Colangelo uses opening statement to drill down on Trump's payments to Michael Cohen
The prosecutor said Trump falsified 34 separate documents.
BEN FEUERHERD
Matthew Colangelo told jurors about the alleged fraudulent conduct at the heart of the case: Donald Trump’s payments to his former attorney and fixer Michael Cohen, and the way in which Trump allegedly recorded those payments in his company's books. The prosecutor said Trump disguised reimbursements to Cohen as a retainer fee. In reality, Colangelo said, they were repayments to Cohen for hush money paid to Stormy Daniels on the eve of the 2016 election.
“There was no retainer agreement,” Colangelo said. He alleged Trump falsified 11 invoices, 12 ledger entries and 11 falsified checks, for a total of 34 falsified business records.
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