The people of the state of New York against Donald J. Trump, the grand jury of the county of New York by this indictment accuses the defendant of the crime

of falsifying business records in the first degree

in violation of Penal Law section 175.10 committed as follows the

defendant and the county of New York and elsewhere on or about February 14th

2017 with intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime

and aid and conceal the Commission thereof, made and caused a false entry in the business

records of an enterprise to wit an invoice from

Michael Cohen dated February 14th 2017 marked as a record of the Donald J Trump

revocable trust and kept and maintained by the Trump organization.

Hello and welcome to prosecuting Donald Trump. It is Tuesday, April 16th.

It is 1049 a.m.

And I'm Andrew Weisman and I'm here with Mary McCord.

Hi Mary.

Good morning.

It's already been a busy morning and it's only 1049.

Yes, we've never actually given the exact minute and that is because so much is going on, there

are motions that are being heard, that were heard yesterday, so much going on.

But everyone's probably thinking, what did we just hear? We just heard from renowned

actor Robert DeNiro, who was reading from the New York indictment, that is the actual indictment that is now in a case that is underway starting yesterday in Manhattan brought by the district attorney's office and what

you heard from Mr. DeNiro is the first of the 34 felony counts brought against Donald Trump by the state grand jury.

So in addition to what we just heard, Robert DeNiro has graciously lent his voice to read from

DA Alvin Bragg's statement of facts, which was issued along with the criminal indictment

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