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Ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen discussing plea deal with prosecutors
The deal could come as early as today, say sources familiar with the matter.
by Sarah Fitzpatrick, Joe Valiquette, Jonathan Dienst and Tom Winter / Aug.21.2018 / 10:51 AM ET / Updated 11:23 AM ET
Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal attorney, is discussing a possible guilty plea with federal prosecutors in Manhattan in connection with tax fraud and banking-related matters, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell NBC News.
Those sources stress no deal has been reached but do say the potential deal could be reached as early as today.
The plea could have significant implications for Trump, who has blasted Cohen ever since his former fixer and his attorney, old Clinton hand Lanny Davis, began signaling this summer that Cohen might cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.
When reached by NBC, Davis said he cannot comment on advice of counsel since there is an ongoing investigation. Cohen has previously denied wrongdoing.
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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/ex-trump-lawyer-michael-cohen-discussing-plea-deal-prosecutors-n902571 (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/ex-trump-lawyer-michael-cohen-discussing-plea-deal-prosecutors-n902571)
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Fox News reporting a plea deal has been reached.
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Reality: Trump's Pardon Power doesn't reach to SDNY. He probably had visions of Harriet Meyers, v2.0 dancing in his head last year about this time.
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Gots to have something else to report today in place of all that bad Manafort news.
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Reality: Trump's Pardon Power doesn't reach to SDNY. He probably had visions of Harriet Meyers, v2.0 dancing in his head last year about this time.
It’s a US Attorney office. He can pardon Cohen for their charges. However, the state of New York can also charge him for tax evasion and bank fraud. State charges can only be pardoned by the governor.
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He is with the FBI now, expected to be in court soon, to present the plea deal.
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Trump’s Former Fixer, Michael Cohen, Reaches a Plea Agreement Over Payments to Women
By WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM
21 mins ago
Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former lawyer, reached a plea agreement with prosecutors investigating payments he made to women for Mr. Trump, a person familiar with the matter said.
Prosecutors in New York had been scrutinizing Mr. Cohen for bank and tax fraud, as well as for his role in helping to arrange financial deals to secure the silence of women who said they had affairs with Mr. Trump.
The United States attorney’s office announced that there would be a “proceeding of interest†in a case against a defendant identified only as John Doe, language that almost always indicates a guilty plea. One person with knowledge of the matter said the proceeding would be the guilty plea by Mr. Cohen.
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http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump%e2%80%99s-former-fixer-michael-cohen-reaches-a-plea-agreement-over-payments-to-women/ar-BBMfjEA?ocid=ientp (http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump%e2%80%99s-former-fixer-michael-cohen-reaches-a-plea-agreement-over-payments-to-women/ar-BBMfjEA?ocid=ientp)
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Cohen plea deal includes 3-5 year prison sentence....this deal does NOT have anything to do with Trump...per Fox
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Cohen surrenders to FBI ahead of court appearance: report
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/402886-cohen-surrenders-to-fbi-ahead-of-court-appearance-report (http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/402886-cohen-surrenders-to-fbi-ahead-of-court-appearance-report)
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Can I get a
"Best People" Anyone. Bueller......
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Minimum Security with Conjugal Visits, what's not to like?
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Gots to have something else to report today in place of all that bad Manafort news.
I see. Trump's personal lawyer making a plea deal is just everyday ho-hum news and shouldn't be reported...
Now if the jury fails to convict Manafort, I'm going to laugh my ass off. So don't say I don't care about the Manafort trial. That's news too.
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why are there so many Marxists posting on a conservative site?
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why are there so many Marxists posting on a conservative site?
Name names.
Do you know what Marxism is?
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Cohen will plead guilty to tax evasion and breaking campaign finance violations[paid Stormy Daniels]...per Fox.....more to come
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Cohen will plead guilty to tax evasion and breaking campaign finance violations[paid Stormy Daniels]...per Fox.....more to come
And it was the Stormy thing that got him on the tax evasion problem. But I was told it didn't happen or that if it did happen it was no big deal... And no matter what, it wasn't a campaign finance violation...
I know, he's doing "good things" and that excuses all this less than stellar behavior... I wonder how far that can be stretched... We'll see...
