Trump-Stormy Daniels settlement at heart of potential NY DA indictment didn't violate

Phantasmal said:
It looks like the defense “I did it for Melania” may not work, because Stormy was trying to get money from Trump earlier for her silence and he wouldn’t pay until it became an issue for the election.
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And also..... the situation with the OTHER woman, the one who sold her story to the Enquirer who then buried it to protect Trump. That testimony should be fun.
 
ExpressLane said:
LINK???

That is yet another legal reason for making the payment. He didn't want the TRUMP brand to be tarnished. Totally legal per the FEC
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https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/03...rumps-stormy-daniels-defense-could-be-flawed/

trump set up a shell company and separate bank account for the payments. trump's checks were made out to Michael Cohen. Then Cohen's checks were made out to Stormy's lawyers.

How would Melania know these checks were about Stormy if her name wasn't on any of the paperwork? I don't think Melania was balancing the checkbooks every month. :D

THINK.

When was the payment made to Daniels?

On CBS’ “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” Daniels’ attorney, Michael Avenatti, held up a receipt from a bank in San Francisco showing that on Oct. 27, 2016, Essential Consultants made a $130,000 payment to Daniels’ attorney at the time.
 
Phantasmal said:
It looks like the defense “I did it for Melania” may not work, because Stormy was trying to get money from Trump earlier for her silence and he wouldn’t pay until it became an issue for the election.
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What if they produce the prenup that allows him all the affairs he wants.
 
Jarod said:
“A senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation”….. hahaha! Ya, that guy will say anything!


The payments began weeks before the election, years after the affair.

Candidates are allowed to spend money on their own campaigns, but ARE still required to accurately report those expenditures.
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Hillary listed her opo research as legal fees . Did she receive a felony or just a fine?
 
ExpressLane said:
Trump paid the 130 with a personal checks not campaign funds.


Cohen said Donald Trump himself, while president, signed a $35,000 checks while he was president to repay him for "hush money I paid on his behalf," Cohen told a House of Representatives committee.
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Trump will win this case and THAT will help him win the White House.
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That is an interesting theory that is not based in any facts.
Trump paid from a business account and did not label it as a hush payment. He tried to illegally claim it was simply a legal retainer and not reimbursement for payments made to Daniels.
This is from Cohen's plea agreement.
In January 2017, COHEN in seeking reimbursement for election-related expenses, presented executives of the Company with a copy of a bank statement from the Essential Consultants bank account, which reflected the $130,000 payment COHEN had made to the bank account of Attorney-1 in order to keep Woman-2 silent in advance of the election, plus a $35 wire fee, adding, in handwriting, an additional “$50,000.” The $50,000 represented a claimed payment for “tech services,” which in fact related to work COHEN had solicited from a technology company during and in connection with the campaign. COHEN added these amounts to a sum of $180,035. After receiving this document, executives of the Company “grossed up” for tax purposes COHEN’s requested reimbursement of $180,000 to $360,000, and then added a bonus of $60,000 so that COHEN would be paid $420,000 in total. Executives of the Company also determined that the $420,000 would be paid to COHEN in monthly amounts of $35,000 over the course of 12 months, and that COHEN should send invoices for these payments.

On February 14, 2017, COHEN sent an executive of the Company (“Executive-1”) the first of his monthly invoices, requesting “[p]ursuant to [a] retainer agreement, . . . payment for services rendered for the months of January and February, 2017.” The invoice listed $35,000 for each of those two months. Executive-1 forwarded the invoice to another executive of the Company (“Executive-2”) the same day by email, and it was approved. Executive-1 forwarded that email to another employee at the Company, stating: “Please pay from the Trust. Post to legal expenses. Put ‘retainer for the months of January and February 2017’ in the description.”
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https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/p...ral-court-eight-counts-including-criminal-tax
 
Jarod said:
Untrue
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Post #77. Read first, comment later.

The campaign finance "crime" Cohen "confessed to" wasn't even a crime, according to the FEC, no matter what the New York SSR says, oir the insanely corrupt DOJ.


" Robert Khuzami, Attorney for the United States, Acting Under Authority Conferred by 28 U.S.C. § 515, announced that MICHAEL COHEN was sentenced today to three years in prison for tax evasion, making false statements to a federally insured bank, and campaign finance violations."
 
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