Federal Prosecutors announced that they have arranged a deal with the American Media Inc. (AMI) company, which was accused of helping to keep the women that Trump allegedly had an affair with silent.
According to the prosecutors, AMI admitted that it was playing a part in a scheme to keep the women silent before the 2016 election so that Trump’s chances would not be damaged, the New York Times reported. The prosecutors insisted that the payments amounted to campaign finance violations.
The agreement came after the testimony from David J. Pecker, AMI’s CEO during the investigation of the president’s former personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, who received a three-year sentence on Tuesday for involvement with the payments.
Pecker agreed to sell the rights to McDougal’s story to Cohen for $125,000, making the payment to Cohen’s shell company Resolution Consultants L.L.C. The transaction was masked, the prosecutors said, with the invoice falsely stating the purpose of the transaction. The invoice attributed the $125,000 payment to an “agreed upon flat fee for advisory services.”