What the prosecutors did not say in Cohen’s sentencing memorandum filed Friday, however, is that they have continued to scrutinize what other executives in the president’s family business may have known about those crimes, which involved hush-money payments to two women who had said they had affairs with Trump.
After Cohen pleaded guilty in August to breaking campaign finance laws and other crimes, the federal prosecutors in Manhattan shifted their attention to what role, if any, Trump Organization executives played in the campaign finance violations, according to people briefed on the matter.
Cohen has provided assistance in that inquiry, which is separate from the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller.
In addition to implicating Trump in the payments to the two women, Cohen has told prosecutors that the company’s chief financial officer was involved in discussions about them, a claim that is now a focus of the inquiry, according to the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.
Cohen has told prosecutors that he believes Trump personally approved the company’s decision to reimburse him for one of the payments, one of the people said.
Neither the chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, nor any other executives at the Trump Organization have been accused of wrongdoing and there is no indication that anyone at the company will face charges in connection with the inquiry.
But in recent weeks, the prosecutors contacted the company to renew a request they had made this year for documents and other materials, according to the people.
At the time of the payments, Trump was the head of the company, and although he turned over its management to his elder sons, he still owns it through a trust.
A spokeswoman for the Trump Organization did not respond to requests for comment.
A spokesman for the federal prosecutors in Manhattan declined to comment. A lawyer for Weisselberg, Mary E. Mulligan, also declined to comment, as did Guy Petrillo, a lawyer for Cohen.
This article originally appeared in The New York Times.