Former US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before his speech at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center on March 4, 2023 in National Harbor, Maryland.
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The New York City grand jury weighing whether to criminally indict former President Donald Trump is scheduled to resume work at noon Thursday after an unexpected day off.
But those proceedings may not be related to the investigation of a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 presidential election from Michael Cohen, who was Trump’s personal attorney at the time.
Instead, the grand jury is expected to handle another case, unrelated to the compensation.
But Trump faces three other serious criminal inquiries in Washington, DC, and Georgia, as he seeks the 2024 GOP presidential nomination.
On Friday, his lawyer Evan Corcoran is expected to testify before a federal grand jury in Washington hearing evidence in a Department of Justice investigation into Trump’s retention of classified government records at his Florida residence after leaving the White House.
The DOJ is also investigating Trump for his efforts to reverse his 2020 Electoral College loss to President Joe Biden. And an Atlanta grand jury is looking into Trump and his allies for forcing Georgia officials to undo his loss to Biden in the state’s popular vote that year.
In the Manhattan case, Cohen and Daniels, also known as Stephanie Clifford, both said they were paid $130,000 to keep quiet about an alleged affair she said she had with Trump in 2006.
Trump’s company, the Trump Organization, used the term “legal expenses” in business documents to record the payments he made to Cohen to cover the amount of the settlement to Daniels as well as the taxes he owed. with that money.
