A former lawyer for Karen McDougal issued a defiant statement Thursday afternoon after being vindicated following National Enquirer publisher David Pecker being given immunity from prosecution in exchange for working with the prosecutors about his coordination with President Trump and attorney Michael Cohen to pay her off.
“Told you so,” tweeted Peter Stris, who served as McDougal’s attorney from March 13 through April 18 when the lawsuit was filed against AMI in California.
McDougal is now represented by Carol Heller.
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To all media asking our firm to comment on #NationalEnquirer publisher #DavidPecker getting immunity from prosecution in exchange for corroboration of his collusion w #MichaelCohen + @realDonaldTrump in silencing #KarenMcDougal, here is our official statement: “Told you so.” https://t.co/Fkr5Gcyxot
— Peter K. Stris (@PeterStris) August 23, 2018
In March, Stris said McDougal was “tricked into signing a bonus contract with a quarter-billion dollar company that happens to be run by a close, personal friend of Donald Trump” in return for her story about the two having a sexual affair years earlier.
Pecker was given immunity by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York in return for information about nondisclosure agreements that Cohen, Trump’s longtime personal attorney, brokered between his former boss and women he had relations with.
Pecker paid for McDougal’s story but then never ran an article about it.
Cohen pleaded guilty Tuesday to eight charges, including willfully causing an unlawful corporate contribution in 2016 and making an excessive campaign contribution in 2016. Those charges are in reference to his paying porn star Stormy Daniels in return for not speaking out about having had an affair with Trump early in his marriage with Melania Trump.
