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.
In 2010, Cohen briefly campaigned for a seat in the New York State Senate.
M ichael Cohen, the former longtime personal lawyer of President Donald Trump, was sentenced to three years in federal prison on Wednesday, taking a parting shot at the President after implicating him in hush money payments to two women over alleged affairs with Trump.
Cohen’s sentence aligns with the sentence of about three and a half years that prosecutors had recommended in a filing on Friday. In a separate case, Cohen pleaded guilty last month to lying to Congress in 2017 about the timing and details of his work on a since-abandoned project to build a Trump tower in Russia.
Cohen admitted that he worked at the direction of Trump to pay former Playboy model Karen McDougal and adult film star Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about their alleged affairs with Trump — which Cohen said was an effort to influence the 2016 election.
But U.S. District Judge William H. Pauley III said a tough sentence was warranted because “as a lawyer, Mr. Cohen should have known better.”
Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York also announced a previously reached non-prosecution agreement with the parent company of the National Enquirer, American Media, Inc., which admitted to paying McDougal $150,000 “in concert with a candidate’s presidential campaign.”.
Under existing Department of Justice policy, the President cannot be indicted.
Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen joins MSNBC’s Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber to discuss the escalating probe into Rudy Giuliani, why Cohen believes Giuliani will flip on Trump and how this investigation will affect the former president. Cohen also discusses his own experience being under investigation by the feds.
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Michael Cohen was arrested for numerous crimes on August 21,2018,. He has been arraigned and has plead guilty under terms of a deal he made with the New York Federal Prosecutor’s Office. He has not been convicted of any crimes as of August 22, 2018, he has simply filed a plea of guilty.
He was arrested because the Mueller team found some incriminating evidence while investigating him for being Trump’s lawyer, which has obviously become a crime in the United States. They passed the information on to the New York DOJ office for investigation and prosecution. Thanks for the A2A, Terry. John Harvey.
It all started when the Mueller investigation uncovered evidence implicating Cohen in some crimes. We don’t know exactly what that was or what the crimes were, but Mueller brought the evidence (as any prosecutor should have) to his superior, Rod Rosenstein.
Rosenstein reviewed the evidence and concluded that it was not within the scope of Mueller’s investigation to pursue it and referred the case to the US Attorneys of the Southern District of New York. They reviewed the evidence and went to a judge to get a search. Continue Reading.
Cohen has proof of his claim, and is risking many decades if he lies. Trump’s denial is all he’s got, because he is only risking the his reputation which is already shot. No one builds a few golf courses, several mansions, and a half a dozen Towers with no cash in the bank accountant.