Did the Manhattan DA or federal prosecutors investigate payments to people connected to minors in Trump-related probes?

1. What the available documents actually cover: policy, benefits and immigration — not criminal probes

The set of sources provided centers on policy changes and benefits under the Trump administration — for example, SNAP payment decisions and litigation over withheld benefits (reported by The New York Times and Newsweek) and new child-focused savings and tax provisions like “Trump Accounts” and changes to the Child Tax Credit ^{[1] [2] [6] [3] [7] [8] [9]}. Separately, The Guardian story discusses a DHS memo proposing payments to unaccompanied immigrant minors to support voluntary return, not a criminal inquiry about payments in prosecutions ^[4].

2. No source here reports Manhattan DA or federal prosecutors investigating payments tied to minors in Trump probes

None of the items in your provided results describe a Manhattan district attorney or federal prosecutors investigating payments to people connected to minors as part of Trump-related criminal probes. The New York Times live updates and related pieces in the selection address SNAP funding and court fights, not criminal investigations involving minors or payments associated with them ^{[1] [2]}. Therefore, the specific allegation or question you asked — whether prosecutors investigated such payments — is not supported by these files (not found in current reporting).

3. Similar-sounding issues in the files: administrative payments to minors, not criminal scrutiny

Two themes in these sources could be confused with investigative reporting but are administratively different: the Trump Accounts baby-seed-money program (one-time $1,000 deposits for children born 2025–2028) reported by Investopedia, CNBC, Maner and others, and an immigration proposal to offer unaccompanied minors $2,500 to self-deport described by The Guardian ^{[7] [8] [10] [4]}. These are policy proposals or statutory benefits and are not criminal probes by prosecutors ^{[7] [4]}.

4. What reporters did examine about payments in this selection — government withholding or offering benefits

The New York Times and Newsweek pieces cover the Trump administration’s decision to provide only partial SNAP benefits in November and legal challenges seeking full release of funding; these are executive-branch funding decisions and litigation over benefits, not criminal investigations of payments tied to minors ^{[1] [6] [2]}. Reuters’ fact-check addresses a separate child-support/tax claim and concludes Trump did not announce such a law — again, policy and misinformation correction, not prosecutorial action ^[5].

5. How to interpret the absence of coverage here — limits and next steps

Because the search results you provided contain no reporting on prosecutors probing payments to people connected to minors in Trump-related criminal investigations, I cannot affirm such probes occurred based on this corpus (not found in current reporting). If you want confirmation one way or the other, I recommend searching for targeted articles or official filings naming the Manhattan DA (or specific federal prosecutors or U.S. Attorney’s offices) together with keywords like “payments,” “minors,” “investigation,” “witness payments,” or specific case names; those documents are not in the current set (not found in current reporting).

6. Competing interpretations and why precise sourcing matters

Absent direct reporting, different parties could spin the question: critics may suggest prosecutors would investigate any payments that could influence witnesses (a common prosecutorial concern), while defenders may argue payments to minors in administrative benefit contexts are legitimate government actions; neither position is supported or rebutted by the current collection. Because the available items here focus on benefits and administrative proposals rather than criminal probes, drawing conclusions about prosecution would be speculation, and the sources do not provide evidence either confirming or denying such investigations ^{[1] [4] [7] [5]}.

If you want, I can run another targeted search (using sources outside this set) for reporting that directly names the Manhattan DA, U.S. Attorney’s Office, or federal prosecutors and links them to investigations into payments involving minors in any Trump-related matter.