Federal prosecutors have closed their investigation into hush money payments arranged by Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former fixer and lawyer.
Federal prosecutors have closed their investigation into hush money payments arranged by Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former fixer and lawyer, ending what was considered one of the gravest potential legal threats to the president and the company that bears his name.
The hush money payments were part of an illegal campaign scheme to prevent embarrassing information about Trump from emerging shortly before the 2016 election, and the money was intended to silence two women who said they had slept with Trump years ago.The National Enquirer, a tabloid run by a Trump ally, paid $150,000 to a former Playboy playmate, Karen McDougal, and Cohen gave $130,000 to a porn star known as Stormy Daniels.
However, it appears that Cohen will be the only person charged in connection with the payments. He is servingCohen’s lawyer, Michael Monico, said he was surprised by prosecutors’ decision to close the investigation. on Nov. 29, 2018, and admitted lying to Congress about pursuing a luxury real estate project in Moscow during the campaign. The effort to build a Trump Tower Moscow, which was abandoned around the time Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination in mid-2016, was a key storyline in Mueller’s investigation.
. Nearly 20 pages in the search warrant addressing what prosecutors called “the illegal campaign contribution scheme” were censored.
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