It made me think about the Lord and His amazing grace. The water ran back down into the ocean, leaving only a bare flat stretch of sand without any evidence of yesterday’s creation. The former president called it "a political Witch-Hunt trying to take down the leading candidate, by far, in the Republican Party.As we were walking and praying, I was watching the waves run up the shoreline, covering yesterday’s sandcastles with fresh sand and shells from the ocean.
Earlier this month, Trump himself was invited to testify - seen as a final step before an indictment. This year, Bragg started presenting witnesses to a grand jury, including Michael Cohen. Checks signed by Trump were presented at trial, but the former president was never charged. He obtained convictions against Trump's former chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, and two Trump corporate entities, for evading taxes by compensating Weisselberg and others with undeclared benefits like a luxury apartment and cars. I believe that your decision not to prosecute Donald Trump now, and on the existing record, is misguided and completely contrary to the public interest." Bragg insisted he did not drop the investigation into Trumpīragg moved forward with prosecutions in a more limited tax fraud conspiracy. One wrote in his resignation letter, "a decision made in good faith may nevertheless be wrong. The two lead prosecutors on the case quit. Grand Jury To Get Trump Financial Records In 2022, a new DA, Alvin Bragg Jr., was sworn in, and soon he decided against seeking an indictment for a wide-ranging fraud scheme. Trump fought the request all the way to the Supreme Court, twice, but on both occasions the high court sided with the DA, clearing the way for him to obtain the records in early 2021.īy the end of that year, Vance's team was preparing an indictment of Trump built around possible misrepresentations to banks and tax authorities over many years about property valuations. In 2019, Vance subpoenaed Trump for eight years of tax returns. in 2018 and quickly grew to become a broad probe of Trump business practices. The investigation began under then-District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.
House Oversight Committee / Screenshot by NPR Cohen submitted this copy of a check to him, signed by Trump, when he testified before the House Oversight Committee in 2019. Then-President Trump reimbursed Michael Cohen in 2017 for funds that prosecutors say were used for hush-money during the 2016 presidential election campaign. Cohen said he even discussed the checks with Trump inside the White House. Falsifying business records could be a felony under New York law, if it was done in furtherance of another crime, such as a campaign finance violation.
Some came from the Trump trust, but others were signed by Trump himself, from what Cohen said was his personal account. The monthly checks, totaling $420,000, were identified as a "retainer" payment for Cohen. He arranged to be reimbursed over the course of the next year by Trump. In his plea, Cohen outlined the scheme: In the final month of the 2016 presidential campaign, he paid $130,000 to silence Daniels, who claimed she had an affair with Trump.Ĭohen got the money from a home equity line of credit. Politics House GOP demands testimony and documents from New York prosecutor investigating TrumpĬohen pleaded guilty in 2018 to numerous federal charges, including making illegal campaign contributions in the form of buying women's silence about their alleged relationships with Trump. The former president issued an angry response to the indictment, calling it political persecution. Trump has denied having had an affair with Daniels, whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford, although he has admitted reimbursing Cohen for money paid to her. The grand jury has been examining hush-money payments that Trump's former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, made in 2016 to adult film actress Stormy Daniels in exchange for her not going public with allegations she had an affair with Trump. Guidance will be provided when the arraignment date is selected," a spokesperson for the Manhattan District Attorney's Office said in a statement Thursday evening. Trump's attorney to coordinate his surrender to the Manhattan DA's Office for arraignment on a Supreme Court indictment, which remains under seal. The grand jury's indictment is expected to be unsealed in the coming days.
The charges, which are expected to be released in coming days, make Trump the first former president in United States history to be criminally indicted. Former President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before his speech at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center on March 4 in National Harbor, Md.Ī Manhattan grand jury has indicted former President Donald Trump.
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