They secretly record Trump discussing payment to an ex-Playboy model, according to NYT

Michael Cohen, a lawyer of US President Donald Trump, reportedly recorded a conversation before the election in which both spoke Payments to a former Playboy model who claimed to have had an affair with the tycoon, according to the New York Times.

The newspaper quotes lawyers and other sources familiar with the recording, seized by the FBI. during a search in Cohen's office, she's investigating her involvement in payments to women in an attempt to silence potentially damaging news for Trump prior to the 2016 elections.

L & # 39; federal criminal investigation seeks to clarify whether these payments were violating campaign finance laws, and when registered in April, the FBI confiscated several documents proving a transfer of $ 130,000 from the United States. Trump's lawyer at bad actress Stormy Daniels

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According to the newspaper, in the raid , the agents also obtained documents related to two other women, one of them, Karen McDougal, a former Playboy model who claims to have had a one year relationship with Trump in 2006 and has been identified on Friday as the woman of the recording.

McDougal saw the opportunity to sell his story interview for $ 150,000 to the National Enquirer tabloid, whose executive director, David J. Pecker, is friends with Trump and chose not to publish any information

Trump's personal attorney, Rudolph Giuliani, confirmed Friday the NYT that the president speaks in the registry – less than two minutes – with Cohen about the payment to the woman, but said that the transfer was finally not done, so the document is "a powerful C & # 39; s an exculpatory test."

"Nothing in this conversation indicates that (Trump) had any knowledge in advance, "said Giuliani, adding that the tycoon had told Cohen that he had to make a payment, he would document it by check. , instead of resorting to money.