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COHEN COUNTS: - 5 tax evasion - 1 false statement to bank - 1 unlawful corporate campaign contrib - 1 excessive contribution
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BREAKING: COHEN SAYS HE VIOLATED CAMPAIGN LAW AT DIRECTION OF CANDIDATE- BBG
*COHEN PAID $130,000, WAS LATER REPAID BY CANDIDATE, HE SAYS
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Eight counts were included in the criminal information on Cohen: five counts of evasion of personal income tax, one count of making a false statement to a financial institution, one count of causing an unlawful corporate contribution, and one count of making an excessive campaign contribution.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-ex-attorney-michael-cohen-accepts-plea-deal (https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-ex-attorney-michael-cohen-accepts-plea-deal)
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COHEN COUNTS: - 5 tax evasion - 1 false statement to bank - 1 unlawful corporate campaign contrib - 1 excessive contribution
I'd be a little nervous about the campaign contribution stuff.
I thought it was all Trump's own money running his campaign, but what do I know.....
I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.
Maybe he was donating to Hillary's campaign, in search of a job.
It seems to be a running theme.
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COHEN COUNTS: - 5 tax evasion - 1 false statement to bank - 1 unlawful corporate campaign contrib - 1 excessive contribution
Oh brother. And we all know.... if that contribution had been to Hillary (or any other Democrat)...
no problema.
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I'd be a little nervous about the campaign contribution stuff.
I thought it was all Trump's own money running his campaign, but what do I know.....
I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.
Maybe he was donating to Hillary's campaign, in search of a job.
It seems to be a running theme.
Lol.... I sincerely doubt it.
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Kenneth P. Vogel
â€Verified account @kenvogel
20s21 seconds ago
Kenneth P. Vogel Retweeted Stephen Brown
If TRUMP had paid the $130k directly -- & disclosed it on his campaign's @FEC report -- there would not have been any campaign finance violation. Instead, he apparently had MICHAEL COHEN do it, & the result is count numbers 7 & 8 in Cohen's guilty plea.
@PPVSRB
Counts 1-5. Tax evasion 2012-2016
Count 6 false statement to financial institution Feb 2015-April 2016
Count 7 willful cause of unlawful corporate contribution June 2016-Oct. 2016
Count 8 excessive campaign contribution on Oct. 27, 2016
Stephen Brown
â€Verified account @PPVSRB
21m21 minutes ago
Max sentence he faces on all counts is 65 years. As judge details the penalties Cohen shakes his head some more.
26 replies 450 retweets 814 likes
Stephen Brown
â€Verified account @PPVSRB
11m11 minutes ago
Cohen admits to working “at direction of the candidate†Trump and national enquirer to silence Karen McDougal. He also admits to Stormy Daniels payment that he made “with and at direction of the same candidate.â€
112 replies 1,563 retweets 1,961 likes
Stephen Brown
â€Verified account @PPVSRB
5m5 minutes ago
Cohen will be walking out today on $500,000 bond.
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'8' seems to be the lucky number today for former Trump associates.
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Kenneth P. Vogel
â€Verified account @kenvogel
20s21 seconds ago
Kenneth P. Vogel Retweeted Stephen Brown
If TRUMP had paid the $130k directly -- & disclosed it on his campaign's @FEC report -- there would not have been any campaign finance violation. Instead, he apparently had MICHAEL COHEN do it, & the result is count numbers 7 & 8 in Cohen's guilty plea.
@PPVSRB
Counts 1-5. Tax evasion 2012-2016
Count 6 false statement to financial institution Feb 2015-April 2016
Count 7 willful cause of unlawful corporate contribution June 2016-Oct. 2016
Count 8 excessive campaign contribution on Oct. 27, 2016
Stephen Brown
â€Verified account @PPVSRB
21m21 minutes ago
Max sentence he faces on all counts is 65 years. As judge details the penalties Cohen shakes his head some more.
26 replies 450 retweets 814 likes
Stephen Brown
â€Verified account @PPVSRB
11m11 minutes ago
Cohen admits to working “at direction of the candidate†Trump and national enquirer to silence Karen McDougal. He also admits to Stormy Daniels payment that he made “with and at direction of the same candidate.â€
112 replies 1,563 retweets 1,961 likes
Stephen Brown
â€Verified account @PPVSRB
5m5 minutes ago
Cohen will be walking out today on $500,000 bond.
Cohen had better be damned glad that Trump is not Hillary.... or that might turn out to be a very short walk.
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Fox News...implicates Trump
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Maggie Haberman
â€Verified account @maggieNYT
2m2 minutes ago
Common Cause had filed the complaint against Cohen w FEC that led to Cohen revealing to NYT that he had made the Stormy payment, after WSJ revealed it in 2016.
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Well.... the Democrats wet dream has come true. Cohen flipped against Trump. Given enough pressure and threats, who wouldn't?
