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Given events this week (did something happen this week?), we felt a special issue of PAY DIRT was in order. Today, we’re devoting the entire newsletter to unwrapping and analyzing what is unquestionably the biggest campaign-finance story of the Trump era: the criminal hush-money payments made by Michael Cohen.

We’ll resume our regularly scheduled programming in next week’s edition.