“Lawyer’s liability if he made a mistake, not me,” Trump wrote, adding, “Cohen just trying to get his sentence reduced. WITCH HUNT!” Trump’s legal culpability could hinge on whether the payments to the women were, in fact, made at his direction, and whether he intended them to ...
NEW YORK — Michael Cohen, who as President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer and fixer once vowed he would “take a bullet” for his boss, was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison for an array of crimes that included arranging the payment of hush money to two women that he says w...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen has been sentenced for crimes including those he committed to help his boss win the presidency, and Trump has denied that he had directed Cohen to break the law. Cohen was sentenced to a t...
Michael Avenatti, the brash lawyerwho gained notoriety for legal actions involving former PresidentDonald Trump, was sentenced Monday in California to 14 years in prison for stealing about $7.6 million from clients, as well as for tax fraud. The 51-year-old Avenatti "has done great evil f...
Prosecutors had recommended a "substantial term of imprisonment" for Cohen, and a federal judge in Manhattan, New York, sentenced him to three years in federal prison. Cohen's lawyers are asking that he serve no prison time. Cohen's sentencing came after he pleaded guilty in cases with prose...
"Somewhere along the way Mr. Cohen appears to have lost his moral compass," U.S. District Judge William Pauley said. "As a lawyer, Mr. Cohen should have known better." Cohen, 52, pleaded guilty in August to evading 1.4 million U.S. dollars in taxes related to his own businesses, as...
Trump in an interview with Reuters on Tuesday, when asked if he had talked about campaign finance laws with Cohen, said: "Michael Cohen is a lawyer. I assume he would know what he's doing." Tweet "No. 1, it wasn't a campaign contribution. If it were, it's only civil, and even...
The hush money case in New York that has led to criminal charges against Donald Trump is just one of a number of investigations that could pose legal problems for the former president. A lawyer for Trump confirmed Thursday that he was told the former pre
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Trump lawyer Todd Blanche declined to comment. The Manhattan district attorney’s office also declined to comment. Trump first raised the immunity issue in his Washington criminal case, which involves allegations that he worked to overturn the results of his 2020 election l...