Stormy Daniels seeks Trump Organization documents related to payout
Source: Politico
By LORRAINE WOELLERT 03/22/2018 02:22 PM EDT
The attorney for adult film actress Stormy Daniels has asked the Trump Organization to preserve records related to a $130,000 payment that President Donald Trumps lawyer made to Daniels just weeks before the 2016 election.
In letters sent Thursday to the Trump Organization, First Republic Bank and City National Bank, Michael Avenatti, a lawyer for Daniels, asked that all documents connected to the payment be preserved, including emails and communications with Trump family members. The demand is part of a civil lawsuit Daniels filed this month seeking to void an October 2016 nondisclosure agreement in which she was paid in return for her silence about an alleged affair she had with Trump nearly a decade earlier.
Daniels, whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford, is one of three women suing Trump over his alleged sexual behavior. While the lawsuits are in their earliest stages, they threaten to embroil the president in years of litigation that could expose embarrassing details of his alleged sexual relationships, uncover evidence of possible hush-money payments and draw the scrutiny of federal campaign finance regulators. Ultimately, the president himself could be forced to testify or give depositions under oath.
Avenatti said Thursdays letters are just the beginning.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/22/stormy-daniels-preserve-documents-480403
duforsure
(11,880 posts)Is usually what gets them in trouble, and I would be shocked if they haven't already destroyed evidence, and Mueller will find this out, or already knows. I also think many in the White House also have done this too, and are in serious trouble.
erronis
(14,853 posts)Between all the security services across the world listening in to every burp and fart that dump and family/etc. make, I think we'll have plenty of evidence. Of course, they'll only give/sell it to the right people for the right price.
I wonder if Netflix has already grabbed broadcast rights to the new Dallas - Dumpass.
FakeNoose
(32,202 posts)Sarah Sanders, Conway, Spicer, all of 'em. It's not easy remembering the names because they come and go so fast.
getagrip_already
(14,082 posts)They just painted trump into a legal corner. Discovery could be devastating for trump, especially if his finances and emails come into play.
Basicall cliffords lawyer is giving him a no-win option. Dig in and suffer through discovery which could uncover illegal activities or give up and release her from the nda.
I get the feeling they don't much care which way he goes, because it ends with the same outcome for them.....
cloudbase
(5,477 posts)'Twas beauty killed the beast.
bluestarone
(16,641 posts)IronLionZion
(45,163 posts)since this is even more random and unpredictable than the other March Madness
onetexan
(12,971 posts)by a porn star. Oh the irony!
louis-t
(23,175 posts)It's the way this criminal family does bidness.