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Michael Cohen investigation
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A big bite of
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[link=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/27/opinion/cohen-trump-loyalty.html?smid=fb-nytopinion&smtyp=cur&fbclid=IwAR21MhDaQtC8Ki_T6ZtHw9ZJOUjWpwDOFGwBD5H-cvKQLwrulmhE_EDwor4]https://www.nytimes.com/2…5H-cvKQLwrulmhE_EDwor4[/link]
[b]Republicans sink further into Trump’s cesspool[/b]
In a sane world, the fact that the presidents former lawyer produced evidence that the president knowingly and deceptively committed a federal crime hush money payments that violated campaign finance laws is something that even members of the presidents own party would find disquieting. But not todays Republican Party.
Instead, in the most transparent and ham-handed way, they saw no evil and heard no evil, unless it involved Mr. Cohen. [b]Republicans on the committee tried to destroy the credibility of his testimony, not because they believe that his testimony is false, but because they fear it is true.[/b]
By now Republicans must know, deep in their hearts, that Mr. Cohens portrayal of Mr. Trump as a racist, a con man and a cheat is spot on. So[b] it is the truth they fear, and it is the truth the fundamental reality of the world as it actually is that they feel compelled to destroy.[/b] This is the central organizing principle of the Republican Party now. More than tax cuts. More than trade wars. More even than building a wall on our southern border. Republicans are dedicated to annihilating truth in order to defend Mr. Trump and they will go after anyone, from Mr. Cohen to Robert Mueller, who is a threat to him.
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^ You are more delusional, as is Mr. Wehner, than we could ever imagine. And that’s saying a lot.
That dog and pony show is a farce, everyone knows it, that’s what they know. They don’t care about your lies. That’s why you still read the NY times.-
Ah, & your alternate facts are better.
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So last night 33.333% of Cohen’s clients interviewed 66.666% of Cohen’s clients. Hannity said Cohen told him personally a dozen times that he made the call on the payoffs alone and didn’t tell Donald. So I guess we’ll be seeing Sean in front of the committee soon.
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4 more years. You are making it easier and easier for Mr. Trump to win the next election.
It’s a foregone conclusion at this point. Sorta funny to know this and see what you guys will continue to try and lie about, which will continue to work against you, again and again and again and again …
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Is 4 more years his jail term, cigar?
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[link=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/01/opinion/john-dean-michael-cohen.html]John Dean[/link] sees parallels between his testimony and Cohen’s:
There are several parallels between my testimony before Congress in 1973, about President Richard Nixon and his White House, and Michael Cohens testimony this week about President Trump and his business practices We both found ourselves speaking before Congress, in multiple open and closed venues, about criminal conduct of a sitting president.
There is one overarching similarity that Mr. Cohen and I share. He came to understand and reject Mr. Trump as I did Mr. Nixon.
I was surprised by the number of people who surfaced to support my account. The same, I suspect, will happen for Michael Cohen. The Mafias code of omertà has no force in public service. I have heard no one other than Roger Stone say he will go to jail for Donald Trump.
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Anonymous congressmen “love their families too”.
[link=https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/16/politics/settlements-congress-sexual-harassment/index.html]https://www.cnn.com/2017/…-harassment/index.html[/link] -
Cohen back on the Hill today with a suitcase full of documents.
Unconfirmed reporting that he has drafts of the (perjurious) statement he gave to Congress the first time showing that it was edited by Trumps legal team.
Time for Jay Sekulow to lawyer up.
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[link=https://www.axios.com/michael-cohen-sues-trump-organization-6abb22b4-9e1d-456b-aa4b-ffc47dddfbe0.html?stream=politics&utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alerts_politics]Axios[/link] – Michael Cohen is suing the Trump Organization for failure to meet its indemnification obligations and not paying his legal fees,
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[b]Emails suggest that Trump (via Giuliani via back-channel) dangled a pardon to Cohen[/b]
An attorney who said he was speaking with Rudy Giuliani reassured Michael Cohen in an April 2018 email that Cohen could sleep well tonight because he had friends in high places, according to a copy of an email obtained by [link=https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/13/politics/michael-cohen-email-costello/index.html&xcust=__p_cjt7lyat5008uk7y60ez022to__z_m__d_D]CNN[/link].
