Falsified Business Records

The repayment to Cohen was disguised as the payment for legal services rendered on a monthly basis pursuant to a retainer agreement. Reasonable people could take issue with that. The first time in my tenure when this came up, we took the decision, let's table the hush money situation. We referred to it in the office internally as the zombie case because it rose from the dead and went back into slumber again. So we decided to keep the zombie case in the grave for the moment until we got further down the road of investigation. Then toward the end of the investigation, as I've said, we intended to join those charges with the more consequential charges that we hope to bring regarding the