https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/2023\/4\/1\/23664751\/trump-indictment-alvin-bragg-stormy-daniels<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“the core violation here is, basically, that the Trump Organization logged hush money repayments improperly. The more small-scale charges like this after a long investigation seem, the more they suggest prosecutors landed on them because they tried to make a bigger case that didn\u2019t pan out.
\nDoes it resemble previous prosecutions? In some ways yes, in some ways no. Business records charges are common in the Manhattan district attorney\u2019s office. The New York Times called this charge \u201cthe bread and butter\u201d of the office\u2019s white-collar practice, pointing out that during Bragg\u2019s tenure of a little over a year, 29 individuals and companies were charged with such offenses before Trump. \u201cThe charge of creating false financial records is constantly brought,\u201d Agnifilo and Eisen write.<\/p>\n
Still, there is some dispute about how the charge is being applied in this case. Fordham law professor Jed Shugerman points out that these false records were just internal company documents, and that Bragg has not yet specifically alleged they were used to deceive anyone. Shugerman asked whether there\u2019s ever been a conviction in such a case. Various former prosecutors in the Manhattan DA\u2019s office have argued that they can and did file such charges based on internal documents, but it\u2019s unclear whether the legality of that theory has been directly tested in court.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[798,790,280,221,1853,171,132,170],"class_list":["post-10493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-business","tag-courts","tag-criminal-justice","tag-donald-trump","tag-indictment","tag-lie","tag-lies","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10494,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10493\/revisions\/10494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}