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Some additional breaking news within the Cohen announcement from @SDNYnews related to AMI

"AMI further admitted that its principal purpose in making the payment was to suppress the woman’s story so as to prevent it from influencing the election."
Michael Cohen Sentenced To 3 Years In Prison - U.S. Attorney’s Office Also Announces Non-Prosecution Agreement with American Media, Inc., Related to Its Payment of $150,000 to a Woman to Influence 2016 Presidential Election
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American Media Inc AMI Non Prosecution Agreement pdf
justice.gov/usao-sdny/pres…
The AMI agreement does not look good for Individual 1
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SDNY: Oh by the way, we also reached a non-prosecution agreement w/the National Enquirer's parent in which it admitted paying $150,000 to Karen McDougal "in concert with" the Trump campaign to prevent her story from becoming public before the election justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/m…
"AMI admitted that it made the $150,000 payment in concert with a candidate’s presidential campaign, and ... that its principal purpose in making the payment was to suppress the woman’s story so as to prevent it from influencing the election." Sad!
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US Atty for SDNY reveals "AMI admitted that it made the $150,000 payment in concert with a candidate’s presidential campaign, and in order to ensure that the woman did not publicize damaging allegations about the candidate before the 2016 presidential election. "
Also: “AMI further admitted that its principal purpose in making the payment was to suppress the woman’s story so as to prevent it from influencing the election.”
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BREAKING: Prosecutors: AMI, National Enquirer's parent company, admitted it made $150,000 Cohen payment “in concert” with “a candidate’s presidential campaign” in order to “ensure that the woman did not publicize damaging allegations about the candidate before" 2016 election.
Prosecutors also say they had reached a non-prosecution agreement with AMI, in connection with its role in making the payment, and AMI admitted “its principal purpose in making the payment was to suppress the woman’s story so as to prevent it from influencing the election.”
The company that publishes the National Enquirer admitted that it paid $150,000 hush money to silence alleged mistresses of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump prior to the 2016 election, prosecutors said Wednesday. nbcnews.to/2QpUSZ8
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The company that publishes the National Enquirer, AMI, previously entered into a non-prosecution agreement with SDNY, prosecutors confirm. justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/m…
"AMI further admitted that its principal purpose in making the payment was to suppress the woman’s story so as to prevent it from influencing the election."

That's an ominous sentence for the President.
also the reference to AMI's "substantial and important assistance in this investigation, and its agreement to provide cooperation in the future" will be causing some anxiety in the WH, safe to say
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