Trump Campaign Hid Settlements With Women, New Complaint Says

[Nevilledog]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-campaign-hid-settlements-with-women-new-complaint-says

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A sex discrimination lawsuit against Donald Trump’s campaign has triggered new accusations that Trump’s lawyers have intentionally covered up settlement payments to women in violation of federal law.

On Friday, watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission, demanding an investigation into the alleged cover-up. The complaint cites new allegations from 2016 Trump campaign aide A.J. Delgado, which she lodged in a sworn court declaration earlier this week as part of her ongoing discrimination suit against Trump’s political operation.

Delgado’s filing presented evidence of top Trump attorney Marc Kasowitz openly admitting that the campaign wanted to use a law firm to cover up a potential settlement payout in 2017. The arrangement, as Delgado described it, appears specifically designed to evade the consequences of federal disclosure laws that require campaigns to publicly report the identities of payment recipients.

“In other words, the payment would be routed through a middleman, to hide the fact that the Campaign had settled, from the public and the FEC,” Delgado stated. “I thus have direct, personal experience with the Defendant-Campaign hiding settlement payments to women, routing them through a ‘middleman law firm,’ which to the public would only appear as payments “for legal services.”

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[no_hypocrisy]

1. Between this news and Giuliani thrown off WABC,

today's turned out pretty good!

[MLAA]

4. Don't forget Bannon loses his appeal!

A trifecta of good news.

[Chainfire]

2. Why does that story sound familiar? ;)

[Maru Kitteh]

8. Delgato was impregnated.by fellow aide Jason Miller who's wife was also pregnant.

Delgato was dismissed by the campaign, iirc. Perhaps not fired but absolutely pushed out. I think Mr. Hsppy Dick is still working for TFG.

[Johonny]

3. Trump has nothing to worry about

His track record in civil court is great. Just ask him.

[Traurigkeit]

5. which is worthless due to being in Criminal Court

[Cha]

6. Predator on th eProwl

[Skittles]

7. I'm pretty sure it wasn't just Stormy and Karen looking for payouts from fucking him

gawd, they're DISGUSTING (YES, TRUMP INCLUDED)

[republianmushroom]

9. Does this man we have lawyers violating the law ?

[Torchlight]

10. What a great couple of weeks for trump!

Fines, threats of jail time, pulling his tantrums off the internet (first time ever?), listening to a woman who was coerced into sex by him rate him as miserable in bad for all the world to see, the planet wwatching him exploit his kid's graduation to make an election campaign appearance, identified as a a co-conspirator in two states in fake electors trials, and to cap it off, a federal judge rejected trump’s attempt to throw out an $83.3-million civil defamation judgment.

But I guarantee as soon as I walk into the office on Monday, The Woman Who Works Next Door to My Office (it's the nicest thing I can bring myself to say about her) will tell all who will listen that "hey, this isn't as bad as looks! It's actually pretty good! All according to plan! No consequences!" I can only hope I've had a cup or two of coffee prior to her upcoming performance.