{"id":7907,"date":"2023-03-30T18:35:32","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T22:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/press-releases\/trump-indictment-comes-5-years-after-common-cause-filed-complaint-with-doj-for-hush-money-payments\/"},"modified":"2023-03-30T18:35:32","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T22:35:32","slug":"trump-indictment-comes-5-years-after-common-cause-filed-complaint-with-doj-for-hush-money-payments","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/tl\/press\/trump-indictment-comes-5-years-after-common-cause-filed-complaint-with-doj-for-hush-money-payments\/","title":{"rendered":"Dumating ang Trump Indictment 5 Taon Pagkatapos ng Common Cause na Naghain ng Reklamo sa DOJ para sa Hush Money Payments"},"template":"","class_list":["post-7907","press","type-press","status-publish","hentry","press_type-press-release"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"","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":"Washington, DC \u2014<\/strong><\/span> Five years after Common Cause <\/span>nagsampa ng mga reklamo<\/span><\/a> against Donald J. Trump, his business, and his campaign for violating federal campaign finance law with hush money payments to Stormy Daniels, the former president has been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury.<\/span> The charges remain under seal but stem from the investigation of those payments by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.\r\n\r\n\u201cNo American is above the law, including former presidents, and Donald Trump will get his day in court,\u201d said Aaron Scherb, Senior Director of Legislative Affairs at Common Cause. \u201cDonald Trump and his co-conspirators clearly appeared to have broken the law and his attorney at the time has already served time in federal prison for charges related to the $130,000 hush money payout. The Manhattan District Attorney\u2019s Office is right to hold the former president to the same standard as every other American.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nOn January 22, 2018, Common Cause urged the FEC and the DOJ to investigate the $130,000 payout to Stormy Daniels meant to influence the election, an unreported in-kind contribution to the 2016 Trump campaign.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nCommon Cause\u2019s complaints highlighted the level of secrecy that went into the payment to Stormy Daniels just weeks ahead of the 2016 presidential election. According to the <\/span>Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/span><\/a>, Mr. Trump\u2019s then-attorney, Michael Cohen, created Essential Consultants LLC to dole out the money in exchange for Daniels\u2019 silence. The LLC was created so the money <\/span>wouldn\u2019t be linked to Trump or his campaign.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nSince the original filings, Cohen admitted to making the payment to Stormy Daniels in exchange for her signing a nondisclosure agreement regarding her affair with Trump. The complaint alleges the payments were made on Trump\u2019s behalf and in coordination with Trump, which Trump <\/span>nakumpirma<\/span><\/a> in May 2018 via Twitter. That means the $130,000 payment was both an unreported expenditure to pay for Daniels\u2019 silence and an in-kind contribution (a non-monetary contribution) from Cohen to the Trump campaign.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nIn the filings, Common Cause alleges the Trump Organization violated federal law by facilitating a contribution to the Trump campaign. Cohen was employed by the Trump Organization at the time he made the payment to Daniels and apparently used his Trump Organization email to arrange the payment, suggesting he made the payment to Daniels in his capacity as an employee of the Trump Organization and Donald J. Trump.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nPara matuto pa tungkol sa mga paghahain ng Common Cause sa 2018, i-click dito<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nUpang basahin ang reklamo ng Department of Justice, i-click dito.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nUpang basahin ang reklamo ng Federal Election Commission, i-click dito<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n "}}]},"yoast_head":"\nTrump Indictment Comes 5 Years After Common Cause Filed Complaint with DOJ for Hush Money Payments - Common Cause<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/tl\/press-releases\/trump-indictment-comes-5-years-after-common-cause-filed-complaint-with-doj-for-hush-money-payments\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trump Indictment Comes 5 Years After Common Cause Filed Complaint with DOJ for Hush Money Payments\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/tl\/pindutin\/trump-indictment-comes-5-years-after-common-cause-filed-complaint-with-doj-for-hush-money-payments\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Common Cause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CommonCause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/CC-Share-Graphic-Main9.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@CommonCause\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/press-releases\/trump-indictment-comes-5-years-after-common-cause-filed-complaint-with-doj-for-hush-money-payments\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/press-releases\/trump-indictment-comes-5-years-after-common-cause-filed-complaint-with-doj-for-hush-money-payments\/\",\"name\":\"Trump Indictment Comes 5 Years After Common Cause Filed Complaint with DOJ for Hush Money Payments - 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