Two emails both dated April 21, 2018, and among documents provided to Congress by the Presidents former attorney and fixer do not specifically mention a pardon. Cohen, in his closed-door congressional testimony, has provided these emails in an effort to corroborate his claim that a pardon was dangled before he decided to cooperate with federal prosecutors.
[link=http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/03/cohen-email-trump-dangled-pardon-obstruction-justice-mueller.html]Jonathan Chait[/link]: The power to pardon convicted criminals for federal crimes is a legitimate use of presidential authority. Whether its legitimate for the president to use this power to pardon criminals who committed crimes on his behalf, or might have otherwise testified against him, is a subject of intense debate.
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Interesting too is that Trump tweeted the day after the emails about Cohen and not flipping. Signalling?
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[h1][link=https://www.courthousenews.com/avalanche-of-michael-cohen-search-materials-released/]FBI Suspected Cohen as Foreign Agent Nearly a Year Before Raids[/link][/h1]
The FBI suspected that Michael Cohen secretly worked on behalf of a foreign government for nearly a year before agents raided his home and office, according to a Tuesday avalanche of search-warrant materials into the former personal attorney and fixer for President Donald Trump.
Totaling hundreds of pages, the heavily redacted search warrants offer new details about the federal inquiry of Cohens business dealings and the April 2018 raids of his Manhattan home and office.
It shows the federal inquiry into Cohen had been going on since July 2017 far longer than had previously been known.
A search warrant application for one of Cohens Gmail accounts that listed the fixers suspected subject offenses as bank fraud, money laundering, acting as an unregistered foreign agent and violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
The documents also reveal that FBI agents had been pouring through Cohens emails for months before the dramatic raids.
In a February 2018 [link=https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.499666/gov.uscourts.nysd.499666.43.4.pdf]search warrant application[/link], an FBI agent describes a First Republic bank account Cohen set up one month before the 2016 presidential elections under the name of the shell company Essential Consultants LLC.
Though Cohen claimed that Essential Consultants was a real estate company, the agent said this appeared to be a lie.
Specifically, the account was not intended to receive and does not appear to have received money in connection to real estate consulting work; in addition, the account has received substantial payments from foreign sources, the FBI agent wrote.
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[h1]Cohen Tells Congress He Has More to Add[/h1]
Michael Cohen is offering Democrats new information in a bid to stay out of jail while he cooperates with Congress, [link=https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/04/politics/michael-cohen-letter/index.html]CNN[/link] reports.
Cohens attorneys told lawmakers in a letter that Cohen has discovered substantial files on a hard drive that might be helpful to investigators.
Cohen is asking for additional time and congressional help to persuade the Southern District of New York to allow him to postpone reporting to jail in order to review the files.
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Michael Cohen ordered back to prison for violation of house arrest
He got out because of Covid….but then decided to go out to dinner and was spotted at an nyc restaurant
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[link=https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/508682-judge-to-order-michael-cohen-be-released-from-prison-returned-to]Judge to order Michael Cohen be released from prison, returned to home confinement[/link]
ACLU was defending Cohen, claiming that his release agreement had atypical language, used only for Cohen, that was meant to keep him from writing a book about Trump.
Judge Alvin Hellerstein, of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, accused the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) of trying to violate Cohen’s First Amendment rights by imposing a gag order as a condition of his home confinement.
“I make the finding that the purpose of transferring Mr. Cohen from furlough and home confinement to jail as retaliatory, and it’s retaliatory because of his desire to exercise his First Amendment rights to publish the book and to discuss anything about the book or anything else he wants on social media” and elsewhere, Hellerstein said during a court hearing on Thursday.
