FBI/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Federal prosecutors in New York asked the Trump Organization, President Donald Trump’s flagship company, for records relating to a $130,000 payment to a former adult-film actress as part of an investigation into Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, according to a person familiar with the matter. The request came in connection with raids by the Federal Bureau of Investigation Monday [4-10-18] on the office, hotel room and home of Trump lawyer Michael Cohen. Mr. Cohen made the payment to Stephanie Clifford, a former porn star known professionally as Stormy Daniels, less than two weeks before the 2016 presidential election, in exchange for Ms. Clifford’s signing a nondisclosure agreement about what she said was a sexual encounter with Mr. Trump in 2006.”
– Michael Rothfeld, Joe Palazzolo and Mark Maremont, “Feds Seek Stormy Daniels Documents From Trump Organization,” The Wall Street Journal, April 10, 2018, 4:49 pm