The Manhattan district attorney said former president Donald Trump and his associates were involved in a “catch and kill' scheme to suppress negative information about Trump in the 2016 election.
pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts after a grand jury’s indictment over hush money paid during his 2016 presidential campaign.
"Earlier this afternoon Donald Trump was arraigned on a New York Supreme Court indictment returned by a Manhattan grand jury on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first-degree," Bragg said. "Under New York State law it is a felony to falsify business records with intent to defraud and intent to conceal another crime, that’s exactly what this case is about."
"The defendant claimed he paid Michael Cohen for legal services performed in 2017. This simply was not true. And it was a false statement the defendant made month after month in 2017. For nine straight months, the defendant held documents in his hand containing this key lie. That he was paying Michael Cohen for legal services performed in 2017. And he personally signed checks for payments to Michael Cohen for each of these nine months.
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