Investigators in the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office have been gathering evidence in relation to hush money payments made to two women claiming to have had affairs with the president.
New revelations about the scope of the Southern District of New York’s criminal investigation of hush money payments made to women during the 2016 election show that there are likely to be indictments forthcoming against President Donald Trump or members of his inner circle, former federal prosecutors told Newsweek.
In particular, it was revealed that prosecutors had begun collecting evidence about Trump’s alleged involvement in the campaign-finance scheme long before his former personal attorney Michael Cohen implicated him in court in August 2018. “If the president of the United States’s name was Donald Smith and not Donald Trump he would have been indicted August 22, 2018,” Rossi said, referring to the date that Cohen told prosecutors that Trump directed him to violate campaign-finance laws.
“It would be a fair guess that more indictments are coming as federal prosecutors tighten up their understanding of the criminal scheme,” Moss added. “Whether that would ultimately ensnare the president himself remains the $64,000 question.” The report also claims that investigators have a “recorded phone conversation” between Cohen and an attorney who represented both Daniels and McDougal.
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