Date: 5/4/2018
Rudolph W. Giuliani’s media blitz to convince the public that neither Donald Trump nor his lawyer had violated the law by paying a porn star to keep quiet about an alleged affair might have backfired, giving investigators new leads to chase and new evidence of potential crimes, legal analysts said.
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Matthew Sanderson, who served as a campaign finance lawyer for the 2008 McCain-Palin campaign, said the timing of the payment “strongly suggests it was related to the election, and therefore is either a contribution, or at least a reportable expenditure by the campaign.”
Mr. Sanderson is also a Member of Caplin & Drysdale’s Political Law Group in Washington, D.C.
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Excerpt taken from the article “Analysts: Giuliani’s Media Blitz Gives Investigators New Leads, New Evidence” by Matt Zapotosky, Devlin Barrett, Carol D. Leonnig, and Michelle Ye Hee Lee for The Washington Post.
