false statements about his payments to mr. cohen. he cannot simply say that th payments were a reimbursemen but for mr. cohen s payments t stormy daniels with. to do so, to make that tru statement, would have been t admit a crime. instead trump said he wa paying cohen for fictitiou legal services in 2017 to cove up actual crime committed th prior year and in order to get michae cohen his money back, they pla one last fall statement. in order to complete the scheme, they plan to mischaracterize the missed payments to mr. cohen as income to the new yor state tax authorities. the conduct i just described and that which was charged b the grand jury s felon criminal conduct in new york