Sentences with phrase «of hush money payments»

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.

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Giuliani revealed that Trump reimbursed Cohen for his hush money payment to Daniels, which didn't sit well with some hosts who have been defending the president's claims of ignorance for months.

Donald Trump's personal lawyer was wiretapped by the FBI as part of the investigation into a» hush money» payment made to porn star Stormy Daniels,...

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.

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?

The explosive social media controversy that ensued over the Giuliani interviews centered on the fact that on April 5 the President had stated flatly «no» when asked if he was aware of the $ 130,000 payment that Michael Cohen had made to porn star Stormy Daniels as hush money over her allegations that she and Trump had had a sexual relationship.

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.

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.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The Latest on President Donald Trump and money paid to porn actress Stormy Daniels (all times local): 7:55 p.m. President Donald Trump insists his reimbursement of a 2016 hush payment to porn actress Stormy Daniels had nothing to do with his election campaign.

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.

We don't know why Trump decided to fire Flynn (the stated reason that he «lied to Mike Pence» doesn't pass the laugh test), whether he was told of the domestic abuse allegations against then - White House staff secretary Rob Porter, what's on the Apprentice outtake footage that producer Mark Burnett is keeping locked up, why exactly Trump handed some choice Israeli intelligence to the Russian foreign minister, who financed the hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels, or any of a dozen other major questions about Trump.

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.

The admission by Donald Trump's attorney Michael Cohen that he made the $ 130,000 payment of apparent hush money to adult film star Stormy Daniels shortly before the 2016 election does not make the Trump campaign's legal problems go away despite Cohen's assertions.

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.

On information and belief, despite having detailed knowledge of the Hush Agreement and its terms, including the proposed payment of monies to Ms. Clifford and the routing of those monies through EC, Mr. Trump purposely did not sign the agreement so he could later, if need be, publicly disavow any knowledge of the Hush Agreement and Ms. Clifford.»

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.

What to make of Rudy Giuliani's fumbling and bumbling as he contradicted President Donald Trump about payments to porn star Stormy Daniels; his «storm troopers» comment about FBI agents who raided the offices of Trump's fixer - lawyer Michael Cohen; and his seeming justification of hush - money payments that led the law firm he worked for to drop him as partner?

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.

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.