Hush Money Trial: Former Chief Accountant Describes How Donald Trump Personally Made Payments To Michael Cohen

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Prosecutors in Donald Trump’s hush money trial walked jurors through the financial specifics of their case against the former president.

A former chief of accounting at the Trump Organization testified today that he was instructed to pay $420,000 to Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, using a form of reimbursement that was totally unfamiliar to him. “Allen said we had to get some money for Michael,” former Trump company comptroller Jeffrey McConney said on the stand, referring to Cohen and to McConney’s supervisor, Trump CFO Allen Weisselberg, who is now in jail.

The company’s chief financial officer called McConney into a meeting in January of 2017 — the month of Trump’s inauguration as president — and presented him with a bank statement from Cohen that also contained handwritten notes and dollar amounts from Weisselberg.

The bank statement listed a $130,000 payment to a lawyer representing porn actor Stormy Daniels. Prosecutors say the bank account was for a shell company set up by Cohen to pay Daniels’ lawyer.