{"id":3979,"date":"2024-05-06T12:05:37","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T12:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/06\/this-obscure-n-y-election-law-is-at-the-heart-of-trumps-hush-money-trial\/"},"modified":"2024-05-06T12:05:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T12:05:37","slug":"this-obscure-n-y-election-law-is-at-the-heart-of-trumps-hush-money-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/06\/this-obscure-n-y-election-law-is-at-the-heart-of-trumps-hush-money-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"This obscure N.Y. election law is at the heart of Trump\u2019s hush money trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\">An obscure New York state election law that has rarely been prosecuted over five decades has been dusted off by Manhattan prosecutors and elevated to a prominent role in Donald Trump\u2019s criminal trial over allegedly falsifying documents related to a hush money payment during the 2016 election campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\">The law \u2014 Section 17-152 of the state\u2019s election code \u2014 makes it a misdemeanor for two or more people to \u201cconspire to promote or prevent the election of any person to a public office by unlawful means.\u201d Trump is not being charged under that statute, which apparently has been used only a few times in cases related to state or local elections, though it is a key factor in his case.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on The Washington Post<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An obscure New York state election law that has rarely been prosecuted over five decades has been dusted off by Manhattan prosecutors and elevated to a prominent role in Donald Trump\u2019s criminal trial over allegedly falsifying documents related to a hush money payment during the 2016 election campaign. The law \u2014 Section 17-152 of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}