The man who once said he was prepared to ”take a bullet” for Donald Trump arrived to the right of Manhattan in New York city along with his wife and two children. The courtroom was crowded and several people had to be rejected, writes the news agency Reuters.
has admitted that he paid 1.2 million to porrskådespelaren Stephanie Clifford and to have arranged a payment of the equivalent of 1.3 million sek to the former Playboymodellen Karen McDougal. This is to get the two to remain silent about their past relationships with Trump, something that would have caused damage to the Trump during the presidential campaign.
During the trial, Cohen said that he felt that he must try to hide Trumps ”dirty business”.
Both women had sold the rights to their stories to skvallertidningen the National Enquirer, owned by American Media Company Inc (AMI).
which was made public on Wednesday went AMI not to publish stories ”about the candidate before 2016 presidential elections,” writes ABC News.
The documents also show that the AMI did this ”with the intent to suppress a woman’s history in order that it would not affect the presidential election”.
Donald Trump himself has denied that he had these conditions, which in this case took place while he was married. Trump has, however, admitted that the money has been paid, but denies that it was money from campaign contributions.
attorney Rudy Giuliani has claimed that the money was paid out to protect Donald Trump’s reputation, and that they would have been paid whether there was a presidential election or not.
cohen’s lawyers argue that the blame for Michael cohen’s actions should be placed on Donald Trump, writes the Washington Post.
The former lawyer, who stood Donald Trump is very close to, was also sentenced for having lied to the congress when it was a building project in Moscow, where Donald Trump was negotiating to build a Trump Tower in Moscow. He is sentenced also for tax evasion and for giving banks false information, the crime that only they can provide up to five years in prison.
even to have lied to congress and for tax evasion but he will have to serve penalties at the same time and will thus sit in jail for a total of three years.
Cohen himself had asked to be spared prison.
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