{"id":8478,"date":"2018-04-12T22:23:26","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T02:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/press-releases\/doj-fec-complaints-filed-against-president-trump-his-campaign-american-media-inc-for-illegal-unreported-30k-coordinated-expenditure-to-squelch-rumors-of-candidates-illegitimat\/"},"modified":"2018-04-12T22:23:26","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T02:23:26","slug":"doj-fec-complaints-filed-against-president-trump-his-campaign-american-media-inc-for-illegal-unreported-30k-coordinated-expenditure-to-squelch-rumors-of-candidates-illegitimat","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/es\/press\/doj-fec-complaints-filed-against-president-trump-his-campaign-american-media-inc-for-illegal-unreported-30k-coordinated-expenditure-to-squelch-rumors-of-candidates-illegitimat\/","title":{"rendered":"El Departamento de Justicia y la Comisi\u00f3n Federal Electoral (FEC) presentaron denuncias contra el presidente Trump, su campa\u00f1a y American Media Inc. por gastos ilegales y no declarados de $30K coordinados para acallar rumores sobre el hijo ileg\u00edtimo del candidato"},"template":"","class_list":["post-8478","press","type-press","status-publish","hentry","press_type-press-release"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"Today, Common Cause filed complaints with the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Election Commission (FEC) alleging reason to believe that President Trump, his 2016 presidential campaign and American Media, Inc. (AMI) violated campaign contribution limits and reporting requirements through a December 2015 payment of $30,000 to a former doorman at a Trump property to squelch rumors of then-candidate Trump having fathered an illegitimate child with an employee at Trump World Tower in New York. The DOJ this week raided the office and residences of Trump attorney Michael Cohen in its investigation of similar violations alleged by Common Cause in earlier complaints to the agency.  ","featured_image":"","press_type":236,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":7855}"],"related_issues":[137,149,2082],"related_work":false,"location":46},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\">Hoy, Common Cause present\u00f3 denuncias ante el Departamento de Justicia (DOJ) y la Comisi\u00f3n Federal Electoral (FEC) alegando razones para creer que el presidente Trump, su campa\u00f1a presidencial de 2016 y American Media, Inc. (AMI) violaron los l\u00edmites de contribuci\u00f3n de campa\u00f1a y los requisitos de presentaci\u00f3n de informes a trav\u00e9s de un pago en diciembre de 2015 de $30,000 a un ex portero de una propiedad de Trump para acallar los rumores de que el entonces candidato Trump hab\u00eda tenido un hijo ileg\u00edtimo con una empleada de la Trump World Tower en Nueva York. El DOJ allan\u00f3 esta semana la oficina y las residencias del abogado de Trump, Michael Cohen, en su investigaci\u00f3n de violaciones similares alegadas por Common Cause en denuncias anteriores ante la agencia. \u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\">La nueva denuncia alega que el pago de AMI al ex portero, Dino Sajudin, ten\u00eda como objetivo influir en las elecciones de 2016 y que fue coordinado con el abogado y agente de Donald Trump, Michael Cohen, lo que lo convierte en una contribuci\u00f3n corporativa ilegal en especie a la campa\u00f1a de Trump de 2016. Adem\u00e1s, el pago nunca fue reportado como una contribuci\u00f3n en especie recibida y un gasto realizado por la campa\u00f1a, como lo exige la ley de financiamiento de campa\u00f1as.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\">El <a href=\"https:\/\/na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.apnews.com%2Ff37ecfc4710b468db6a103a245146172&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cdvance%40commoncause.org%7Cca58557a44e0469514cc08d5a0a005b4%7Cdb39e4b4de324cf9b66e9d02d8172178%7C0%7C0%7C636591531516896289&amp;sdata=y7P%2FAxfBByJjk09WMtPnpx24GdjcKyGNtPKKM2DANew%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Prensa Asociada<\/a> y <a href=\"https:\/\/na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newyorker.com%2Fnews%2Fnews-desk%2Fthe-national-enquirer-a-donald-trump-rumor-and-another-secret-payment-to-buy-silence-dino-sajudin-david-pecker&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cdvance%40commoncause.org%7Cca58557a44e0469514cc08d5a0a005b4%7Cdb39e4b4de324cf9b66e9d02d8172178%7C0%7C0%7C636591531516896289&amp;sdata=85DNDNUCFZ7HyUGWpb06YXEIr2tjFzp6yWiW1xV9EL8%3D&amp;reserved=0\">El neoyorquino<\/a> Hoy se dio a conocer la historia de que AMI contact\u00f3 a Cohen en 2015 antes de que la compa\u00f1\u00eda pagara a Sajudin por los derechos exclusivos de su historia sobre los rumores de que Donald Trump era el padre del hijo de una empleada, que el peri\u00f3dico luego elimin\u00f3, seg\u00fan se informa, para proteger la candidatura de Trump.