"Cohen is expected to enter a guilty plea for misstatements to Congress in closed-door testimony last year about his contacts with Russians during the presidential campaign."
Oh boy.
Donald Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen has secured a new plea deal with special counsel Robert Mueller. Coeh is in court today pleading guilty for lying to Congress in the Trump-Russia investigation.
New in today's reporting: Cohen had discussions about the Russia real estate project as late as August 2017. Cohen had previously said that the deal was stopped in January 2016.
CNN: According to the information which is being read out in court, Cohen made a false statement regarding the Trump Tower deal in Moscow that he was working on in 2015 and 2015.
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) November 29, 2018
From ABC News, earlier this morning:
Cohen is scheduled to appear in federal court in Manhattan on Thursday where he is expected to enter a guilty plea for misstatements to Congress in closed-door testimony last year about his contacts with Russians during the presidential campaign.
Once among the president’s most loyal and zealous defenders in business and politics, Cohen has now promised to “put family and country first” by cooperating with prosecutors, becoming perhaps the most pivotal public witness against his former boss.
Cohen’s earlier plea deal with federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York implicated President Trump in campaign finance felonies. Since then, Cohen has spent more than 70 hours in interviews with Mueller's team. The questioning has focused on contacts with Russians by Trump associates during the campaign, Trump’s business ties to Russia, obstruction of justice and talk of possible pardons, sources familiar with the discussions have told ABC News.
Flashback to our scoop from May - Michael Cohen worked on the Trump Tower Moscow deal for longer than he told Congress https://t.co/RMkq8ZP3Uq
— Hunter Walker (@hunterw) November 29, 2018
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