Of the first group of 96 potential jurors who crammed into the courtroom, more than half were immediately excused for saying they could not be fair and impartial.
A Manhattan jury also found Trump’s business, the Trump Organization, guilty of tax evasion, although Trump was not personally named in that case.
And here is an excellent visual timeline of the entire hush money scandal.
It was Cohen who orchestrated the hush money payments and who pleaded guilty to federal charges of violating campaign finance law, for which he served time in prison.
Trump is accused by New York of falsifying business records when he paid Cohen back for the hush money scheme.
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