Trump will be sentenced Jan. 10 in New York case, days before his inauguration
NPRTrump will be sentenced Jan. 10 in New York case, days before his inauguration toggle caption Rebecca Noble/Getty Images President-elect Donald Trump is scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 10 in New York, 10 days before he is sworn in to be president of the United States. Trump's New York criminal charges were the only to go to trial After about a day and a half of deliberations, 12 New York jurors said last May that they unanimously agreed that Trump falsified business records to conceal a $130,000 hush money payment to adult-film star Stormy Daniels to influence the 2016 election. Jurors also weighed other evidence — mostly documents like phone records, invoices and checks to Michael Cohen, Trump's once loyal "fixer," who paid Daniels to keep her story of an alleged affair with the former president quiet. What prosecutors needed to prove was that Trump falsified the records in order to further another crime — in this case, violating the New York election law that makes it a crime for "any two or more persons conspire to promote or prevent the election of any person to a public office by unlawful means."