Current Events > Cohen reaches tentative plea deal

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https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/michael-cohen-president-trumps-longtime-personal-attorney-reaches/story?id=57310974

Get a nothing burger at subway but put everything on it.
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Soon on Twitter: Crazy Cohen is fake news!
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B-b-but the Trumpanzees told me it was a nothingburger
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Oh shit son. *tag*
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Over/under he ends up dead in a ditch somewhere in Moscow
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inb4"Cohen was never my lawyer and I don't know why the Fake News keeps insisting he was"
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VipaGTS posted...

Soon on Twitter: Crazy Cohen is fake news!

Giant_Aspirin posted...

inb4"Cohen was never my lawyer and I don't know why the Fake News keeps insisting he was"

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You know this plea deal has nothing to do with Mueller right? It's likely about that fraud of his and despite what you believe they will give a plea for stuff that doesn't have to do with Trump or even Hannity,you know.
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Fuck dude, this is the most substantial nothingburger of all time.
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tremain07 posted...

You know this plea deal has nothing to do with Mueller right? It's likely about that fraud of his and despite what you believe they will give a plea for stuff that doesn't have to do with Trump or even Hannity,you know.

From the Washington Post article (link too large to post):

The plea discussions follow a months-long grand-jury investigation into Cohens activities, including his taxi business, as well as a hush-money payment that Cohen arranged to an adult-film actress, Stormy Daniels, who claimed to have had a tryst with Trump years ago.

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tremain07 posted...

You know this plea deal has nothing to do with Mueller right? It's likely about that fraud of his and despite what you believe they will give a plea for stuff that doesn't have to do with Trump or even Hannity,you know.

Michael Cohen, the former longtime fixer and personal attorney for Donald Trump, agreed Tuesday to a tentative deal with federal prosecutors in New York that requires him to plead guilty to several felony charges of bank fraud, tax evasion and violations of campaign finance law, according to sources with knowledge of the deal.

The tax charges stem from Cohens personal business dealings and investments in real estate and the taxi industry.

The campaign finance violations, however, are associated with Cohens role in alleged hush money agreements with two women, Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, who claim to have had affairs with Trump, according to sources briefed on the agreement.

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This is a something salad
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http://dailycaller.com/2018/08/21/michael-cohen-plea-deal/

Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen has reached a plea deal with federal prosecutors, according to ABC News.

Cohen has been under investigation in the U.S. Attorneys Office in the Southern District of New York for bank fraud, tax evasion and campaign finance violations.

The New York Times reported on Sunday that investigators were looking into $20 million in bank loans given to companies controlled by Cohen and his family. The 52-year-old lawyer is also being investigated over payments he made to women who claimed to have had affairs with President Donald Trump. FBI agents raided Cohens home, office and hotel room on April 7. (RELATED: Michael Cohen Is Being Investigated For Possible Bank Fraud)

NBC News reported earlier Tuesday that Cohen was discussing a plea deal with the government. CNN reported that Cohen was not planning to cooperate with prosecutors as part of the deal.

New York prosecutors took over the Cohen investigation after a referral from special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government. It is unclear whether the New York case overlaps with the Mueller probe, though Cohen has been accused in the infamous Steele dossier of taking part in a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Kremlin.

Cohen has vehemently denied the allegations in the dossier, including the claim that he traveled to Prague in August 2016 to meet with Russian government officials.

The investigation has caused a major rift between Cohen and Trump. Cohen, who has said in the past that he would take a bullet for his former boss, has reportedly told associates that he feels that Trump has left him exposed legally. One focus of the investigation is a $130,000 payment that Cohen made in October 2016 to Stormy Daniels, the former porn star who claims she had an affair with Trump in 2006.

Cohens lawyer, Lanny Davis, did not respond to a request for comment about his plea deal.
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Funbazooka posted...

http://dailycaller.com/2018/08/21/michael-cohen-plea-deal/

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/daily-caller/

please stop posting shit sources please and thank you
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bover_87 posted...

Funbazooka posted...

http://dailycaller.com/2018/08/21/michael-cohen-plea-deal/

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/daily-caller/

please stop posting shit sources please and thank you

Thats an intresting website you linked
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Its a symbolic gesture
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bover_87 posted...

