Documents on Trump ex-lawyer's porn star hush payment released
Hundreds of pages of documents regarding hush-money payments by Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen to a porn star and a Playboy model who said they had sexual encounters with the president are made public, offering a window into a probe that began last year and landed Cohen in prison.
U.S. District Judge William Pauley in Manhattan on Wednesday had ordered that the material, used by prosecutors to obtain a 2018 search warrant for Cohen's home and office, be unsealed on Thursday morning.
The judge found there was no reason to keep the documents secret after prosecutors told him that their investigation into the payments had ended.
