counts, implicating the President in a hush money scheme.
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Wednesday's congressional hearing is focusing in part on how much Trump knew about hush money payments and a proposed Trump Tower in Moscow.
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There is a strong legal case that even in the context of a political campaign, paying hush money, while tawdry, is not illegal.
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Through her lawyer, she said, someone close to Mr. Weinstein offered her hush money: $22006 million, in exchange for signing a nondisclosure agreement.
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His attorney, Lanny Davis, released a secret audio recording from September 2016 of Cohen and Trump discussing a hush money payment to McDougal.
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In Trump's case, the problem is less the affair allegations than the allegations of hush money and threats to keep a woman quiet.
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He has also been sentenced to prison in a different investigation related to hush-money payments he made on behalf of Mr. Trump.
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Cohen pleaded guilty last August to helping arrange hush-money payments to two women claiming they'd had affairs with Trump during the campaign.
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And, Cohen will submit a check that Trump wrote to him for $35,000 as re-payment for the Stormy Daniels hush money payment.
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Cohen said he helped orchestrate hush-money payments in fall 2016 to two women who claimed to have had sexual relationships with Trump.
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And since we've just learned of a new AMI Trump hush money payment this week, how many other payments don't we know about?
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The search warrant reportedly targeted information on sex-scandal hush-money payments arranged by Cohen, as well as his holdings of taxi medallions.
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Fox News has suppressed coverage of Michael Cohen, Trump's personal lawyer who paid Daniels $130,000 in hush money as part of a nondisclosure agreement.
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Trump, after initially denying knowledge of the hush money, admitted he actually paid back Cohen — which means he had to have known about it.
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Trump has denied reports that his campaign paid "hush money" to the adult film star, with whom he reportedly had an affair in 2006.
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In lurid detail, it described several cases in which he had taken advantage of his students, one of whom decades later demanded hush money.
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In one instance that Mueller cited, Cohen told the public in February 2018 that Trump was not "a party to" the hush money payments.
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The probe focuses on hush money payments made on Donald Trump's behalf before the 73 election — payments that prosecutors say violated campaign finance law.
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Federal search warrants released Thursday detailed how Trump and his allies scrambled in the final weeks of the campaign to arrange hush-money payments.
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He pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations related to those hush-money payments, along with other financial crimes and lying to Congress under oath.
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Back at the hotel, the staff presented me with a gift basket as a token of goodwill (or some sort of edible hush-money).
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However, back then, prosecutors requested most of the material related to the hush money investigation be redacted, because the investigation into them was ongoing.
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Trump allies have also pointed to the unsuccessful prosecution of 2008 presidential candidate John Edwards, who was accused in a similar hush-money scheme.
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The money, bizarrely, went into the same shell company Cohen had set up to pay the $130,000 hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels.
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Two of the offenses to which Cohen pleaded guilty involved hush-money payments aimed at suppressing accounts of Trump's extramarital affairs with two women.
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"Poor judgment" would appear to be a subject of special Cohen expertise, given his bumbling $130,000 payment of borrowed hush money to Stormy Daniels.
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Common Causes' January complaint with the Federal Election Commission prompted Cohen to publicly admit making a hush-money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels.
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Avenatti said earlier this week that he is also representing three other women who say they were paid hush money by Trump and Cohen.
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Daniels filed a lawsuit against Trump and Cohen last year to void the nondisclosure agreement she signed as part of the hush-money deal.
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Ms. Manigault Newman has also claimed that she was offered a hush-money contract with the Trump re-election campaign for $15,000 a month.
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Avenatti represented Daniels in lawsuits arising from a $130,000 hush money payment from former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen shortly before the 2016 presidential election.
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And what role did he play in the hush-money payments to Stormy Daniels, the porn star with whom Trump allegedly had an affair?
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" — JIMMY KIMMEL "Including the hush-money payment he made to a porn star, this makes two attempts by Trump to hide his secret F's.
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Mr. Cohen has told the Southern District prosecutors that he arranged the hush money to the two women at the direction of Mr. Trump.
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Put another way: Cohen has pleaded guilty in federal court to making hush money payments to women Trump slept with during the presidential campaign.
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The penalty for President Trump's former lawyer, above, was partly for his role in a hush-money scandal that could threaten Mr. Trump's presidency.
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But the nickname could work just as well for his octopus ways with women, which resulted in lots of hush money being paid out.
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The news grew juicier by the week: Hush money was paid to a former spymaster during apartheid to keep quiet about the illegal espionage.
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That claim may get Cohen off the ethics hook but the whole Daniels "hush money" and Karen McDougal "catch and kill" deals look sleazy.
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Avenatti's bombshell allegation came after he received new evidence about hush-money payments to women linked to Trump, he said in a subsequent tweet.
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Among those files was evidence relating to a $130,000 hush-money payment Cohen gave porn star Stormy Daniels shortly before the 2016 presidential election.
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Cohen is serving a three year prison sentence in part for the hush-money payment, which prosecutors said amounted to a campaign finance violation.
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Asserting executive privilege is not the same as paying hush money or suborning perjury, as was alleged in the Clinton and Nixon impeachment efforts.
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A top JBS executive, Joesley Batista, has accused President Michel Temer of endorsing the payment of hush money to a politician jailed for corruption.
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Cohen, the personal lawyer, said he committed campaign finance crimes at Trump's direction in the form of hush-money payments to conceal extramarital affairs.
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Trump initially denied he ever directed Cohen to make hush money payments to women accusing him of having affairs (which he also denied occurred).
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The prosecutors, who are led by Cyrus Vance, are investigating the hush money payments made to two women who alleged affairs with the President.
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Agents seized communications between Cohen and Trump, tax documents and records related to Cohen's $130,000 "hush money" payment to adult-film star Stormy Daniels.
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In his testimony earlier this year, Cohen accused his former client, Trump, of financial fraud and directing hush-money payments to women alleging affairs.
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The investigation relates to the Trump Organization's role in alleged hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels, as well as other matters.
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Mr. Cohen was also involved in the hush money payment to Ms. McDougal, a former Playboy model who received $125,000 from American Media Inc.
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The Congress then had evidence of specific illegal acts supporting a charge of obstruction, such as the use of "hush money" to silence witnesses.
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Trump may have broken the law by failing to disclose the money he owed Cohen for making the hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels.
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The crimes include campaign finance violations for hush money payments Cohen admitted facilitating to two women, porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal.
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Among those recordings: conversations between Cohen and an attorney for two women who both received hush money to hide their alleged affairs with Donald Trump.
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The reports also alleged that Trump Organization attorney Michael Cohen had, in October 2016, paid Daniels $130,000 in hush money for her to keep quiet.
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Those earlier charges included tax fraud and facilitating hush-money payments shortly before the 20163 election to women who claim they had sex with Trump.
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Daniels previously sued Trump for allegedly failing to sign the hush money agreement regarding their purported sexual encounter, arguing that the agreement was therefore void.
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Cohen, and federal prosecutors with the Southern District of New York, have already implicated Trump himself in directing Cohen to organize the hush-money payments.
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A month later, Essential Consultants, joined by Trump, asked a federal judge in California to move the case to arbitration, citing the hush money agreement.
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For example, N.M., the woman in England, received £5,000 (nearly $7,000) in what she called "hush money," even though she never agreed to keep quiet.
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In August, Cohen pleaded guilty to orchestrating a scheme in fall 2016 to make hush-money payments to two women claiming they slept with Trump.
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Batista used a hidden device to record an alleged discussion with Temer about hush money the executive was paying to Cunha, according to the newspaper.
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In his guilty plea, Cohen claimed then-candidate Donald Trump directed him in 2017 to pay hush money to two women who alleged affairs. Jan.
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The documents are the first time that federal authorities have identified Trump by name and spelled out in his involvement in the hush-money scheme.
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And Cohen says he told the Federal Election Commission the same thing after a complaint was lodged that campaign money was used as hush money.
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WASHINGTON — A federal judge ordered the release of documents related to the investigation into hush money payments to women claiming they slept with President Trump.
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Goldfeder said he would be "quite surprised" if federal election officials considered hush-money payments to a candidate's alleged mistress to be legitimate campaign expenses.
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Earlier this year, he pleaded guilty to eight criminal counts relating to the Daniels hush-money scheme and tax fraud from his personal business dealings.
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He lied to Congress, tape-recorded his own client, threatened academics, rigged polls, disguised hush money and committed crimes, while reaping enormous personal financial reward.
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Daniels has sued Cohen to nullify a $130,000 "hush money" deal to keep details about the porn star's alleged affair in 2006 with Trump quiet.
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Unfortunately, local "cobra" Penelope already took hush money on her daughter's behalf to keep Cheryl from ever speaking out about the night she was roofied.
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Last week, federal prosecutors linked Cohen's actions directly to the President for the first time, saying Trump directed Cohen to make the hush-money payments.
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That company, Essential Consultants, was created by Cohen in October 2016 and soon after was used to make a $130,000 hush-money payment to Daniels.
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He admitted in court that his hush-money payment to Daniels was at the direction of "a candidate for federal office," all but implicating Trump.
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Nearly 6 in 0023 (58%) said they back the special counsel investigating allegations that Trump paid hush money to women who alleged affairs with him.
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The heart of the case is the secret payment of hush money to alleged former lovers of the president in violation of campaign finance laws.
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Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, received hush money to keep quiet about an affair she claimed to have had with Trump in 2006.
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A senior adviser said, 'F this, I'm out,' and a senior citizen apparently forgot to sign the hush money contract of his porn-star mistress.
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Separately, prosecutors announced that they secured the cooperation of the company that owns the National Enquirer, which apparently helped pay hush money on Trump's behalf.
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Her husband faces the incredible allegation that he or his associates tried to silence a porn star with hush money to cover up an affair.
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In any other administration, evidence that the president paid hush money to the star of "Good Will Humping" during the election would be a scandal.
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The month prior, in September 2016, Cohen also orchestrated a $150,000 hush money deal involving McDougal through the National Enquirer's parent company, American Media Inc.
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That was followed by the news that two other close Trump associates had entered immunity agreements to testify about the hush money payments at issue.
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Business conflicts of interest that violate the Emoluments Clause, obstructions of justice and illegal hush-money payments comprise three "high crimes and misdemeanors" mandating impeachment.
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North Korea, Mr. Russel said, would demand sanctions relief — a form of "ransom" or "hush money" — in return for a pledge to be less provocative.
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Mr. Temer recently faced accusations of corruption more serious than those against Ms. Rousseff, including allegations that he ordered his subordinates to pay hush money.
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Cohen said Trump told him to arrange hush money for two women who said they had affairs with Trump - and reimbursed him with campaign cash.
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I have previously discussed the troubling ethical questions in Cohen using his own funds to pay "hush money" to a porn star for a client.
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Cohen was involved therefore in some of the most delicate situations in Trump's world -- including paying hush money to women making allegations about affairs. 6.
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" As part of his plea bargain, Cohen admitted to paying hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016, "at the direction of the candidate.
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But last Friday, Cohen's lawyer filed a court document saying it would accept the invalidation of the hush-money deal, just as Daniels was requesting.
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This isn't just about Trump, and it's not just about sex or hush money or even just about collusion with Russia or obstruction of justice.
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The brief version: Giuliani acknowledged that Trump repaid Michael Cohen, another one of his lawyers, the $130,000 in hush money that Cohen had paid Daniels.
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Trump denies having had sex with McDougal or Daniels but personally reimbursed Cohen for the hush-money payout to Daniels, as did the Trump Organization.
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First, Trump will be, and should be, impeached for violations of federal campaign finance law related to hush money payments to an adult film star.
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He added that the president's son could be an accomplice after the fact, or part of the original scheme to engage in hush-money payments.
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The meeting between Pecker and the local prosecutors shows that investigators are still trying to connect the dots between Trump and the hush money payments.
