Current Events > Micheal Cohen, Trump's ex-lawyer, will plead guilty for lying to Congress

(+) Yeah! (+)

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/michael-cohen-expected-plead-guilty-lying-congress-collusion-140803992--abc-news-topstories.html

Special counsel Robert Mueller has reached a tentative deal with Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney and long-time fixer for President Donald Trump, sources told ABC News.

Cohen is scheduled to appear in federal court in Manhattan on Thursday where he is expected to enter a guilty plea for misstatements to Congress in closed-door testimony last year about his contacts with Russians during the presidential campaign.

Once among the presidents most loyal and zealous defenders in business and politics, Cohen has now promised to put family and country first by cooperating with prosecutors, becoming perhaps the most pivotal public witness against his former boss.

Cohens earlier plea deal with federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York implicated President Trump in campaign finance felonies. Since then, Cohen has spent more than 70 hours in interviews with Mueller's team. The questioning has focused on contacts with Russians by Trump associates during the campaign, Trumps business ties to Russia, obstruction of justice and talk of possible pardons, sources familiar with the discussions have told ABC News.

The potential significance of Cohens cooperation is immense, said Kendall Coffey, a former United States Attorney in Florida.

As Trumps personal attorney and problem solver for more than a decade, Cohens portfolio at the Trump Organization covered personal and business matters both routine and highly sensitive. His dealings while serving as a senior executive in Trumps global empire include several projects thought to be of interest to Muellers prosecutors, most notably the pursuit of a Trump Tower project in Moscow during the presidential campaign.

"It cannot be determined if Cohens cooperation will lead to other criminal allegations," Coffey said. "But for most high-powered business people with complex business interests, having ones personal attorney become a star witness for the prosecution is the worst possible legal nightmare."

Cohen once said that he would take a bullet for the president but has now come to regard Trump as dangerously unfit for the presidency, according to people close to Cohen.

He has been determined to tell Muellers team, other federal prosecutors and the New York State Attorney Generals Office all that he knows -- and his testimony poses a potentially serious threat to the president, sources told ABC News. They also say Cohens voluntary cooperation has been crucial to the special counsels case.

The news of the agreement comes during a tumultuous week in the Mueller investigation. On Monday, the special counsels plea deal with Trumps former campaign manager Paul Manafort officially collapsed, with prosecutors alleging that Manafort breached the pact by lying to federal agents and government lawyers during interviews. Manaforts attorneys dispute the allegations that he lied.

The president this week has been ratcheting up his criticisms of the investigation and Muellers team, accusing the prosecutors in a Wednesday tweet of viciously telling witnesses to lie about facts and likening the inquiry to the dark period in American history when Republican U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy sought to expose alleged communist sympathizers in the 1950s.

Sources familiar with the special counsels proposed agreement with Cohen told ABC News that the 52-year-old New Yorker will admit to making multiple misstatements to two congressional intelligence committees investigating alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia to influence the 2016 presidential election. It was not immediately clear what Cohen told the congressional committees in the fall of 2017 that he will now say was false.

---

pawns taking the hit for real criminals

a story as old as humanity
---

Colorahdo posted...

pawns taking the hit for real criminals

a story as old as humanity

If Trump keeps freaking out the way he is, doesn't that mean something at least?
---

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-wnDYVVZ1o" data-time="
---

Obvious nothing burger. This illegal Russia probe continues to be a waste of time and not find anything. #shutitdown
---

hope mueller has a trap set for him like he did maniford.

funny as hell to hear trump reference mccarthy though, like he didn't build his campaign off a witch hunt...
---

monkmith posted...

funny as hell to hear trump reference mccarthy though, like he didn't build his campaign off a witch hunt...

It's hilarious

One of his campaigns slogans was literally "Lock her up"
---

Sorry. I tried to quote the whole thing but it's so much. That nothing burger tho
---

According to the Guardian the false statement was about a Trump real estate deal in Moscow. He originally said he hadn't had discussions since before the election but in reality discussions had been happening in 2017.

So, the sitting president was actively involved in a real estate project in Russia while in office.

Nope. Nothing to see here.
---

whitelytning posted...

Obvious nothing burger. This illegal Russia probe continues to be a waste of time and not find anything. #shutitdown

The real world isn't like TV shows. They are still gathering information. Unless you are on the inside how can you know they have nothing? #LetItContinue.
---

creativerealms posted...

whitelytning posted...

Obvious nothing burger. This illegal Russia probe continues to be a waste of time and not find anything. #shutitdown

The real world isn't like TV shows. They are still gathering information. Unless you are on the inside how can you know they have nothing? #LetItContinue.

