SDNY-PRESIDENT TRUMP PARTICIPATED IN, AND OVERSAW, FEDERAL CRIMES AND

Federal prosecutors have concluded that President Donald Trump participated in federal crimes when he directed his former personal attorney Michael Cohen to commit campaign finance violations by paying off two women during his 2016 campaign. Payments were made in the time just prior to
the 2016 election, in order to influence and sway the election results.

The conclusion of participation was drawn and documented by federal prosecutors from the Southern District of New York, who on Friday filed a sentencing memo suggesting that Cohen serve a “substantial” prison sentence of 51 to 63 months. While they found Trump to be complicit in Cohen's crimes, no formal charge has been rendered against the president.

Trump, identified as “Individual 1” in the memo, is mentioned several times by prosecutors as leading the criminal conspiracy to pay off Stormy Daniels and Karen McDuggal to keep their alleged extramarital affairs with the president a secret.

“During the campaign, Cohen played a central role in two similar schemes to purchase the rights to stories - each from women who claimed to have had an affair with Individual 1 - so as to suppress the stories and thereby prevent them from influencing the election,” prosecutors wrote.
“In particular, and as Cohen himself has now admitted, with respect to both payments, he acted in coordination with and at the direction of Individual 1,”