1.) Michael Cohen was a lawyer ... engaged in a criminal activity ... as a co-conpirator ... in a criminal conspiracy ... to violate Federal Election Campaign Contribution Laws ... by means of fraudulent business records ... of an LLC/Corp (Trump Org) registered in, and regulated by, the State of New York ... and obligated to maintain proper, legal, accurate business records for tax and legal reasons. Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to Federal charges for this same conduct.
2.) Michael Cohen did not submit "legal bills" to Donald Trump ... The Trump Org created false invoices for an amount greater than $130,000 ... to conceal an illegal in-kind political contribution as a business expense for the Trump Org and as 1099 taxable income for Michael Cohen.
3.) The payment invoices were fraudulently logged as business legal expenses by the Trump Org CFO to conceal Michael Cohen's illegal in-kind campaign contribution of $130,000 to the benefit of the Trump 2016 campaign that was used to prevent the public release of the Stormy Daniels encounter.
4.) The fraud was Trump Org (registered in and regulated by the State of New York) CFO and CEO's falsifying business records to conceal the commission of other crimes.
5.) The acts of a conspiracy, formed in 2015, to prevent the publication of embarassing, but true, information throughout the Trump 2016 Campaign, that included Michael Cohen making an illegal in-kind $130,000 campaign contribution made in October, 2016, to hide truth from American voters to benefit the Trump 2016 campaign, and using fraudulent Trump Org business invoices and checks in 2017 to conceal that illegal $130,000 in-kind political contribution, may have impacted the results of the 2016 Presidential election ... but we'll never really know because the conspiracy, formed in 2015, carried out in 2016, and concealed by fraudulent 2017 Trump Org invoices and checks deprived the American voters of the opportunity to make that decision for themselves.
The 2017 Trump Org fraudulent invoices and checks were payment and concealment of Michael Cohen's October, 2016, $130,000 illegal in-kind campaign contribution to keep Stormy Daniels out of the news as part of the 2015 conspiracy to capture and kill stories that my harm the Trump 2016 Campaign.
If Trump had paid $130,000 out of his personal checking account, instead of Trump Org funds, to pay-off Stormy Daniels, there would have been no crime committed. It was the cover-up of the October, 2016, payment to Stormy Daniels that is the crime.
Much like Watergate, it was the cover-up and follow the money that got Trump in legal trouble.
1) Is (was) Michael Cohen a lawyer?
2) Did lawyer Cohen submit 'legal' bills to Donald Trump?
3) Were these legal expenses logged as legal expenses by a bookkeeper experienced in categorizing expenses to lawyers as "legal expenses"?
4) Was anyone defrauded?
5) Did the act of paying an expense to a lawyer in 2017 influence the 2016 election?