Specifically, the Trump Organization had a rule that Donald Trump, Eric Trump, or Donald Trump Jr. had to sign off on any payment more than $10,000, which is one reason Trump had to be involved in the Cohen reimbursement scheme in the first place.
Those handwritten notes laid out how the Trump Organization was to pay Cohen $180,000 in reimbursements-$130,000 for the Stormy payment and $50,000 for another more legitimate reimbursement-and then double it to 'gross up' and 'pay for taxes,' in addition to a $60,000 bonus for Cohen himself.
That totaled $420,000, or $35,000 per month for 12 months of repayments, which were labelled in the Trump books as 'legal expenses' based on a 'retainer.' These are the allegedly false records. Prosecutors... went through each individual one of those payments with both of the accountants.
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