NY prosecutors reveal 'another crime' Trump allegedly tried to conceal with falsified business records
Prosecutors aim to prove Trump sought to conceal conspiracy to unlawfully promote or prevent election.
By Brooke Singman Fox News
Published April 23, 2024 2:13pm EDT | Updated April 23, 2024 3:40pm EDT
New York prosecutors on Tuesday revealed the other crime they allege that former President Trump was trying to conceal when he allegedly falsified his business records.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg charged Trump with 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. For prosecutors to secure a criminal conviction, they must convince the jury that Trump committed the crime of falsifying business records in "furtherance of another crime."
Trump pleaded not guilty to all 34 counts.
New York prosecutor Joshua Steinglass on Tuesday said the other crime was a violation of a New York law called "conspiracy to promote or prevent election."
Prosecutors will try to prove that the alleged conspiracy was to conceal a conspiracy to unlawfully promote his candidacy.
"Any two or more persons who conspire to promote or prevent the election of any person to a public office by unlawful means and which conspiracy is acted upon by one or more of the parties thereto, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor," New York Law 17-152 reads.
Prosecutor Matthew Colangelo said during his opening argument on Monday the case against Trump "is about a criminal conspiracy and a cover-up."
Colangelo argued that months after Trump announced his candidacy for president in June 2015, he invited former CEO of American Media Inc. (AMI) David Pecker to Trump Tower for a meeting. His then-attorney and alleged "fixer" Michael Cohen was also at the meeting. AMI owned the National Inquirer.
"Those three men formed a conspiracy to influence the election," Colangelo argued.
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