Is hush money an ok campaign expense?
Omarosa says price of silence for ex-Trump aides is $15,000. What do campaign records show?
https://abcnews.go.com/US/omarosa-price-silence-trump-aides-15k-campaign-records/story?id=57159377
Campaign finance records show several former aides to President Donald Trump have received payments of roughly $15,000 per month from campaign or party accounts, bolstering part of former aide Omarosa Manigault Newmans claim that she was offered the same amount to keep quiet about her time in the White House.
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Federal election filings reviewed by ABC News support her allegations that payments were made but do not indicate whether the payments were contingent on signing some kind of nondisclosure agreement.
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America First PAC, the political action committee backing Trump, and the RNC have paid Parscale, the former head of the 2016 campaigns digital media outreach effort, who is now the campaign manager for Trumps nascent reelection bid, in 15 separate payments of $15,000 from March 2017 to June 2018.
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