Stormy Daniels sues Trump lawyer for defamation, charges illegal cover-up of hush money
by Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times
Mar 26, 2018
4 minutes
Stormy Daniels accused President Donald Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen of defamation and charged that he broke federal law by paying the porn star to stay silent on her alleged affair with Trump.
In a revised lawsuit filed Monday in Los Angeles federal court, Daniels said Cohen effectively called her a liar last month in a public statement challenging her story of a sexual encounter with Trump in 2006.
Daniels sued March 6 to void the agreement that bars her from talking about the alleged affair.
The updated complaint says the pact was an unlawful scheme to cover up the $130,000 payment that Daniels received 11 days before the
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