· Trump, Cohen and Cohn: When ‘my attorney’ becomes just ‘one of my lawyers’ Roy Cohn, shown at left in this undated photo, was a “fixer” for Donald Trump, right — a role later played by lawyer...
Roy Cohn (L) and Donald Trump attend the Trump Tower opening in October 1983 at The Trump Tower in New York City. The FBI on Friday released nearly 750 …
· Sometime in 1973, Donald Trump meets attorney and Nixon adviser Roy Cohn at Le Club, an elite hangout Trump frequents to make powerful connections. Cohn becomes Donald and Fred’s lawyer. Most sources claim they met in 1973, but Cohn says in a filmed interview that he met Trump when he was 23.
· By Laura Nahmias and Darren Samuelsohn. December 12, 2018 6:22 pm. NEW YORK — A contrite Michael Cohen on Wednesday received three years in prison for a series of tax fraud and lying charges, sending another former Donald Trump associate to jail. Cohen’s sentence is not as large as the four-plus years that federal prosecutors in New York wanted, but it …
Sometime in 1973, Donald Trump meets attorney and Nixon adviser Roy Cohn at Le Club, an elite hangout Trump frequents to make powerful connections. Cohn becomes Donald and Fred’s lawyer.
When the Justice Department sues Fred and Donald Trumpfor housing discrimination in October, Cohn represents them. Trump learns from Cohn how to manipulate a story and make the government regret coming after you.
Cohn’s Media Army:His experience with the McCarthy trials and his indictment taught Cohn that the media will report anything you say as fact , as long as you say it enough times or with enough confidence. He buddied up with the New York media and even struck deals with journalists at the New York Post and New York Daily News. He would leak information to them, accurate or not, in exchange for them writing anything he told them to publish. Anyone he couldn’t pay off or bribe with information, he would blackmail.
Trump Trick: Create a false image of yourself as an upstanding citizen or celebrity do-gooder so people won’t believe you’re a criminal. Cohn served as an informal adviser to President Richard Nixon, who took office in 1969.
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Trump's ex-lawyer Michael Cohen arrives at federal prison to start three-year sentence. "There still remains much to be told, and I look forward to the day that I can share the truth," the president's former lawyer said.
Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former lawyer, leaves his apartment in New York on May 6, 2019. Jeenah Moon / Reuters. Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former lawyer and fixer who pleaded guilty last year to an array of white-collar crimes, arrived at a federal prison in upstate New York on Monday to begin serving his three-year ...
At his sentencing hearing, Cohen — who Trump has slammed as a “rat” — said that as Trump’s lawyer he had “felt it was my duty to cover up his dirty deeds.”
At Otisville, Cohen joins other quasi-celebrity criminals like "Jersey Shore" star Michael "The Situation" Sorrentino — who pleaded guilty to tax evasion — and Fyre Festival organizer Billy McFarland, at what the Associated Press has described as the “the closest thing the federal prison system has to sleepaway camp.”.
A meeting took place at Trump Tower in New York City on June 9, 2016, between three senior members of the 2016 Trump campaign – Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort – and at least five other people, including Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya. The meeting was arranged by publicist and long-time Trump acquaintance Rob Goldstone on behalf of his client, singer-songwriter Emin Agalarov. The meeting was first disclosed to U.S. government officials in April 2017, when Kushner filed a revised version of his security clearance form.
Donald Trump Jr. made several misleading statements about the meeting. He initially told the press that the meeting was held to discuss adoptions of Russian children by Americans. On July 8, 2017, after news reports stated that Trump Jr. knew the meeting was political, he admitted in a tweet that he had agreed to the meeting with the understanding that he would receive information damaging to Hillary Clinton, and that he was conducting opposition research. When The New York Times was about to report on email exchanges between Goldstone and Trump Jr., Trump Jr. himself published the emails. In early July 2017, it was reported that President Donald Trump himself drafted Trump Jr.'s initial misleading statement. The report was later confirmed by the president's attorneys. In July 2018, the president denied knowledge of the meeting.
Trump Jr. initially told reporters that the meeting had been "primarily about adoptions". He then released a statement saying it had been a "short introductory meeting" concerning "a program about the adoption of Russian children". A few days later Trump Jr. acknowledged that he went into the meeting expecting to receive opposition research from Veselnitskaya that could hurt Clinton's campaign, adding that none was presented and that the conversation instead focused on the Magnitsky Act. Later a statement from Trump Jr.'s lawyer said Veselnitskaya had claimed to have information "that individuals connected to Russia were funding the Democratic National Committee and supporting Mrs. Clinton" but "it quickly became clear that she had no meaningful information". Trump Jr. said he felt the adoption issue was her "true agenda all along" and the claims of helpful political information were a pretext. After learning that the New York Times was about to publish the series of emails setting up the meeting, Trump Jr. himself published the email chain via Twitter, and explained that he considered the meeting to be "political opposition research". He summarized the meeting as "such a nothing... a wasted 20 minutes".
A meeting took place at Trump Tower in New York City on June 9, 2016, between three senior members of the 2016 Trump campaign – Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort – and at least five other people, including Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya. The meeting was arranged by publicist and long-time Trump acquaintance Rob Goldstone on behalf of his client, singer-songwriter Emin Agalarov. The meeting was first disclosed to U.S. government officials in April 2017, when Kushner filed a revised version of his security clearance form.
George Papadopoulos. The Statement of Facts of Guilt, filed October 5, 2017, and unsealed October 30, 2017 , showing the facts admitted by Papadopoulos as part of his guilty plea. George Papadopoulos joined Donald Trump's presidential campaign in early March 2016 as a foreign policy advisor.
During sworn testimony before the House Oversight Committee on February 27, 2019, Michael Cohen repeated his assertion of July 2018 that the president was aware of the Tower meeting in advance. His prepared remarks included the following account: