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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsProsecutors: Trump used 'sham' invoices to mask payments to Cohen
BY JOHN BOWDEN - 08/22/18 09:27 AM EDT
Prosecutors in court filings released Tuesday said that President Trump relied on sham invoices from longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen to authorize reimbursement payments to the lawyer for hush money paid to adult-film star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal.
Court documents obtained by The Washington Post detail a $420,000 invoice for legal fees from Cohen in 2017 that prosecutors argue was inflated to mask the president's reimbursement of Cohen's payments to the two women and possibly others who threatened to come forward with claims of affairs with Trump during the 2016 election.
Cohen sought reimbursement for that money by submitting invoices to the candidates company, which were untrue and false. They indicated that the reimbursement was for services rendered for the year 2017, when in fact the invoices were a sham," prosecutors argued.
In truth and fact, there was no such retainer agreement, and the monthly invoices COHEN submitted were not in connection with any legal services he had provided in 2017, the filings continued.
Court documents obtained by The Washington Post detail a $420,000 invoice for legal fees from Cohen in 2017 that prosecutors argue was inflated to mask the president's reimbursement of Cohen's payments to the two women and possibly others who threatened to come forward with claims of affairs with Trump during the 2016 election.
Cohen sought reimbursement for that money by submitting invoices to the candidates company, which were untrue and false. They indicated that the reimbursement was for services rendered for the year 2017, when in fact the invoices were a sham," prosecutors argued.
In truth and fact, there was no such retainer agreement, and the monthly invoices COHEN submitted were not in connection with any legal services he had provided in 2017, the filings continued.
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/402983-prosecutors-trump-used-sham-invoices-to-mask-payments-to-cohen
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Prosecutors: Trump used 'sham' invoices to mask payments to Cohen (Original Post)
workinclasszero
Aug 2018
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BlueJac
(7,838 posts)1. The Fake President
C_U_L8R
(45,018 posts)2. Fraud.
Bring in the accountant... it seems there were at least two sets of books
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)3. "two sets of books"
The art of the deal huh?
C_U_L8R
(45,018 posts)4. The Untouchables
sunonmars
(8,656 posts)5. Trump will be using every mob trick in the book for this...Mueller knows every one of those scams.
Squinch
(50,993 posts)6. In all of this, don't miss the fact that Stormy got 130k for
sleeping with the toad, and Cohen got 290K for covering it up.