The Federal Elections Commission (FEC) has closed its investigation into whether former President Donald Trump broke campaign finance rules when his then-attorney Michael Cohen paid $130,000 in alleged “hush money” to adult film actress Stormy Daniels on the eve of the 2016 election. The bipartisan election commission, which is evenly split between three Republicans and three Democratic-aligned commissioners, dropped the inquiry and “closed the file” in the case known as Matter Under Review (MUR) #7313, according to the case docket summary and other documents. The FEC voted on the inquiry in a closed-door meeting in February, according to the New York Times while the commission’s case file docket was updated with related information more recently. Assistant General Counsel Lynn Tran, in a March 31 letter to the Trump Organization (pdf), wrote that the FEC had “considered the allegations raised in the complaints and there were an insufficient number of votes to …
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