Check after check after check was displayed on screens for a New York jury on Monday carrying Donald Trump’s distinctive signature scrawled with a black sharpie.
The payments — most of them for $35,000 and one for $70,000 — were made out to Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, throughout 2017. Trump says the money was for monthly legal services, but Manhattan’s district attorney says the true purpose was to hide a sex scandal before the 2016 election.
A check Donald Trump wrote to Michael Cohen in April 2017.
Source: Manhattan District Attorney’s Office
“And do you recognize that signature?” prosecutor Matthew Colangelo asked the accounts payable supervisor at the Trump Organization ...