Former US President Donald Trump has been found guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records in his hush money trial in New York.
Trump, CNN reported, was “straight-faced” when he heard a decision had been reached in the New York City courthouse.
Jurors had been on the verge of being sent home for the day when they sent word they had reached a verdict.
Trump was charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records at his company in connection with an alleged scheme to hide potentially embarrassing stories about him during his 2016 presidential election campaign.
The charge, a felony, rose from reimbursements paid to then-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen after he made a $US130,000 ($195,000) hush money payment to porn actor Stormy Daniels to silence her claims that she and Trump had sex in 2006.
Trump is accused of misrepresenting Cohen’s reimbursements as legal expenses to hide that they were tied to a hush money payment.
Trump pleaded not guilty and contended the Cohen payments were for legitimate legal services.
He has also denied the alleged extramarital sexual encounter with Daniels.
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