Former President Donald Trump is escorted to a courtroom, Tuesday, April 4, 2023, in New York. Trump is set to appear in a New York City courtroom on charges related to falsifying business records in a hush money investigation, the first president ever to be charged with a crime. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) (Mary Altaffer, Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)
The Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, unsealed the grand jury indictment bringing the charges against the former president.
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The district attorney’s office said Trump and others in his organization employed a “catch and kill” scheme to identify, buy and bury negative information that appeared during Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, and that Trump falsified his business records to conceal the activity.
Below are two documents released by Bragg’s office: the indictment, which goes through the 34 counts against Trump, and the statement of facts, which goes into detail about each count.
Christie joined the ClickOrlando team in November 2021. She cultivated her political reporting skills at Spectrum News 13, and before that at UCF. She spends her spare time with her beagle, Lulu, finding hidden gems around Central Florida, playing the violin and indulging her love for all things geek with her friends.
