So, will Donny's personal lawyer take the fall for Donny, including prison time and/or disbarment? Or will he squeal on Donny? Stay tuned!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...-election-law/
The only way in which Cohen could have paid the $130,000 without having violated campaign finance laws is if he were totally independent of the campaign and, as a private individual, decided to give Daniels the money to buy her silence. But Cohen was clearly empowered to act on behalf of the campaign, including appearing on CNN to speak on its behalf about campaign staffing changes.
To assume that no campaign finance laws were broken means assuming either that:
The payment had nothing to do with the campaign, or
Cohen had nothing to do with the campaign.
Neither seems at all likely.