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Sexual allegations; Stormy Daniels;
Karen McDougal; Shera Bechard; Michael Cohen; Elliot Broidy; Allen Weisselberg;
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2020;
Undated: Hush
money is a term for a form of
bribery[citation
needed] in which one person or party offers another an
attractive sum of money or other enticement, in exchange for remaining silent
about some illegal,
stigmatic, or
shameful behavior, action, or other fact about the person or party who has
made the offer.[1]
It can be paid to get away with something wrong.
The person or party who presents the hush money may be attempting to avoid
criminal prosecution, a
lawsuit (as
sometimes in the case of an
out-of-court settlement), a leak of information to the
news media,
or silence about a stigmatic issue within one's own community. The information
being covered up may include illegal activity, such as
drug dealing, or some personal secret, such as an
extramarital affair. In some cases, a government agency may be involved in
the offer of hush money in order to protect the agency's employees, politicians
and their appointees, or a national government in its standing among other
nations in the world. It is usually given under the table.[2]
Hush money can refer to money paid for an agreement of confidentiality, which
can be breached under court order. It can also refer to an agreement to say a
thing didn't happen that did happen, even in court testimony. The latter type of
agreement can be a criminal act itself as an
obstruction of justice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hush_money
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April 13: President Donald Trump's longtime
personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, facilitated a payment plan totaling $1.6 million
last year to a former Playboy model who says she became pregnant by Elliott
Broidy, a leading GOP fundraiser, a source tells CNN.
The payment was a personal injury settlement, and included a nondisclosure
contract, forbidding the woman from discussing the deal, according to the
source, who did not want to be named for fear of retribution. It is not known
what type of personal injury claim the woman made.
Keith Davidson, the former attorney for Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal,
represented the woman, making it the second known "hush money" deal Davidson
brokered with Cohen. Both Daniels and McDougal allege they had affairs with
Trump and that they were paid to be quiet about those encounters. Trump
has denied relationships with both Daniels and McDougal.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/13/politics/trump-lawyer-michael-cohen-settlement/
May 22: Who Did Playboy Model Shera Bechard
Really Have an Affair With?
You may recall that a few weeks ago a judge ordered Trump lawyer/fixer Michael
Cohen to reveal all his clients. It turned out he had only three: Donald Trump,
Sean Hannity, and … Elliott Broidy. What’s more, he only represented Broidy on
one thing: a hush money payment to a Playboy model he had an affair with, some
of which was used to pay for an abortion. When that was revealed, Broidy
immediately confessed in a surprisingly workmanlike statement and that was that.
The whole thing seemed odd, leading
Paul Campos to make the case that it was actually Donald Trump who had the
affair, with Broidy taking the fall for him. Campos made a decent case, but
it was purely speculative and quickly dropped out of sight.
... it sure seems a helluva lot more likely that Campos was right. It always
seemed odd that Broidy had paid Shera Bechard $1.6 million for her silence,
considering that an affair with a guy like Broidy was hardly front-page news.
However, an affair with Trump would be front-page news, and this was
right in the middle of Broidy’s big campaign to get Trump to help him out with
the Qatar business. What better way to ingratiate yourself with Trump than to
offer to cover this up for him?
Is this true? I’m not sure we’ll ever know. But it seems pretty plausible.
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/05/who-did-playboy-model-shera-bechard-really-have-an-affair-with/
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March 2: Former Trump Executive Claims His
CFO Could Reveal More Hush-Money Payments
“Trump would do that kind of thing, and Allen would be the guy that would draw
up the check.”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/03/trump-res-weisselberg-hush-money/
March 7: President
Donald Trump, under federal investigation over
hush money to an alleged ex-mistress, said Thursday it has nothing to do
with campaign finance laws – and appeared to acknowledge payments he previously
said he knew nothing about.
"It was not a campaign contribution, and there were no violations of the
campaign finance laws by me. Fake News!" Trump tweeted.
Trump has denied having an affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels, and
previously denied knowing about payments to her, referring questions about the
matter to Michael Cohen – the ex-personal attorney
who now says Trump authorized the payoffs.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/03/07/donald-trump-says-hush-money-doesnt-violate-campaign-finance-law/3089914002/
April 10:
Hush-Money Probe Gathered Evidence From Trump’s Inner Circle
Federal investigators, looking into payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen
McDougal, questioned longtime aides of the president and amassed more evidence
than previously known
https://www.wsj.com/articles/hush-money-probe-gathered-evidence-from-trumps-inner-circle-11554897911
April 10: [According to the Wall
Street Journal], prosecutors in the Manhattan US Attorney's office interviewed
Hope Hicks, the former White House communications director and longtime
confidante of Trump, last spring and Keith Schiller, the President's longtime
bodyguard.
The paper also said investigators "learned of calls" between Schiller and David
Pecker, the head of American Media Inc., the company that publishes the National
Enquirer. Pecker worked with Michael Cohen, Trump's former lawyer, to suppress
potentially damaging claims made against candidate Trump by women, with AMI
using a tabloid tactic called "catch and kill."
Additionally, the Journal reported that investigators "possess a recorded phone
conversation" between Cohen and a lawyer who represented the two women. Trump
has denied having affairs with Stephanie Clifford, also known as Stormy Daniels,
and Karen McDougal.
The paper said the investigators obtained information about Trump's involvement
in the payments "weeks before" Cohen implicated the President in the scheme
during a court appearance last year.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/10/politics/investigators-hush-money-payments-trump/index.html
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