NEW YORK (NEWSnet/AP) — A New York judge says former President Donald Trump’s hush-money trial will go ahead as scheduled with jury selection starting on March 25.

Judge Juan Manuel Merchan said Thursday that he made the decision after speaking with the judge in Trump’s now-delayed federal election interference case in the nation’s capital.

This would be the first of Trump’s four pending criminal cases to go to trial. Since this case emerged, he has also been indicted in Florida, Georgia and Washington, D.C., on other charges.

The charges in New York are punishable by up to four years in prison.

The case centers on payoffs to two women, porn actor Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal, as well as to a Trump Tower doorman who claimed to have a story about Trump having a child out of wedlock. Trump says he didn’t have any of the alleged sexual encounters.

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