‘National Enquirer’ Fined $187,500 Over Trump Affair Payments
American Media Inc., now known as A360 Media LLC, The National Enquirer‘s parent company, is being fined $187,500 by the Federal Election Commission for its role in suppressing the 2016 story about Donald Trump’s affair with former playboy model Karen McDougal. The company has agreed to the fine. The FEC claims that the publishing firm “knowingly and willfully” violated campaign finance laws by paying $150,000 for McDougal’s story concerning her affair with Trump – which lasted from 2006 and 2007 – and then refusing to publish it. American Media Inc. admitted that the “principal purpose in ent...