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#Michael Cohen reputed as tr*mp fixer
malenipshadows · 3 years
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+ The revelation signals that the criminal case surrounding the Tr*mp organization is moving to a more advanced stage. + The investigation is being led by Manhattan district attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.'s office, and has evolved into a criminal case, looking into Tr*mp's real estate company's financial practices and how money moved between higher-ups at the organization. The investigation has looked into Tr*mp's tax returns, and is delving into how the organization filed reimbursements to former Trump attorney Michael Cohen. + Earlier this week, the Washington Post reported that Vance's office had convened a special grand jury for the case, which will consider whether there is enough evidence to justify bringing charges against Tr*mp. The grand jury is set to meet three days a week, for between three and six months. + The move signals that with a longer jury, the DA's office may continue to call witnesses over the timeline of the case.Investigators have also taken a series of steps to analyze the finances of Tr*mp Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg.  Prosecutors have subpoenaed his and his family's financial records, and are looking into the perks he may have arranged for his son Barry, who is a longtime Tr*mp Organization employee.
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malenipshadows · 3 years
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+ The news comes weeks after it was revealed that Michael Cohen, former pres-ident Donald Tr*mp's one-time personal attorney, had been interviewed multiple times by Manhattan's district attorney. + The district attorney's criminal inquiry has focused on whether the Tr*mp Organization -- an umbrella company for the former president's business interests -- engaged in tax and insurance fraud, among other crimes. + Speaking to Insider, Cohen said his former boss should expect more bad news.  "As more documents are reviewed by the NYAG and NYDA, it appears that the troubles for Donald Tr*mp just keep on coming," he said.  "Soon enough, Donald and Associates will be held responsible for their actions," Cohen added. + Attorney General Letitia James's office had been working with Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance's Office since 2019.  Vance is looking at documents
including Tr*mp's tax returns to see if the former president's organization misled lenders about the value of their properties and paid appropriate taxes. + Last week (10 to 14 May 2021), prosecutors from Vance's office subpoenaed Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School, an elite private school attended by Tr*mp Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg's grandchildren.  The children's mother, Jennifer Weisselberg, previously told Insider that Tr*mp would include school tuition in compensation packages to her husband, Barry Weisselberg. + Prosecutors are looking into whether including tuition in the compensation package allowed Barry or Allen Weisselberg to avoid paying taxes. + A spokesperson for the former president did not immediately return a request for comment.
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+ The FEC voted 4-1 to close the probes after failing to find that Tr*mp or his campaign "knowingly and willfully" violated campaign finance law when his former attorney Michael Cohen paid $130,000 to porn star Stormy Daniels to keep her from disclosing an alleged affair. + Cohen was convicted in 2018 of lying to Congress, tax evasion and other charges relating to the payments to Daniels and other women.  He served three years in prison. His attorney said Cohen testified in court that the payment was made "for the principal purpose of influencing an election." + The FEC's Office of General Counsel issued a report in December 2020, finding that there was "reason to believe" that Cohen and the Tr*mp campaign knowingly and willfully violated campaign finance law.  However, the FEC said that it failed by a 2-2 vote to prove any of the parties violated campaign finance law. + The panel's two Republican commissioners, Allen Dickerson and Sean
Cooksey, wrote in a statement that they thought Cohen already had been punished criminally and the matter was "not the best use of agency resources." + "The public record is complete with respect to the conduct at issue in these complaints, and Mr. Cohen has been punished by the government of the United States for the conduct at issue in these matters," Dickerson and Cooksey wrote. + In a separate statement, Democratic commissioner Ellen Weintraub and Commission Chair Shana Broussard said the probe should have been continued after the general counsel said there was reason to believe campaign finance law was broken. "To conclude that a payment, made 13 days before Election Day to hush up a suddenly newsworthy 10-year-old story, was not campaign-related, without so much as conducting an investigation, defies reality," the commissioners wrote. + During an appearance on Cohen's podcast "Mea Cupa" in February (2021), Cohen apologized to Daniels for the "needless pain" that was caused involving the payments.  Daniels since has sued Tr*mp for defamation over his denial of her allegations and the hush money scandal. 
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malenipshadows · 3 years
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+ Michael Cohen, former personal attorney and fixer for Donald Tr*mp, laid bare his ex-boss’s penchant for lying on Thursday’s episode (6-24-2021) of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” + The former pres-ident “lied every day” and even on “the very first time I ever met him,” Cohen told host Jimmy Kimmel. + Tr*mp, according to Cohen, claimed during their first meeting to have given him a “great deal” on an apartment in one of his buildings. But Cohen said he’d actually paid the market price. + Kimmel asked Cohen to recall Tr*mp’s dumbest lie.“It’s hard to say,” he replied. “I mean almost everything that came out of his mouth was actually
stupid. Many of us had to spend so much time each and every day covering up for the ridiculous.” + “I mean, talk about stupid, let’s talk about the bone spurs,” Cohen continued, referencing Tr*mp’s disputed decades-old claim for a medical exemption from the Vietnam War draft. + “It’s one of the stupidest lies that he ever had me deal on his behalf. We know that there were no bone spurs, we know it’s an absolute lie,” said Cohen, who is currently serving a three-year sentence (at home because of the coronavirus pandemic) for lying to Congress about the Russia probe and violating campaign finance laws. He is now one of Tr*mp’s most vocal critics. + “The part that bothered me the most about it, is after we would meet say a wounded veteran, the only thing that this idiot would turn around and say is, ‘Why would anybody go to war? Look at what happened and look at how they’re coming back. I mean, not me. I wouldn’t do it,’” Cohen added.
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