And the National Enquirer guy.
The National Enquirer was directly involved as the point of the catch and kill campaign for Trump leading up the election to catch and kill any of the scandals Trump would face.
It is reported, that the National Enquirer had made some payments for Trump, to that end, when their inhouse lawyers warned them these would be considered campaign contributions and thus against the law if not disclosed. Pecker, the Enquirer guy, then informed Trump, one of his best friends, that they could not make the payments for the catch and Kill due to it being a Campaign finance violation That is when the National Enquirer refused to pay any more and COhen instead started to pay with the money he got from Trump.
Pecker, Trumps good friend at the time, is now fully cooperating for his amnesty deal. You can expect he has admitted he told Trump directly that they could not pay anymore due to campaign finance laws and then Trump went about doing same thru Cohen.
Checkmate!
Pecker was given immunity for his illegal campaign contributions in order to testify. Hidden in the statement of facts it appears that one of the crimes being covered up was that AMI also falsified business records in their payments.