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NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors in New York are remaining tight-lipped about their reasons for not pursuing additional charges in a hush-money scandal involving President Donald Trump.
The House Oversight Committee sent a letter Friday to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan requesting information about the decision to close the case without charging anyone besides the president's former lawyer, Michael Cohen.
Prosecutors haven't commented on their reasons for closing the investigation.
Cohen is serving a three-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to orchestrating hush-money payments to two women who claimed they had affairs with Trump.
The silence stands in contrast to other high-profile investigations that ended without charges.
Special counsel Robert Mueller and Attorney General William Barr both spoke publicly about the reasons Trump wasn't charged.
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