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[b][link=https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/509109-federal-judge-rightly-upset-over-wrongful-arrest-of-michael-cohen]Federal judge rightly upset over wrongful jailing of Michael Cohen[/link][/b]
OPINIONLook at what happened with Cohen he was arrested without approval from a judge and without his lawyers having the ability to argue his position with a judge before the arrest. And what was the supposed justification by the arresting officer? Cohen was [link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/michael-cohen-released-from-prison-retaliation/2020/07/23/f8adefe8-ccf9-11ea-91f1-28aca4d833a0_story.html]antagonistic[/link] and did not want to sign a document outlining conditions of his ongoing release.
DOJ tried to come to the defense of the prison system and probation, arguing that Cohens lawyer was trying to [link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/michael-cohen-released-from-prison-retaliation/2020/07/23/f8adefe8-ccf9-11ea-91f1-28aca4d833a0_story.html]haggle[/link] with the probation officer about wearing an ankle monitor. The judge made quick work of that argument: Whats an attorney for if he is not going to negotiate an agreement with his client?..
Justice [link=https://thehill.com/person/antonin-scalia]Antonin Scalia[/link] forecast the problem with judicial deference back in 1989 at the infancy of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, which gave enormous power to these non-lawyer probation officers. Scalia was the lone dissenter in [i][link=https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/488/361/]Mistretta v. United States[/link][/i], which found the Sentencing Guidelines constitutional. He said that we will live to regret it because the case shifted way too much power away from branches of government to unaccountable commissioners and probation officers without any checks.
Instead of probation officers making sure defendants on probation or supervised release were passing drug tests, working, and otherwise getting back on their feet, they were transformed from social workers into powerful quasi-judges with law enforcement power to arrest.
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It seems clear that executive branch officials did not want Michael Cohen free. It seems clear to the judge anyway that Cohen was arrested for writing a book. No one asked a judge before arresting him. No one gave Cohen a chance to be heard in court. He was just thrown in jail.
This time a judge got angry. Lets hope that Michael Cohens case shows judges what the rest of the criminal justice system knows probation officers and prison officials have way too much power.[/QUOTE]
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Well he got out because of Covid but didnt they see him at a NYC restaurant right away. I feel like you cant have it both ways. Also as long as he can make calls, have visitors, or write letters whats stopping him from communicating with reporters?
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[link=https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/509869-prosecutors-agree-to-lift-gag-order-on-michael-cohen]https://thehill.com/regul…order-on-michael-cohen[/link]
Federal prosecutors on Thursday agreed to lift a gag order on Michael Cohen, allowing the former attorney for President Trump to continue writing a memoir as he serves out his three-year prison sentence in home confinement.
The U.S. Attorney’s office in Manhattan backed down from its insistence that Cohen not engage with the media or publish anything while out on home confinement after a judge this month ruled that the condition was in retaliation over his plans to write a tell-all about his years working for Trump.
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Donald Trump Jr. Subpoenaed in Michael Cohen Trial[/h1]
Donald Trump Jr. has been sent a subpoena seeking his testimony in an upcoming civil trial over Michael Cohens claim that the Trump Organization failed to pay his legal fees when he started cooperating with investigators, [link=https://themessenger.com/news/donald-trump-jr-sent-subpoena-to-testify-in-upcoming-michael-cohen-trial-lawyer]The Messenger[/link] reports. -
Michael Cohen Expected to Settle Lawsuit With Trump[/h1]
Michael Cohen, the longtime fixer to Donald Trump, who was set to go to trial next week against his former bosss company in a dispute over legal fees, is expected to settle his lawsuit with the Trump Organization, the [link=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/21/nyregion/michael-cohen-trump-org-lawsuit.html?searchResultPosition=1]New York Times[/link] reports.
Mr. Cohens lawsuit, filed in 2019, accused the Trump Organization of failing to abide by the terms of a deal and refusing to pay more than $1 million in legal costs. Jury selection for the trial began earlier this week, and opening arguments were scheduled for Monday.
The proposed settlement, which has not been finalized and the terms of which will be confidential, will likely become public at a court hearing on Friday morning.