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For example, Cohen produced a check for $258,13 signed by President Donald Trump in 21 to reimburse Cohen for hush money payments to Stormy Daniels.
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Cohen testified on Capitol Hill earlier this year and accused President Donald Trump of financial fraud and directing hush-money payments to women alleging affairs.
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" Late last year, AMI admitted its hush money payment to McDougal, which it said it had made to prevent her story from "influencing the election.
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WASHINGTON — Updated July 25, 2018: The audio recording of Mr. Cohen and Mr. Trump discussing hush money for a former Playboy model has been released.
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The New York District Attorney is investigating hush-money payments made to two women who claimed they had affairs with Trump before he was president.
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They trace to his business dealings before taking office, such as possibly directing "hush money" to women who have claimed they had affairs with him.
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Closer look: Today's hearing will focus in part on how much Mr. Trump knew about hush money payments and the proposed Trump Tower in Moscow.
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According to Doyen Sports, one of the biggest investment funds in European soccer, he threatened to publish internal documents unless the fund paid him hush money.
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And the month before the 2016 presidential election, he reportedly sent her a $130,000 payment through his lawyer as hush money to keep the matter private.
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This remained secret through the first year of Trump's presidency — but then the Wall Street Journal reported the existence of the hush money payment this January.
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Cohen also had negotiated the hush-money deal for Broidy with Davidson in exchange for Bechard's silence about her affair with Broidy, a California venture capitalist.
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That woman, porn star Stormy Daniels, is suing Trump and Cohen in California to void the hush-money agreement and speak freely about the alleged tryst.
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The campaign finance charges relate to his facilitation of two hush-money payments to Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal shortly before the 2016 presidential election.
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He does have you know some exposure on the payment to Stormy Daniels, the $130,000 hush money payment for which he was reimbursed by the President.
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The payment to Daniels was made just days before the 2016 election, and she claims it was hush money to keep her quiet about the affair.
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Talk of impeachment has quietly accelerated in the aftermath of Cohen implicating Trump in the potential felony of the hush-money payment to protect his candidacy.
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Cohen pleaded guilty last year to campaign finance violations in connection with that payment as well as hush money paid to former Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal.
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Avenatti represented Daniels in lawsuits related to the hush money and later in negotiating the deal for Daniels' book, "Full Disclosure," which was published in October.
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We have TRUE DAT, POOL BOY, HUSH MONEY, ANDRE GIDE, Molly IVINS, RITE AID, THE OLDS, POP-UP STORE, TOUCHED ON, HOT DIGGITY, COATTAIL and BESTIE.
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The obstruction of justice charge was based on testimony by Joesley Batista that Temer endorsed payments of hush money to try to keep Funaro from talking.
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BOOK ADVANCE Avenatti represented Daniels in lawsuits arising from a $130,000 hush money payment from former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen shortly before the 2016 presidential election.
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He should resign and pay back the taxpayer hush money and the tens of thousands of dollars he forced my department to spent investigating unfounded allegations.
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Second is Keith Davidson, the former lawyer for Bechard (and Stormy Daniels, and Karen McDougal) who had negotiated that and other hush money deals with Cohen.
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Cohen was also in contact with Davidson directly and they later discussed the shell company that Cohen formed to eventually facilitate hush-money payments to Daniels.
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Cohen has said Trump directed him to facilitate secret hush-money payments to two women shortly before the 2016 presidential election, which led to Cohen's prosecution.
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In February, he testified about Trump's involvement in hush-money payments to women and his knowledge of longtime Trump confidant Roger Stone's efforts to contact WikiLeaks.
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Cohen will also bring financial documents that purportedly show Trump approved the illegal hush money payments to women with whom Trump had engaged in extramarital affairs.
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The obstruction of justice charge was based on testimony by Joesley Batista that Temer endorsed payments of hush money to try to keep Funaro from talking.
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"This is coming from a man who used nearly $50,85033 in tax dollars as hush money to cover up his drunken and hostile behavior," Zinke said.
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For if we do not, Khashoggi's death will be a blood stain on America's moral conscience that neither time, nor Saudi hush money, will ever erase.
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But when Hastert was sentenced on Wednesday to 15 months in prison, it was not for child abuse — but for financial misconduct involving the hush money.
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"I'm not sure how we would even get that information," he said when asked if his panel would examine Trump's involvement in the hush-money scheme.
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Cohen has also pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations connected to hush money paid to women who alleged affairs with Trump, which the President has denied.
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In a Quinnipiac University poll last month, six in 10 Americans said they believed Trump had an affair with Daniels and knew about the hush money.
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That hush money payment is one of the reasons Cohen was sentenced last year to three years in jail for bank fraud and campaign finance violations.
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Keith Davidson, the former attorney for Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, represented the woman, making it the second known "hush money" deal Davidson brokered with Cohen.
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The request to the court also asks to depose Michael Cohen, Trump's lawyer who has said he made a $130,000 "hush money" payment to Stormy Daniels.
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National Briefing | Midwest A judge overseeing the hush-money case against former House speaker Dennis Hastert on Wednesday ordered an independent review of his medical records.
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The remark was a reference to accusations from the president's former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, that Trump authorized hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels.
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From steps forward in the Trump hush-money investigation to tensions at the White House and on Capitol Hill, it's been a busy week in politics.
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The federal prosecutors in Manhattan have been investigating the Trump Organization's role in hush money payments to women who claimed to have affairs with Mr. Trump.
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President Trump admitted in a filing that he did indeed reimburse his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, for hush money paid to the porn actress Stormy Daniels.
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If "cheating the electoral system" (by means of a burglary) was impeachable, why is cheating the electoral system (by means of illicit hush money) not impeachable?
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Herbert W. Kalmbach, Richard M. Nixon's personal lawyer and a conduit for hush money from the 20053 presidential campaign to the Watergate burglars, died on Sept.
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The acknowledgment from Trump came after the President's lawyer Rudy Giuliani told Fox News' Sean Hannity that Trump had reimbursed Cohen for the hush money payment.
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Michael D. Cohen, the president's personal lawyer who turned on him before heading to prison on charges stemming from a hush money scheme, was too damaged.
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The story burst back onto the scene in January when The Wall Street Journal reported that Cohen had given Clifford hush money shortly before the campaign.
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He also admitted he provided the hush money used by attorney Michael Cohen to suppress the allegations of two women that they had affairs with Trump.
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If citizens were offended by the subsidized haircuts and car washes of years past, why would they agree to pay hush money for members of Congress?
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The problem, of course, is that nowhere on the check does it say that Trump is reimbursing Cohen for the $130,000 hush money payment to Daniels.
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"This is coming from a man who used nearly $50,000 in tax dollars as hush money to cover up his drunken and hostile behavior," Zinke said.
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Prosecutors are likely to focus on Cohen's guilty plea to campaign finance violations relating to efforts to pay hush money to Stephanie Clifford and Karen McDougal.
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Cohen, who is serving a three-year federal prison sentence for crimes related to the hush money payments and other actions, is cooperating with Vance's investigation.
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Trump is trying to draw some sort of distinction between paying the hush money out of campaign funds and paying them out of his own pocket.
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Here's why: First, with Cohen's implication of Trump in a hush money scheme, the legal woes of Trump's former associates extend beyond the Robert Mueller probe.
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In August, Mr. Cohen pleaded guilty to breaking campaign finance laws for his role in the hush money payments, as well as tax and bank crimes.
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Cohen has pleaded guilty to charges including campaign finance fraud stemming from hush money payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels and ex-Playboy model Karen McDougal.
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Related: Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert Pleads Guilty in Hush Money Case But the FBI opened an investigation, ultimately leading to a federal indictment in July.
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Trump repaid Cohen for the "hush-money" wired to adult film actress Stormy Daniels, or Stephanie Clifford, to keep her from revealing an alleged affair in 2006.
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Now, the media company is finding itself in the middle of an investigation into whether the president had knowledge of hush money payments made on his behalf.
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The Oversight Committee is probing the White House's issuance of security clearances to Jared Kushner and other officials, the Stormy Daniels "hush money" payments, and other controversies.
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Hastert pleaded guilty last October in a hush money case for structuring money transactions in a way to evade requirements to report where the money was going.
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Except Rudy Giuliani who had been on TV a lot, announced two weeks ago the president had reimbursed Michael Cohen for the Stormy Daniels hush money payment.
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Herschel Walker: NFL players given 'hush money' not to kneel Former NFL running back weighs in on the national anthem protest controversy ahead of the Super Bowl.
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Mama Blossom throws the St. Clair hush money in the fire and we're sitting on the edge of our seats... Who is the sugar man right now?....
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Berman has not said why he was recused from the hush money case before FBI agents raided Cohen's office and residences in New York in April 2018.
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Because of Berman's recusal, the probe into Cohen, as well as the ongoing investigation of the hush money payments, has been headed by Berman's deputy, Robert Khuzami.
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About a week later, Trump was listed as "Individual 1" and implicated in hush money payments Cohen made in a separate filing from federal prosecutors in Manhattan.
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Encompassing a collection of eight neo soul-esque tracks, the release is mostly instrumental except for "Hush Money," "Jenna's Interlude," and "Fake Loathe," which feature female vocalists.
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Cohen implicated Trump in the campaign finance violations, claiming the then-candidate had directed him to pay "hush money" to silence two women alleging affairs with Trump.
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The former lawyer has implicated Trump in the hush money scheme, detailing the president's involvement in high-profile testimony before the Oversight and Reform Committee last week.
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The book alleges Trump is a racist, misogynist and narcissist, and that she was offered hush money to remain silent about her time in the White House.
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Perhaps most notably, Giuliani admitted on national television in early May that Trump had reimbursed his personal attorney Michael Cohen for a hush money payment to Daniels.
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The reason you Daniels isn't telling the truth is because Trump via Cohen would have paid her way more hush money if she was telling the truth!
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He implicated the president in the campaign finance charges, saying Trump directed him to make hush-money payments to women who said they had affairs with Trump.
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But after Giuliani announced Trump had in fact paid back Cohen for the hush money payment, Gidley had to return to the studio for a live interview.
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The Wall Street Journal reports Michael Cohen arranged a $130,000 hush money payment to Stormy Daniels to keep her quiet about an alleged affair with Trump. 5.
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Aside from the destroying government records story, Manigault Newman also claims she was offered $15,000 a month in hush money to keep quiet after leaving the job.
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By now it takes blockbuster information to shift their assessments of Trump, and details about porn-star hush money, as titillating as they sound, do not qualify.
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Adult-film star Stormy Daniels thanked Cohen for telling "the truth" about the hush money payments she received to keep quiet about an alleged affair with Trump.
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Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, has also alleged she was paid hush money to stay silent about an affair she had with Trump in 2006.
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He pleaded guilty last year to financial crimes, lying to Congress and campaign violations related to hush money payments made to two alleged sexual partners of Trump's.
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The charges against Cohen include campaign finance violations related to hush money payments he made to porn actress Stormy Daniels and other women during the 2016 election.
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But the other major federal investigation into President Trump's associates — the New York-based probe into campaign hush money payments that ensnared Michael Cohen — remains active too.
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CNN has previously reported that Cohen used the $130,000 as a hush money payment to a woman who allegedly had an affair with Trump, which Trump denies.
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However, it was reported last month that payments were made to Cohen so he could facilitate hush money to a former Playboy model whom Broidy allegedly impregnated.
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Mr. Cohen, who implicated the president in the hush money scheme, was among the earliest subjects of Mr. Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
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He resigned after The Journal reported that he'd paid hush money to a former Playboy model who said she'd had an abortion after he got her pregnant.
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According to The Wall Street Journal, Ms. Clifford was paid $130,000 in hush money shortly before the 113 election to conceal a past relationship with Mr. Trump.
