Bloomberg News is reporting that federal prosecutors are investigating whether executives at the Trump Organization violated campaign finance laws. The revelation follows the guilty plea of Donald Trump's longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen, who confessed to making two illegal hush-money payments to women who allegedly had affairs with Trump. Trump Org executives subsequently reimbursed Cohen for that money as if they were paying him a retainer fee for his legal services to the business, an apparent effort to conceal the illegal campaign contributions. Bloomberg writes:
The inquiry, not previously reported, shows that the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office doesn’t intend to stand down following the guilty plea from Trump’s longtime personal lawyer. Manhattan prosecutors are working on a parallel track to U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is tasked with examining Russian interference in the presidential election and who is referring other matters as they arise to appropriate sections of the Justice Department. [...]
Central to the inquiry will be longtime Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg, who has already provided narrow cooperation with authorities over Cohen’s activities and hush agreements, according to the person. It’s not clear whether Weisselberg is a focus of the continuing inquiry.
This is going to drive Trump nuts because if his family business is in legal jeopardy, his kids could be too.