Judge schedules sentencing for Trump after historic guilty verdict
Sentencing for former President Donald Trump has been set for July 11, just four days before the start of the Republican National Convention.
Donald Trump was found guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records after prosecutors successfully convinced a jury he disguised hush money reimbursement as legal expenses. He is the first former president to be convicted of a crime.
Each count is tied to a different business record that prosecutors demonstrated Trump is responsible for changing to conceal or commit another crime.
Those records include 11 checks paid to former lawyer Michael Cohen, 11 invoices from Michael Cohen and 12 entries in Trump’s ledgers.
The jury found that Trump authorized a plan to reimburse Cohen for the $130,000 hush money payment issued to Stormy Daniels and spread the payments across 12 months disguised as legal expenses.
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Breakdown of 34 counts of falsifying business records
Here are the 34 business records Trump was found guilty of falsifying, as described in Judge Juan Merchan‘s jury instructions:
- Count 1: Michael Cohen’s invoice dated Feb. 14, 2017
- Count 2: Entry in the Detail General Ledger for the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust dated Feb. 14, 2017
- Count 3: Entry in the Detail General Ledger for the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust dated Feb. 14, 2017
- Count 4: A Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust Account check and check stub dated Feb. 14, 2017
- Count 5: Michael Cohen’s invoice dated March 16, 2017
- Count 6: Entry in the Detail General Ledger for the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust dated March 17, 2017
- Count 7: A Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust Account check and check stub dated March 17, 2017
- Count 8: Michael Cohen’s invoice dated April 13, 2017
- Count 9: Entry in the Detail General Ledger for Donald J. Trump dated June 19, 2017
- Count 10: A Donald J. Trump account check and check stub dated June 19, 2017
- Count 11: Michael Cohen’s invoice dated May 22, 2017
- Count 12: Entry in the Detail General Ledger for Donald J. Trump dated May 22, 2017
- Count 13: A Donald J. Trump account check and check stub May 23, 2017
- Count 14: Michael Cohen’s invoice dated June 16, 2017
- Count 15: Entry in the Detail General Ledger for Donald J. Trump dated June 19, 2017
- Count 16: A Donald J. Trump account check and check stub dated June 19, 2017
- Count 17: Michael Cohen’s invoice dated July 11, 2017
- Count 18: Entry in the Detail General Ledger for Donald J. Trump dated July 11, 2017
- Count 19: A Donald J. Trump account check and check stub dated July 11, 2017
- Count 20: Michael Cohen’s invoice dated Aug. 1, 2017
- Count 21: Entry in the Detail General Ledger for Donald J. Trump dated Aug. 1, 2017
- Count 22: A Donald J. Trump account check and check stub dated Aug. 1, 2017
- Count 23: Michael Cohen’s invoice dated Sept. 11, 2017
- Count 24: Entry in the Detail General Ledger for Donald J. Trump dated Sept. 11, 2017
- Count 25: A Donald J. Trump account check and check stub dated Sept. 12, 2017
- Count 26: Michael Cohen’s invoice dated Oct. 18, 2017
- Count 27: Entry in the Detail General Ledger for Donald J. Trump dated Oct. 18, 2017
- Count 28: A Donald J. Trump account check and check stub dated Oct. 18, 2017
- Count 29: Michael Cohen’s invoice dated Nov. 20, 2017
- Count 30: Entry in the Detail General Ledger for Donald J. Trump dated Nov. 20, 2017
- Count 31: A Donald J. Trump account check and check stub dated Nov. 21, 2017
- Count 32: Michael Cohen’s invoice dated Dec. 1, 2017
- Count 33: Entry in the Detail General Ledger for Donald J. Trump dated Dec. 1, 2017
- Count 34: A check and check stub dated Dec. 5 2017
Jurors saw copies of these records entered as evidence. Evidence from the entire trial is available on the New York Courts website.
Contributing: Aysha Bagchi