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Maggie Haberman
â€Verified account @maggieNYT
2m2 minutes ago
Common Cause had filed the complaint against Cohen w FEC that led to Cohen revealing to NYT that he had made the Stormy payment, after WSJ revealed it in 2016.
Ahem..... and looky who's connected to that group....
https://spectator.org/18101_soros-funded-liberal-group-common-cause-deep-financial-trouble/
Shocked!
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:cool:
Lol.... I sincerely doubt it.
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Shimon Prokupecz
â€Verified account @ShimonPro
2h2 hours ago
Rod Rosenstein’s office among other parts of DOJ were consulted on the charges, sources confirmed. But the timing of the plea came down to negotiations between the prosecutors at the US attorney’s office in New York and Michael Cohen’s attorneys.@LauraAJarrett
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David Corn
â€Verified account @DavidCornDC
22m22 minutes ago
Today is a good day for the rule of law and draining the swamp.
95 replies 626 retweets 2,778 likes
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Maggie Haberman
â€Verified account @maggieNYT
Trump is going to look for someone to go on TV and spin the Cohen allocution about being directed by Trump (described only as a federal candidate). It's...hard to spin.
5:11 PM - 21 Aug 2018
Maggie Haberman
â€Verified account @maggieNYT
3m3 minutes ago
Maggie Haberman Retweeted Maggie Haberman
As @Santucci notes, Giuliani is in Europe.
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The Associated Press
â€Verified account @AP
4m4 minutes ago
BREAKING: In his guilty plea, Michael Cohen says hush money payments to women were made "at the direction" of Trump.
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The Associated Press
â€Verified account @AP
4m4 minutes ago
BREAKING: In his guilty plea, Michael Cohen says hush money payments to women were made "at the direction" of Trump.
They got him now!
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Ahem..... and looky who's connected to that group....
https://spectator.org/18101_soros-funded-liberal-group-common-cause-deep-financial-trouble/
Shocked!
I'm surprised they say they're broke.
The Clinton's could get'em some money, a few mill here or there.
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Preet Bharara
â€Verified account @PreetBharara
33m33 minutes ago
Michael Cohen in a courtroom in SDNY, under oath, declared that the President directed him to commit a federal crime.
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Preet Bharara
â€Verified account @PreetBharara
33m33 minutes ago
Michael Cohen in a courtroom in SDNY, under oath, declared that the President directed him to commit a federal crime.
And you know Preet Bharaha has to be loving this.
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Preet Bharara
â€Verified account @PreetBharara
33m33 minutes ago
Michael Cohen in a courtroom in SDNY, under oath, declared that the President directed him to commit a federal crime.
If they are going to enter a plea deal with him, he probably has something aside from his word to substantiate what he is saying.
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Henry Winkler is going to jail, and he's taking down whoever he can on the way.
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If they are going to enter a plea deal with him, he probably has something aside from his word to substantiate what he is saying.
He's just a convicted (soon to be) felon. He'd say anything to get a lighter sentence.
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Lanny Davis @LannyDavis 11m
Today he stood up and testified under oath that Donald Trump directed him to commit a crime by making payments to two women for the principal purpose of influencing an election. If those payments were a crime for Michael Cohen, then why wouldn't they be a crime for Donald Trump?
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Don't mean to be picky here @Concerned but Cohen said, under oath, that he was instructed to make the payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal from "The Candidate" that could mean Sen. Cruz, right?
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He's just a convicted (soon to be) felon. He'd say anything to get a lighter sentence.
Of course he would. However, they are not going to just shave major time off of his sentence without something to back up what he’s saying as part of his plea.
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Of course he would. However, they are not going to just shave major time off of his sentence without something to back up what he’s saying as part of his plea.
Guess we'll know if they have anything other than squaduche when they perpwalk Trump down to the NYC courthouse.
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Don't mean to be picky here @Concerned but Cohen said, under oath, that he was instructed to make the payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal from "The Candidate" that could mean Sen. Cruz, right?
You're not picking on me, I just posted the tweet that Lanny Davis made, but the charging document notes that Cohen admitted to facilitating making a payment from June 2016 up to and in and about October 2016 in order to influence the election. I think Cruz was out of it by that timeframe.
https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/182-cohen-plea-deal/9bc6cd47e7c48e9f9469/optimized/full.pdf#page=1
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Lanny Davis @LannyDavis 11m
Today he stood up and testified under oath that Donald Trump directed him to commit a crime by making payments to two women for the principal purpose of influencing an election. If those payments were a crime for Michael Cohen, then why wouldn't they be a crime for Donald Trump?
