President-elect Donald Trump was convicted of falsifying business records to hide payments to Stormy Daniels made ahead of the 2016 election.

Trump faces sentencing for his New York hush-money conviction after the nation's highest court refused to intervene.

DONALD Trump turned to “Hail Mary” tactics in a bid to delay his sentencing because he didn’t want to be a convicted felon heading into the White House, a former judge has told

US President-elect Donald Trump is scheduled to be sentenced on Friday for his criminal conviction stemming from hush money paid to a porn star, a case that for a time overshadowed his bid to retake the White House.

The Supreme Court refused to block President-elect Donald Trump’s criminal sentencing for covering up hush money paid to adult-film star Stormy Daniels, clearing the way for an unprecedented court proceeding in New York.

The US Supreme Court has rejected a last-ditch attempt by Donald Trump to delay sentencing in the Stormy Daniels hush money case.

President-elect Donald Trump can be sentenced Friday in his New York hush money case, the Supreme Court said in a 5-4 ruling.

Donald Trump will now be sentenced on Friday for counts around the New York hush money case - days before the 78-year-old politician is due to return to the US presidency

The Supreme Court rejected President-elect Donald Trump's request to delay sentencing in his hush money case. Trump was convicted of covering up a payment to Stormy Daniels. Trump's lawyers argued the prosecution violated his presidential immunity,

On Tuesday, just hours before Donald Trump ’s legal team asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene and pause his sentencing today in the New York case involving hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels, the president-elect and the conservative justice talked on the phone.

Trump, who will be sworn into office in 10 days, lost several last-minute bids to put off the punishment phase of his trial, petitioning the state appellate court, the New York Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing that as an incoming president, he should be immune from prosecution. He was denied in each venue.

Donald Trump will be sentenced Friday for covering up hush money payments to a porn star despite the US President-elect's last-ditch efforts to frustrate a process that would make him the first felon in the White House.