Trump is under investigation for secret payment to pornographic actress

The new Manhattan law firm will re-examine former US President Donald Trump’s role in a secret payment made to a pornographic actress during the 2016 presidential campaign.

At the time, the Attorney General’s Office was investigating the secret payment, in cash, that Trump’s presidential candidacy made to pornographic actress Stormy Daniels to prevent her from disclosing an alleged sexual relationship with the then-presidential candidate, which would violate the law of the United States. New York. York state.

Headed by Manhattan’s new prosecutor Alvin L. Bragg, the Attorney General’s Office is returning to the original focus of the investigation, and it is not yet known whether new charges will be brought against Trump, who has just announced a new presidential candidacy , in 2024.

If the prosecutor indicts Trump without new evidence, he risks having the case dropped by a judge or an appeals court.

According to the newspaper The New York Timesto aid the investigation, the prosecution may try another strategy, which so far has not worked: to pressure Allen Weisselberg – the 2016 Trump campaign finance director and the only accused in this case – to cooperate .

Trump’s family business, the Trump Organization, went on trial in New York on Oct. 31, charged with involvement in tax evasion, and last week Weisselberg — who pleaded guilty — testified and defended the claim that he acted alone and without the knowledge of the Trump family.

The former president may also face criminal charges from the U.S. Justice Department for illegal possession of classified documents found at his home in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, and for his role in the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6. 2021 and further interference in the results of the 2020 Georgia state election.

Trump is also involved in several civil lawsuits in New York, including a civil lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Democrat Letitia James accusing him and three of his children of fraudulently manipulating the value of the company’s assets.

Trump could still face trial next year over a new defamation lawsuit brought by journalist and writer E. Jean Carroll, who accuses the former president of rape in 1995.