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The CFO had previously been linked to the hush money payment to Stormy Daniels, the porn actress who says she had an affair with Trump in 2006.
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In a separate case brought by those prosecutors, Mr. Cohen pleaded guilty to arranging hush money payments to women who claimed they had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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President Donald Trump defended his role in the illegal hush money payments made by his former attorney Michael Cohen in a series of tweets on Thursday morning.
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Most famously, he helped arrange hush money payments to two women — including the pornographic film actress Stormy Daniels — who claimed to have had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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The hush money payments to Daniels and McDougal were part of a broader investigation out of the US Attorney's Office of the Southern District of New York.
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That Trump's hush money to two women has nothing to do with Russia makes the wrongdoing no less contemptible, illegal — and, because it's about the president, impeachable.
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Mr. Cohen has said he made the payment shortly before the 0003 election as hush money for Ms. Clifford, who goes by the stage name Stormy Daniels.
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Context: Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance's office had subpoenaed the tax returns for its investigation into hush money payments made to Stormy Daniels during the 2016 election.
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The President has denied the affair took place, and Cohen pleaded guilty in federal court last month on eight counts and implicated Trump in hush money schemes.
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Daniels, whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford, has said the payment was hush money to buy her silence about an alleged affair with Trump 10 years ago.
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Giuliani, the newest member of Trump's legal team, sparked controversy last week when he said Trump had reimbursed Cohen for a $130,000 hush money payment to Daniels.
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Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, received hush money before the 2016 election not to reveal her alleged sexual encounter with Trump, which he denies occurred.
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The barrage of subpoena authorizations represents a major expansion of the committee's Trump-focused investigation, casting a wider net from obstruction of justice to hush-money payments.
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It was so closely aligned with Donald Trump that, during the 2016 Presidential race, its publisher paid hush money to silence one of the candidate's alleged mistresses.
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Yes that would also mean he would have to address allegations that he knowingly paid hush money to cover up his alleged affair before the presidential election.
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While the two hush-money payments occurred before Trump was elected President, Trump was paying back Cohen while he was in the White House, as Cohen testified.
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President Donald Trump's longtime fixer and former lawyer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to eight criminal counts and implicated Trump himself in a hush money scheme on Tuesday.
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Daniels was paid $130,000 in hush money by Trump's then-personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, shortly before the 2016 presidential election that sent Trump to the White House.
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The president's lawyer, Michael Cohen, paid a porn star who allegedly had a sexual relationship with Trump, $130,000 in what can only be described as hush money.
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He said many in the public could view the hush-money scandal as old terrain since his alleged extramarital affairs would have occurred before he became President.
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The ruling came Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, where Daniels is seeking to be released from her hush-money deal with Cohen and Trump.
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Others say the inquiry should address Trump's involvement in alleged hush-money payments to prevent stories of his alleged affairs from coming out before the 2016 election.
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Also on Tuesday, Trump's former personal attorney and "fixer," Michael Cohen, pleaded guilty to eight federal crimes, including paying hush money to women during the 2016 campaign.
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Pecker's cooperation could potentially give prosecutors more evidence about Trump's knowledge of the deals, and whether the then-candidate did coordinate and direct those hush money payments.
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So often, his world just makes you cringe: the crude Twitter attacks, the affairs and the hush money, the jolly chucking of paper towel rolls to hurricane survivors.
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Cohen is currently under investigation for a $130,000 hush money payment he made to porn actress Stormy Daniels, who claims she had an affair with Trump years ago.
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The inquiry is based in part on a tape recording in which the president appears to endorse the payment of hush money to a politician serving jail time.
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Another six referrals were made for domestic violence, and another nine for felony theft, with incidents including $40,000 in embezzlement and $4,000 in hush money for a theft.
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Read: "He's Pissed:"Here Are the Cohen Files on Trump Hush Money Payments Trump and Cohen had spoken by phone only five times in the preceding five months.
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In his deposition, Cosby also said he did not believe Constand and her mother were after "hush money," and said he'd always viewed her as a truthful person.
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Beyond flipping, Trump addresses Michael Cohen's charges by repeatedly emphasizing that the hush money payments at the center of his guilty plea were not made with campaign funds.
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The FBI seized documents related to the hush money payments made to McDougal and to Daniels during a raid on Cohen's home, office, and hotel room last week.
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As for the $130,000 "hush money" payment made to Stormy by Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen, Shah says "false charges are settled out of court all the time."
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In the end, Peale almost sides with her morals when she personally visits one of her client's mass graves, but ends up being bought off with hush money.
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His hearing in New York occurred in the same courthouse where Cohen pleaded guilty to criminal charges that included ones relating to the hush-money deal with Daniels.
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Berman's office is continuing to investigate areas related to Trump, including the payments of hush money to two alleged paramours of the president shortly before the 2016 election.
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Temer is under investigation for bribery, after a whistleblower's testimony alleging that he paid the former House Leader hush money leaked to one of the country's biggest newspapers.
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Trump still faces ongoing investigations into hush-money payments, his inaugural committee and whether convicted former associates such as Michael Cohen and Roger Stone committed any other crimes.
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Defense attorneys on Monday sought to undercut Constand's credibility, pressing her about accusations that she had schemed to plant a false story of abuse to reap hush money.
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Still, LaToya appeared to believe the claims were true, claiming her mother had shown her hush-money payments in "very very large amounts" made to the youngster's families.
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The Wall Street Journal reported days after the raid that Cohen negotiated a $1.6 million "hush money" payment on behalf of Broidy to a Playboy model he impregnated.
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Now, Cohen did claim that he and the president engaged in a complicated series of transactions to hide hush-money payments to alleged mistresses from his campaign reports.
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One document revealed that Clark might have threatened to out the romance in the '60s, which resulted in a hush money payout – delivered by Robert Kennedy – of $500,000.
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Cohen produced checks signed by Trump after he became president that were reimbursement for hush money paid to adult film star Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal.
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Giuliani admitted on Wednesday that Trump had reimbursed personal lawyer Michael Cohen for $130,000 in hush money to Stephanie Clifford, the adult film actress known as Stormy Daniels.
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Prosecutors in the office are examining the role of the president and his business in hush-money payments made to two women just before the 2016 presidential election.
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Nadler also will focus on Trump's potential violation of campaign finance laws through hush money payments, which is the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation by the SDNY.
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More specifically, Trump was implicated by prosecutors in several felonies, namely campaign finance offenses stemming from the pre-election hush-money payoffs to Karen McDougal and Stormy Daniels.
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The tabloid played a role in facilitating the hush-money payments against the women, Karen McDougal and Stormy Daniels, in the months leading up to the 2016 election.
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He recently admitted to reimbursing his lawyer for paying pay hush money to a porn star who claimed she had sex with Trump (a charge that he denies).
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Cohen, meanwhile, is awaiting a three-year prison sentence for financial crimes and charges related to hush money payments to women alleging to have had affairs with Trump.
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Democrats have called for a probe into whether Trump violated any ethics or campaign finance laws regarding a hush money payment to adult-film star actress Stormy Daniels.
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The National Enquirer had admitted to paying hush money to help U.S. President Donald Trump get elected and been accused of attempting to blackmail Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
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She has claimed the payment, made just before the 2016 election, was hush money to prevent her from speaking out about her alleged affair with Trump in 2006.
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The White House, through press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, has both denied the affair and that the president had anything to do with the $130,000 hush money payment.
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Cohen, who pleaded guilty to orchestrating hush-money payments to women claiming affairs with Trump during the election, later appeared before three separate congressional panels investigating Trump's activities.
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Namely, Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen has pleaded guilty to using campaign funds as hush money for two women who claimed to have slept with the president.
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First of all, the allegations that Trump directed and coordinated two hush money payments during the 2016 election to women alleging affairs with him don't come from Democrats.
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Hastert had worked as a lobbyist for Dickstein and recently pleaded guilty in a hush-money case to resolve charges he lied to the FBI about bank withdrawals.
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This will be must-see TV. Will Cohen divulge any new info on the hush-money payments made on Trump's behalf to women who allege affairs with him?
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It remained unclear why Mr. Cohen made the abrupt move to scrap the hush-money deal with the star, Stephanie Clifford, who is better known as Stormy Daniels.
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He displayed a check signed by the president, he said was to reimburse him for hush money payments, that could implicate Mr. Trump in a campaign finance violation.
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Who can forget the scenes of John Dean, Nixon's former White House counsel, testifying about the "cancer on the presidency" and hush money payments to the Watergate burglars?
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He should resign and pay back the taxpayer for the hush money and the tens of thousands of dollars he forced my department to spend investigating unfounded allegations.
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His presidency, of course, has been plagued by revelations that his fixer arranged for significant hush money payments to two women with whom Mr. Trump allegedly had affairs.
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President Donald Trump said Thursday that he did not know about the $130,000 in "hush money" that his personal lawyer Michael Cohen paid to porn actress Stormy Daniels.
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Cohen has said he paid Daniels with his own money, and the White House has denied Trump had an affair with Stormy Daniels or $130,000 in hush money.
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Mr. Cohen said Mr. Trump wrote him the checks, for $35,000 each, to reimburse him for making a hush-money payment to the adult-film actress Stormy Daniels.
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Here's why: Mr. Cohen received a $60,000 bonus, and the company allocated about $180,000 to cover the taxes that Mr. Cohen had to pay on the hush money.
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Most experienced criminal lawyers would likely suspect that the Stormy Daniels $130,000 "hush money" payoff is the primary clue that sparked a closer look at Cohen's law office.
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Trump sued the Manhattan district attorney over its efforts to obtain his tax returns as part of its investigation into hush money payments made during the 2016 election.
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Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen implicated Trump in campaign finance crimes, for his role in hush-money payments sent to two women who alleged affairs with Trump.
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The DA's office is investigating whether the President and the Trump Organization violated state laws in connection with hush money payments made to women alleging affairs with Trump.
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As special counsel, he helped uncover evidence that President Trump had repeatedly broken the law, including paying hush money to two women and interfering in the Russia investigation.
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He pleaded guilty in October to illegally structuring bank withdrawals, and prosecutors said he had been using the funds to pay "hush money" for misconduct from years past.
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Trump faces a lawsuit accusing him of profiting illegally from his office, allegations of sexual misconduct and hush money, and the Russia investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
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When he was secretary of the Treasury, he committed adultery, which was a felony at the time, and then paid hush money to prevent disclosure of his felony.
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It is an easy-to-understand, digestible narrative, unlike the other inquiries Democrats have been pursuing, including the Russia investigation, hush money payments and Mr. Trump's business dealings.
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Prosecutors said he directed hush money payments to a pornographic film actress and a former Playboy model, campaign finance crimes that helped land his former attorney in prison.
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Goguen was a partner at Silicon Valley venture firm Sequoia Capital when Baptiste initially accused him of withholding $40 million in so-called "hush money" payments in 2016.
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President Donald Trump has admitted he provided the hush money used by attorney Michael Cohen to suppress the allegations of two women that they had affairs with Trump.
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Under Justice Department policy, a sitting President cannot be indicted, though it is possible that Trump could be charged in the hush-money case after he leaves office.
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Vance's office has indicated the investigation relates to alleged hush-money payments to women who claimed to have had affairs with the president, Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal.
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Others say they should also address the President's involvement in alleged hush-money payments to prevent stories of his alleged affairs from coming out before the 2016 elections.
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Separately, the House Judiciary Committee has pledged to examine the hush money payments as part of its sprawling probe into obstruction, public corruption and other abuses of power.
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Beyond Trump, Cohen's charging document alleges that Trump Organization "Executive-1" and "Executive-2" authorized and made payments to reimburse Cohen for one of the hush money payments.
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To disburse the hush money, Conyers added her to his books as a "temporary staffer," paid her the sum of $27,111.15, and then removed her from the payrolls.
