Trump's team handed another 15K new documents in hush money case

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office will hand Trump's team another 15,000 new documents they obtained from the Southern District of New York for the election interference case involving hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels. Another 31,000 documents were released Thursday.

The DA is handing the documents over to Trump after the S.D.N.Y. informed him they found new documents when Trump's team requested them two months ago. Bragg's team had requested the paperwork last year.

The documents relate to the case of Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen which was investigated years ago. Thus far, he is the only one who has gone to prison for being involved in the hush money scandal. Only a handful had been handed over when the DA initially requested them.

As former prosecutor Joyce Vance explained, "In the initial production, the DA concluded fewer than 200 items were relevant."

Bragg said that his office has turned over every document that they have.

The Justice Department's delay in providing the documents could now slow the trial, which was scheduled to begin March 25. Trump's lawyers have asked for a 90-day delay, while the D.A.'s office said it agreed to 30 days.

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Trump's lawyers are demanding that the case be dismissed because the DA's office withheld the documents from them.

"An immediate adjournment is appropriate, but the Court should reject the People’s effort to ward off President Trump’s pending motion to dismiss the Indictment, which is based on the People’s significant and ongoing discovery violations," a letter from Trump's lawyer to the judge says.

Cohen has long complained that he has been denied documents involving his case at the federal level despite help from members of Congress and Freedom of Information Act requests.

He said the Justice Department told him that more than 480,000 documents responded to his query, but they could only send a certain number each week — meaning it would take decades to access all of them.

"First, FOIA stated that after a lengthy search, there were no documents found responsive to the request," wrote Cohen in a blog post in Sept. 2023. "After presenting documents in my possession via attorney Mark Zaid, miraculously, an apology was offered along with an acknowledgment that there are documents responsive to the request…in fact, more than 480,000."

Cohen told Raw Story that so far he's only received 32 documents.