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And if you believe that, I've got a way overvalued office building in midtown Manhattan to sell you.

 

In jurisdictions where judges and prosecutors are either idiots or have a political agendas.

Can you give a statute that prohibits paying someone to not talk?

 

He didn't plead guilty to paying somebody not to talk. He pled guilty to ...

Tax fraud
The criminal information supplied by federal prosecutors charges Cohen with evasion of personal income tax from 2012 through 2016.

Making false statements to a financial institution
Prosecutors charged Cohen with making false statements to a financial institution in connection with a credit decision from about February 2015 through about April 2016.

Unlawful corporate contributions
Prosecutors charged Cohen with willfully causing an unlawful corporate contribution from about June 2016 through about October 2016.

Excessive campaign contributions
Prosecutors charged Cohen with making an excessive campaign contribution on Oct. 27, 2016.

 

IW beat me to it, but here's a link.

Cohen Pleads Guilty To Tax Evasion, Bank Fraud & Campaign Finance Law Violations

Count 7 and Count 8 are violations of statutes found in Title 52, Voting and Elections. The relevant language focuses on two campaign contribution laws (you can read those here and here). Specifically, it's illegal to be the "willful cause" of an unlawful corporate contribution since corporations are barred from making contributions directly to presidential candidates; it is also against the law to make an excessive campaign contribution.

According to the plea, in 2015, Cohen worked with a campaign for a presidential candidate. As part of the campaign strategy, Cohen worked with an individual who owned a magazine to "help deal with negative stories" about the candidate’s relationships with women. Among other things, Cohen admitted that he assisted the campaign in identifying the stories "so they could be purchased and their publication avoided."

Payments were disguised using a series of entities. In court, Cohen told the judge that the payments were made "in coordination with and at the direction of a candidate for federal office." That echoes the statements in the plea agreement which detailed that payments were made "in order to influence the 2016 presidential election."
While the candidate and the campaign are not specifically named in the plea agreement, the candidate is widely believed to be Trump. Cohen had a prior close relationship with the President, even once saying he would take a bullet for him. However, after the plea, Trump’s current lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, said in a statement, "There is no allegation of any wrongdoing against the president in the government’s charges against Mr. Cohen."

 

And Trump's inability to remember which lie he's telling isn't helping his cause ...

Did Trump just inadvertently admit to violating federal law?

 

Evergreen headline.

 

The National Enquirer’s Fervor for Trump

The crazy thing about TrumpGate is that it has been pretty out in the open. This story is more than a year old. The corruption has been pretty blatant from the start and people just chose not to see it for what it was.

 

Judges and prosecutors with political agendas? The hell you say!

 

We are a nation of laws. (Except when it comes to protecting the cult leader).

 

(Or immigration)

 

When Bryan Trottier called Brian Bellows that during the 1991 Stanley Cup Final.

Wait till the end. This is maybe my favourite video on the internet.