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Federal prosecutors alleged that the Trump Organization paid Cohen $420,000 to reimburse him for the $130,000 hush money payment, increasing the amount to cover taxes and a bonus.
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And the committee has authorized subpoenas to three individuals tied to the hush-money payments -- including David Pecker, the chairman of National Enquirer parent company American Media Inc.
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" But Otero, noting Giuliani's recent public condemnations of Cohen for having secretly recorded Trump talking about paying hush money for another alleged mistress, said, "Irony doesn't escape me.
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If The Enquirer's parent company broke the law, it would be in violation of a nonprosecution agreement over its paying hush money to help President Trump in 2016.
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The purpose of that hush money, of course, was to cover up Mr. Trump's affair with a pornographic film star in order to prevent damage to his campaign.
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The other side: Trump and other Republicans have dismissed Cohen's claims that Trump directed him to pay hush money to women with whom Trump allegedly had extramarital affairs.
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Michael Cohen said on Wednesday that President Trump remained deeply involved in the payment of hush money to a pornographic film actress, even while in the White House.
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" We spoke with sources close to Camilla who tell us Poindexter is adamant she NEVER tried to shake down Penn and there was no request for "hush money.
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Cohen also admitted participating in a scheme to violate campaign finance laws in connection with hush money payments to women alleging affairs with then-presidential candidate Donald Trump.
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On Wednesday, Cohen entered two checks into evidence that showed Trump, and his eldest son Donald Trump Jr., had reimbursed him for the hush money payments to Daniels.
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Just a few weeks before the 2016 presidential election, Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen coordinated a $130,000 hush-money deal to keep Daniels silent about the alleged affair.
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Cohen's other crimes included campaign finance violations relating to his facilitation of two hush money payments to Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal shortly before the 2016 presidential election.
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The House Oversight Committee has also expressed interest in Donald Trump Jr., who signed two of the checks reimbursing Cohen for to hush money payments to a porn star.
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Since 2016, according to the report, schools have paid out more than $1.6 million (£1.3 million) in hush money to at least 300 students to maintain those confidentiality agreements.
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Cohen acknowledged lying for Trump and expressed remorse in particular about heeding Trump's demand that Cohen lie to his wife about hush money payments to an adult film star.
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The case can be traced back to the hush-money payments to adult-film actress Stormy Daniels and another woman who alleged extramarital affairs with Trump, which he denies.
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Trump and the White House have repeatedly changed their stories on what happened; this week, Rudy Giuliani said Trump had repaid Cohen for the hush money — a new revelation.
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But after Cohen was charged with crimes relating to his hush money payments, AMI escaped the threat of prosecution by admitting that it had been helping Trump since 2015.
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Prosecutors and Cohen both say the hush money payments violated campaign finance laws and were directed by Trump himself to cover up affairs he had in 2006 and 2007.
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On Sunday, the Times reported that McGowan allegedly turned down $1 million in hush money from one of Weinstein's associates who wanted her to sign a non-disclosure agreement.
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Cohen said the hush-money payments to women who claimed they had sex with Trump were orchestrated in Weisselberg's office in Trump Tower ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
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Cohen pleaded guilty to breaking campaign finance laws in August and organizing hush money payments to women claiming to have had relations with President Trump before the 2016 election.
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But they didn't think it was a matter of legitimate public interest, although arguably some affairs really were: Harding used Republican National Convention funds as hush money, for instance.
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Cohen presented three documents relating to the illegal hush money payments he made to Daniels to keep her silent about an alleged affair she had with Trump in 2006.
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Except lawsuits aren't cheap and Daniels has offered to return the $130,000 in "hush money" she was paid by Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen, as part of that agreement.
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Cohen, 52, pleaded guilty last year to multiple charges lodged by the Manhattan U.S. attorney's office, including campaign finance violations stemming from the hush money payouts, and financial crimes.
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Trump's former lawyer told the judge that he made two six-figure hush money payments to women at the direction of a candidate for federal office, implicating the president.
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Cohen, who surrendered to the FBI this week, pleaded guilty to charges of bank and tax fraud as well as campaign finance violations related to the hush-money payments.
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The tales of unethical behavior and secret "hush money" deals have rightly spurred the U.S. House of Representatives to overhaul sexual harassment and discrimination oversight in the legislative branch.
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Documents related to the hush-money deal with her were among files seized by the FBI during a raid on Cohen's home, office and hotel room on April 9.
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Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen implicated Trump in two felony campaign finance violations this week when he pleaded guilty to charges he arranged two election-year hush-money payments.
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It's a predictable variation on the recent theme we've seen emerge over the past few weeks from team Trump's explanations regarding the Stormy Daniels hush money payment: inconsistencies abound.
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Foremost among them is the Southern District of New York's ongoing investigation into the Trump Organization, which began with Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's conviction for illegal hush-money payments.
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We all know that days before the election, Daniels received $130,000 in hush money to shut her up about her alleged sexual encounters with Trump that occurred in 2006.
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President Donald Trump led a National Day of Prayer event Thursday, just hours after he disclosed that he reimbursed his lawyer for paying hush money to a porn star.
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In addition to Mueller's probe, Cohen is under criminal investigation by federal prosecutors in New York who are eyeing his business dealings, including the hush-money payoff to Daniels.
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Cosby's defense team on Monday sought to undercut Constand's credibility, pressing her about accusations that she had schemed to plant a false story of abuse to reap hush money.
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Stormy Daniels' attorney, Michael Avenatti, says he's now representing three additional women who he claims were paid "hush money" to stay silent about having relationships with President Donald Trump.
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In the September 2130 tape, Cohen alludes to a hush money deal involving former Playboy model Karen McDougal, who claimed she had an affair with Trump a decade earlier.
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Rather than a smoking gun, the tape is probably most significant as a piece of a larger puzzle about an apparent hush money and scandal suppression operation for Trump.
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The payment was supposedly hush money to keep Daniels quiet about her alleged sexual relationship with Donald Trump in 1303, the year Melania gave birth to Trump's son Barron.
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The payment was supposedly hush money to keep Daniels quiet about her alleged sexual relationship with Donald Trump in 2006, the year Melania gave birth to Trump's son Barron.
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Since the Wall Street Journal broke the story of Cohen's hush money payment to Daniels in January, there have been questions about whether the payment violated campaign finance law.
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Mr. Cohen this month began a prison sentence stemming from his guilty plea in a hush-money scheme to silence women who said they had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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In that plea, Mr. Cohen implicated Mr. Trump in hush-money payments to two women during the 2016 campaign to conceal affairs they said they had with Mr. Trump.
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Additionally, there is another set of requests aimed at surfacing potential corruption related to Trump's business practices and the hush money payments to women who alleged affairs with Trump.
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The Manhattan district attorney demanded the records in late August as part of an investigation into hush-money payments made in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election.
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But he pleaded guilty in October to illegally structuring bank withdrawals, and prosecutors said he had been using the funds to pay "hush money" for misconduct from years past.
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The case centered on hush-money payments that Mr. Cohen helped arrange during the 2016 presidential campaign to two women who had said they had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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Weisselberg was granted immunity in August by federal prosecutors for providing information on former Trump attorney Michael Cohen's role in hush money payments to women alleging affairs with Trump.
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Trump denies having sex with Daniels or with another woman, Playboy model Karen McDougal, who received another hush money payout before the 2016 election that was facilitated by Cohen.
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He has violated federal law by directing his lawyer to pay $280,000 in hush money to cover up two apparent extramarital affairs -- of course that's the Stormy Daniels case.
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Weisselberg, the Trump Organization's chief financial officer, was granted immunity by federal prosecutors for providing information on Cohen's role in hush money payments to women alleging affairs with Trump.
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Trump admitted to reimbursing Cohen for the hush money, and Cohen pleaded guilty to making payments that violated campaign finance laws last month, with sentencing scheduled for December 12.
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The alleged Daniels and McDougal affairs and the subsequent hush money endeavors are certainly the juiciest elements of the overall storyline on the president's alleged misdeeds and questionable conduct.
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And what's true beyond a shadow of a doubt now is that Trump knew more than he let on about Daniels, Cohen, the hush money and the restraining order.
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Daniels, whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford — alleges she had an affair with Trump and was paid "hush money" by his personal lawyer to keep quiet about the relationship.
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Cohen is serving a three-year prison term for campaign finance violations, including through the hush money payments, as well as tax evasion and lying to the U.S. Congress.
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The Point: Trump, at some level deep down, knows that Cohen's plea deal -- specifically as it relates to the hush money payoffs -- is a big, big problem for him.
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That payment is thought to refer to the $130,000 hush money payment Cohen facilitated to the porn star Stormy Daniels, who claims that she had sex with the president.
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Two of the charges are campaign finance offenses involving his payment of hush money to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, two women who say they had affairs with Trump.
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President Trump didn't fork over hush money to Stormy Daniels to keep their sexual liaison from his wife, because Melania knows his "history" with women ... so says U.S. Rep.
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He also used the account, which was for Essential Consultants LLC, to facilitate hush money payments to women who accused Trump of affairs before he was a candidate for president.
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Although she claims it was hush money to keep her quiet about her affair with Trump, Cohen denies it broke any campaign finance laws, despite admitting to making the payment.
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Upon investigation, federal officials determined he was paying hush money to an alleged victim of sexual abuse that allegedly occurred when Hastert was a wrestling coach and teacher in Illinois.
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EVER since an audio recording emerged in May of Brazil's president, Michel Temer, seeming to discuss paying hush money and backhanders, the country's zealous prosecutors have been expected to pounce.
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Indeed, Trump is facing so many challenges that the recent report that he arranged a hush money payment to a porn star to cover up an affair seems relatively minor.
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Their digging would help turn a quiet investigation into the biggest scandal to hit the national US Muslim leadership in years: a tale of secret marriages, hush money, and threats.
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Cohen has also produced an audio recording of himself talking to Trump about the hush-money scheme, and a check signed by Trump that Cohen says was meant as reimbursement.
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Cohen alleged that Weisselberg and Trump discussed reimbursements for hush money payments made to Stormy Daniels, and that Weisselberg was aware Trump committed potential insurance fraud by inflating his assets.
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Last May O Globo, a newspaper, published an excerpt of an audio tape in which he seems to endorse payment of hush money to a politician convicted of taking bribes.
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"The president of the United States thus wrote a personal check for the payment of hush money as part of a criminal scheme to violate campaign finance laws," Cohen said.
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And if Trump knew about the payment, voters would have to contend with the fact that their president authorized the payment of hush money that could have ensured his election.
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Further, she said the team allegedly intimidated her into publishing a statement that said she's denying the affair because it never happened — not because she was paid in hush money.
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Cohen is about six weeks into a three-year prison term after pleading guilty to campaign finance violations related to the hush money payment to Daniels and other financial crimes.
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The charges included arranging hush money payments to women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump, and lying to Congress over a proposed Trump real estate project in Moscow.
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In late February, Cohen testified before Congress, implicating several Trump Organization executives whom he said knew about financial misstatements and were involved in reimbursing him for the hush-money scheme.
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A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit against President Donald Trump by porn actress Stormy Daniels that sought to tear up a hush-money settlement about an alleged affair.
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Daniels sat down with Anderson Cooper on "60 Minutes" and chronicled what she says was a sexual encounter with Trump in 2006 that ultimately resulted in threats and hush money.
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According to the docs ... McDougal didn't seek "hush money" from Trump, but rather thought she was selling her story to the Enquirer for $100k and future appearances in the publication.
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"The President of the United States thus wrote a personal check for the payment of hush money as part of a criminal scheme to violate campaign finance laws," Cohen claims.
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To recap: Last August, Cohen pleaded guilty for violating campaign finance law by arranging hush money payments for two women who claimed affairs with Trump: Karen McDougal and Stormy Daniels.
