Federal prosecutors are seeking Trump Organization records related to an $130,000 payment that President Trump’s private attorney made to a porn star who has claimed to have had an affair with Trump in 2006, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The request was related to raids conducted on attorney Michael Cohen’s home, office and a hotel room he was using Monday. The search warrants sought information on the payments, the New York Times and others reported.
The Wall Street Journal report on the request to Trump Organization is based on a personal familiar with the matter.
Cohen set up a separate entity through which he funneled the payment in October 2016, which he said came from his home equity line. Days before the 2016 election, the money was wired to a bank account connected to an attorney then representing porn star Stormy Daniels, whose birth name is Stephanie Clifford. Clifford, under a pseudonym, signed a nondisclosure agreement about the affair.
Trump Organization lawyer Jill A. Martin’s name was on a filing in an arbitration battle over Daniels’ efforts to speak publicly about her affair, the Wall Street Journal reported last month. Martin told the Journal at the time that she was involved “in her individual capacity” and that the “company has had no involvement in the matter.”
WSJ: Feds Ask Trump Org To Turn Over Stormy Daniels Records After Cohen Raid.
Ouch. Sorry for the Syrians, ass-sore Trump is really going to bomb the hell out the place.
Then I guess Attorney Martin will be on her own time and dime when she faces Bar charges down the road. Or will the Trump Org pay her freight? Highly doubtful!
Well, they asked rather than raided this time.
Regardless, the sauce thickens.
(that would be schadenfreude sauce)
They have to ask before they start breaking down doors.
Let see if the Trump organization turns over all the records that the FBI already has copies of.