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[link:https://www.rawstory.com/2018/12/busted-national-enquirer-admits-committed-felony-concert-trumps-campaign/|
American Media, Inc., the parent company of the National Enquirer tabloid, admitted on Wednesday to committing a felony campaign finance violation in concert with Donald Trumps presidential campaign.
As announced by the United States Attorneys Office for the Southern District of New York, AMI admitted to making a $150,000 hush-money payment to Playboy model Karen McDougal in order to ensure that the woman did not publicize damaging allegations about the candidate before the 2016 presidential election.
SDNY said that it has chosen not to prosecute AMI for the illegal campaign contribution at this point provided that the company continues cooperating with the investigation.
The office also acknowledged that AMI had provided substantial and important assistance with its investigation into the illegal campaign contribution.
The revelation that AMI has admitted to making an illegal payment to a former Trump mistress with the specific intent to swing the outcome of the election will undercut the presidents claims that paying off Playboy model Karen McDougal and adult film star Stormy Daniels was a simple business transaction.
Earlier this year, the Wall Street Journal reported that AMI CEO David Pecker had been granted immunity by prosecutors in exchange for providing information about his companys role in the hush-money payments.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Arkansas Granny
(31,529 posts)Lochloosa
(16,068 posts)A person did!
0rganism
(23,970 posts)in this case, providing legal cover for the assholios who used their corporation for criminal purposes
Marcuse
(7,506 posts)Its been illegal to do that to people for over 150 years.
SWBTATTReg
(22,166 posts)YessirAtsaFact
(2,064 posts)How ironic that this info came from a guy named Pecker.
LuckyLib
(6,819 posts)YessirAtsaFact
(2,064 posts)That should add more fun to the mix for Donnie Boy.
Im downright giddy.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)Atticus
(15,124 posts)in the US Congress. I love my country, but I'm ashamed of my government.
thbobby
(1,474 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Resign shithole.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Keep piling up the crimes so that the conclusion is irresistible, so compelling that even the most partisan Republicans have to concede that Trump must go. This is how it went with Watergate. For two years Nixon and his cronies tried to brazen it out, and in some circles appeared to have weathered all the storms. But finally, inexorably, as Peter Rodino was drawing up articles of impeachment in the House (including a count for obstruction of justice), Republican officeholders went to the White House to inform Nixon and Kissinger that the jig was up, and if impeachment proceedings went ahead, they weren't going to be able to save Nixon.
Within a week, Nixon went from stubborn defiance to flying back to the west coast.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)pecosbob
(7,543 posts)Chain them like the chicken-killing dogs they are.
superpatriotman
(6,252 posts)Is a crime a crime anymore?
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)I don't get it.
Wouldn;t a campaign contribution be going from her to the trump campaign?
LakeSuperiorView
(1,533 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)marylandblue
(12,344 posts)That is, by definition, a campaign contribution even if the money never went into a campaign account.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)marylandblue
(12,344 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)Send it to PANGAIA PAC c/o Pangaia, 174 W. Main St, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
No checks, cash only...
I'll send a receipt by return mail...
forkol
(113 posts)If Trump were not a candidate, would he have even offered to pay her ANY money? I think
not.
So, he only needed to pay her because he was a candidate. And since it was done to advance his campaign, that's where they get it from.
DURHAM D
(32,611 posts)week an illegal campaign contribution also?
StarryNite
(9,460 posts)Sneederbunk
(14,300 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)Nitram
(22,879 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,730 posts)Of campaign finance fraud.
Scotus can't unsee that. Mueller's office us probably at a bar somewhere, because this is a playing piece they needed but couldn't force. Beautiful.
PWPippinesq
(195 posts). . . as soon as Pecker got immunity.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)The pattern is clear.
amcgrath
(397 posts)In 1989 in the UK, 96 people were killed at a football stadium in Hillsborough.
A national newspaper -The Sun - printed lies about the event, to assist the police and the government with their lies and idiocy that had led to the deaths.
The fans who died were Liverpool supporters. Initially a campaign was started in Liverpool to boycott The Sun. Very quickly and through public pressure, that newspaper was first removed from news stands. Later it was banned from public buildings, libraries and even on city transit.
There is nothing to prevent a similar campaign against a publication that lies for politicians in the USA
X_Digger
(18,585 posts)We have strong press protections, compared to the UK. (There's a reason so many libel cases are farmed out there.)
Fritz Walter
(4,292 posts)...To persuade grocery stores to remove AMIs rag from the racks at their check-out lines? In all my long years, Ive seen one, maybe two customers actually purchase that or any other tabloid. Maybe I shop at better stores/locations/times than do their target audience.
Its not enough to hide the lurid headlines and gruesome photos with a semi-transparent piece of plastic. REMOVE THEM!
C Moon
(12,221 posts)DesertRat
(27,995 posts)TeamPooka
(24,254 posts)trouble.
if Pecker directly testifies that Donnie knew and arranged it...
Look out.
Can't wait to hear trump call the National inquirer a rag though.
central scrutinizer
(11,661 posts)Unless Batboy really did father Hilary's secret love child, not Elvis
LiberalLovinLug
(14,176 posts)DENVERPOPS
(8,844 posts)Trump paying over 100K to women for a one night stand, sorta makes you wonder how much he is paying Melania...
LiberalLovinLug
(14,176 posts)She will live well for the rest of her life. I predict a divorce as soon as Donnie leaves office. But she has been a cheerleader, even if quieter, even if reluctantly at times, (like pretending to want to smile and walk with him) She married the orange Jabba for his money, and she has to live with the humiliation of what comes with the job.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)republican "ethics and morals" are right out of the reeking cesspool of WRONG.