Former President Donald Trump was charged in court docket on Tuesday with 34 felony counts of falsifying enterprise information, as prosecutors accused him of paying two ladies to suppress their accounts of sexual encounters with him.

Here are some highlights from the indictment and assertion of info launched by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s workplace:

34 funds

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The indictment units out 34 felony counts of falsifying enterprise information within the first diploma, which every carry a most cost of 4 years in jail. Trump pleaded not responsible.

Each depend covers a person report associated to funds by Trump to his former private lawyer Michael Cohen between February and December 2017, the primary yr Trump was within the White House.

According to Bragg, these funds weren’t for authorized providers, as they claimed, however had been to reimburse Cohen for paying $130,000 to porn star Stormy Daniels for her silence throughout the 2016 election marketing campaign. Daniels mentioned she and Trump had a sexual encounter in 2006, the yr after he married Melania Knauss, his third spouse.

Trump denies having an encounter with Daniels however has acknowledged the fee.

Cohen pleaded responsible in 2018 to federal campaign-finance expenses associated to the funds and mentioned he acted at Trump’s route.

Cover up

According to a separate authorized doc known as a press release of info that accompanies the indictment, Trump falsified these information as he labored with Cohen and others to cowl up a sequence of unflattering tales that threatened his 2016 presidential bid. Along the best way, he and others violated election legal guidelines, the assertion of info mentioned.

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Eyes and ears

According to prosecutors, tabloid writer David Pecker met with Trump at Trump Tower in August 2015, shortly after he introduced his presidential bid, and provided to behave as “eyes and ears” for the marketing campaign by searching for damaging tales and altering Cohen earlier than they had been revealed.

Pecker, who served as writer of the National Enquirer and chief government of American Media Inc (AMI), additionally agreed to publish damaging tales about Trump rivals.

AMI admitted to the association in a non-prosecution settlement with the Manhattan District Attorney’s workplace in 2018.

The Doorman’s story

In October or November of 2015, Pecker discovered {that a} former Trump Tower doorman was saying that Trump had allegedly fathered a baby out of wedlock and paid him $30,000 for the rights to the story. AMI later concluded the story was not true.

Karen McDougal

According to prosecutors, AMI paid $150,000 to purchase the silence of a girl to maintain quiet about an alleged affair with Trump. That lady, who isn’t named, matches the outline of former Playboy mannequin Karen McDougal, 52, who has publicly talked about her relationship with Trump and her association with AMI.

Pecker made the fee after discussing it with Cohen and Trump, in accordance with the fees, with the understanding that Trump would pay him again.

Trump and Cohen mentioned reimbursement in a dialog captured in an audio recording in September 2016 and made plans to take action. But Pecker declined to take the cash after speaking together with his firm’s lawyer.

Stormy Daniels

In October 2016, the marketing campaign was reeling after the discharge of a video from 2005 through which Trump made crude feedback about ladies on the set of the “Access Hollywood” TV present.

Around that point, Pecker linked Cohen with a lawyer for Daniels, who mentioned she had an affair with Trump as nicely. The two sides agreed on a $130,000 fee, however Trump urged Cohen to delay writing a test till after the November election, when Daniels’s declare wouldn’t have an effect on the result.