The US media magnate David Pecker has added to have Donald Trump in the election campaign of 2016 with the settlement of a hush money payment to an alleged previous sexual partner helped. Pecker made the admission under an agreement with New York Federal prosecutors, investigators said on Wednesday. In return, she granted the long-standing friend of the US President from prosecution.
The agreement between the publisher of the American scandal sheet of the “National Enquirer” and the Federal prosecutors was made at the end of September. She has now been given the same time to impose a three-year prison sentence for trump’s Ex-lawyer Michael Cohen known.
hush money, per se, is not illegal
Cohen, the Peckers media company, American Media Inc. (AMI) payment of 150’000 dollars to former Playboy Model Karen McDougal threaded. Another hush money in the amount of 130 000 dollars to the porn actress Stormy Daniels he paid.
silence funds are not per se illegal. In the cases of Stormy Daniels, and McDougal, they will be treated by the investigators but as illegal campaign donations – since it is to their knowledge the goal was, by the suppression of sex stories of damage from the Trump campaign to avert.
on behalf of Trumps
According to the prosecutors, Cohen was to have the payments “in coordination with and on behalf of” Trumps arranged – by which he brought the President with the of the investigators, stated law-breaking in direct connection.
AMI bought McDougal the exclusive rights to her story, according to the Federal prosecutors “in consultation” with trump’s campaign team. The company had the investigators were never the intention to publish the story.
prosecutors said that AMI had made in the investigation of “substantial and important” and still be cooperating. (roy/SDA)
Created: 13.12.2018, 02:17 PM
