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Is It a Crime to Falsify Business Records?
There's a New York law that makes it a crime to falsify business records. To say you're expending money on one thing and actually spending it on another is a misdemeanor offense. That offense can become a felony if the purpose of the falsification of the business records is to conceal another crime. Or to further another crime? Correct. And so based on what Michael Cohen had to say in his guilty plea, he made the payment on his own. And then Donald Trump reimbursed him over a series of months by writing checks and claiming that those checks were legal fees. So the payment made it's presented on the books of the company as legal fees, legal retainer. In fact
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