The indictment against former President Donald Trump charges him with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records and conspiracy in connection with hush money payments to two women before the 2016 presidential election.
The charging document was unsealed at his arraignment in Manhattan Supreme Court on Tuesday.
Trump pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The grand jury indicted Trump on Thursday. The charging document had remained sealed since then.
The grand jury began hearing testimony in the case in late January.
News of those proceedings came as a surprise, since a former prosecutor in the district attorney’s office last year had suggested the investigation into Trump was all but dead after Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg declined to seek an indictment against Trump in connection with allegedly false financial statements involving real estate assets.
Trump separately is under criminal investigation by the Department of Justice and a state prosecutor in Georgia for efforts to reverse his 2020 election loss to President Joe Biden.
The DOJ also is probing Trump for retaining government records after leaving the White House and for possible obstruction of justice.