FORMER TRUMP LAWYER PLEADS GUILTY TO LYING ABOUT TRUMP TOWER PROJECT IN RUSSIA
Nov 29, 2018
By Bob Komsic
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Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about work he did on a Trump real estate project in Russia.
(Julie Jacobson/AP)
During a surprise appearance in a New York courtroom, Cohen admitted making false statements in 2017 to a Senate intelligence committee about a plan to build a Trump Tower in Moscow.
He said he lied about the time of negotiations and other details to be consistent with Trump’s ”political message.”
In August, Cohen pleaded guilty to other federal charges involving his tax businesses, bank fraud and his campaign work for Trump.
One of the prosecutors working with Special Counsel Robert Mueller was in the courtroom.
Cohen’s been co-operating with Mueller’s Russia probe into U.S. election interference and possible co-ordination with Trump associates.
In reacting, Trump says his former lawyer’s a ”weak person” who’s ”lying” to get a reduced sentence.