“Hush money” is not illegal when it’s purpose is not to supress evidence of a crime. When there is no underlying crime, the “hush money” is no more than a compensation to someone to not publicly discuss something involving the person making that compensation. That’s it.
What Bragg is doing is trying to subvert the law and the meaning of th law, claiming that it is not the “hush money” itself, but that the intent of it was an election campaign law violation because it was trying to hide a negative issue from the public. Yet, there was no hiding of it and the reporting of the “hush money” itself made the issue exposed, before the election. Bragg is an idiot.
There’s a lamp post missing its Fat Boy.
Yep
Pretty sure he’s being charged with falsifying business records as attorney fees , not for the payments themselves. Something he’s already been convicted of in another case.
It was a NDA, a legal document, used quite often.
If that is hush money, then there are many, many corporations and people in legal jeopardy.