Sentences with phrase «hush payment in»

The circumstances and context here are suspicious, but it is not entirely clear that Cohen's hush payment in fact constitutes a campaign finance contribution.

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After the hush deal was revealed in news reports, Cohen sent the Times a letter saying he made the payment out of his own pocket using funds from a home equity line.

Among those expected to attend a hearing at the federal district court in Manhattan is Stormy Daniels, the adult - film star who claims she had sex with Trump in 2006 and took a $ 130,000 hush payment shortly before the 2016 election.

Adult film actress Stormy Daniels, who says she had an affair with Trump, offered to return the payment she received from Trump's lawyer in exchange for dissolving the hush agreement.

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.

For Giuliani to suggest that a lawyer could make a hush money payment in a situation like this without the authorization or awareness of his client is absurd.

In the wake of Rudy Giuliani's statements about the hush payment made to Stormy Daniels, outgoing Republican Rep. Charlie Dent called for...

Cohen's recent legal works appears to have been limited, with his lawyer saying in court Monday that Cohen had 10 clients in 2017 and 2018, but only three to whom he provided legal services: Trump, GOP donor Elliott Broidy (for whom we found out last week Cohen had negotiated a hush - money payment) and Fox News personality Sean Hannity.

Cohen and Giuliani seem still to maintain that the hush payment was purely personal, not campaign - related, which remains a gray area in campaign finance law.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders says President Trump «eventually learned» that attorney Michael Cohen was reimbursed for making a $ 130,000 hush payment to porn actress Stormy Daniels in the days before the 2016 election.

She had received $ 130,000 in hush money days before the 2016 election as part of a payment arranged by a Trump attorney, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Thursday's event comes hours after Trump acknowledged in a tweet he repaid his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, for hush money given to the porn actress after previously claiming he didn't know about the payments.

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 201In 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 201in October 2016.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders says President Donald Trump «eventually learned» that attorney Michael Cohen was reimbursed for making a $ 130,000 hush payment to porn actress Stormy Daniels in the days before the 2016 election.

* TRUMP ADMITS TO STORMY PAYMENT: In several tweets today, Trump confirmed that he repaid his lawyer Michael Cohen for the $ 130,000 in hush money to Stormy DanielIn several tweets today, Trump confirmed that he repaid his lawyer Michael Cohen for the $ 130,000 in hush money to Stormy Danielin hush money to Stormy Daniels:

That was the message on Twitter from D.C. bar The Brighton in January, shortly after The Wall Street Journal broke the news of Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's hush - money payment to the porn star.

The timing and circumstances of the $ 130,000 payment to Daniels make it appear that the hush money was paid to Daniels in an effort to influence the election.

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 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.

It was Cohen who made the $ 130,000 «hush money» payment to Stormy Daniels in October of 2016, to keep her quiet about the alleged sexual encounter that she had with Trump in 2006.

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.

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.!

From 2014 to 2016, Zakharova allegedly targeted Spitzer in an elaborate extortion scheme that involved him making regular hush - money payments of $ 3,000 to $ 50,000 a pop, according to prosecutors.

Over the years, Silver arranged payments of $ 1.2 million, nearly all of it in taxpayer money, for hush - hush civil - lawsuit settlements to six female ex - government staffers who suffered sexual harassment — or worse — at the hands of Silver's cronies.

There's the ongoing special - counsel investigation into whether the Trump campaign aided a Russian campaign to aid Trump's candidacy and defeat his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton; there's the associated inquiry into whether the president obstructed justice when he fired former FBI Director James Comey, whom he had asked not to investigate his former national - security adviser; there are the president's hush - money payments to women with whom he allegedly had extramarital affairs, made through his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, and facilitated by corporate cash paid to influence the White House; there is his ongoing effort to interfere with the Russia inquiry and politicize federal law enforcement; there are the foreign governments that seem to be utilizing the president's properties as vehicles for influencing administration policy; there's the emerging evidence that Trump campaign officials sought aid not only from Russia, but from other foreign countries, which may have affected Trump's foreign policy; there are the ongoing revelations of the president's Cabinet officials» misusing taxpayer funds; there is the accumulating evidence that administration decisions are made at the behest of private industry, in particular those in which Republican donors have significant interests.

So he meets her in a bar for a hush - money payment.

But the president has long entrusted Mr. Cohen to represent him in matters both public and deeply private: real estate negotiations from Fresno, Calif., to the Republic of Georgia, and the hush - money payment to an adult - film actress who said she had had an affair with the future president.

The first — and much more ballyhooed — case involves an alleged hush payment by the Trump campaign in the final days of the 2016 presidential election.