Posted on 12/09/2018 8:29:55 AM PST by ETL
The major takeaway from the 40-page sentencing memorandum filed by federal prosecutors Friday for Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former personal attorney, is this: The president is very likely to be indicted on a charge of violating federal campaign finance laws.
It has been obvious for some time that President Trump is the principal subject of the investigation still being conducted by the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.
Cohen earlier pleaded guilty to multiple counts of business and tax fraud, violating campaign finance law, and making false statements to Congress regarding unsuccessful efforts to build a Trump Tower in Moscow.
Yes, Cohen has stated he did the hands-on work in orchestrating hush-money payments to two women who claim to have had sexual liaisons with Trump many years ago (liaisons Trump denies).
But when Cohen pleaded guilty in August, prosecutors induced him to make an extraordinary statement in open court: the payments to the women were made “in coordination with and at the direction of” the candidate for federal office – Donald Trump.
Prosecutors would not have done this if the president was not on their radar screen. Indeed, if the president was not implicated, I suspect they would not have prosecuted Cohen for campaign finance violations at all. Those charges had a negligible impact on the jail time Cohen faces, which is driven by the more serious offenses of tax and financial institution fraud, involving millions of dollars. ..."
In marked contrast, though, when it was discovered that Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign was guilty of violations involving nearly $2 million – an amount that dwarfs the $280,000 in Cohen’s case – the Obama Justice Department decided not to prosecute. Instead, the matter was quietly disposed of by a $375,000 fine by the Federal Election Commission.
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They have absolutely no chance of success because the case against them is overwhelming and the assets being used against them are like nothing you have ever seen. If anyone is a troll on this site I strongly suggest you flee the country.
You are talking about a military dictatorship. And treason and sedition cases have ALWAYS been tried in civilian courts, excepting the Lincoln assasination conspiracy. And that has been judged a miscarriage of justice. No one is going to the gallows or life in prison.
The leftist pigs in the upcoming house can attempt an impeachment and might succeed. He will not be convicted in the Senate.
And he can NOT be indicted.
Yes this in an exception like Lincoln’s assassination they are going to get tried that way. We have going on is a joint operation.
that too
Yeah, ads to the train, and lengthens the time the Democrats can play engineer. Everybody knows they got Cohen to reword his admission so they could include trump in their fantasy. That’s the way I see it.
How long have you been an idiot? Certainly as long I have had made the mistake of responding to some of your comments.
Good God man that was Civil War. 750000 men had died and the Pres had just been assasinated.
i am not an idiot I know what’s going on. You don’t!
We have a Cold Civil war going on which is about to turn hot!
You are MSM news informed which is only about 10% of what’s going on.
100%
I have been in conversation with several military over this situation and they said that whether a traitorous group uses either bullets or ballots it is still treason and sedition just them. It is still subject to the same laws and penalties. When these crimes are committed by a corrupt government that does not follow the rule of law they step in. It is where we are and that’s the way it is.
In marked contrast, though, when it was discovered that Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign was guilty of violations involving nearly $2 million – an amount that dwarfs the $280,000 in Cohen’s case – the Obama Justice Department decided not to prosecute. Instead, the matter was quietly disposed of by a $375,000 fine by the Federal Election Commission.
The problem with you is that you can’t handle the truth. Not all of the truth is printed in a newspaper or broadcast. The best news comes from the grapevine in particular when you hear it and then see it disseminated.
It is the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
Yep, I’ve always wondered about the search warrant and what was the basis and what judge signed off on it. Should have fought it from the get go.
It may just be a tv show but I’m not sure it’s not “lifelike” in many ways. Lots of people in the know really like it...
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