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Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal attorney and fixer, arrives with his family at federal court for his sentencing hearing on December 12, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Michael Cohen, the president’s former fixer who once famously claimed he was willing to "take a bullet" for Donald Trump before later turning against his boss, was sentenced to three years in prison Wednesday by a federal judge in New York after pleading guilty to numerous crimes while cooperating with prosecutors.
Lawyers for Cohen -- who worked as Trump’s counselor before the presidential campaign, advocated for him on television during the presidential race and remained his personal lawyer at the beginning of the administration -- had asked for leniency because of his cooperation with both the office of Special Counsel Mueller and prosecutors looking into campaign finance violations in New York.
But on Friday, federal prosecutors recommended a “substantial term of imprisonment” for Cohen, saying his efforts to cooperate with Mueller have been “overstated.” Federal prosecutors said that Cohen was “motivated” by “personal greed” and “repeatedly used his power and influence for deceptive ends.”
Speaking in court before the judge issued the sentence, Cohen said “blind loyalty” to Trump led him “to take a path of darkness instead of light.”
Prosecutors said Cohen orchestrated payments to McDougal and Daniels at Trump's direction.
Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal attorney and fixer, ...
The 52-year-old, who once said he would “take a bullet” for Trump, slightly shook his head and closed his eyes as U.S. District Judge William H. Pauley III made the announcement in federal court in New York City. He was ordered to surrender to prison on March 6, 2019.
Earlier in the day, the attorney blamed his actions on his “blind loyalty to Donald Trump” and said he “felt it was my duty to cover up [Trump’s] dirty deeds.” He also apologized to the public, saying, “Lying to you was unjust.”
Cohen's sentence marked the latest drop in a precipitous fall from the elbow of the powerful man whom Cohen served for years, sometimes as a brutal but fiercely loyal fixer.
A federal judge sentenced Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen to three years in prison on Wednesday following Cohen's guilty pleas to a number of political and finance crimes.
Trump says the accounts Cohen has given to investigators are lies made up in order to reduce the sentence he was facing for other crimes. Cohen also pleaded guilty to tax evasion and bank fraud, which added to the potential sentence for which he was eligible.
First, Cohen told authorities that Trump had directed him to arrange payments to two women ahead of Election Day in 2016 to keep them quiet about sexual relationships they said they had had with Trump — allegations Trump denies.
"While Mr. Mueller gave Michael significant credit for cooperation on the 'core' issues, it is unfortunate that SDNY prosecutors did not do the same. To me, their judgment showed a lack of appropriate proportionality."
Feds make deal with tabloid publisher. Prosecutors in New York City announced separately on Wednesday that they've signed a deal with tabloid publisher American Media Inc., in which they've agreed not to prosecute the company for its role in one of the payments Cohen arranged.
Cohen had told Congress in 2017 that the talks ended in January 2016, but his subsequent admission meant that Trump's aides had a channel open with Russia even as Trump was becoming the GOP front-runner and was denying he had any ties to Russia.
Cohen went to prison for arranging payments to silence women who claimed to have had affairs with President Trump and for lying to Congress in 2016.
In Cohen’s tell-all book, Disloyal, he revealed Trump also committed tax fraud and lied to Melania to cover-up his affairs with other women.