If they were, Trump is implicated in a federal felony.
Porn actress Stormy Daniels arrives at federal court in New York on April 16, 2018, to attend a court hearing. By Philip Bump Philip Bump National correspondent focused largely on the numbers behind politics Email Bio Follow March 11 at 9:39 AM Only one year ago, adult-film actress Stormy Daniels had just begun a public fight to escape the constraints of an agreement she signed in October 2016 preventing her from discussing her relationship with President Trump.
At the time, Daniels’s attorney was a man named Keith Davidson. According to a court filing from last August, someone working for Daniels contacted the parent company of the National Enquirer, American Media Inc., to see whether they’d be interested in buying Daniels’s story about her encounter with Trump in 2006. AMI’s CEO, David Pecker, and an editor contacted Cohen, with whom they had worked two months earlier to bury another such allegation involving a woman named Karen McDougal.
“I have no idea. I have no idea,” Davidson replied. Asked if that thought ever kept him up at night, he said, “A little bit, yes.” Last August, Cohen admitted guilt in two campaign finance violations related to the Daniels and McDougal payments. The Daniels payment resulted in a charge of making an excessive campaign contribution, since the $130,000 he spent was more than the $2,700 he was allowed to give to the campaign. The McDougal payment was slightly different: He admitted to causing an unlawful corporate contribution, because he’d worked to get AMI to buy her story and then never run it.
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