A New York jury has found former U.S. President Donald Trump guilty on all 34 felony counts in the Manhattan “hush money” case, marking the first criminal conviction of a current or former U.S. president. The charges centered on falsified Trump Organization business records used to conceal reimbursements for a $130,000 payment made in 2016 by Trump’s then-lawyer Michael Cohen to adult film actor Stormy Daniels to keep her from publicly alleging a past sexual encounter during the final stretch of the presidential campaign. Prosecutors argued that disguising those payments as legal fees was part of a broader scheme to influence the 2016 election by suppressing damaging information, elevating the falsification of records to felony conduct under New York law. The case, formally The People of the State of New York v. Donald J. Trump, was brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and charged Trump with 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree under New York Penal Law §175.10. A New York County jury returned a unanimous guilty verdict on May 30, 2024, after a weeks-long trial that featured testimony from Cohen, Daniels, and former Trump Organization personnel, as well as documentary evidence of the reimbursement structure. The conviction makes Trump a convicted felon and represents the only one of his several criminal cases to have gone to verdict so far. Although the offenses occurred before his presidency, the outcome has significant political and legal ramifications, including an expected appeal that could test aspects of state criminal law and the handling of election-related conduct by candidates for federal office.

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