NEW YORK (AP) — Porn actor Stormy Daniels met Wednesday with prosecutors who’re investigating hush cash paid to her on former President Donald Trump’s behalf, her lawyer mentioned Wednesday.

The information emerged as Michael Cohen, a former Trump lawyer who orchestrated the fee, was giving a second day of testimony earlier than a New York grand jury wanting into the matter.

The $130,000 payment was made in 2016, as Trump’s first presidential marketing campaign was in its closing weeks and Daniels was negotiating to go on tv to air her claims of a sexual encounter with him a decade earlier. Cohen made the fee and organized one other payout — at Trump’s path, he says.

Daniels met with and answered questions from Manhattan prosecutors and is keen to be a witness, her lawyer, Clark Brewster, tweeted. The grownup movie actor tweeted her because of her lawyer for “helping me in our continuing fight for truth and justice.”

A message in search of remark was despatched to the Manhattan district lawyer’s workplace.

Earlier Wednesday, Cohen mentioned he felt “great” as he headed into what he anticipated to be his closing day of grand jury testimony.

Daniels has mentioned she had a 2006 sexual encounter with Trump that she didn’t want, but didn’t say no to. Trump says it by no means occurred. The former president’s present lawyer mentioned Trump was invited to testify before the grand jury but has no plans to do so.

Federal prosecutors in 2018 charged Cohen with marketing campaign finance crimes associated to funds to Daniels and Playboy mannequin Karen McDougal, arguing that the payouts amounted to impermissible presents to Trump’s election effort.

McDougal, who was paid $150,000, alleged she had an affair with the married Trump in 2006-07. He denied it.

Cohen pleaded guilty, served prison time and was disbarred. Federal prosecutors by no means charged Trump with any crime.

Manhattan prosecutors have been inspecting whether or not any state legal guidelines have been damaged in reference to the funds or the way in which Trump’s firm compensated Cohen for his work to maintain the ladies’s allegations quiet.

Cohen and federal prosecutors mentioned the corporate paid him $420,000 to reimburse him for the fee to Daniels and to cowl bonuses and different supposed bills. The firm categorized these funds internally as authorized bills.

Falsifying enterprise data could be a misdemeanor below state legislation, or a felony if the fudging of paperwork is completed in reference to a extra severe crime.

Trump and his attorneys have mentioned he was extorted into paying the cash to Daniels and ought to be thought of the sufferer within the investigation. Daniels and the attorneys who helped organize the fee have denied extorting anybody.

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