Funbazooka posted...

http://dailycaller.com/2018/08/21/michael-cohen-plea-deal/

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/daily-caller/

please stop posting shit sources please and thank you

lol what does it matter when left-wing CNN is telling us the same thing on the main points?

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/21/politics/michael-cohen-plea-deal-talks/index.html

Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal attorney, has entered the courtroom in Manhattan federal court after surrendering to the FBI earlier Tuesday.

The government is expected to disclose a plea deal at the 4 p.m. hearing, according to a law enforcement source.

As part of the deal, Cohen is expected to plead guilty to multiple counts of campaign finance violations, tax fraud and bank fraud, according to three sources. The deal would include jail time and a substantial monetary fine.

Among the sticking points in the talks, the two sides were negotiating over jail time, according to one source. Cohen is pressing for three years but prosecutors are seeking 50 months.

Cohen has been concerned about asset forfeiture, leaving his family with nothing. Prosecutors made clear that there was a bigger risk should he go to trial and be found guilty that he would have to forfeit assets.

As part of the plea deal under discussion earlier Tuesday, Cohen was not expected to cooperate with the government, one source told CNN. However, by pleading guilty both Cohen and prosecutors would avoid the spectacle and uncertainty of a trial.

A plea deal could be a significant blow for Trump. Cohen was part of Trump's inner circle for more than a decade, working as his personal attorney at the Trump Organization and continuing to advise the President after the election. Cohen once said he would take a bullet for Trump, but the relationship between the two men has frayed since an FBI raid in April of Cohen's office, hotel room and home.
Trump has distanced himself from Cohen, who has told friends he has felt isolated, according to the friends. Last month, Cohen told ABC News his loyalty is to his family and country first, not the President.

On Tuesday morning, Cohen was seen entering his attorney's office and did not respond to questions. Cohen's attorneys, Guy Petrillo and Lanny Davis, didn't immediately respond to requests for comment. A spokesman for the US attorney's office declined to comment.

The Cohen investigation was referred to the Southern District of New York by special counsel Robert Mueller. If the plea deal does not include cooperation by Cohen, then it is unclear if he would follow through on his previous assertion to friends, according to sources, that he is willing to talk to Mueller.

Prosecutors said in court their investigation is into Cohen's personal financial dealings. The search warrant authorizing the FBI raid referenced Cohen's taxi medallion business, the identity of banks that loaned him money and payments made to suppress negative information during the presidential campaign, such as the $130,000 hush money payment Cohen made days before the election to porn star Stormy Daniels, who alleges she had an affair with Trump nearly a decade ago. Trump has denied an affair.

It's not clear how any plea deal with Cohen might affect other entities that have been under scrutiny by federal prosecutors as part of the Cohen investigation, including the publisher of the National Enquirer, American Media Inc., which gave a $150,000 contract during the 2016 election cycle to another woman who alleged an affair with Trump.
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https://twitter.com/MichaelCohen212/status/678410436774141956
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Investigators are also examining more than $20 million in loans obtained for Cohen and his family's taxi companies, The New York Times reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

CNN and the Times reported Sunday that investigators were finalizing criminal charges against Cohen and could announce them by the end of the month.

According to the Times, investigators are trying to determine whether Cohen misrepresented the value of his assets to obtain the loans from two financial institutions that have catered to the taxi industry. They are also scrutinizing whether he failed to properly report his income from taxi medallions to the Internal Revenue Service, the Times reported.

CNN previously reported in April that Cohen is under investigation for possible bank and tax fraud, that his taxi medallions are a focus of the investigation, and that one of the banks that made the loans was Sterling National Bank, whose spokesman declined to comment earlier this month about federal scrutiny of the loans. The Times, citing financial records and people with knowledge of the matter, reported that the other financial institution is the Melrose Credit Union.

Prosecutors have been scrutinizing a variety of documents submitted by Cohen to various institutions, including those to the Internal Revenue Service and those to Sterling National Bank, CNN has reported.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavrentiy_Beria

Show me the man and Ill find you the crime.

When several months of digging for collusion doesn't work out, indict the witches you've hunted for something else, in a attempt to disgrace the head of the coven. Too bad that's not working out either, eh?

Don't be at all surprised when this is spun into blaming the convoluted finance laws for criminalizing pretty much everything.

lmfao

"wah wah democracy and electoral finance laws JUST AREN'T FAIR"
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This is why Trump was whining about witch hunts earlier. Such a predictable idiot.
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