EXCERPT-—Cohen was charged with violating FEC laws. which limit individual donations to $2,700 per election. Why are the hush money payments Cohen arranged considered illegal campaign contributions? Because he admitted that the payments were intended to protect Trump’s election chances, the $150,000 given to former Playboy model Karen McDougal in the summer and early fall of 2016 and the $130,000 that went to adult film actress Stormy Daniels in late October 2016 are deemed to be in-kind contributions to the Trump campaign. They exceed the donation limits, a violation, and neither was included in campaign finance reports, another violation.
SOURCE—— By Bill Theobald, USA TODAY, Dec 14, 1918 https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/why-hush-money-michael-cohen-paid-stormy-daniels-was-an-illegal-campaign-donation/ar-BBQWBNp
BACKSTORY -— when the sitting president, Bill Clinton, was mired in the lewinsky sex mess,
he and his wife liberally used tax dollars to protect his (and her) election chances.
ITEM----Bill’s intimate pal, Vernon Jordan, arranged a $40,000-per-year cushy government job for Lewinsky shortly after she signed ......but before she filed...... a falsified affidavit saying she had NOT had sex with the president.
ITEM----Clinton then had another pal, his Ambassador to the United Nations, Bill Richardson, personally visit Lewinsky at the Watergate to offer her a government job to shut her up.
They even went so far as to have Lewinsky give Linda Tripp instructions
coaching Linda on how to properly perjure herself in the Willey matter to save Clinton’s presidency....
and Hillary’s ambitions. tax-paid govt workers including then-Clinton aide George Stephanopolous....now at ABC-TV.
The tax-paid office operated for eight long years.....and did nothing but shoot down, demean, defame and
lacerate any woman who dared surface about Bill’s sexual activities.
These expenditures of tax dollars saved Bill’s presidency, got Hillary elected to the US Senate...... and gave Hillary prominence to launch the rest of her political ambitions.
The FEC uttered not a word.
John Edwards paid off a mistress, too.
If the payments could also be used for another purpose, then there would be no violation of campaign laws. Trump could argue that the payments were meant, in large measure, to avoid embarrassment to this wife and family. Cohen, (an admitted liar) can say what he wants, but that doesn't alter these side purposes one bit.
The FEC as corrupt as the rest of the rats in D.C.