Pecker recalled a conversation that he and Cohen had about letters from the Federal Election Commission in 2018.
Pecker said, "We committed a campaign violation."
He testified that he was worried, but Cohen said he was not, telling Pecker: "Jeff Sessions is the attorney general and Donald Trump has him in his pocket."
Some background: In 2021, the FEC said it had fined the publisher of the National Enquirer for its role in a “hush-money” payment made to former Playboy model Karen McDougal during the 2016 election cycle. The $187,500 fine came after the commission found that American Media Inc., whose successor is A360 Media, LLC, made an illegal corporate campaign contribution by paying $150,000 during Trump’s first presidential campaign to prevent McDougal from going public with her claims of an affair. Trump has denied the affair.