Sentences with phrase «hush money payment»

CNBC's Eamon Javers reports that according to the New York Times, the FBI raided for evidence of hush money payments to two women from President Trump's longtime lawyer Michael Cohen.

Yet it's his apparent behind - the - scenes work for Trump that has now become so controversial — specifically, his role in arranging hush money payments to two women who said they had affairs with Trump.

And since we've just learned of a new AMI Trump hush money payment this week, how many other payments don't we know about?

As Common Cause alleged in its January complaints filed with the DOJ and FEC, there is strong — and growing — reason to believe that Mr. Trump and his campaign violated federal campaign finance disclosure laws by hiding this election - influencing hush money payment.

Speaker Silver's hush money payments helped this culture to survive to today, and he helped Vito Lopez to persist in his harassment of woman staffers in the Assembly with buying off victims.!

Dumpster fire: Donald Trump financial disclosure statement lists Michael Cohen reimbursement for Stormy Daniels hush money payment.

For both Trump and Broidy, Cohen arranged hush money payments to cover up sex scandals.

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE RUDY GIULIANI BOMBSHELLS The former New York City mayor revealed on Fox News last night that Trump had known about the $ 130,000 hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels, since he had reimbursed lawyer Michael Cohen for the expense.

The White House, through press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, has both denied the affair and that the president had anything to do with the $ 130,000 hush money payment.

The Times reports that agents were looking for records about the hush money payments to Daniels and McDougal.

Since the Wall Street Journal broke the story of Cohen's hush money payment to Daniels in January, there have been questions about whether the payment violated campaign finance law.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- Rudy Giuliani may have added to the legal headaches of his new law client and old friend, President Donald Trump, when he drew a link Thursday between a hush money payment to a porn actress and the potential fallout if her allegations of a tryst with Trump had gone public before the 2016 election.

Cohen is currently under investigation for a $ 130,000 hush money payment he made to porn actress Stormy Daniels, who claims she had an affair with Trump years ago.

Former Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr said the hush money payment to Stormy Daniels on the eve of the 2016 election raises «difficult and serious» issues that need to be evaluated by the Justice Department.

A government accountability group, Common Cause, which has filed complaints to the Justice Department and Federal Election Commission about the $ 130,000 payment, said Mr. Giuliani's remarks strengthened their case and put the president «in legal peril for «knowing and willful» violations of campaign finance law related to hush money payments.»

Rudy Giuliani claimed that President Trump repaid his Michael Cohen for a $ 130,000 hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels

WASHINGTON (AP)-- Rudy Giuliani may have added to the legal headaches of his new law client and old friend, President Donald Trump, when he drew a link Thursday between a hush money payment to a porn actress and the potential fallout if her allegations of a tryst with Trump had gone public before...

In an appearance on NBC's Today show, Avenatti said «yes» when asked whether Daniels and Trump had a sexual relationship, and he said there was «no question» that Trump knew about the hush money payment when it happened in October 2016.

A $ 130,000 hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 election campaign is also under the microscope.

Allegations in Clifford's complaint, if true, mean that President Trump and the Trump campaign made a campaign expenditure in the form of a hush money payment to Clifford.

The lawsuit filed by Clifford adds new information that underscores arguments Common Cause made in its January 2018 complaints to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and Department of Justice (DOJ) alleging the hush money payment was a violation of federal campaign finance law.

In paragraph 16 of the complaint, Clifford alleges that the purpose of Mr. Trump's hush money payment was «to avoid her telling the truth, thus helping to ensure that he won the Presidential Election.»

Midway through a Wednesday night interview with Hannity, new Trump legal adviser Rudolph Giuliani noted that President Donald Trump had reimbursed lawyer Michael Cohen for a $ 130,000 hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels.

The president's second - newest lawyer told the president's first - best friend that despite Donald Trump's repeated denials that he knew of or was involved with Michael Cohen's hush money payments to Stormy Daniels, Trump in fact knew of the «general arrangement» and repaid his longtime lawyer / fixer / bumbler for his troubles.

The campaign finance watchdog group Common Cause has argued that the hush money payment was made in service of Trump's presidential campaign because it bought silence on a controversy that could have hurt his prospects.

Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani revealed earlier this month that Trump repaid Cohen for a $ 130,000 hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels.

Of particular note was Giuliani's claim that the president had knowledge and involvement with Michael Cohen's hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels, which Trump had previously denied.

Bombshell revelations from President Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani came out last week about a hush money payment to adult - film actress Stormy Daniels just days before the 2016 presidential election.