Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former lawyer, pleaded guilty to criminal charges related to payments he arranged before the 2016 presidential election to silence two women who alleged having affairs with Mr. Trump, directly implicating his former boss for the first time in a scheme to violate campaign-finance laws. For both payments, Mr. Cohen told a federal judge he acted at the direction of “the candidate,” referring to Mr. Trump. That was the first time Mr. Cohen admitted to coordinating with Mr. Trump on the hush-money...

Source: Wall Street Journal August 21, 2018 18:26 UTC