Daniels amended her existing lawsuit against Trump, adding Cohen as a defendant in the pending case. [Daniels says threats kept her quiet about alleged Trump affair until now]Neither Cohen nor his attorney could be immediately reached for comment. The amended complaint also names Cohen, whose picture has been brandished by Daniels’s attorney, Michael Avenatti, during television appearances in recent days. Cohen’s $130,000 payment amounted to an in-kind campaign contribution that exceeded those limits and was never reported, according to the amended complaint. Daniels told “60 Minutes” that a threat came in 2011 shortly after she attempted to sell her story about Trump to a tabloid magazine.

Source: Washington Post March 26, 2018 20:20 UTC