Cohen sentenced to three years in prison

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   IslandBitesposted 5 years ago

   President Donald Trump's former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison after saying he took "full responsibility" for his actions while at the same time blaming the President.
   
   "I take full responsibility for each act that I pled guilty to: The personal ones to me and those involving the President of the United States of America," Cohen said.
   
   "Recently the President tweeted a statement calling me weak and it was correct but for a much different reason than he was implying. It was because time and time again I felt it was my duty to cover up his dirty deeds," Cohen said.
   "This may seem hard to believe, but today is one of the most meaningful days of my life," Cohen added later. "I have been living in a personal and mental incarceration ever since the day that I accepted the offer to work for a real estate mogul whose business acumen that I deeply admired."
   
   Judge Pauley also ordered Cohen to pay $1.39 million in restitution, forfeit $500,000 and pay a $50,000 fine. Cohen was ordered to report to prison in March.

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   IslandBitesposted 5 years ago

   Speaking in court before the judge issued the sentence, Cohen said “blind loyalty” to Trump led him “to take a path of darkness instead of light.”
   
   Cohen also apologized to the people of the United States, saying, "You deserve to know the truth."
   
   

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      hard sunposted 5 years agoin reply to this

      This is great.
      
      Deep state, rigged, but Obama, but Clinton...
      
      Lock Trump up!

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   IslandBitesposted 5 years ago

   No wonder twitter it's been so quiet.
   
   Federal prosecutors announced Wednesday that they have struck a non-prosecution agreement with National Enquirer parent company American Media Inc., effectively ruling out charges for the tabloid publisher over its role in securing hush money from President Trump's longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen.
   
   As part of the agreement, AMI admitted to making a payment of $150,000 in cooperation with members of Trump's presidential campaign in order to prevent former Playboy model Karen McDougal's claims of an affair with Trump from being made public during the 2016 race.
   
   AMI chairman David Pecker is a longtime friend of Trump's, and the Enquirer was one of Trump's most reliable and enthusiastic media boosters during the campaign.
   Pecker met with Cohen "and at least one other member of the campaign" in August of 2015, according to the non-prosecution agreement, which was struck with prosecutors from the office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
   
   "At the meeting, Pecker offered to help deal with negative stories about that presidential candidate's relationships with women by, among other things, assisting the campaign in identifying such stories so they could be purchased and their publication avoided," the agreement read. "Pecker agreed to keep Cohen apprised of any such negative stories."

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      PrettyPantherposted 5 years agoin reply to this

      Any thoughts on who the "one other member of the campaign" might be?

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         IslandBitesposted 5 years agoin reply to this

         I don't know, but someone that's been with them from the get-go.

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            hard sunposted 5 years agoin reply to this

            I think Corey Lewandowski was campaign manager then. Also, directly after Cohen's plea Corey took to Fox News to distance himself from Cohen:
            
            "I didn't like to work with Michael, I didn't like to interact with Michael, and that's why he had no role in the campaign, even when he wanted one," he added. "I was very clear when I was in charge of the campaign, Michael was not somebody who we wanted at the campaign. He would go out and make statements that we had to walk back afterwards because he would say things which were factually untrue. I warned everybody at the organization that Michael was going to become a problem."
            
            https://www.foxnews.com/politics/lewand … bout-cohen
            
            And they didn't like Hillary cause she's crooked, lol.

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   IslandBitesposted 5 years ago

   Fox News legal analyst Andrew Napolitano said the American public "learned" on Wednesday that federal prosecutors have evidence President Trump committed a crime.
   
   "Career prosecutors here in New York have evidence that the president of the United States committed a felony by ordering and paying Michael Cohen to break the law,” Napolitano said while speaking on Fox News. “How do we know that? They told that to the federal judge. Under the rules, they can’t tell that to the federal judge unless they actually have that hardcore evidence. Under the rules, they can’t tell that to the federal judge unless they intend to do something with that evidence."
   
   

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      hard sunposted 5 years agoin reply to this

      You know it's bad when Fox even admits the reality.
      
      Crickets from the Trump crowd. The guy they voted to drain the swamp is the supreme swamp rat.

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   hard sunposted 5 years ago

   https://www.vox.com/2018/12/14/18140744 … estigation
   
   Paul Manafort advised White House on how to attack and discredit investigation of President Trump
   
   Manafort used Trump to make the US govt appear illegitimate..lock both of them up.

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   IslandBitesposted 5 years ago

   “First of all, nothing at the Trump organization was ever done unless it was run through Mr. Trump. He directed me to make the payments, he directed me to become involved in these matters.
   
   He knows the truth. I know the truth. Others know the truth. And here is the truth: People of the United States of America, people of the world, don't believe what he is saying. The man doesn't tell the truth.
   
   The special counsel stated emphatically that the information that I gave to them is credible and helpful. There’s a substantial amount of information that they possessed that corroborates the fact that I am telling the truth." - Cohen
   
   
   Enjoy!
   
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-prxClM2or4

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