Unfit for office
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Trump's former lawyer Cohen is in jail now and Trump is an unindicted co-conspirator.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...70f152-7002-11e9-8be0-ca575670e91c_story.html
LMAO! Violating campaign finance law was the crime of making the hush money payment to Stormy. ********, you're a moron!
The hush money was not a crime. Where the hush money came from was a crime. Damn you're a liberal!
Yet, there he is. President of the United States. We must have terrible federal prosecutors.
He is a sitting POTUS. Wait until he leaves office...and for crying out loud, educate yourself. You are a complete moron.
omg the sky is falling. Trump had sex with a pornstar and might’ve paid her to keep quiet lol.
He broke the law, moron. Yeah, we get it. You trumpers are fine with trump breaking the law. You all have made that abundantly clear over the last week.
We don’t care if he had sex with a pornstar. Nor did we care Clinton screwed Monica. Nobody does. We didn’t hire a choir boy. We hired a president.
I know this is difficult to follow but that's not why Cohen is in prison and why Trump is an unindicted co-conspirator in the same case.
You'll find this very funny. It is from Cohen's charging document. I'm just glad I'm not "Individual 1."
Campaign Finance Violations
The United States Attorney further charges:
24. The Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, as
amended, Title 52, United States Code, Section 3 0101, et seq. ,
(the •Election Act"), regulates the influence of money on politics.
At all times relevant to the Information, the Election Act set
forth the following limitations, prohibitions, and reporting
requirements, which were applicable to MICHAEL COHEN, the
defendant, Individual-1, and his campaign:
a. Individual contributions to any presidential
candidate, including expenditures coordinated with a candidate or
his political committee, were limited to $2,700 per election, and
presidential candidates and their committees were prohibited from
accepting contributions from individuals in e xcess of this limit.
b. Corporations were prohibited from making
contributions directly to presidential candidates, including
expenditures coordinated with candidates or their committees, and
candidates were prohibited from accepting corporate contributions.
25. On or about June 16, 2015, Individual-1 began his
presidential campaign. While MICHAEL COHEN, the defendant,
continued to work at the Company and did not have a formal title
with the campaign, he had a campaign email address and, at various
times, advised the campaign, including on matters of interest to
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the press, and made televised and media appearances on behalf of
the campaign.
26. At all times relevant to this Information,
Corporation-1 was a media company that owns, among other things,
a popular tabloid magazine ("Magazine-1").
27. In or about August 2015, the Chairman and Chief
Executive of Corporation-1 ( "Chairman-1"), in coordination with
MICHAEL COHEN, the defendant, and one or more members of the
campaign, offered to help deal with negative stories about
Individual-l's relationships with women by, among other things,
assisting the campaign in identifying such stories so they could
be purchased and their publication avoided. Chairman-1 agreed to
keep COHEN apprised of any such negative stories.
28. Consistent with the agreement described above,
Corporation-1 advised MICHAEL COHEN, the defendant, of negative
stories during the course of the campaign, and COHEN, with the
assistance of Corporation-1, was able to arrange for the purchase
of two stories so as to suppress them and prevent them from
influencing the election.
29. First, in or about June 2016, a model and actress
( "Woman-1") began attempting to sell her story of her alleged
extramarital affair with Individual-1 that had taken place in 2006
and 2007, knowing the story would be of considerable value because
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of the election. Woman-1 retained an attorney ("Attorney-1"), who
in turn contacted the editor-in-chief of Magazine-1 ("Editor-1"),
and offered to sell Woman-l's story to Magazine-1. Chairman-1 and
Editor-1 informed MICHAEL COHEN, the defendant, of the story. At
COHEN'S urging and subject to COHEN'S promise that Corporation-1
would be reimbursed, Editor-1 ultimately began negotiating for the
purchase of the story.
30. On or about August 5, 2016, Corporation-1 entered
into an agreement with Woman-1 to acquire her "limited life rights"
to the story of her relationship with "any then-married man," in
exchange for $150, 000 and a commitment to feature her on two
magazine covers and publish over one hundred magazine articles
authored by her. Despite the cover and article features to the
agreement, its principal purpose, as understood by those involved,
including MICHAEL COHEN, the defendant, was to suppress Woman-l's
story so as to prevent it from influencing the election.
31. Between in or about late August 2016 and September
2016, MICHAEL COHEN, the defendant, agreed with Chairman-1 to
assign the rights to the non-disclosure portion of Corporationl's
agreement with Woman-1 to COHEN for $125,000. COHEN
incorporated a shell entity called "Resolution Consultants LLC"
for use in the transaction. Both Chairman-1 and COHEN ultimately
signed the agreement, and a consultant for Corporation-1, using
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his own shell entity, provided COHEN with an invoice for the
payment of $125,000. However, in or about early October 2016,
after the assignment agreement was signed but before COHEN had
paid the $125,000, Chairman-1 contacted COHEN and told him, in
substance, that the deal was off and that COHEN should tear up the
assignment agreement. COHEN did not tear up the agreement, which
was later found during a judicially authorized search of his
office.
32. Second, on or about October 8, 2016, an agent for
an adult film actress ("Woman-2") - informed Editor-1 that Woman-2
was willing to make public statements and confirm on the record
her alleged past affair with Individual-1. Chairman-1 and Editor-
1 then contacted MICHAEL COHEN, the defendant, and put him in touch
with Attorney-1, who was also representing Woman-2. Over the
course of the next few days, COHEN negotiated a $130,000 agreement
with Attorney-1 to himself purchase Woman-2's silence, and
received a .signed confidential settlement agreement and a separate
side letter agreement from Attorney-1.