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The Wall Street Journal reports that Essential Consultants then paid $1.6 million in hush money to Playboy model Shera Bechard, who had an abortion after, she alleges, Broidy impregnated her.
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Vance is investigating, at the very least, how the Trump Organization accounted for hush money payments made to two women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump years ago.
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Earlier this month, prosecutors accused Hastert of paying hush money to at least one individual he had molested while he was a high school wrestling coach decades ago in Illinois.
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Asked on ABC's "This Week" if Trump has a habit of offering hush money to outgoing White House staffers, Conway argued that confidentiality agreements are standard in the current administration.
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However, Cohen's crimes (though many of the counts he was convicted on were not connected to Trump) have implications for Trump that extend far beyond the payment of hush money.
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The president's new lawyer, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, had firm revealed that Trump paid Cohen back for the hush-money deal in an interview with Fox News.
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But the headache could be compounded if Cohen decides to tell prosecutors what he knows about hush-money agreements he helped arrange for women who say they slept with Trump.
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Pecker met with the prosecution to discuss Cohen's involvement in Trump's hush-money deals with women leading up to the 2016 presidential election, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
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Cohen said in court documents last week that Trump directed him to arrange hush money payments to two women, Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, weeks before the 2016 presidential election.
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President Trump also faces state investigations into his business and financial dealings and campaign finance violations: for instance, the charge of hush money payoffs to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal.
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Trump also vented to Whitaker when prosecutors in Manhattan officially implicated the President in a hush-money scheme to buy the silence of women around the 2016 campaign, sources said.
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The president has provided shifting explanations about his knowledge of the payments, but has denied the alleged affair and insisted the hush money arrangement did not violate campaign finance laws.
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Cohen testified that Trump called him in February 2018 and directed him to mislead the public about the president's knowledge of a hush money payment to adult-film star Daniels.
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Washington (CNN)Rudy Giuliani said Wednesday that President Donald Trump paid back his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, the $130,000 in hush money that was used to pay off Stormy Daniels.
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Cohen's admission that the hush money that constituted 2 felony convictions, was done at the direction of a candidate for federal office, clearly implicates the President in those campaign violations.
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That reimbursement was for a hush-money payment that Cohen made to porn star Stormy Daniels in late 2315 in exchange for her silence about an alleged affair with Trump.
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New York federal prosecutors' investigation into the hush money payments Michael Cohen arranged during the 2016 campaign isn't yet over — and it appears to have moved closer to President Trump.
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But Vance's office is eyeing whether Trump's company, and top executive Allen Weisselberg, falsified records in connection with the hush money payouts to obscure the true nature of the disbursements.
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To protect his boss at critical junctures in his improbable political rise, the lawyer relied on intimidation tactics, hush money and the nation's leading tabloid news business, American Media Inc.
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He added that as for the Trump Organization emails, he just uses that account all the time — whether it's to communicate with friends or to funnel secret hush money payments.
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He also maintained that even if the hush-money payments were campaign transactions in violation of election law, that should be considered only a civil offense, not a criminal one.
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Such potential maladministration may not be as buzzy as, say, exploring whether Mr. Trump paid hush money to former mistresses or underpaid his taxes by a few hundred million dollars.
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Eventually, he pleaded guilty to financial crimes, campaign finance violations regarding the hush money payments, and lying to Congress about his efforts to strike a Russian business deal for Trump.
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Among these agreements was a deal to facilitate a hush money payment of $150,000 to former Palyboy model Karen McDougal to silence her claims of a 2006 affair with Trump.
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In pleading guilty to campaign finance violations, Mr. Cohen said Mr. Trump directed him to arrange the hush money payments to protect Mr. Trump from embarrassing stories during the campaign.
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Court documents included detailed descriptions of Mr. Cohen's interactions with A.M.I. as the hush money payments to the women — a pornographic film star and a former Playboy model — were arranged.
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We already knew prosecutors in the Southern District were exploring the hush money payments that Cohen arranged and that they had entered into a nonprosecution agreement with American Media, Inc.
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Ms. Clifford may be able to say whether the Trump campaign was ever specifically mentioned as Mr. Davidson and Mr. Cohen hashed out the details of the hush-money payment.
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Meanwhile, the shell company that received the payments was the same one that Cohen used to send hush money to Stephanie Clifford — also known as Stormy Daniels — on Trump's behalf.
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The district attorney's office issued the subpoena to Mr. Trump's accounting firm in late August as part of an investigation into hush-money payments made before the 2016 presidential election.
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One of the lawsuits, which Daniels filed against Trump and his personal lawyer Michael Cohen to invalidate the hush money agreement about the alleged affair, was tossed out of court.
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Someplace along the way, impeachment was the only answer to his payoff of hush money to a porn star, which Democrats said amounted to a violation of campaign finance laws.
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As are the set of circumstances that led Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, to pay Daniels $130,000 in hush money, drawn from his own purse, days out from the 2016 election.
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Investigators launched their inquiry last summer after the US attorney for the Southern District of New York closed its investigation into the Trump Organization's handling of the hush money payments.
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Federal investigators asked for access to records related to Cohen's consulting business, Essential Consultants LLC, which was also the shell company used to make the hush-money payments to women.
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Mr. Cohen used that company to pay hush money to Stormy Daniels, and the payments came to light when her lawyer released a document that contained details of the transactions.
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Cohen pleaded guilty in 2018 to campaign finance and other crimes, including by directing hush money before the election to two women who claimed to have sexual encounters with Trump.
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Cohen implicated Trump on numerous fronts, from hush-money payments during the campaign to financial shenanigans at the Trump Organization to orchestrating lies while he was in the Oval Office.
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Chuck Grassley, a senior member of Senate Judiciary who chaired the panel in the last Congress, wouldn't say if he had concerns about Trump's involvement in a hush-money scheme.
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The $30,000 contract, however, was scrutinized by federal prosecutors in New York in the spring of 2018 as a third hush money payment, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Federal prosecutors ultimately struck a non-prosecution agreement with the publisher, effectively ruling out charges for AMI over its role in securing hush money from Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen.
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Cohen is serving a three-year sentence for campaign finance crimes tied to so-called hush money payments made to two women in the run-up to the 2016 election.
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They included arranging hush-money payments to two women who said they had affairs with Mr. Trump, tax evasion, making a false statement to a bank and lying to Congress.
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"He added: "I mean, sorry, but one thing about my marriage is it's never involved me having to send hush money to a porn star after cheating on my spouse.
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When Rosa hears that Amy is pressuring Keri to refuse the hush-money and "pursue justice," Rosa takes a minute to remind Amy what is personally at stake for Keri.
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Stormy, who reportedly scored $130k in hush money to keep quiet over an alleged tryst she had with Donald Trump in 2006, wowed the crowd at Little Darlings Strip Club.
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He resigned in April 2018 when it was revealed he agreed to pay a woman $1.6 million in hush money after she became pregnant with his child in an affair.
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Also at court was controversial lawyer Michael Avenatti, whose porn star client Stormy Daniels' hush-money deal with Cohen and Trump set the case against Cohen into motion earlier this year.
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Michael Cohen is about three weeks into a three-year prison term after pleading guilty to campaign finance violations related to the hush money payment to Daniels and other financial crimes.
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Essential Consultants, the shell company owned by Michael Cohen, filed a status report on Friday "agreeing to tear up" the $130,000 hush money deal it made with Stormy Daniels, CNN reports.
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The district attorney's office, led by Cyrus Vance Jr., is examining hush money paid to two women who, during the 2016 presidential campaign, alleged having affairs with Trump a decade ago.
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Mr Cohen is co-operating with prosecutors and has alleged that Mr Trump asked him to pay hush money to two women who claim to have had flings with the president.
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On Tuesday, Cohen pleaded guilty to eight counts, including two of violating campaign finance laws by orchestrating hush-money payments to women who claimed to have had sexual relationships with Trump.
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In August 2018, he pleaded guilty to tax evasion, false statements to a bank and campaign finance violations tied to hush money payments he made or orchestrated on behalf of Trump.
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Update, 8:02am: CNN just published a copy of the check that Donald Trump signed to make an illegal hush money payment on August 1, 2017, after he was already president.
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That was also the week we learned one-time Trump attorney Michael Cohen had paid hush money to Stormy Daniels to keep her quiet about allegations of an affair with Trump.
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The adult film actress was paid $130,23 in "hush money" by Cohen, but has offered to return the cash "to set the record straight" in regard to her fling with Trump.
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The adult film actress was paid $130,000 in "hush money" by Cohen, but has offered to return the cash "to set the record straight" in regard to her fling with Trump.
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At the same time reporters were digging into that story, Cohen rushed to complete hush-money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels, who also claims to have slept with Trump.
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He detailed how Trump had personally reimbursed him for hush-money payments Cohen has made to porn star Stormy Daniels and directed him to lie about why those payments were made.
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At this point, it's quite well established that two women — porn actress Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal — received hush money for affairs they said they had with Trump.
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Federal prosecutors in Manhattan have said Cohen acted "in coordination with and at the direction of" Trump when he orchestrated hush money payments to two women during the 2016 presidential election.
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The government released several search warrant documents related to their investigation of Michael Cohen Thursday — and apparently revealed that the investigation into hush money payments made on Trump's behalf has ended.
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Giuliani stunned political observers when he revealed Trump reimbursed his longtime personal lawyer for a $130,000 hush money payment to Daniels after the President had previously denied knowledge of the transaction.
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Trump slammed Cohen's decision to enter the guilty plea on Wednesday while falsely claiming in a Fox News interview that hush money payments arranged by Cohen did not break the law.
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According to The Wall Street Journal, the executives were mentioned in connection with a plan to reimburse Cohen for a hush money payment he made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump got just two weeks' relief from investigations into hush-money payments to tamp down his sex scandals, before New York officials picked up where the feds left off.
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He implicated Trump in the campaign finance violations, saying the New York real estate mogul directed him to make hush-money payments to women who said they had affairs with Trump.
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Orrin Hatch, the retiring Utah Republican and most-senior GOP senator, strongly dismissed the federal government's allegations that Trump committed two crimes by directing Cohen to make the hush money payments.
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In 2017, Broidy agreed to pay $1.6 million in hush money to a woman he had an affair with in a deal arranged by President Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen.
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We also know the President lied to the American people about his knowledge of the payment of hush money and the role of one of his top lieutenants in the affair.
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He pleaded guilty to eight fraud-related charges last August, including two counts of violating campaign finance laws for paying hush money to two women with whom Trump had extramarital affairs.
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Cohen allegedly coordinated "hush money" payments to Playboy model Karen McDougal and adult-film star Stormy Daniels, both of whom allege they had affairs with Trump more than a decade ago.
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New York Representative Jerry Nadler, a Democrat, said that the allegations surrounding hush-money payments to Stephanie Clifford, the adult film star known as Stormy Daniels, could rise to that threshold.
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New York state prosecutors are investigating whether the Trump Organization violated state law connected to hush-money payments made to two women who alleged affairs with President Donald Trump, CNN reported.
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One such tape includes a recording of Trump and Cohen allegedly discussing hush-money payments over the story of a Playboy model who claims to have had an affair with Trump.
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Moreover, the alleged violation involving payments of hush money to a former porn star and a Playboy bunny would be both hard to prosecute and far removed from Mueller's original mandate.
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Donald Trump knew it was wrong to make hush money payments during the 2016 campaign, Michael Cohen told ABC News Friday, but he directed his former attorney to do it anyway.
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Cohen has pleaded guilty to eight criminal charges, two of which are related to his payment of hush money to women with whom Trump had affairs, including porn actress Stormy Daniels.
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The new Journal report fills out more details in the story of what exactly prosecutors have learned Trump knew about the hush money — and it turns out to be a lot.
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Michael Cohen, Trump's former personal attorney, said in his testimony on Wednesday that Weisselberg could answer questions about hush-money payments to two women, including the adult-film star Stormy Daniels.
