The company that owns The National Enquirer tabloid will not be prosecuted for its efforts to protect Donald Trump during his presidential campaign.
AMI, which owns the tabloid National Enquirer, admitted to making a $150,000 hush money payment, and will cooperate with investigators.
The U.S. Southern District of New York reached a non-prosecution agreement with AMI, in which the firm admitted it made "catch and kill" payment to Trump's alleged ex-paramour Karen MacDougal.
AMI admitted that it paid her “in concert with” the Donald Trump presidential campaign.
Said the SDNY prosecutors, “AMI admitted that it made the $150,000 payment in concert with a candidate’s presidential campaign, and in order to ensure that the woman did not publicize damaging allegations about the candidate before the 2016 presidential election.”
Prosecutors say AMI admitted “its principal purpose in making the payment was to suppress the woman’s story so as to prevent it from influencing the election.”
BREAKING: @SDNYnews released a press release announcing today that "it has previously reached a non-prosecution agreement with AMI, in connection with AMI’s role in making the above-described $150,000 payment before the 2016 presidential election."
No statement from Khuzami. pic.twitter.com/jnwMI0nhD4
— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) December 12, 2018
Woah! This from SDNY, saying they reached a non-prosecution agreement with AMI, in connection with AMI’s role in making the $150,000 payment. As a part of the agreement, AMI admitted that it made the $150,000 payment in concert with Trump’s campaign.
— Shimon Prokupecz (@ShimonPro) December 12, 2018
BREAKING: @SDNYnews released a press release announcing today that "it has previously reached a non-prosecution agreement with AMI, in connection with AMI’s role in making the above-described $150,000 payment before the 2016 presidential election."
No statement from Khuzami. pic.twitter.com/jnwMI0nhD4
— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) December 12, 2018
reminder that ami is such a pro-trump attack dog they even went after malia obama https://t.co/nUJ684yZDD
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) December 12, 2018
