Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump s former personal lawyer, pleaded guilty to two counts of violating federal campaign finance laws in a New York courtroom on Tuesday and, in doing so, directly implicated the president and his 2016 campaign in criminal activity.

Cohen, who is also the former deputy finance chairman for the Republican National Committee, admitted in court Tuesday that Trump, named as Individual-1 in the plea agreement , directed him to pay off two women the president allegedly had affairs with to keep them from talking to the media prior to the 2016 general election. The payments, according to Cohens plea deal, were made to aid Trumps campaign to win the White House and therefore legally constituted campaign donations. Both donations far exceeded the $2,700 individual campaign contribution limit and one came from a corporation, which cannot donate directly to presidential campaigns. The two illegal donations were not disclosed.

President Trump and his campaign are on the hook now for criminal violations of the law given what was revealed in Cohens plea today, said Paul S. Ryan, campaign finance legal expert at the nonpartisan group Common Cause.