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Why it matters: The report didn't specify what the payment was for, but Cohen has admitted to paying $130,000 in hush money to Stormy Daniels prior to the 2016 presidential election.
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The authorities have been investigating Mr. Cohen's role in making hush-money payments to women in advance of the 2016 election, and whether any such action violated federal campaign finance laws.
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Cohen is serving his sentence after pleading guilty to campaign finance violations related to hush money payments to two women who claimed they had affairs with Trump prior to taking office.
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Evidence suggests Cohen was also aware of an earlier hush money payment to another woman alleging an affair with Trump, Karen McDougal (through the parent company of the National Enquirer tabloid).
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The warrant for the FBI raid on Cohen's office does not seem to have mentioned any Russia-related issues (instead focusing on Cohen's business activities and the sex scandal hush money).
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Cohen set up Essential Consultants to pay Stormy Daniels $130,000 in hush money days before the 2016 election to silence her about a 2006 affair she says she had with Trump.
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The "hush money" reference was to a 2015 agreement between Mr. Grijalva and a former House employee who had accused him of overseeing a hostile work environment and frequently being drunk.
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It was easy to understand, then, why so many pundits were skeptical that federal prosecutors would pursue a case related to the hush-money deals involving Ms. Daniels and Ms. McDougal.
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The committee's chairman, Representative Elijah E. Cummings of Maryland, is for now taking the Democrats' most direct shot at revealing Mr. Trump's involvement in the hush money payments to Stormy Daniels.
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House Democrats have continued to investigate many of the issues raised by Mr. Cohen, including the hush money payments and possible financial fraud, in addition to the president's link to Russia.
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The cases were related to hush money payments to Daniels by Trump's own attorney before the 2016 election to keep her quiet about a purported sexual tryst she had with Trump.
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For months now, prosecutors have been looking into Mr. Cohen's wide-ranging business deals, including two hush-money payments he made to women who claim they had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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A specific example of that could easily be emoluments questions or federal campaign violations in 2016 with hush money payments or abuse of power and obstruction identified by the Mueller report.
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He pleaded guilty in August 22018 to crimes including orchestrating "hush money" payments before the 22018 election to women who have said they had sexual encounters with Trump, violating campaign laws.
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Cohen — who has said the president directed him to lie about hush-money payments and that Trump artificially inflated and deflated his assets to suit his own purposes — did not elaborate.
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Cohen told the House Oversight Committee in February that Trump directed him to lie about the president's knowledge of hush-money payments to women who say they had affairs with Trump.
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U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero is conducting a criminal investigation related to the president's company in how it accounted for hush money payments to two women ahead of the 2016 election.
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The Southern District, in a court filing in July, said it was unlikely it would file additional charges in the hush-money investigation and that it had "effectively concluded" the inquiry.
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President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he only knew "later on" about hush-money payments made by his ex-lawyer Michael Cohen to multiple women ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
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They include alleged corruption, obstruction of justice, hush money payments to women, supposed collusion with Russia and claims that Trump infringed the Constitution by using his office for personal financial gain.
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David Pecker The CEO of the company that publishes the National Enquirer reportedly was granted immunity in the investigation of Michael Cohen in exchange for providing info on hush money deals.
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Oh, and admitting that Trump repaid Michael Cohen $130,000 in hush money spent to cover up an affair with porn actress Stormy Daniels, whose lawyer couldn't help trashing Giuliani on Twitter.
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It is not clear if the DA has obtained any of the tax returns he is seeking from Mazars, or whether Vance is now investigating issues beyond the hush money payments.
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Cohen, who pleaded guilty to lying to congressional investigators as well as other crimes in November, implicated Trump in the hush money scheme when he testified before Congress earlier this year.
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"The President of the United States thus wrote a personal check for the payment of hush money as part of a criminal scheme to violate campaign finance laws," Cohen will say.
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Mr. Cohen also admitted that at Mr. Trump's direction, he organized hush-money payments to two women whose allegations of extramarital affairs with Mr. Trump might have derailed his presidential campaign.
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Earlier on Thursday, Trump sued the Manhattan district attorney over its efforts to obtain his tax returns as part of its investigation into hush money payments made during the 2016 election.
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They include: campaign contacts with Russians (Jeff Sessions, Roger Stone, George Papadopoulos); Trump Tower Moscow (Allen Weisselberg, Felix Sater, Jay Sekulow); and potential hush-money payments to women (American Media Inc.
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Why it matters: The Southern District of New York's investigation into hush money payments, which has now concluded, resulted in Cohen being sentenced to prison for three years for campaign finance violations.
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President Donald Trump was involved in "nearly every step" of hush-money agreements with multiple women who claimed they had sexual affairs before he became president, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday.
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Last year Cohen pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations connected to a hush-money payment he made to Daniels and said he acted at the behest of Trump, who later reimbursed him.
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Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's former personal lawyer and fixer, isn't buying the president's defense of his alleged role in hush-money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal.
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Cohen is due in March to begin serving a three-year prison sentence for that and other crimes, including ones related to hush-money payments made to purported ex-paramours of Trump.
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Giuliani wouldn't rule out the president pleading the Fifth Amendment in the Mueller probe or definitively answer questions about whether another Trump lawyer, Michael Cohen, had paid hush money to other women.
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He has produced a tape in which Mr Temer appears to endorse the payment of hush money to a convicted politician and to hear without objection Mr Batista's tales of obstructing justice.
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Then there was news that the federal probe into hush money payments made to Stormy Daniels and other women during the presidential campaign has ended, with no new charges on the horizon.
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Former adult actress Stormy Daniels is suing President Donald Trump, alleging that the "hush money" agreement arranged by his lawyer during the 2016 presidential election was never signed by the Trump himself.
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It was not clear if the move by prosecutors to end the campaign finance probe of Cohen meant that no other charges would be lodged in connection with the hush money payments.
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We don't know what it is, but one possibility is the probe into Trump-related hush money payments being run by the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York.
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" In a statement Thursday, her lawyer said "reports" claiming she was involved in conversations about hush money payments "on October 8, 2016, or knew that payments were being discussed, are simply wrong.
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Cohen also admitted facilitating hush money payments in 2016 to porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal to keep them silent about their alleged affairs with Trump a decade earlier.
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Trump has already been implicated by prosecutors in the Southern District of New York in directing illegal hush-money payments during the 2016 campaign to women who claimed they'd slept with him.
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But they do provide a lot of fresh detail about Cohen's criminal wrongdoing over the last few years — ranging from tax fraud to orchestrating hush money payments to women during the campaign.
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Cohen's campaign finance violation charges were in regard to his $130,000 hush-money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels, who claims she had an affair with Trump before the 2016 election.
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The campaign charges related to hush money payments that Cohen facilitated to two women, porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal, to keep them quiet about alleged affairs with Trump.
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Cohen's legal advisor, Lanny Davis, in a statement Wednesday called for the New York attorney general and the Manhattan District Attorney's Office to launch a criminal investigation into the hush money payments.
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The new lawsuit comes several years after a hush money case revealed allegations of sexual abuse against Hastert from his days working as a high school wrestling and football coach in Illinois.
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The president's story has shifted on the hush money payments; he now says when he learned about the payments, he sought reassurance from Cohen that campaign funds were not used (The Hill).
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Giuliani said Trump had reimbursed Cohen for that payment, meaning that Trump knew where the money for the payment came from -- which runs contrary to Trump's past assertions about the hush money.
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"In any other administration, evidence that the president paid hush money to the star of 'Good Will Humping' during the election would be a scandal," New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg noted.
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Porn star Stormy Daniels is cooperating with federal authorities investigating the $130,000 hush-money payment President Donald Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen paid her just before the 2016 election, NBC News reported Tuesday.
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After cratering on Thursday amid allegations Temer approved hush-money payment to the jailed former house speaker, Brazil's benchmark Bovespa stock index was up 219 percent after earlier rising over 20.7 percent.
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In other words, if Cohen was rendering advice to the President about how to structure "hush money" payments in violation of federal election laws, such conversations would not be protected from disclosure.
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Cohen testified to the House Oversight panel that Trump directed him to lie about a hush money payment to Stormy Daniels, an adult-film actress who alleged an affair with the president.
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Cohen, who pleaded guilty this week to tax and bank fraud and campaign finance violations, said Trump directed him to make payments to two women as part of a hush-money agreement.
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He implicated Trump in the campaign finance charges, saying the president directed him to make hush-money payments ahead of the 2016 election to women who said they had affairs with Trump.
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New York state prosecutors are investigating if the Trump Organization falsified business records in connection with two hush-money payments made to women who alleged affairs with President Donald Trump, CNN reported.
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Rudy Giuliani on Friday walked back statements about a $4703,000 hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels as well as President Donald Trump's reason for firing former FBI Director James Comey.
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And on Monday, Cohen is scheduled to appear before a US district judge in New York to explain his business practices, which have allegedly included orchestrating hush money payments on Trump's behalf.
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Prosecutors in Manhattan are reportedly considering pushing for criminal charges against the Trump Organization and two top company officials over a hush-money payment linked to former longtime Trump lawyer Michael Cohen.
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Tuesday night, the adult star distanced herself from a signed statement put out by her publicist, which refuted claims she took "hush money" not to talk about her alleged affair with Trump.
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He testified that Trump had directed him to pay hush money to two women who claimed they had affairs with Trump, and the payments were made to influence the 2016 presidential election.
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Indeed, Democratic leaders' new claims of a "massive fraud" in the election is the alleged violation of campaign finance laws to pay hush money to a porn star and former Playboy bunny.
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Cohen has also pleaded guilty to charges of tax fraud in his taxi business, and to campaign finance violations stemming from hush money payments to women who said they'd slept with Trump.
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Well, Michael Cohen, the Trump lawyer handling the Stormy Daniels case, said he used his very own home equity line of credit to raise the $130,000 he gave her in hush money.
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He pleaded guilty last year to arranging a hush money scheme in the final weeks of the 2016 presidential campaign, involving two women who said they had had affairs with Mr. Trump.
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On Monday of this week, Cohen's home, office, and hotel room were raided by FBI agents investigating his role in making hush money payments to two women on behalf of Donald Trump.
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Mr. Petrillo asked for a deferred prosecution agreement relating to the hush money, a lighter punishment that might have spared Mr. Cohen from prison so long as he stayed out of trouble.
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Las Vegas (CNN)Pete Buttigieg turned an attack on Tuesday about his marriage into a pointed knock against President Donald Trump and hush money payments he paid to porn star Stormy Daniels.
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After American Media executives admitted that they had effectively paid her hush money to help Mr. Trump's campaign — in violation of federal election law — they cooperated with an investigation into the payment.
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Giuliani said the team also was ready to respond to legal issues raised by the hush money paid to an adult film star and a former Playboy playmate before the 2016 election.
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"We have a memo from a number of campaign finance experts that paying what they call hush money, since it has a personal purpose, is not considered a campaign contribution," Giuliani said.
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He cuts corners, he lies, he cheats, he brags about it, and for the most part, he's gotten away with it, protected by threats of litigation, hush money and his own bravado.
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Cohen pleaded guilty in 2018 to nine criminal charges, including lying to Congress, tax fraud and campaign finance violations for hush money payments made to two women who alleged affairs with Trump.
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When Preston Waters (Brian Bonsall) finds himself with hush money in the form of a blank check, he cashes it for $1 million and goes on the shopping spree of our dreams.
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As part of the ruling, Baptiste was ordered to pay back $10.25 million that Goguen had given her as a portion of a rumored $40 million "hush money payment" he had promised.
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The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this year that Trump lawyer Michael Cohen had paid Daniels hush money to enforce her silence about an alleged affair between herself and Trump in 2006.
