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    Feds: Cohen broke the law at Trump's direction




    Prosecutors: Michael Cohen acted at Trump's direction when he broke the law

    By Erica Orden and Marshall Cohen, CNN
    Updated 8:54 PM ET, Fri December 7, 2018


    New York (CNN)Federal prosecutors said for the first time Friday that Michael Cohen acted at the direction of Donald Trump when Cohen committed two election-related crimes in 2016, as special counsel Robert Mueller outlined new contacts between the Trump campaign and Russian nationals.

    Those revelations came in a set of court filings in which federal prosecutors in New York said Cohen should receive a "substantial" prison sentence of roughly four years for tax fraud and campaign finance crimes, and as Mueller's office accused the President's former attorney of lying about his contacts with Russia.

    Mueller also revealed that a Russian national who claimed to be well-connected in Moscow spoke with Cohen in 2015 and offered "political synergy" with the Trump campaign.



    Mueller: Paul Manafort lied about contacts with Trump administration this year


    The pair of memos from two sets of prosecutors reflect their views of Cohen's criminality and utility to the federal investigations ahead of his scheduled sentencing on December 12.

    In their filing, prosecutors from the Manhattan US Attorney's office knocked Cohen's "rose-colored view of the seriousness of his crimes," noting his years-long willingness to break the law. "He was motivated to do so by personal greed, and repeatedly used his power and influence for deceptive ends," the filing said.


    In August, Cohen pleaded guilty to eight federal crimes after being charged by Manhattan federal prosecutors. Those include tax fraud, making false statements to a bank and campaign finance violations tied to his work for Trump, including payments Cohen made or helped orchestrate that were designed to silence women who claimed affairs with the then-presidential candidate. Trump has denied those claims.

    Related: How Trump Tower Moscow fits into Russian interference


    Cohen was subsequently charged last week by Mueller's office with one count of lying to Congress.

    "After cheating the IRS for years, lying to banks and to Congress, and seeking to criminally influence the Presidential election, Cohen's decision to plead guilty -- rather than seek a pardon for his manifold crimes -- does not make him a hero," prosecutors for the southern district wrote.


    The filings on Cohen, and a submission from Mueller about Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort, appear to further tighten the net that Mueller is gathering around the President and his inner circle.


    They come at a time when Trump appears to be increasingly worried and furious about the investigation, following a searing tweet storm aimed at the special counsel on Friday.


    Mueller's sentencing memo lays out how the Trump Tower Moscow project is relevant to Russia's election meddling during the 2016 campaign.


    The special counsel memo states that Cohen's false statements to investigators about the Trump Tower Moscow project "obscured the fact that the Moscow Project was a lucrative business opportunity that sought, and likely required, the assistance of the Russian government."


    Mueller's office said the fact that Cohen continued to work on the Trump Tower Moscow project -- and discuss it with Trump -- was material to both the ongoing congressional and special counsel investigations, noting in particular that "it occurred at a time of sustained efforts by the Russian government to interfere with the U.S. presidential election."


    Mueller argues that the false timeline that Cohen laid out publicly and in his testimony — that the Trump Tower Moscow discussions ended in January 2016 — was a deliberate effort to limit the investigations into Russia's election interference.


    Proposed Trump Tower Moscow project


    In pleading guilty, Cohen disclosed that talks about the proposed Trump Tower project in Moscow had extended through June 2016, after Trump had become the presumptive Republican nominee for president, and that both Trump and his family members had been briefed on the discussions. Cohen also acknowledged pursuing plans to send Trump and himself to Russia in service of the project and discussing the proposed development directly with a representative of the Kremlin.

    In the special counsel case, Cohen was given a cooperation agreement, with prosecutors agreeing to alert US District Court Judge William Pauley III to "the nature and extent of the defendant's cooperation with this office."



    READ: Sentencing memorandums for Michael Cohen


    Special counsel prosecutors indicated in court papers that Cohen had met with their office seven times, and Cohen's attorneys later disclosed in their own filing that Cohen had also met twice with New York federal prosecutors to assist in their ongoing investigative efforts, as well as with the New York attorney general's office on two matters, including its lawsuit against the Donald J. Trump Foundation. Additionally, they said, he assisted with requests for information from the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, which has been examining the Trump Organization.

    The Cohen cases are being considered together for sentencing purposes. In the New York federal case, the stipulated guideline range of Cohen's prison term is between 46 and 63 months with a range of fines of between $20,000 and $1 million, although that was determined before Cohen had received a cooperation agreement from the special counsel's office.


    The judge can deviate from the guidelines when he determines Cohen's sentence. Cohen's attorneys have asked the court to give him no prison time.


    In a filing, Cohen's attorneys emphasized that his cooperation required exceptional "fortitude" due to the unusual circumstance in which the inquiry he has been seeking to assist -- the special counsel's investigation -- has been routinely condemned by Trump.


    "Michael is cooperating in a setting in which the legitimacy of the [special counsel's] investigation -- and the rationale for its very existence -- is regularly questioned publicly and stridently by the President of the United States," Cohen's attorneys wrote.


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    I just heard he got 2 months for the "campaign finance" issues to be served concurrently with the 3 years for the other stuff. That was Mueller's recommendation to the court for the campaign finance matters .... 2 months.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Judy View Post
    I just heard he got 2 months for the "campaign finance" issues to be served concurrently with the 3 years for the other stuff. That was Mueller's recommendation to the court for the campaign finance matters .... 2 months.
    Because he plead guilty and told them everything he know about everyone he knows. It's call a deal, as in HE MADE A DEAL WITH THE PROSECUTOR.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Judy View Post
    I just heard he got 2 months for the "campaign finance" issues to be served concurrently with the 3 years for the other stuff. That was Mueller's recommendation to the court for the campaign finance matters .... 2 months.
    The 2 months was for lying to congress.

    Judge William H. Pauley of SDNY also sentenced Cohen to 2 months for lying to Congress, to be served concurrently to his primary 36-month sentence.


    Judge Pauley also ordered an additional $50,000 fine, for lying to Congress.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JohnDoe2 View Post
    Because he plead guilty and told them everything he know about everyone he knows. It's call a deal, as in HE MADE A DEAL WITH THE PROSECUTOR.
    He lied to save himself, his wife and her family on some type of tax fraud. I don't know why he felt he needed to do that other than Lanny Davis who is not a tax lawyer sold him out, big time. Maybe they cheated on their taxes, who knows, who cares, nothing to do with Trump. In any event, don't worry, it will all come out with the oranges in their orange crates and the apples in their apple baskets. This DOJ is corrupt beyond description including Mueller and his Band of Monkeys.
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    Why do the "feds" want to "get the Trump Organization"? Is this what the DOJ is now reduced itself to? "Getting" companies and people? Targeting them? Framing them with phony witnesses? Saying something is this when it was that? DOJ is worse than any agency in our government and that says a lot. The envy and jealousy of these people in DOJ is truly astonishing. They have no character at all.
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    Cohen is the 4th person to be sentenced to prison in Mueller's investigation

    From CNN's Marshall Cohen
    So far, 36 people and entities have been charged in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.
    Of those, seven people pleaded guilty. They are....

    • George Papadopoulos
    • Michael Flynn
    • Paul Manafort
    • Rick Gates
    • Richard Pinedo
    • Alex van der Zwaan
    • Michael Cohen


    And now, four of the seven sentenced to prison:

    • Papadopoulos
    • Pinedo
    • van der Zwaan
    • Cohen


    One person — Paul Manafort — was convicted at trial.
    Read more about the numbers behind the Mueller investigation here.
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