media, us attorney's office reveal the deal this afternoon in a press release after the sentencing of michael cohen who apologized for his involvement in handling payments to women to keep them quiet about alleged affairs with donald trump. one of those women karen mcdougall, paying $100,000 for the national enquirer but the inquirer buried the story, a practice known as catch and kill, the deal was orchestrated by david packer, a good friend of the president and been cooperating with us attorney as part of a nonprosecution agreement and made the payment suppressing a potentially harmful story and keep it from influencing the election agreeing to improve its practices to prevent future violations. :who showed up with his wife, son and daughter had three rose of family and friends in the courtroom, during a 10 minute statement that blind loyalty to