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They aggressively went after Cohen's crimes that weren't tied to the hush-money payments -- lying to Congress, cheating on his taxes -- to paint him as an uncredible witness whose accusations were meaningless.
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While the signed check from Trump to Cohen for $35,000 is powerful evidence that Trump knew about and participated in the hush-money payment scheme, it is not quite a smoking gun.
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In pleading guilty, Cohen admitted to participation in a scheme to pay hush money payments to two women -- Karen McDougal and Stormy Daniels -- with whom Trump is alleged to have had affairs.
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" After the hush deal was first reported, Cohen in January issued a statement in Daniels' name denying the affair, as well as "rumors that I have received hush money from Donald Trump.
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Last week, it was disclosed that Cohen had secretly recorded Trump when the two men were discussing a hush-money payment for a story involving Playboy model Karen McDougal in September 2016.
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According to the Times, Vance issued his subpoenas soon after opening a criminal probe into what role Trump and his family business played in hush-money payments prior to the 2016 election.
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The subpoena on Mazars came four weeks after Vance issued a separate subpoena to the Trump Organization for records of hush-money payments to two women prior to the 2016 presidential election.
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The two women alleged affairs with Trump, which he has denied, and the grand jury was looking into Trump Organization accounting of reimbursements for hush money payments related to the women's accusations.
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Just Friday, CNN reported that the chief financial officer for the Trump Organization, Allen Weisselberg, was granted immunity to provide information about the hush money payoffs made by Cohen on Trump's behalf.
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Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance subpoenaed Trump's tax returns as part of an investigation into hush-money payments allegedly made to Stormy Daniels by by the Trump Organization during the 2016 election.
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The House Oversight Committee in January asked the Trump Organization to turn over records relating to hush money payments made to silence women alleging affairs with Donald Trump before he became President.
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But Cohen did make things worse for Trump on at least three fronts: The hush money payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, along with WikiLeaks and the Trump Tower Moscow development.
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The question: What he would do if prosecutors looking at his business dealings — including hush money for women with accounts of affairs with Mr. Trump — offered leniency in exchange for incriminating information?
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He pleaded guilty in August to financial crimes, and in his guilty plea he implicated his former boss in a scheme to pay hush money to two women before the 2016 election.
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Context: The New York Times first reported this month that Vance's office had subpoenaed the tax returns for its investigation into hush money payments made to Stormy Daniels during the 2016 election.
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Clifford, who said she was paid hush money of $130,000 in late October 2016 by Cohen, sued earlier this month, saying Cohen violated her NDA agreement when he admitted he'd paid her.
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Cohen repeated this allegation during his hearing on Wednesday, and he presented an August 2017 check with Trump's signature that Cohen says was partial reimbursement for the hush money payment to Daniels.
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Before federal prosecutors got involved, Daniels sued to get out of her hush money agreement, which led to a lot of litigation, including an attempt by Cohen to prevent Daniels from talking.
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These included "hush money" payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, and former Playboy model Karen McDougal, who both said they had sexual encounters with Trump.
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Politically, however, the president of the United States has acknowledged paying hush money to a porn actress and acknowledged that he knowingly and willfully lied to the press when asked about it.
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In the far-off penumbra of Trump's legal problems that center on his attorney Michael Cohen's involvement with various hush-money payments, a lot happened — some funny but some conceivably quite damning.
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In both sets of court records, chunks of the documents are still redacted, apparently including sections about the hush-money scheme to pay off the two women who have accused Trump of affairs.
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He directly implicated Trump in his crimes when he admitted his involvement in hush-money payments made to two women who claim they had affairs with Trump years before he ran for president.
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AMI signed the agreement with federal prosecutors last year in connection with a $150,000 hush-money payment to a former Playboy model who claims she had an affair with U.S. President Donald Trump.
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He is under investigation for financial crimes including a campaign finance violation related to a pre-election hush money payment made to an adult film actress who allegedly had an affair with Trump.
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Daniels appeared at Sirens Columbus on July 12, one stop of a tour she's undertaken since her alleged affair with President Trump and a subsequent payout of hush money became a national scandal.
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Cohen alleged Trump directed him to make the payments to Daniels and McDougal in order to influence the election, which turned the hush money payments into campaign contributions subject to federal contribution limits.
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When Daniels went public with her claims in 2018, both Trump and White House officials denied he had an affair with her, or that he had any knowledge of the hush money payments.
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Daniels, with Avenatti, sued Trump and his former attorney, Michael Cohen, to void a $130,000 hush-money agreement she signed shortly before the 2016 presidential election barring her from discussing that alleged dalliance.
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President Trump directed or was personally involved in multiple payments of hush money to women claiming to have had sexual encounters with him — potentially breaking campaign finance laws, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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That award went to the staff of the Wall Street Journal for its reporting on the hush money payments made to two women during the 2016 campaign who allegedly had affairs with Trump.
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ROSE MCGOWAN ALLEGES HARVEY WEINSTEIN TRIED TO PAY HER $1 MILLION IN HUSH MONEY Toback has said he does not remember meeting the women and Weinstein has denied any non-consensual sexual contact.
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Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani warned prior to Avenatti&aposs latest claim that he&aposs getting "desperate," citing reports about another secret tape in which Cohen discussed paying Daniels hush money on his own.
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Cohen also presented Congress with a $35,000 check, signed by Trump on August 1, 2017 — that is, while Trump was president — that was a partial reimbursement for the hush money payment to Daniels.
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The latest developments continue to raise serious questions as to whether the $260,23 Daniels (real name Stephanie Clifford) received in hush money just days before the presidential election is an illegal campaign payment.
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Cohen testified about multiple potentially criminal acts by the president and by his company, related hush-money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels and alleged artificial inflation and deflation of Trump Organization assets.
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The campaign crimes relate to Cohen facilitating hush money payments to two women, porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal, in exchange for their silence about their alleged affairs with Trump.
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Rio de Janeiro (CNN)Brazil's highest court opened an investigation into President Michel Temer on Thursday, after one of the country's biggest newspapers accused him of paying a former Senate colleague hush money.
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Michael Cohen will present a check to the House Oversight Committee Wednesday signed by Donald Trump, which the president's former lawyer says was reimbursement for hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels.
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To recap: It's been well-documented that in October 53, Cohen set up a shell company called "Essential Consultants LLC," which he used to send $25,2187 in hush money meant for Stormy Daniels.
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Meanwhile, the president — accused by a dozen women of abuse and evidently spending more on hush money than some Walmart employees make in a year — remains in office and unscathed by such allegations.
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Cohen, who arranged hush-money payments to at least two women who alleged affairs with Trump before the 2016 U.S. presidential election, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to campaign finance violations and other charges.
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Sanders was asked repeatedly about Trump's changing story on the circumstances around a $130,000 hush money payment made to porn actress Stormy Daniels by the President's attorney Michael Cohen over an alleged affair.
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Trump's former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen is currently serving prison time in part due to campaign finance violations related to hush money payments made to McDougal and an adult actress Stormy Daniels.
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The National Enquirer appeared to be a crucial part of the federal probe on the hush-money payments arranged by Cohen, as Pecker reportedly received an immunity deal in exchange for his cooperation.
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Cohen, among other things, said Trump directed him to break the law and make a hush money payment to adult-film star Stormy Daniels, who alleges she had an affair with the president.
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He has also downplayed the hush money payments, claiming they were a "simple private transaction" and that he should not be held accountable if Cohen did not properly record them as a contribution.
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He said in court that the hush-money payments were made at Trump's direction, and that the goal of the payments was to stop the women from telling their stories before the election.
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That alleged "hush money" episode, the messy details of which are currently the subject of Cohen's civil case in California, concerns the now infamously bungled nondisclosure agreement between Clifford and Essential Consultants LLC.
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As reported by USA Today , Argento also contends that the $380,000 hush money payment given to Bennett in 2017 was a decision made by her late boyfriend, Anthony Bourdain, who considered Bennett "dangerous."
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That is the same division currently investigating Cohen for his business dealings and a $130,000 hush-money payment he made to porn star Stormy Daniels on the eve of the 2016 presidential election.
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A recording of the two men speaking in September 2016 confirms that Mr. Trump was at least aware of the hush money paid to Ms. McDougal before Mr. Cohen reimbursed A.M.I. that October.
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The latest developments continue to raise serious questions as to whether the $130,000 Daniels (real name Stephanie Clifford) received in hush money just days before the presidential election is an illegal campaign payment.
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The aforementioned $130,000 "hush money payment to a porn star" — Daniels — wasn't the only hush payment Cohen orchestrated on Trump's behalf to a woman who claimed to have had an affair with him.
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In a separate hush-money deal, Mr. Cohen said, he helped arrange a payment to the adult film actress Stormy Daniels, who had also alleged that she had an affair with Mr. Trump.
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Federal prosecutors have implicated Trump in a scheme to violate campaign finance laws by paying hush money to two women for their silence regarding alleged affairs with Trump just weeks before the election.
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The news media has covered Ms. Clifford's story heavily for the better part of 2018, since the news that Mr. Cohen paid her hush money first broke toward the start of the year.
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They have shown unshakable support for him, even after reports that one of his associates paid hush money to a porn star with whom Mr. Trump had an affair before he became president.
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"I'm sorry, but one thing about my marriage is it's never involved me having to send hush money to a porn star after cheating on my spouse, with him or her," Buttigieg said.
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Here's a look at how the President's story about the hush money payments keeps changing: Karen McDougal Just days before the 2016 presidential election, The Wall Street Journal reported that American Media Inc.
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On Capitol Hill, Cohen testified publicly last month, accusing Trump of directing him to issue hush-money payments to two women alleging affairs, which Trump has denied, and alleging Trump committed financial fraud.
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How does a devoted evangelical Christian serve a foulmouthed, thrice-married vulgarian who boasts of grabbing women by their private parts and paid hush money to a porn star alleging an extramarital affair?
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That a President's private attorney would be battling to maintain a hush-money contract keeping an alleged affair out of the news -- paid for by personal lawyer Michael Cohen -- is a big deal.
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The investigation will address possible corruption, obstruction of justice, hush-money payments to women, potential Russian collusion and allegations that the President has abused his office and is using it for personal gain.
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In his public testimony last week, Cohen accused Trump of directing him to make hush-money payments to women alleging affairs, and then displayed a reimbursement check he was paid with Trump's signature.
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Disregarding advice that restrained other presidents, Mr. Trump kept his real estate business despite the Constitution's emoluments clause, paid hush money to an alleged paramour and sought to impede investigations that threatened him.
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But the latest of them was impossible to miss: The Wall Street Journal's blockbuster report revealing that then-candidate Donald Trump paid a former porn star hush money to cover up their affair.
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"The President of the United States thus wrote a personal check for the payment of hush money as part of a criminal scheme to violate campaign finance laws," Cohen said in his testimony.
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Because of the ongoing investigation, information about the hush-money payments Cohen made or orchestrated was heavily redacted from search warrant material related to the Cohen case that was made public last week.
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Instead he was accused of taking bribes and condoning the payment of hush money to a jailed politician in plea bargain testimony by Joesley Batista, an owner of JBS, the world's largest meatpacker.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump could face impeachment and jail time if hush money payments reported by his former lawyer are proven to be campaign finance violations, Democratic lawmakers said on Sunday.
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Prosecutors are also reportedly investigating whether the hush money payoff he helped orchestrate to porn actress Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal during the 2016 election violated any campaign finance laws.
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Context: The New York Times reported this week that Vance's office had subpoenaed Trump's tax returns as part of its investigation into hush money payments made to Stormy Daniels during the 2016 election.
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In the hush money investigation, the Southern District prosecutors have already implicated the president, claiming in a court filing that Mr. Cohen "acted in coordination with and at the direction of" Mr. Trump.
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The first — the probe of hush money payments to women who alleged affairs with Trump during the campaign — is being handled by the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York.
