Posted: 12/12/2018 1:13:26 PM EDT
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Source "Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen has been sentenced by a federal judge in Manhattan to three years in federal prison. Prosecutors had recommended a "substantial term of imprisonment" for Cohen, who pleaded guilty to both lying to Congress over a possible Trump Tower Moscow project, and to campaign finance violations for paying women who alleged affairs with Donald Trump. Cohen's lawyers had asked that he serve no prison time. Cohen, according to the Associated Press, said in his defense that "blind loyalty" to Mr. Trump "led me to take a path of darkness instead of light." Prosecutors say they believe Cohen committed illegal acts at the direction of Mr. Trump, named "Individual 1" in court filings. Mr. Trump has disowned Cohen, calling him "not very smart." "Michael Cohen is lying and he's trying to get a reduced sentence for things that have nothing to do with me," the president told reporters on the White House South Lawn last week. Both special counsel Robert Mueller's team and prosecutors in the Southern District of New York leveled cases against Cohen, whose relationship with the president has soured as Cohen turned on the president. When Cohen's apartment and office were raided in April, the president called him a "good man," and the raid, a "disgraceful situation." Mr. Trump has given no indication that he would pardon Cohen, even as he hasn't ruled out the possibility of pardoning his former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort. Manafort has pleaded guilty to fraud counts related to his business transactions, but Mr. Trump has praised him." |
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Can someone explain to me how it's a campaign finance violation to use your own money to pay women that you had affairs with to keep quiet? Does Congress have a slush fund for that exact thing?  |
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Could someone give me - or point me to - the executive summary on this “possible Trump Tower Moscow project”? |
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He won't. Cohen plead guilty to a non-crime and tried to get Trump involved so he could get a lighter sentence....no pardon for him. Quoted:
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And I hope Trump pardons him. Cohen plead guilty to a non-crime and tried to get Trump involved so he could get a lighter sentence....no pardon for him. Sorry Mike. |
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Can someone explain to me how it's a campaign finance violation to use your own money to pay women that you had affairs with to keep quiet? Does Congress have a slush fund for that exact thing? https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/12/11/cohen-didnt-violate-campaign-finance-laws-and-neither-did-trump/ |
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So... he plead guilty to illegal campaign finance laws, laws that he did not break, to receive a pass on tax invasion laws he broke with businesses that had nothing to do with Trump. Just so he can give Trump a black eye... Where is the collusion? |
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All expenses have to be disclosed. This was not Quoted:
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Can someone explain to me how it's a campaign finance violation to use your own money to pay women that you had affairs with to keep quiet? Does Congress have a slush fund for that exact thing? Even if it is illegal despite all that, how does being the lawyer that handled the transaction become illegal? |
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Not a campaign expenditure and it was Trump's own money. Even if it is illegal despite all that, how does being the lawyer that handled the transaction become illegal? Quoted:
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Can someone explain to me how it's a campaign finance violation to use your own money to pay women that you had affairs with to keep quiet? Does Congress have a slush fund for that exact thing? Even if it is illegal despite all that, how does being the lawyer that handled the transaction become illegal? |
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Off to FCI Danbury ? spent the night there and drove their Cadillac's and Lincoln's around during the day conducting mob business like they were back home. |
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Well, first off he lied about it... Quoted:
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Can someone explain to me how it's a campaign finance violation to use your own money to pay women that you had affairs with to keep quiet? Does Congress have a slush fund for that exact thing? Even if it is illegal despite all that, how does being the lawyer that handled the transaction become illegal? |
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For something like 15 years Trump was on record saying he wanted a tower in Moscow. Discussions were had and continued leading up to the 2016 election regarding this and since the Venn diagram of TT Moscow and Trump 2016 has slight overlay, evidently there's collusion or tax evasion or lying under oath or something about paying whores. Quoted:
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Could someone give me - or point me to - the executive summary on this “possible Trump Tower Moscow project”? |
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Three years? Doesn't sound like he cut much of a plea deal. |
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Not a campaign expenditure and it was Trump's own money. Even if it is illegal despite all that, how does being the lawyer that handled the transaction become illegal? Quoted:
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Can someone explain to me how it's a campaign finance violation to use your own money to pay women that you had affairs with to keep quiet? Does Congress have a slush fund for that exact thing? Even if it is illegal despite all that, how does being the lawyer that handled the transaction become illegal? |
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This? I'm just to simple to get how this gets 3 years...other than it's an associate of Trump tried in NYC. Yea Hillary and others should be dragged in front of a judge too, but it doesn't change the fact or outcome. |
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Quoted: The twisted logic is paying her off influenced the election. Just like Russian meddling. What a dumbass. And a shitty excuse for someone who called himself a lawyer. Not only did he disclose a shit ton of attorney-client privileged info, he then tried to twist everything to make it look like trump did something wrong . . . and then pled guilty to a crime that he didn't really commit. |
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