Yeah, didn't Watergate take like two years for it to all blow open?
---

Cohen seems like a total sleaze. I can see why Trump liked him.
---

Trumpeters shook!

Hail Hillary
---

whitelytning posted...

According to the Guardian the false statement was about a Trump real estate deal in Moscow. He originally said he hadn't had discussions since before the election but in reality discussions had been happening in 2017.

So, the sitting president was actively involved in a real estate project in Russia while in office.

Nope. Nothing to see here.

Wow... that is a big deal for real
---

I can only imagine how badly Trump fucked up that written interview that Mueller had him do
---

UnholyMudcrab posted...

I can only imagine how badly Trump fucked up that written interview that Mueller had him do

apparently filled it with lies from manaford...
---

this time
---

this dude legit has to be one of the worst lawyers ever, imagine pissing off so many attorneys that you end up with this dude as one of your main ones lol.
---

Colorahdo posted...

pawns taking the hit for real criminals

Sometimes pawns can change the game significantly
---

P4wn4g3 posted...

Colorahdo posted...

pawns taking the hit for real criminals

Sometimes pawns can change the game significantly

Yeah, they can, but not when they're getting taken and exposing your interior.
---

I don't actually play chess.
---

"There's a Trump tweet for everything"

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/819159806489591809?s=21

Russia has never tried to use leverage over me. I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA - NO DEALS, NO LOANS, NO NOTHING!

---

P4wn4g3 posted...

I don't actually play chess.

b-b-but your sig...
---

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5331441/Cohen-False-Statements-Criminal-Information.pdf

Here's a link to the document btw

In truth and in fact, and as COHEN well knew, COHENs representations about the Moscow Project he made to SSCI and HPSCI were false and misleading. COHEN made the false statements to (1) minimize links between the Moscow Project and Individual 1 and (2) give the false impression that the Moscow Project ended before the Iowa caucus and . . . the very first primary, in hopes of limiting the ongoing Russia investigations.

"Individual 1" is Trump.
---

P4wn4g3 posted...

Colorahdo posted...

pawns taking the hit for real criminals

Sometimes pawns can change the game significantly

When is a pawn... not a pawn? Wouldn't Cohen be more of a Knight or Bishop?
---

Man I love reading legal documents. Every paragraph from #7 on is like an absolutely smackdown.
---

known2FAIL posted...

P4wn4g3 posted...

Colorahdo posted...

pawns taking the hit for real criminals

Sometimes pawns can change the game significantly

When is a pawn... not a pawn? Wouldn't Cohen be more of a Knight or Bishop?

In Chess when you move a pawn to the end of the board you can change it into another piece except a king. Usually people change it into a queen.
---

Bio1590 posted...

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5331441/Cohen-False-Statements-Criminal-Information.pdf

Here's a link to the document btw

In truth and in fact, and as COHEN well knew, COHENs representations about the Moscow Project he made to SSCI and HPSCI were false and misleading. COHEN made the false statements to (1) minimize links between the Moscow Project and Individual 1 and (2) give the false impression that the Moscow Project ended before the Iowa caucus and . . . the very first primary, in hopes of limiting the ongoing Russia investigations.

"Individual 1" is Trump.

What if the big M Night Shyamalan plot twist is that Individual 1 is Hillary Clinton
---

Tmaster148 posted...

known2FAIL posted...

P4wn4g3 posted...

Colorahdo posted...

pawns taking the hit for real criminals

Sometimes pawns can change the game significantly

When is a pawn... not a pawn? Wouldn't Cohen be more of a Knight or Bishop?

In Chess when you move a pawn to the end of the board you can change it into another piece except a king. Usually people change it into a queen.

Yea that's another way to look at it
---

DarkRoast posted...

What if the big M Night Shyamalan plot twist is that Individual 1 is Hillary Clinton

From in or around 2007 through in or around January 2017, MICHAEL COHEN, the defendant, was an attorney and employee of a Manhattan-based real estate company (the Company). COHEN held the title of Executive Vice President and Special Counsel to the owner of the Company (Individual 1).

---

Also the Dossier is coming back lol

1. Cohen played a "key role" in the TrumpRussia relationship by maintaining a "covert relationship with Russia", arranging cover-ups and "deniable cash payments", and that his role had grown after Manafort had left the campaign. (Dossier, pp. 18, 30, 32, 3435)
2. "COHEN now was heavily engaged in a cover up and damage limitation operation in the attempt to prevent the full details of TRUMP's relationship with Russia being exposed." (Dossier, p. 32)

And the Russian Official mentioned is Dmitry Peskov, and:

The Clinton dossier had been collated by the FSB and was managed by Dmitry Peskov, Putin's press secretary.

---