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We've long known Cohen was in deep shit—that federal prosecutors were probing his role as a conduit for shady payments that amounted to hush money in the run-up to election day.
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The Wall Street Journal reported this week that Mr. Broidy said he would cease paying Ms. Bechard the agreed-upon hush money because her former attorney, Keith Davidson, allegedly disclosed information about the affair.
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Cohen said Trump directed him to make a $603,000 hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels days before the election to cover up what she has called a sexual encounter with Trump.
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Perkins alleged she was paid around $164,000 in hush money, and that Weinstein and his legal team asked her to name other women she spoke to "as if they too were guilty of something."
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Aboard Air Force One on the way back to Washington, Mr. Trump denied knowing of any hush money paid to Stormy Daniels, the pornographic film actress who claims she had an affair with him.
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The omertà moment amounted to Trump decrying that one of his associates, ex-fixer Michael Cohen, actually cooperated with federal investigators exploring hush-money payments to women who said they had affairs with Trump.
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But consider what we already know about actions of Trump and his associates: Scandal 1: Trump secretly paid hush money to two mistresses on the eve of his presidential victory, and lied about it.
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Avenatti is most known for representing Daniels, 39, in her lawsuit against President Donald Trump after alleging she was paid hush money to stay silent about an affair she had with Trump in 2006.
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Cohen's public problems began this January, when the Wall Street Journal's Michael Rothfeld and Joe Palazzolo broke the news that Cohen had arranged a $130,20173 hush money payment to Stormy Daniels during the campaign.
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Cohen admitted facilitating hush money payments to two women, porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal, shortly before the 2016 presidential election to keep them quiet about their alleged affairs with Trump.
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Rudy Giuliani sent jaws dropping to the floor this week when he unexpectedly confirmed that President Donald Trump reimbursed his personal attorney Michael Cohen for the hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels.
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Ronaldo's personal team is responding to a story in a German newspaper which claims CR7 paid a woman roughly $375k in hush money after she claimed he raped her in a Vegas hotel room.
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Citing people familiar with FBI and private security firms' probes, Bloomberg News reported Monday that Russian hackers are looking at the emails of U.S. progressive groups to find embarrassing details and get hush money.
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In order for the FBI to get the warrants, a judge had to first conclude there was probable cause to believe a crime was committed ... presumably in the payment of the $130,000 hush money.
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The agency's former director Walter Shaub has argued this week Trump must disclose whether he held debts exceeding $10,000 -- including his debt to Cohen for the hush money payment -- or risk breaking federal law.
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Those potential offenses include violating the Emoluments Clause, an attempt to "defraud the United States" by directing Cohen to make the hush money payments and whether evidence from Mueller's investigation finds obstruction of justice.
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Cohen detailed Trump's alleged involvement in the scheme during an explosive public testimony before the House Oversight and Reform Committee, saying the president paid him back for the hush money payments after taking office.
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It had been widely reported that the crime was tied to hush money for a sexual abuse victim, but the Friday filings are the first time prosecutors have stated the allegations in official documents.
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Democrats already announced they will seek testimony from Allen Weisselberg, the longtime Trump Organization chief financial officer, whom Cohen cited as centrally involved in organizing hush-money payments to adult-film star Stormy Daniels.
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Daniels, whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford, says she had a sexual encounter with Trump in 28503 and was paid "hush money" through Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen to keep quiet about the relationship.
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Cohen had pleaded guilty to nine criminal counts, including two campaign finance violations tied to hush money paid to women who alleged affairs with Trump, which Cohen says he made at Trump's behest. Sen.
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Nadler's letter points to multiple exchanges during which Hicks was asked during the June 19 interview about her knowledge of the hush money payments or participation in interactions with Cohen or Trump about them.
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Yet the details of how much prosecutors for the Southern District of New York knew about those hush-money payments at the moment of the raid on Cohen's properties in April 2018 remains unclear.
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National Briefing | Midwest A person alleged to be a sexual abuse victim could testify next month at former Speaker J. Dennis Hastert's sentencing in a hush-money case, according to a federal court transcript.
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Cohen's tasks, in Trump's service, have included paying hush money to keep embarrassing details of the boss's life out of the press and menacing anyone whom he considered a threat to the Trump mystique.
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Manigault Newman also reportedly writes in her new book that the Trump campaign offered her a $15,000-a-month hush money contract for her to keep quiet about her time working in the administration.
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Why it matters, per Axios' Jonathan Swan: We have no earthly idea how many other women are out there who have similar hush money agreements with Trump's lawyers or associates acting on his behalf.
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Cohen, who pleaded guilty to multiple crimes related to the coordination of hush-money payments to two women, said Weisselberg could answer questions about the $130,000 payment to the adult-film star Stormy Daniels.
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And the illegal hush-money payments that eventually led former Trump attorney Michael Cohen to start cooperating with the federal prosecutors likely wouldn't have been made if Trump wasn't trying to win the presidency.
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Cohen is prepared to discuss topics related to hush money payments and aspects of the Trump Organization, including the roles of the President and his children, according to a source familiar with the matter.
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Much of his behavior over the past year, including pleading guilty to making hush-money payments to protect Trump from potential sex scandals, which Trump denies, can be seen as an effort at atonement.
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Trump now says that he reimbursed the $130,000 in hush money his lawyer Michael Cohen paid to Daniels; Daniels is suing Trump to void the nondisclosure agreement she signed, as well as for defamation.
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On a more seriously hilarious note, SNL threw haymakers at Cohen's predicament -- namely, getting raided by the FBI last week in relation to his $130,000 "hush money" payment to Stormy Daniels, among other things.
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Federal prosecutors in Manhattan effectively characterized Mr. Trump as an unindicted co-conspirator in the hush money payments, which violated campaign finance laws because they were made to influence the outcome of the election.
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He also pleaded guilty last year to campaign finance charges connected to hush money payments made during the 2016 campaign to a pornographic film actress who said she had an affair with Mr. Trump.
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Last but not least, the Judiciary Committee has requested documents in connection with the hush money payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, two women who alleged affairs with Trump, during the 2016 campaign.
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And Mr. Cohen is under investigation by federal prosecutors in Manhattan, who are looking into whether he broke the law in any of various business dealings, including the hush-money payment to Ms. Clifford.
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The committee had asked Hicks if she needed to clarify her testimony about the hush-money payments made during the campaign to two women, Karen McDougal and Stephanie Clifford, who alleged affairs with Trump.
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It also illustrated how deeply the publisher of the National Enquirer was invested in the Trump campaign — including essentially paying hush money, with Mr. Trump's apparent knowledge, to women who claimed affairs with him.
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But after initially stating she lied about the entire affair, Trump later admitted to repaying his former lawyer Michael Cohen $130,000 that was made to Daniels as a part of a "hush money" agreement.
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When he pleaded guilty Tuesday in Manhattan federal court to eight criminal counts of campaign finance violations, tax fraud and bank fraud, Cohen admitted he paid Daniels the hush money during the 2016 campaign.
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Cummings signaled that his committee, which has broad oversight powers, would take steps following Cohen's testimony to get to the bottom of Cohen's testimony and allegations about the hush-money payments and other matters.
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The Cohen-related material that has posed the greatest potential danger to the President comes from the Southern District of New York's investigation into the hush-money payments to women alleging affairs with Trump.
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The search warrants sought Cohen's emails related to his business dealings under a shell company used to cut hush money deals with women accusing then-candidate Trump of extramarital affairs, which Trump has denied.
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Mueller's search warrants sought Cohen's emails related to his business dealings under a shell company used to cut hush money deals with women accusing then-candidate Trump of extramarital affairs, which Trump has denied.
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Vance's investigation includes an inquiry into whether the Trump Organization violated the law in how it accounted for hush money payments to two women, Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, ahead of the 2016 election.
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His work for Trump ultimately led to a guilty plea and a three-year prison sentence for tax fraud and lying about hush money payments to a porn star — crimes that implicated the president.
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Prosecutors in Mr. Vance's office are examining the role that Mr. Trump and the family business, the Trump Organization, played in hush-money payments made in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election.
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And the President's legal team will assert that there was not even a need to report these payments because the purpose of the hush money was to protect his family and the Trump Organization.
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White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Trump "did nothing wrong" in relation to the hush money, and Caputo suggested Cohen is not credible in what amounts to a he-said, he-said case.
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Falzone, a former reporter who is also subject to an NDA, was reportedly stopped by the network from reporting on the alleged hush money payments President Trump made to adult-film star Stormy Daniels.
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The allegation against Biden by Flores pales against assertions made by prosecutors in New York — that Trump directed hush money payments against women who claimed affairs with him, claims which he has repeatedly denied.
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During Monday's briefing, Sanders also refused to address the issue of Trump's checks to Cohen while occupying the Oval Office, allegedly to refund hush money payments, instead referring reporters to the President's personal attorneys.
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Daniels' lawyer sent a letter Monday to Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, who cut that hush-money deal, as well as to Cohen's own attorney, offering to pay Trump the $130,000, NBC News reported.
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Trump is also seeking to have the Supreme Court block a subpoena from the Manhattan district attorney's office, which is investigating hush-money payments that the Trump Organization made to Stormy Daniels in 2016.
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Washington (CNN)On Tuesday, the President's former lawyer and fixer said Donald Trump tried to influence the 2016 election with illegal campaign contributions and hush money to keep two women quiet about alleged affairs.
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The details: One of our findings is that Mr. Trump wanted to put an ally in charge of a federal inquiry in New York related to hush money payments by his former personal lawyer.
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"One thing about my marriage is it's never involved me having to send hush money to a porn star after cheating on my spouse with him or her," Buttigieg said at the town hall.
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Felonies, hush money, Russian agents, dogged journalists — in real time, it turns out, all that stuff moves like molasses, with none of the subtle internal coherence you find in a good novel of suspense.
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It happened during the final weeks of the 2016 campaign, when he instructed his lawyer, Michael Cohen, to pay a combined $280,000 in hush money to two women with whom Trump evidently had affairs.
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But the question now is whether Cohen may plead guilty to these charges and decide to "flip" on Trump — whether about the hush money payments, Trump's other business transactions, or Trump's ties to Russia.
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During Congress's 6-week recess, the committee expanded its probe to include Trump's potential violations of the emoluments clause and hush money payments used to cover up alleged affairs during the 2016 presidential campaign.
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Newly appointed Donald Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani dropped a bombshell on Wednesday night when he said on Fox News that Trump had repaid his attorney Michael Cohen for $2000,2130 in Stormy Daniels hush money.
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Cohen, who is cooperating with Mueller, is also due to be sentenced next week on other criminal charges, including ones related to hush money payments to woman who have said they had affairs with Trump.
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Davidson separately negotiated a $130,000 hush-money payment on the eve of the 2016 presidential election from Michael Cohen, who at the time was the personal lawyer for Donald Trump, the winner of that election.
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The campaign finance watchdog group Common Cause has argued that the hush money payment was made in service of Trump's presidential campaign because it bought silence on a controversy that could have hurt his prospects.
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The last charge — one excessive campaign contribution — is related to a $130,000 hush money payment Cohen arranged to Stormy Daniels to keep her silent about an affair she says she had with Trump in 2006.
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Okun noted comments by Jerry Nadler, the expected chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, that Trump may have committed "impeachable offenses" if he's found to have a hand in paying hush money to several women.
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In a sentencing memo filed last week, federal prosecutors from the Southern District of New York wrote that "Individual 1" — Trump — directed Cohen to make the hush money payments, which are felony campaign finance violations.
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Even if acquitted, Temer is likely to soon face separate charges for corruption and obstruction of justice in a case involving allegations of hush money paid to a potential witness in a massive graft scandal.
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He made hush money payments to the women in Mr. Trump's life, including arranging for The National Enquirer to make "catch and kill" payments for the rights to salacious stories that were then never published.
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