You can read the full indictment and statement of facts here. Prosecutors accuse Trump of repeatedly causing false entries in the business records. Trump is not charged with criminal conspiracy.Įach criminal charge Trump is facing relates to a specific entry among the business records of the Trump Organization, according to the indictment. The reason he committed the crime of falsifying business records was in part to “promote his candidacy,” prosecutors alleged. Notable legal clouds that continue to hang over Trump.Breaking down Trump’s ‘Soros’ attack on the DA.
They allege he was part of an unlawful plan to suppress negative information, including the $130,000 payment. Prosecutors on Tuesday alleged Trump was a part of an illegal conspiracy to undermine the integrity of the 2016 election. The investigation by the Manhattan district attorney’s office began when Trump was still in the White House and relates to a $130,000 payment made by Trump’s then-personal attorney Michael Cohen to Daniels in late October 2016, days before the presidential election, to silence her from going public about an alleged affair with Trump a decade earlier.
Here’s what we know about Trump’s indictment so far. The indictment by a New York grand jury was unsealed on Tuesday, providing the public and Trump’s legal team with details about the charges against him for the first time. The Manhattan district attorney’s office has been investigating Trump in connection with his alleged role in a hush money payment scheme and cover-up involving adult film star Stormy Daniels that dates to the 2016 presidential election. The swirl of unprecedented political, legal and historical implications ignited by the indictment of Donald Trump reached a fever pitch Tuesday with the former president arrested and pleading not guilty in Manhattan.
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