| In Trump Trial Pecker Tells
Bove Is Was Business But Tells
Steinglass All about Election
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
100
CENTRE ST COURT,
April 26 – On the fourth day
of the Trump trial defense
lawyer Emil Bove continued to
cross-examine the National
Enquirer's David Pecker.
He got Pecker to
say that the National
Enquirer's parent company's
agreement with Karen McDougal
had made business sense
without regard to the 2016
election.
But on re-direct,
prosecutor Joshua Steinglass
got Pecker to say it had been
about catch and kill, and that
outside counsel's sign-off on
the agreement was after only
half an hour of review.
Bove got
Pecker to more or less
acknowledge that AMI was
incentivized to settle with
the FEC to clear the issue for
a deal with Hudson News.
What would
the jury take from all this?
The trial
broke for lunch with
Steinglass still doing
re-direct, and Bove's re-cross
to come.
Bove had risen to
Chief in the Office of the US
Attorney for the Southern
District of New York, the
position he was listed in when
admonished for discovery
violations in US v. Nejad,
covered by Inner City Press.
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