The former CEO of a tabloid company testified for three days in former President Donald Trump‘s hush money case in New York, telling jurors about his work to bury or promote stories about Trump ahead of the 2016 election.
David Pecker, who headed the National Enquirer’s parent company, American Media, Inc., was a key component of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case against Trump.
Prosecutors told jurors at the outset of the trial that Pecker in 2016 was part of a three-man “catch-and-kill” scheme, along with Trump and Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen. The scheme, prosecutors said, involved Pecker paying sources through nondisclosure agreements not to go to other outlets with damaging stories about Trump. Pecker would then decline to publish the sources’ story, effectively
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