Trump 'catch and kill': SDNY won't prosecute National Enquirer (AMI) because they're helping investigators

The company that owns The National Enquirer tabloid will not be prosecuted for its efforts to protect Donald Trump during his presidential campaign.

AMI, which owns the tabloid National Enquirer, admitted to making a $150,000 hush money payment, and will cooperate with investigators.

AMI chief David Pecker is (was?) a longtime friend of Donald Trump, long before the campaign.

Pecker has been granted immunity.

He is singing.

Trump should be worried.

The U.S. Southern District of New York reached a non-prosecution agreement with AMI, in which the firm admitted it made "catch and kill" payment to Trump's alleged ex-paramour Karen MacDougal.

AMI admitted that it paid her in concert with the Donald Trump presidential campaign.

Said the SDNY prosecutors, AMI admitted that it made the $150,000 payment in concert with a candidates presidential campaign, and in order to ensure that the woman did not publicize damaging allegations about the candidate before the 2016 presidential election.

Prosecutors say AMI admitted its principal purpose in making the payment was to suppress the womans story so as to prevent it from influencing the election.

Excerpt from the SDNY press release.

The Office also announced today that it has previously reached a non-prosecution agreement with AMI, in connection with AMIs role in making the above-described $150,000 payment before the 2016 presidential election. As a part of the agreement, AMI admitted that it made the $150,000 payment in concert with a candidates presidential campaign, and in order to ensure that the woman did not publicize damaging allegations about the candidate before the 2016 presidential election.