I’m struggling a bit with the exact lawbreaking.
They entered into a legally binding NDA agreement... one which the woman actually has violated..
So I am trying to figure out what the actual crime being pursued here myself.
I guess they are trying to claim he “covered up” somehow making these payments?? Not really sure.
Really, it’s his private business. The idea is that the monies were funneled by campaign funds somehow...which is stupid. There’s actually a third attorney involved who worked FOR Cohen and drew up the NDA. And apparently they had done the same thing for others. Look...it’s just another way to try to get Trump....and none of the court’s business.
The “crime” is that Trump allegedly misclassified the payments as business expenses instead of personal expenses. But in order for such misreporting to be a felony, it has to be done in concealment of some other crime (otherwise it’s a misdemeanor), which Bragg asserts is violation of (unidentified, last I knew) campaign finance laws. And a misdemeanor would have long since had its statute of limitations run (and even many of the allegedly false reporting still have had the SOL run even as felonies).
Of course had Trump classified them as personal payments, Bragg could have simply brought the exact same case alleging that they should have been classified as business payments.