You are correct. At the time Trump did this “crime” it was a misdemeanor. And the statute of limitations expired years before these crimes were elevated to felony charges. Elevated only for one purpose. To get Trump
Trump is NOT a felon.
While Bragg emphasized his belief in the seriousness of falsifying business records in Manhattan — “the financial center of the world,” he said last April when Trump was arrested and arraigned — the charges were bumped up from misdemeanors to felonies because prosecutors argued the records were falsified in furtherance of another crime: unduly influencing the 2016 presidential election.
But in what some legal experts described as a “novel” tactic, Bragg did not charge Trump with violating New York election law, the crime prosecutors argued Trump falsified business records to help commit. The specific law cited makes it criminal for two or more people to “to conspire to promote or prevent the election of any person to a public office by unlawful means.”
So in fact, Trump was found guilty of a crime he "intended to commit." And if he did committ that crime - he wasn't charged with it.
Putting it into perspective.... I was speeding. They "know" I was speeding on my way to rob a bank. So they upgrade the speeding ticket to 34 counts of felonies. Yet the intent to rob a bank was never on the table.