Prosecutors in New York revealed Wednesday that they reached a "Non-prosecution agreement" with American Media Inc., the parent company of the National Enquirer, over a $150,000 payment made to a woman who claimed she had an affair with President Donald Trump.
"As a part of the agreement, AMI admitted that it made the $150,000 payment in concert with a candidate's presidential campaign, and in order to ensure that the woman did not publicize damaging allegations about the candidate before the 2016 presidential election," prosecutors revealed in a Department of Justice press release following the sentencing of Michael Cohen, the former Trump attorney who helped orchestrate the payoff.
Cohen was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison for tax evasion, bank fraud and making illegal campaign contributions related a payment made to another alleged Trump mistress: Stormy Daniels.
The illegal campaign contribution charge was for a $130,000 payment that Cohen made in October 2016 to Daniels, a porn star who claims she had an affair with Trump in 2006.
Trump downplayed the Daniels payment in an interview Tuesday with Reuters.
Prosecutors said in a court filing on Dec. 7 that Pecker met with Cohen and Trump in August 2014 and "Offered to help deal with negative stories about relationships with women by identifying such stories so that they could be purchased and 'killed.'".
After an editor at National Enquirer contacted Pecker and told him about McDougal's story and then contacted Cohen to inform him about an offer to purchase her story for $150,000.
https://thepoliticalinsider.com/national-enquirer-payment/
"As a part of the agreement, AMI admitted that it made the $150,000 payment in concert with a candidate's presidential campaign, and in order to ensure that the woman did not publicize damaging allegations about the candidate before the 2016 presidential election," prosecutors revealed in a Department of Justice press release following the sentencing of Michael Cohen, the former Trump attorney who helped orchestrate the payoff.
Cohen was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison for tax evasion, bank fraud and making illegal campaign contributions related a payment made to another alleged Trump mistress: Stormy Daniels.
The illegal campaign contribution charge was for a $130,000 payment that Cohen made in October 2016 to Daniels, a porn star who claims she had an affair with Trump in 2006.
Trump downplayed the Daniels payment in an interview Tuesday with Reuters.
Prosecutors said in a court filing on Dec. 7 that Pecker met with Cohen and Trump in August 2014 and "Offered to help deal with negative stories about relationships with women by identifying such stories so that they could be purchased and 'killed.'".
After an editor at National Enquirer contacted Pecker and told him about McDougal's story and then contacted Cohen to inform him about an offer to purchase her story for $150,000.
https://thepoliticalinsider.com/national-enquirer-payment/
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