(6 May 2024)
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New York – 06 May 2024
1. Wide of former president Donald Trump returning to Trump Tower
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
New York – 06 May 2024
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Sisak, The Associated Press:
"For the first time at Donald Trump’s hush money criminal trial, jurors heard the details of the arrangement that was made inside the Trump Organization to reimburse Michael Cohen, the former lawyer and fixer for the former president, reimbursed him for the hush money payment that he made to porn actor Stormy Daniels in the build up to the 2016 presidential election."
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ARCHIVE: Berlin – 11 October 2018
3. STILL, adult film actress Stormy Daniels arrives at the adult entertainment fair "Venus" in Berlin
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
New York – 06 May 2024
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Sisak, The Associated Press:
"Former Trump Organization controller Jeffrey McConney testified that just after Trump’s inauguration, McConney met with Allen Weisselberg who was the longtime finance chief for the Trump Organization and they talked about how they were going to reimburse, pay back this money that Michael Cohen was owed. According to McConney, Cohen was paid the initial 130 ($130,000) plus another installment for technology expenses he incurred along with a bonus and then money that would make it so that he would not have to lose anything if he paid taxes on that figure, If you reported it as income."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
New York – 01 November 2022
5. STILL, Trump Organization senior vice president and controller Jeffrey McConney returns to the courthouse after a break in the company’s trial
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New York – 10 April 2024
6. STILL, Allen Weisselberg, a former longtime executive in Donald Trump’s real estate empire, arrives at the court in New York
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New York – 24 October 2023
7. STILL, Michael Cohen arrives for former President Donald Trump’s civil business fraud trial at New York Supreme Court
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
New York – 06 May 2024
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Sisak, The Associated Press:
"Trump, Weisselberg and McConney, according to prosecutors, wanted to hide the fact that they were reimbursing Cohen for a hush money payment."
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New York – 06 May 2024
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Sisak, The Associated Press:
"On Monday, it’s also the first time that the jury saw any of the checks involved in this case."
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10. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Sisak, The Associated Press:
"Another Trump Organization employee, Deborah Tarasoff, talked about how they would send by FedEx, checks, the blank checks that had to be signed. Trump would sign them and then return them to the Trump Organization’s headquarters in Manhattan. Then they’d be sent out pursuant to an invoice that Michael Cohen would send the company every month, billing them $35,000 for services rendered, legal fees."
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11. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Sisak, The Associated Press:
"Trump is charged with falsifying business records. According to prosecutors, the way he did that was by logging the reimbursements for the hush money payments as legal fees. When, according to prosecutors, he knew they were actually essentially a way of covering up the cover up."
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STORYLINE:
The trial is in its 12th day.
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