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[–] bloodfart@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I guess I don’t take your meaning…

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office’s case went like this: With Trump’s approval, his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, paid adult film star Stormy Daniels $130,000 to stay silent about an alleged sexual encounter so as not to derail Trump’s 2016 campaign. Trump then approved a fraudulent scheme to disguise the reimbursement to Cohen as legal expenses to hide the hush money.

In doing so, he ran afoul of election rules, prosecutors said, which amounted to “election fraud, pure and simple.”

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c288wpj1glyo

[–] bloodfart@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 month ago

I must be missing something. It sounds from all the articles you posted that the crime was covering up payments.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but each of the 34 counts refers to a payment made in an attempt to conceal the hush money as legal expenses. If paying hush money were illegal I bet there would be many fewer out of court settlements…