Michael Cohen met Wednesday with officials from state and federal law enforcement agencies investigating President Trump’s real estate business and defunct charity, CNN reported.
The conversation took place at the Manhattan office of Cohen’s attorney Guy Petrillo, according to the report.
Sources familiar with the meeting told CNN that federal prosecutors from the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s office and officials from the New York Attorney General’s office were among those in attendance.
Cohen entered into a plea agreement in Manhattan federal court in August. He pleaded guilty to five counts of personal financial wrongdoing and one of campaign finance violations related to hush money payments he helped broker to women who alleged sexual liaisons with Trump. Ahead of his mid-December sentencing, he has offered his enthusiastic cooperation to law enforcement bodies probing Trump-related entities.
The Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s office has continued to investigate whether others at the Trump Organization engaged in campaign finance violations by paying off women. Separately, the New York attorney general’s office has brought a civil lawsuit against the Trump Foundation for serving as a “personal piggy bank” for Trump rather than a legitimate charity.
Cohen has also spent hours meeting with prosecutors working for special counsel Robert Mueller.
Too bad that man is just a PR guy… wait … what??
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I am hoping and expecting Mueller to nail trump’s balls to the wall after the midterms.
Indictments, I want indictments!!!
No worries. Between Cohen, Manafort and Allen Weisselberg he is well and truly nailed. And just in time for Christmas too!
The door of a prosecutor’s office is where the name-calling and rabble-rousing stops doing Trump much good. If you can’t make a credible case for your innocence, oh well! But every superpower has some limitation. This is yours, Trump. The legal system. Buena suerte, amigo.
The best part of this story is that the NY State AG is involved. It makes it impossible for Trump to quash this by dumping Sessions and Rosenstein, firing Mueller, etc. after November 6.
I had speculated back in the spring/summer that the now famous ‘smokeout by the courthouse’ when Cohen was hanging out at a bench with Rotem Rosen and other connected folks (much wealthier than Trump) instead of going to court was about solidarity for Cohen and a statement against Trump. That looks clearer in hindsight. The reason Cohen pleaded guilty but didn’t sign a cooperation agreement was to protect those guys. Under his current arrangement, he is volunteering information about the things related to Trump without coughing up details on his other questionable activities (i.e., massive money laundering schemes). SDNY has what I think is a gentleman’s agreement with Cohen that as long as he’s clean with them about the Trump related topics and his stuff checks out, he won’t be charged additionally for other crimes that he may have committed and they won’t press him on his potential other non-Trump related contacts and crimes.
That’s a good deal from my perspective. I want to nail the Trump family. Don’t care about the other guys.