The charges against former president Donald Trump in his New York hush money case are almost never brought in other circumstances, according to The New York Times.
In the past decade, just two other felony cases have been brought in Manhattan indicting defendants for falsifying business records without another crime, the NYT reported Tuesday. Trump was indicted last April in the case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on 34 counts of falsifying business records stemming from alleged hush money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels.
NYT: 'So the hush-money case it is. Some legal experts initially deemed it shaky, largely because Bragg failed to specify the underlying crime that Trump intended to commit. Though the crime of falsifying business records is nominally a misdemeanor, the Manhattan district…
— Byron York (@ByronYork) April 9, 2024
