OAN Geraldyn Berry and Brooke Mallory
UPDATED 6:35 PM – Wednesday, March 22, 2023
A brand-new, shocking document on the alleged Trump indictment has now surfaced.
Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, had reportedly used his own personal funds to pay adult film actress Stormy Daniels a whopping $130,000, according to a 2018 letter sent by Cohen’s lawyer to the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
In connection with a $130,000 “hush money” payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels, Cohen accepted a guilty plea to federal tax evasion and campaign financing offenses in 2018. Cohen received a 3-year prison term. Since then, he has claimed that the former president ordered him to cover up the money and make the payment in order to stop Daniels from disclosing information about an alleged affair. Trump has categorically denied these allegations.
The 2018 letter revealed that neither the former President Donald Trump nor his business organizations were involved in the suspicious transaction. It also stated that Trump’s lawyer was not reimbursed for the payment, neither directly nor indirectly.
Cohen’s lawyer, Stephen Ryan, had sent the FEC a letter regarding the payment to Stormy Daniels which contradicted his own statement about the former president’s involvement.
“After canceling today’s [Wednesday’s] session, the grand jury has been asked to return at noon Thursday, when prosecutors ‘may present one more witness,’” a court official said.
Under oath, Cohen maintained that Trump asked him to pay off an adult film star with whom he had an affair, and that Trump directed him to use his own personal funds from a Home Equity Line of Credit to avoid any money being traced back to him that could negatively impact his campaign.
However, Ryan noted in a letter to the FEC, dated February 8th, 2018, saying “Mr. Cohen used his own personal funds”, and that “neither the Trump organization nor the Trump campaign was a party to the transaction with Ms. Clifford, and neither reimbursed Mr. Cohen for the payment directly or indirectly.”
Cohen’s lawyer worked at McDermott Will & Emery.
The memo was written in response to an FEC investigation that was started as a result of accusations of improper campaign financing, made by Paul Ryan and the group Common Cause.
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