Cohen "substantial jail time"
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That is the very least of it, McAnatta.
Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former lawyer, should receive a “substantial” prison term of roughly four years, despite his cooperation, federal prosecutors in New York said on Friday.
Mr. Cohen, 52, is to be sentenced in Manhattan next week for two separate guilty pleas: one for campaign finance violations and financial crimes charged by federal prosecutors in Manhattan, and the other for lying to Congress in the Russia inquiry, filed by the Office of the Special Counsel in Washington.
Prosecutors in Manhattan said the crimes Mr. Cohen had committed “marked a pattern of deception that permeated his professional life,” and though he was seeking a reduced sentence for providing assistance to the government, he did not deserve much leniency.
“He was motivated to do so by personal greed, and repeatedly used his power and influence for deceptive ends,” the prosecutors said in a lengthy memo to the judge, William H. Pauley III.
At the same time, the special counsel’s office released its own sentencing recommendation to the judge for Mr. Cohen’s guilty plea for misleading Congress.
The special counsel seemed to offer a more positive view of Mr. Cohen’s cooperation with the Russia investigation, saying he “has gone to significant lengths to assist the special counsel’s investigation.”
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Mr. Cohen has emerged as one of the biggest threats to Mr. Trump’s presidency, providing the special counsel’s office and prosecutors in Manhattan with material in dozens of hours of interviews. Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, has been investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election and potential ties to the Trump campaign.
On Tuesday, Mr. Mueller asked a judge in Washington to impose little or no prison time on Michael T. Flynn, Mr. Trump’s first national security adviser, saying that he had provided substantial assistance to his office’s Russia investigation. Mr. Flynn faces up to six months in prison under federal guidelines after pleading guilty to one count of lying to the F.B.I.
In the Manhattan plea in August, Mr. Cohen implicated Mr. Trump in hush-money payments to two women — Stormy Daniels, an adult-film actress whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford, and Karen McDougal, a former Playboy model — to conceal affairs they said they had with Mr. Trump.
On Nov. 29, Mr. Cohen entered his second plea, revealing in court that Mr. Trump had been more involved in discussions over a potential deal to build a tower in Moscow than was previously known. He also said those discussions had continued until June 2016, well after Mr. Trump had clinched the Republican nomination and only five months before the election.
Mr. Trump’s interest in building a Trump Tower Moscow led Mr. Cohen to make numerous inquiries with Russian officials and other Kremlin-linked figures about the feasibility of the project, raising the possibility that the negotiations might have given the Russians leverage over Mr. Trump when he was running for president.
In Mr. Cohen’s own sentencing memo, his lawyers disclosed that their client had consulted with White House staff members and Mr. Trump’s “legal counsel” — without identifying the lawyer — as he prepared for his false congressional testimony.
Mr. Cohen said in court that he lied “out of loyalty” to Mr. Trump and to be consistent with his “political messaging.”
Mr. Cohen’s cases have been consolidated before Judge Pauley in Manhattan.
Mr. Cohen’s lawyers, Guy Petrillo and Amy Lester, have asked Judge Pauley to allow Mr. Cohen to avoid a prison sentence, citing his cooperation with Mr. Mueller even though he never signed a formal cooperation agreement.
They also portrayed him as a remorseful man whose life had been shattered by his relationship with Mr. Trump. They said Mr. Cohen had lost friends and professional relationships and wanted to confess his crimes, serve any sentence imposed and begin his life anew.
Under federal guidelines, Mr. Cohen faces about four to five years in the Manhattan case and up to six months in Mr. Mueller’s case. But the guidelines are not binding, and Judge Pauley will decide the final sentence.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/07/nyregion/michael-cohen-sentence.html
Mr. Cohen, 52, is to be sentenced in Manhattan next week for two separate guilty pleas: one for campaign finance violations and financial crimes charged by federal prosecutors in Manhattan, and the other for lying to Congress in the Russia inquiry, filed by the Office of the Special Counsel in Washington.
Prosecutors in Manhattan said the crimes Mr. Cohen had committed “marked a pattern of deception that permeated his professional life,” and though he was seeking a reduced sentence for providing assistance to the government, he did not deserve much leniency.
“He was motivated to do so by personal greed, and repeatedly used his power and influence for deceptive ends,” the prosecutors said in a lengthy memo to the judge, William H. Pauley III.
At the same time, the special counsel’s office released its own sentencing recommendation to the judge for Mr. Cohen’s guilty plea for misleading Congress.
The special counsel seemed to offer a more positive view of Mr. Cohen’s cooperation with the Russia investigation, saying he “has gone to significant lengths to assist the special counsel’s investigation.”
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Mr. Cohen has emerged as one of the biggest threats to Mr. Trump’s presidency, providing the special counsel’s office and prosecutors in Manhattan with material in dozens of hours of interviews. Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, has been investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election and potential ties to the Trump campaign.
On Tuesday, Mr. Mueller asked a judge in Washington to impose little or no prison time on Michael T. Flynn, Mr. Trump’s first national security adviser, saying that he had provided substantial assistance to his office’s Russia investigation. Mr. Flynn faces up to six months in prison under federal guidelines after pleading guilty to one count of lying to the F.B.I.
