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Trump trial live: David Pecker details hush-money payment to Playboy model Karen McDougal - BBC News Trump hush money trial live: David Pecker details payment to Karen McDougal - BBC News
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We're now at the documents portion of Pecker's testimony. Just before break, David Pecker told the court that getting Donald Trump to pay him back the $150,000 for McDougal's story was a headache.
Prosecutors are demonstrating the paper trail of the $150,000 payout to Karen McDougal. He testified that he agreed to pay Cohen $25,000 for the rights to the lifestyle content AMI had promised MacDougal it would publish as part of the hush money deal.
They're submitting invoices, bookkeeping entries, and other documents as evidence to help show how Pecker's company, American Media Inc., arranged payment to McDougal through her lawyer, Keith Davidson. Cohen would then pay the remaining $125,000 to Pecker in order to take the exclusive rights to MacDougal's story.
But they didn't want anyone to find out about the payment, because it would "raise a lot of issues", Pecker said.
So Pecker and Cohen had shell companies created to disguise the transaction, and they started to get the paperwork together.
But then the deal fell through.
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