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Well as best as I understand it, he was convicted on 34 counts of falsifying business records. But that is only a misdemeanor under New York law. They used some convoluted legal logic that had never been used before that caused the 34 misdemeanors to by increased to felonies because they were part of a "conspiracy to commit other crimes". The other crimes being "defrauding" voters by suppressing the Stormy Daniels story, FEC Records violations and Tax violations. (The Jury got to pick which one applied.)

The thing is Trump was never charged with any of the three "other" crimes because none of them were actually illegal under New York law. However, since they were illegal under federal law, New York used them as the crimes Trump was supposedly in a conspiracy to violate.

And yes, I took multiple law classes in college and still this is the most convoluted, tortured legal logic I have ever seen. How can you be charged with a misdemeanor that somehow magically turns into a felony for conspiracy to violate a law you were never charged with let alone convicted of and isn't even illegal in that jurisdiction?