evidence: Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr. today announced the all-count trial conviction of DONALD J. TRUMP, 77, for falsifying New York business records in order to conceal his illegal scheme to corrupt the 2016 election. TRUMP was convicted by a New York State Supreme Court jury of 34 counts of Falsifying Business Records in the First Degree. He is expected to be sentenced on July 11. [...] The genesis of the scheme was a 2015 meeting at Trump Tower where an agreement was hatched between TRUMP, his former attorney Michael Cohen, and David Pecker, the CEO of American Media Inc. ("AMI"). TRUMP, David Pecker and Michael Cohen agreed that AMI would prevent damaging information about TRUMP from becoming public. AMI, which owned the National Enquirer, purchased stories as part of a "catch and kill" strategy in order to protect TRUMP. In one instance, American Media Inc. paid $30,000 to a former Trump Tower doorman, who claimed to have a story about a child TRUMP had out of wedlock.