Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Trump's Legal Exposure Grows: Another Grand Jury Convened

 



Better late than never?

Donald Trump faces new legal jeopardy after Manhattan prosecutors convened a state grand jury to investigate any role he may have played in making hush money payments to a porn star on the eve of the 2016 election.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office was to begin presenting evidence to the grand jury on Monday, according to a person familiar with the matter, who asked not to be identified because it isn’t public. 

Bragg has been investigating whether Trump and his company falsified records to conceal the payments to pornographic film actor Stormy Daniels, intended to keep her from going public about her alleged affair with Trump. Trump has denied the affair.

The empaneling of a grand jury is a major escalation of Bragg’s probe of Trump’s activities, reviving a line of inquiry that appeared to take a back seat as the DA focused instead on tax violations at the Trump Organization. That investigation resulted in a guilty plea from the company’s longtime chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, and the conviction of two Trump business units.  [snip]

One likely key witness for the new grand jury, and any criminal charges that may result, is former Trump lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen, who helped arrange the hush money payments, pleaded guilty to campaign finance and other violations in 2018 and was sentenced to three years in prison. 

Cohen said Monday he has met with Bragg’s office 14 times, most recently two weeks ago.

There's another pecker in the picture (other than the Malignant Loser's), one who's been spotted going into the building where the grand jury is meeting on Monday --

Former American Media chief David Pecker, a longtime friend of Trump, struck an immunity deal in 2020 with federal prosecutors as part of their investigation of Cohen. The company, which agreed to sell the Enquirer, entered into a related nonprosecution agreement covering crimes including perjury and obstruction of justice. The deals stemmed from the company’s alleged efforts to aid Trump by purchasing the rights to potentially damaging stories and declining to publish them, a practice known as “catch and kill.”

Just to recap the state of play in the Malignant Loser's circles of legal hell (ed. : this is not Jack Smith Special Counsel)--

 

 

Damn, someone somewhere nail this rat.  Please.

BONUS:  Steve M. is reserving judgement.

(Photo: via Stormy Daniels/ My Space)


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