A paralegal from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office testified on Friday that three pages of phone records between Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels’s lawyer, Keith Davidson, were deleted from their evidence. Former President Donald Trump’s legal team was not notified about the removal, according to reports.
According to CNN, Trump attorney Emil Bove questioned paralegal Jaden Jarmel-Schneider last week before the defense rested about the deletion of three pages of 2018 phone records between Davidson and Cohen by Bragg’s office. The Epoch Times also reported that additional phone records involving conversations between Daniels’ manager, Gina Rodriguez, and then-National Enquirer editor Dylan Howard, regarding Daniels’ claims about her alleged affair were also deleted.
The altered call records were submitted as evidence. However, Bragg’s office failed to inform Trump’s defense team that three pages were missing.
Tampering with evidence is a class E felony in the Empire State under New York Consolidation Laws, Penal Law § 215.40, which states in part:
A person is guilty of tampering with physical evidence when: Believing that certain physical evidence is about to be produced or used in an official proceeding or a prospective official proceeding, and intending to prevent such production or use, he suppresses it by any act of concealment, alteration or destruction, or by employing force, intimidation or deception against any person.
