Former President Trump's ex-attorney and fixer Michael Cohen is expected to be called to testify Monday as a witness in his former boss' criminal trial. Cohen arranged the $130,000 hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election. Trump, later, made several payments of $35,000 to Cohen, who was his personal attorney at the time.
Bragg is trying to prove those payments, which totaled $420,000, were a reimbursement for the hush money payment. But Trump defense attorneys say that the $35,000 payments were 'not a payback,' but instead, legal payments. Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. Cohen pleaded guilty in 2018 to campaign finance violations, making false statements to Congress and tax evasion. He was sentenced to three years in prison.
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