Did he use campaign cash..No....
paying prostitutes could influence an election...we already knew about his adultry and was elected in spite of it.
...and the FEC Chairman says there is no campaign violation
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Court filing: Cohen coordinated with 'one or more members' of Trump campaign on hush money
By Tal Axelrod - 08/21/18 06:45 PM EDT
The Department of Justice filing on Michael Cohen’s guilty plea on bank fraud, tax fraud and campaign finance law violations expands on details surrounding hush money payments to two women who claim to have had affairs with President Trump.
The filing says Cohen “coordinated with one or more members of the campaign, including through meetings and phone calls, about the fact, nature, and timing of the payments.â€
Cohen said Tuesday he was directed to make the payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels and Playboy playmate Karen McDougal by “the candidate,†not mentioning Trump by name.
A $130,000 payment to Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, was completed just weeks before the 2016 election. She is now suing Cohen and the president for defamation and to void the nondisclosure agreement.
Cohen also coordinated a payment of $150,000, which matches up with the amount former McDougal was paid by publishers of the National Enquirer for exclusive rights to her story about her alleged affair with Trump.
“What he did was he worked to pay money to silence two women who had information that he believed would be detrimental to the 2016 campaign, to the candidate and the campaign,†Deputy U.S. Attorney Robert Khuzami said at a press conference.
Khuzami went on to detail sham invoices Cohen filed to shield the true intent of the payments.
Cohen’s attorney Lanny Davis put out a statement Tuesday evening, saying, “If those payments were a crime for Michael Cohen, then why wouldn't they be a crime for Donald Trump?â€
http://thehill.com/homenews/news/402931-cohen-coordinated-with-one-or-more-members-of-trump-campaign-in-hush-money (http://thehill.com/homenews/news/402931-cohen-coordinated-with-one-or-more-members-of-trump-campaign-in-hush-money)
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I don't know how relevant this may end up being, but Cohen was the vice chairman of finance for the RNC once.
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Guess we'll know if they have anything other than squaduche when they perpwalk Trump down to the NYC courthouse.
That will never happen, no matter what he did. That would be a constitutional crisis.
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That will never happen, no matter what he did. That would be a constitutional crisis.
But but it is what the liberals want to see.
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Mark Levin did a good job of explaining why there is no legal jeopardy for Trump. This was a plea deal, not adjudicated and cannot be used as precedent. All the leftists are orgasmic over nothing.
IMO Cohen "composed" at the behest of Mueller.
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Mark Levin did a good job of explaining why there is no legal jeopardy for Trump. This was a plea deal, not adjudicated and cannot be used as precedent. All the leftists are orgasmic over nothing.
IMO Cohen "composed" at the behest of Mueller.
Does it bring him down?
No, I don't think so.
Yet, I do believe he will go into his 2020 re-election bid with a similar cloud overhead that both Nixon And Clinton had, during their re-election bids.
Both did win.
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I just saw this on Twitter.
MAGA = My Attorney Got Arrested.
888mouth
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Mark Levin did a good job of explaining why there is no legal jeopardy for Trump. This was a plea deal, not adjudicated and cannot be used as precedent. All the leftists are orgasmic over nothing.
IMO Cohen "composed" at the behest of Mueller.
Can it be used as precedent by congressional impeachment hearing?
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Mark Levin did a good job of explaining why there is no legal jeopardy for Trump. This was a plea deal, not adjudicated and cannot be used as precedent. All the leftists are orgasmic over nothing.
IMO Cohen "composed" at the behest of Mueller.
You really believe Trump didn't ask Cohen to pay hush money to his porn squeeze?
Really?
That Cohen just plopped down $130,000 for nothing?
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MAGA Make Attorneys Get Attorneys.
Incidentally Nixon's Campaign Manager (Jon Mitchell) and personal Attorney (Herbert Kalmbach) were also Convicted and sentenced to Federal pound me in the azz prison, so many similarities, I.D.I.O.T. (It deserves it's own Thread)
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You really believe Trump didn't ask Cohen to pay hush money to his porn squeeze?
Really?
That Cohen just plopped down $130,000 for nothing?
Lol.... of course he did. Most folks don't even doubt it at this point. That is, the folks that are even aware of it.
I just spoke to my ultra-religious friend about it last night and she had NO CLUE about the Stormy Daniels or playboy model payments. Had not heard about it. And since she gets all her news through the likes of the Copelands.... it seems that none of the pro-Trump televangelists dare to utter a discouraging word in that respect (head in the sand or some other dark place) to their viewers/flock. Funny, huh?