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Thursday, April 30, 2026

Trump's indictment doesn't depend only on ex-fixer Michael Cohen - Business Insider

  • State attorneys and former prosecutors worried that Trump's indictment would solely revolve around Michael Cohen as a witness.
  • But Trump's indictment depends on more than Cohen — the NY DA alleges Trump paid off another woman, too.
  • The payments also happened while Trump was president, which could complicate matters.

Before President Donald Trump was indicted by a grand jury convened by the Manhattan district attorney, attorneys were reportedly concerned that the indictment against the former executive only focused on a "hush-money" case involving the adult film actress Stormy Daniels and Trump's former attorney, Michael Cohen.

Cohen previously spent time in prison for campaign finance violations, tax evasion, and making false statements to a bank.

Mark Bederow, a former prosecutor, previously told Insider that resting an indictment of this caliber solely on Cohen would be disastrous.

"That's a disaster as a prosecutor," Bederow said. "You wouldn't rely on Michael Cohen to tell you the time of day unless you corroborated it with a clock. That's how awful a witness he is."

Former US attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, Barbara McQuade, echoed Bederow in a separate interview with Insider, noting that "the more the case relies on documents instead of the testimony of Michael Cohen, the stronger it will be."

On Tuesday, now that the details of the indictment have been released by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg Jr., it appears that McQuade, Bederow, and...



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