A judge said Wednesday that federal prosecutors in New York have ended their campaign-finance investigation into hush-money payments arranged by President Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen.
U.S. District Judge William Pauley also ordered the unsealing of materials related to the investigation and denied prosecutors' request to black out certain portions, Reuters reported.
The materials will be made public Thursday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan at 11 a.m. Eastern Time.
Pauley wrote that the "campaign finance violations discussed in the Materials are a matter of national importance."
"Now that the Government's investigation into those violations has concluded, it is time that every American has an opportunity to scrutinize the Materials."
Trump's current personal lawyer, Jay Sekulow of the American Center for Law and Justice, said in a statement that the case is closed.
"We are pleased that the investigation surrounding these ridiculous campaign finance allegations is now closed," he said. "We have maintained from the outset that the President never engaged in any campaign finance violation."
Last December, Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison for crimes that included including breaking campaign finance laws by hiding payments to two women who claimed they had affairs with Trump.
Cohen paid porn star Stormy Daniels $130,000 on the eve of the 2016 presidential election and arranged for the publisher of the National Enquirer to pay Playboy model Karen McDougal $150,000.
Cohen testified he made the payments at Trump's request to avoid a public scandal. Trump and his attorney Rudy Giuliani stated that Trump had personally reimbursed Cohen in 2017, insisting no campaign money was involved.