Opinion by Jennifer Rubin: Bragg’s indictment might light a fire under other prosecutors and advance the proposition that even ex-presidents must follow the law.
states. “The next morning, Cohen went to another bank and wired $130,000 from Essential Consultants to Daniels’ counsel.” Thereafter, he submitted a series of invoices to Trump’s company for $35,000. “These invoices were accounted for in the Trump Organization as ‘legal expenses,’ and by the end of 2017, totaled $420,000.”focusing
Norman Eisen, one of the Brookings report’s writers, told me, “There is a clear violation of the New York state criminal statute that penalizes keeping false books and records. … Trump and his business colleagues falsely accounted for these hush money payments in their books and records as the payment of legal fees to Michael Cohen when they were no such thing.” That does seem to be squarely within the statute.
Bragg would also have to address the statute of limitations that ordinarily would require the case be brought within five years after the last payment. Bragg, however, could claim that concealment of the payment was an ongoing fraud, or, alternatively, that the statute was tolled — suspended — while Trump was almost continuously out of the state.
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