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\">AMI, propietaria de The National Enquirer, es la misma compa\u00f1\u00eda que pag\u00f3 a la ex conejita de Playboy Karen McDougal 150.000 TUSD para &quot;atrapar y matar&quot; su historia de su romance con Trump en un acuerdo similar al de Sajudin que involucra multas de un mill\u00f3n de d\u00f3lares por violaciones a los acuerdos de confidencialidad.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\">\u201cTenemos leyes para garantizar la divulgaci\u00f3n de qui\u00e9n financia las campa\u00f1as presidenciales para proteger la integridad de nuestro proceso democr\u00e1tico\u201d, <strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;\">dijo Karen Hobert Flynn<\/span><\/strong>, presidente de Common Cause. \u201cEl presidente y su equipo parecen haber optado repetidamente por ignorar las leyes de financiaci\u00f3n de campa\u00f1as en un intento de enterrar los esc\u00e1ndalos relacionados con las relaciones extramatrimoniales del entonces candidato. Nos alienta que el Departamento de Justicia est\u00e9 investigando en\u00e9rgicamente las acusaciones descritas en las quejas de Common Cause relacionadas con informes anteriores de pagos de dinero para silenciar a Donald Trump y su campa\u00f1a\u201d.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\">\u201cEstos pagos pueden ser apenas la punta del iceberg en lo que respecta a las violaciones de las leyes de financiamiento de campa\u00f1as por parte de agentes de Donald Trump para ocultar historias vergonzosas durante la carrera presidencial y el Departamento de Justicia parece estar tomando estas violaciones y las quejas de Common Cause muy en serio\u201d. <strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;\">dijo Paul S. Ryan, vicepresidente de pol\u00edticas y litigios de Common Cause<\/span><\/strong>\u201cLos pagos secretos para ocultar amor\u00edos pueden haber sido algo com\u00fan en la vida anterior del presidente como figura de la prensa sensacionalista, pero cuando se convirti\u00f3 en candidato a la presidencia, cualquier nuevo pago para salvaguardar su candidatura se convirti\u00f3 en una violaci\u00f3n de la ley federal\u201d.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\">Para leer la denuncia del Departamento de Justicia,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcommoncause.org%2Fpress%2Fpress-releases%2Ftrump-ami-complaint-ii-doj.pdf&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cdvance%40commoncause.org%7Cca58557a44e0469514cc08d5a0a005b4%7Cdb39e4b4de324cf9b66e9d02d8172178%7C0%7C1%7C636591531516896289&amp;sdata=yvlEcp7eGzPNt6iGAd%2Bs%2FeV1Fjq7Awn9lCblyD1ysZ8%3D&amp;reserved=0\">haga clic aqu\u00ed<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\">Para leer la denuncia ante la FEC,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcommoncause.org%2Fpress%2Fpress-releases%2Ftrump-ami-complaint-ii-fec.pdf&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cdvance%40commoncause.org%7Cca58557a44e0469514cc08d5a0a005b4%7Cdb39e4b4de324cf9b66e9d02d8172178%7C0%7C1%7C636591531516896289&amp;sdata=Xn99V4LFQiD0B7%2FXJj2Ze78jl9lfneaMF7sqZx1NG3A%3D&amp;reserved=0\">haga clic aqu\u00ed<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\">Para ver este comunicado en l\u00ednea,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcommoncause.org%2Fpress%2Fpress-releases%2Fdoj-fec-complaints-filed-against-trump-his-campaign-and-american-media-inc-for-illegal-unreported-30K-coordinated-expenditure-to-squelch-rumors-of-candidates-illegitimate-child.html&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cdvance%40commoncause.org%7Cca58557a44e0469514cc08d5a0a005b4%7Cdb39e4b4de324cf9b66e9d02d8172178%7C0%7C0%7C636591531516896289&amp;sdata=StbgRs4WO0WKrftDKJMfWR2URTJVn5YxywbhUC8KEOQ%3D&amp;reserved=0\">haga clic aqu\u00ed<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;"}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>DOJ &amp; 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