Feds Investigating Trump Org Execs For Possible Campaign Finance Crimes

NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 22, 2017:  The public entrance to Trump Tower is on Fifth Avenue in New York, New York. (Photo by Robert Alexander/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 22, 2017: The public entrance to Trump Tower is on Fifth Avenue in New York, New York. (Photo by Robert Alexander/Getty Images)
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Federal prosecutors are reportedly investigating whether senior executives at the Trump Organization violated campaign finance laws to silence women who claimed to have carried out extramarital affairs with President Trump.

Bloomberg confirmed for the first time Friday that the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office probe extends beyond Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen, who pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations and other financial crimes in late August. A source told Bloomberg that prosecutors are looking into two senior Trump Organization officials mentioned in Cohen’s indictment as approving the hush money transactions, as well as anyone else at the company who may have been aware of these activities.

Cohen said in open court that he made the payments “at the direction” of Trump, his longtime boss.

Bloomberg reported that one of the executives under scrutiny is “believed to be” the company’s Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg, who handled the books for decades. Weisselberg was given partial immunity to testify in the Cohen case.

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  1. Please just make sure that there are associated (non-pardonable) state charges also proceeding apace.

  2. INCEL LibTards are upset BY trump’s natural ALPHA maleness and that he IS REPLETE with ANIMAL SENSUALITY AND that women wANT to do FORNICATion on him.

  3. Only as long as he’s on the bottom, and their names aren’t Poppea.

  4. You should see Trump’s private porn version of “Goldfinger”.

  5. Well, he does own the golf course, so…

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