In the Manhattan plea in August, Mr. Cohen implicated Mr. Trump in hush-money payments to two women — Stormy Daniels, an adult-film actress whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford, and Karen McDougal, a former Playboy model — to conceal affairs they said they had with Mr. Trump.
On Nov. 29, Mr. Cohen entered his second plea, revealing in court that Mr. Trump had been more involved in discussions over a potential deal to build a tower in Moscow than was previously known. He also said those discussions had continued until June 2016, well after Mr. Trump had clinched the Republican nomination and only five months before the election.
Mr. Trump’s interest in building a Trump Tower Moscow led Mr. Cohen to make numerous inquiries with Russian officials and other Kremlin-linked figures about the feasibility of the project, raising the possibility that the negotiations might have given the Russians leverage over Mr. Trump when he was running for president.
In Mr. Cohen’s own sentencing memo, his lawyers disclosed that their client had consulted with White House staff members and Mr. Trump’s “legal counsel” — without identifying the lawyer — as he prepared for his false congressional testimony.
Mr. Cohen said in court that he lied “out of loyalty” to Mr. Trump and to be consistent with his “political messaging.”
Mr. Cohen’s cases have been consolidated before Judge Pauley in Manhattan.
Mr. Cohen’s lawyers, Guy Petrillo and Amy Lester, have asked Judge Pauley to allow Mr. Cohen to avoid a prison sentence, citing his cooperation with Mr. Mueller even though he never signed a formal cooperation agreement.
They also portrayed him as a remorseful man whose life had been shattered by his relationship with Mr. Trump. They said Mr. Cohen had lost friends and professional relationships and wanted to confess his crimes, serve any sentence imposed and begin his life anew.
Under federal guidelines, Mr. Cohen faces about four to five years in the Manhattan case and up to six months in Mr. Mueller’s case. But the guidelines are not binding, and Judge Pauley will decide the final sentence.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/07/nyregion/michael-cohen-sentence.html
thin gruel for Russian collusion charges " raising the possibility that the negotiations might have given the Russians leverage over Mr. Trump when he was running for president." garbage speculation. it's reaching beyond any serious allegation to an unclear what if and doesn't even make a case of how
Not that it matters, marriages are complicated things, but not just any women, a porn star, all while his trophy wife was home pregnant, and it wasn't the only documented affair, I believe there is a playboy bunny thrown in there also
And I remember when the GOP told us they stood for family values
Probably means Cohen didn't give the NY prosecutor's office what they wanted to hear while providing Mueller with information he found useful.
It will play out, and no matter how you look at it, it isn't a plus for the Trump team
grab 'em by the pussy! * nobody cares* This was litigated by the election..what you are seeing is a
POLITICAL NARRATIVE dressed up as a investigation that will go over the same ground,
but under the guise of somelegalshit. It's an insurance policy for 2020 -Mueller took over from Strzok
Remember, he was hostile until they raided his home and office. He slowly began to realize he was in deep trouble and cooperated.
Stormy and Trump maybe knowing about some meeting? *yawn* you ready for impeachment?
I'm sure the Dems are salivating as we'll go over this again and again to do political damage
Irish Exit
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Criminals have no duty to cooperate with prosecutors.
No, but the smart ones realize it’s beneficial to do so, Cohen smartened up.
No, that "litigated by the election" line is bogus, that is the Trump team's rationale on why he doesn't have to come clean now with such as his tax returns, etc, "because it was litigated by the election," not true
How could it be just a "POLITICAL NARRATIVE" when there has been over thirty indictments and five guilty pleas, do people plead guilty to political innuendos?
jimmymccready
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at 41% popularity, a lot of nobodies care, Anatta.
your boy is in the shit house, with the government vectoring Manafort, Flynn, and Cohen in on your sick homey
your boy is in the shit house, with the government vectoring Manafort, Flynn, and Cohen in on your sick homey
Bigdog
Harris - make America a 3rd world shithole
Trump denied the Stormy affair and she had no evidence to prove it. And hush money is not evidence.
Did Trump admit to the playboy affair?
Do the Dems stand for Family Values?????
And the "big chiwawa" chimes in with his usual radio rhetoric
Now correct me if I am wrong, but isn't Trump on tape discussing with Cohen payments over the Stormy Daniels episode? Or are you expecting us to believe that they were paying her off so that she wouldn't going public with false accusations?
Well, the last Administration sure mirrored what most view as family values, but no, yet again, the Democrats never boasted they were the party of family values, that was the GOP and your favorite demogogues
Thanks for stopping by
evince
Truthmatters
The pleas are almost ALL "lying to investigators". process crimes. they are like makers that Mueler uses to sayy
"hey I went there and found this" ( but he really found nothing) so he takes all the politics around it and weaves it together for his POLITICAL NARRATIVE held together by process crimes.
and yes the tax returns were also litigate by the election...this is campaign news not real news
nobody in that shit house except those who cooperated with Mueller
Is that McSo?