Read: What the New Cohen Docs Say About Donald Trump
In one of the documents released Thursday, an FBI agent said it appears then-candidate Trump was involved in discussions over the hush money payment to former porn star Stephanie Clifford.
July 18, 2019 at 12:35 PM
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The original version of this story was published on New York Law Journal
A search warrant application included among the hundreds of pages of documents released Thursday in the wake of Michael Cohen's conviction on campaign finance charges in the Southern District of New York place President Donald Trump in a series of phone calls to arrange an alleged hush-money payment to a former porn star to cover up allegations of an affair.
U.S. District Judge William Pauley III on Wednesday ordered that the warrants be made public, saying the campaign finance violations associated with the payments had concluded and that “the weighty public ramifications of the conduct” justified their public release.
In one of the documents released Thursday, an FBI agent said it appears then-candidate Trump was involved in discussions over the hush money payment to former porn star Stephanie Clifford, also known as Stormy Daniels.
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