33. MICHAEL COHEN, the defendant, did not immediately
execute the agreement, nor did he pay Woman-2. On the evening of
October 25, 2016, with no deal with Woman-2 finalized, Attorney-1
told Edi tor-1 that Woman-2 was close to completing a deal with
another outlet to make her story public. Editor-1, in turn, texted
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MICHAEL COHEN, the defendant, that "[w] e have to coordinate
something on the matter [Attorney-1 is] calling you about or it
could look awfully bad for everyone." Chairman-1 and Editor-1
then called COHEN through an encrypted telephone application.
COHEN agreed to make the payment, and then called Attorney-1 to
finalize the deal.
34. The next day, on October 26, 2016, MICHAEL COHEN,
the defendant, emailed an incorporating service to obtain the
corporate formation documents for another shell corporation,
Essential Consultants LLC, which COHEN had incorporated a few days
prior. Later that afternoon, COHEN drew down $131,000 from the
fraudulently obtained HELOC, discussed above in paragraphs 19
through 21, and requested that it be deposited into a bank account
COHEN had just opened in the name of Essential Consultants. The
next morning, on October 27, 2016, COHEN went to Bank-3 and wired
approximately $130,000 from Essential Consultants to Attorney-1.
On the bank form to complete the wire, COHEN falsely indicated
that the "purpose of wire being sent" was "retainer." On or about
November 1, 2016, COHEN received from Attorney-_l copies of the
final, signed confidential settlement agreement and side letter
agreement.
35. MICHAEL COHEN, the defendant, caused and made the
payments described herein in order to influence the 2016
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presidential election. In so doing, he coordinated with one or
more members of the campaign, including through meetings and phone
calls, about the fact, nature, and timing of the payments.
36. As a result of the payments solicited and made by
MICHAEL COHEN, the defendant, neither Woman-1 nor Woman-2 spoke to
the press prior to the election.
37. In or about January 2017, MICHAEL COHEN, the
defendant, in seeking reimbursement for election-related expenses,
presented executives of the Company with a copy of a bank statement
from the Essential Consultants bank account, which reflected the
$130,000 payment COHEN had made to the bank account of Attorney-1
in order to keep Woman-2 silent in advance of the election, plus
a $35 wire fee, adding, in handwriting, an additional "$50,000."
The $50, 000 represented a claimed payment for "tech services , "
which in fact related to work COHEN had solicited from a technology
company during and in connection with the campaign. COHEN added
these amounts to a sum of $180,035. After receiving this document,
executives of the Company "grossed up" for tax purposes COHEN' s
requested reimbursement of $180,000 to $360,000, and then added a
bonus of $60,000 so that COHEN would be paid $420,000 in total.
Executives of the Company also determined that the $420,000 would
be paid to COHEN in monthly amounts of $35,000 over the course of
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twelve months, and that COHEN should send invoices for these
payments.
38. On or about February 14, 2017, MICHAEL COHEN, the
defendant, sent an executive of the Company ("Executive-1") the
first of his monthly invoices, requesting " [p] ursuant to [a]
retainer agreement, . payment for services rendered for the
months of January and February, 2017." The invoice listed $35,000
for each of those two months. Executive-1 forwarded the invoice
to another executive of the Company ("Executive-2") the same day
by email, and it was approved. Executive-1 forwarded that email
to another employee at the Company, stating: "Please pay from the
Trust. Post to legal expenses. Put 'retainer for the months of
January and February 2017' in the description."
39. Throughout 2017, MICHAEL COHEN, the defendant, sent
to one or more representatives of the Company monthly invoices,
which stated, "Pursuant to the retainer agreement, kindly remit
payment for services rendered for" the relevant month in 2017, and
sought $35,000 per month.
payments as legal expenses.
The Company accounted for these
In truth and in 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.
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40. During 2017, pursuant to the invoices described
above, MICHAEL COHEN, the defendant, received monthly $35, 000
reimbursement checks, totaling $420,000.
COUNT 8
(Excessive Campaign Contribution)
The United States Attorney further charges:
43. The allegations contained in paragraphs 1 through
3, and 24 through 40 are repeated and realleged as though fully
set forth herein.
44. On or about October 27, 2016, in the Southern
District of New York and elsewhere, MICHAEL COHEN, the defendant,
knowingly and willfully made and caused to be made a contribution
to Individual-1, a candidate for Federal office, and his authorized
political committee in excess of the limits of the Election Act,
which aggregated $25,000 and more in calendar year 2016, and did
so by making and causing to be made an expenditure, in cooperation,
consultation, and concert with, and at the request and suggestion
of one or more members of the campaign, to wit, COHEN made a
$130,000 payment to Woman-2 to ensure that she did not publicize
damaging allegations before the 2016 presidential election and
thereby influence that election.
(Title 52, United States Code, Sections 30116(a) (1) (A),
30116(a) (7), and 30109(d) (1) (A), and Title 18, United States
Code, Section 2(b) .)
You actually think they:
A) will read that
B) are able to read that?
It's clear these jack wagons just regurgitate what Dotard or pill head Rush tell them on a daily basis.
A) will read that
B) are able to read that?
It's clear these jack wagons just regurgitate what Dotard or pill head Rush tell them on a daily basis.