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Trump Legal Investigations / Re: Live Thread: Trump's hush money trial begins in NYC
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Michael Cohen, an ex-con who's served prison time
Michael Cohen pleaded guilty in two separate federal cases in 2018 and did prison time for the crimes.
Cohen first copped to tax evasion, making false statements to a bank and to campaign finance violations in August 2018 in connection to the hush money payments he arranged to be paid to porn star Stormy Daniels and to Playboy model Karen McDougal on President Trump's behalf.
He then pleaded guilty in November 2018 for lying to Congress about his efforts during the presidential campaign to seek approvals and financing from the Russian government for a Trump development project in Moscow. Cohen said he lied to match his story with Trump's "political messaging."
Then in December, Cohen was sentenced to three years behind bars but he was released to home confinement after just over a year in May 2020 in an effort to reduce the spread of COVID in prisons.
Cohen was freed from home confinement in November 2021.
He previously testified against Trump at a civil fraud trial last year, where Trump's team sought to discount his testimony based on the fact he's a convict and admitted liar. Trump's lawyers will likely also attack Cohen's credibility at the current trial.
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Cohen says he 'wanted credit for myself' after Stormy Daniels deal was done
By Post Staff
Michael Cohen told jurors he immediately told Donald Trump that the Stormy Daniels deal was done on Oct. 27, 2016 -- two weeks before the presidential election -- because he wanted "credit" from his then-boss.
“The task he gave to me was finished, accomplished and done,” Cohen testified, adding he sent Trump the update “to take credit for myself so that he knew I had done it and finished it, because this was important.”
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Court takes an afternoon break
We will be back soon.
Our entire food supply vegetables, dairy 🧈 industry and meat production is done by illegals on huge corporate farms.Native Americans will never work in those slaughterhouses field work picking crops in any measurable way to make a difference.
The hospitality industry, maids, dishwashers, are all illegals or peoole on work permits.
Trump will build a wall and keep our the criminal but will vet millions in. Our economy would collapse w/o illegals because our native birth rate is heading to negative numbers
Illegals who obtain work permits also get a fed govt id number and they do pay into SS
In my area Hispanics do most of the tree trimming and lawn care and I live in a whitebread area. Young white males will just not do this work or they are all on drugs, no drivers license and lazy with poor attitudes. Not all but enough.. It's pitiful
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Weisselberg wanted to generate $130K through golf memberships, bar mitzvah at Trump properties: Cohen
By Kyle Schnitzer
Michael Cohen testified that Allen Weisselberg, the former chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, talked about possibly generating $130,000 through golf memberships or holding a wedding at one of Trump’s facilities.
The conversation happened when Cohen was scrambling to find a way to fund the LLC account to pay off Daniels, when Weiselberg suggested that he should see if someone wanted to buy a membership at one of Trump’s golf clubs.
Other options included finding someone to host a wedding or bar mitzvah, Cohen said.
He testified that it “wasn’t a possibility because each of those entities have a Trump name” attached to it and he wanted to keep it away from Donald Trump’s name.
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Cohen used Yom Kippur as excuse to delay Stormy Daniels hush money payment
By Ben Kochman
Michael Cohen testified that Donald Trump told him to delay paying Stormy Daniels the $130,000 until after the election.
As part of this plan, Cohen emailed Daniels' lawyer Keith Davidson on Oct. 12, 2016, that he couldn't talk on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur -- but it was just part of their ruse to stiff Daniels, Cohen testified.
Trump believed that if they could merely push off the payment until after the election, "it would not matter," Cohen told jurors.
Yom Kippur is the most sacred day on the Jewish calendar, and is intended to be used for atonement and repentance.
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Cohen said he had to change LLC name because it had same name as friend's company
By Kyle Schnitzer
Michael Cohen admitted he had to change the name of the LLC for hush money payments because it had the same name as his friend's company.
“I realized during the process but I couldn’t realize why we called it Resolution Consultants," Cohen testified.
"It’s actually the name of a company of someone that I know who is out of state, and I don’t think he’d appreciate using the same name as his company."
Cohen said he changed the name to "Essential Consultants LLC."
Cohen then testified he lied on paperwork filing out the form to say it was a management consulting company because he wasn't sure if it would go through knowing it was money for a porn star.
"I'm not sure if they would've opened it if it stated 'to pay off an adult film star for a nondisclosure agreement,'" Cohen said.