Allen Weisselberg, the longtime chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, has been granted immunity by prosecutors in the probe of President Trump’s former attorney, Michael Cohen, who admitted in federal court that he made hush money payments to two women during the presidential campaign at Trump’s request, The Wall Street Journal reports.
According to the Journal, Weisselberg was granted immunity for providing information about Cohen, who pleaded guilty to eight felony counts Tuesday, including crimes stemming from hush money he said he paid to two women at Trump’s request.
In an apparent reference to Trump, Cohen admitted that he worked at the “direction of a candidate” to pay off the women to influence the 2016 election in violation of campaign finance laws, according to reports from the courtroom.
In addition to the two campaign finance crimes, Cohen pleaded guilty to one count of making false statements to a bank and five counts of tax evasion.
The news comes a day after the Journal reported that David Pecker, the chairman and CEO of American Media Inc., which owns The National Enquirer, was also granted immunity in the case. The Associated Press reported on Thursday that the Enquirer kept a safe containing documents on hush-money payments and other damaging stories it killed as part of its cozy relationship with Donald Trump leading up to the 2016 presidential election.
Read more at The Wall Street Journal.
Noah Manskar contributed to this report.
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