WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer told Congress on Wednesday that Trump knew ahead of time that WikiLeaks had emails damaging to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, and he testified that Trump is a "racist," a "conman" and a "cheat." Michael Cohen suggested that Trump also implicitly told him...
Cohen Expected to Claim Lying, Racism and Cheating by Trump
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, is expected to give a behind-the-scenes account of what he will claim is Trump's lying, racism and cheating, and possibly even criminal conduct, when he testifies publicly before a House committee on Wednesday, according to a person with knowledge of...
Mueller Disputes BuzzFeed Report Trump Told Cohen to Lie
WASHINGTON — Special counsel Robert Mueller's office on Friday issued a rare public statement disputing the accuracy of BuzzFeed News' report that said President Donald Trump's attorney told Mueller that the president directed him to lie to Congress. BuzzFeed, citing two unidentified law enforcement officials, reported that Trump directed Michael...
Cohen Admits Rigging Polls for Trump in 2014 and 2015
NEW YORK — President Donald Trump's estranged former lawyer acknowledged Thursday that he paid a technology company to rig Trump's standing in two online polls before the presidential campaign. Michael Cohen tweeted that "what I did was at the direction of and for the sole benefit of" Trump. "I truly...
Michael Cohen Claims Trump Knew Hush Money Payments Wrong
WASHINGTON — Shaken and facing a prison term, President Donald Trump's longtime personal lawyer said Friday that Trump directed him to buy the silence of two women during the 2016 campaign because he was concerned their stories of alleged affairs with him "would affect the election." He says Trump knew...
Judge Gives Ex-Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen 3 Years in Prison
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...
Michael Cohen Pleads Guilty to Lying to Congress
NEW YORK — Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former lawyer, made a surprise appearance before a federal judge in New York on Thursday and pleaded guilty to lying to Congress to cover up that he was negotiating a real estate deal in Moscow on Trump's behalf during the heat of...
For-Profit Prisons Are the Biggest Lobby No One Talks About
With the growing influence of the prison lobby, the nation is, in effect, commoditizing human bodies for an industry in militant pursuit of profit. That's the view presented by New York freelance writer Michael Cohen in an article published in The Washington Post. Cohen says for-profit prisons have become the biggest...
Cohen's Holocaust-Survivor Father Urged Him To Turn On Trump
The saying "blood is thicker than water" certainly holds true in the modern age as President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer and fixer pleaded guilty last week to campaign-finance violations and other charges, according to Haaretz. According to a new report, Michael Cohen was compelled to turn on Trump after a...
Ex-Trump Lawyer Cohen Pleads Guilty in Hush-Money Scheme
NEW YORK — Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer and "fixer," pleaded guilty Tuesday to campaign-finance violations and other charges, saying he and Trump arranged the payment of hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels and a former Playboy model to influence the election. Under a plea bargain...