The short answer, to get the best deal he possibly could.
Michael Cohen is a schmuck and a shyster who is going to jail because he is a CROOK who owes millions of dollars.
The Wall Street Journal says that Dr. Maurice Cohen urged his son to protect his family over Trump, saying that he didn’t survive the perils of the Holocaust to “have his name sullied by Mr. Trump.”
Dear Maurice,
You old fool. It wasn’t Trump that sullied your name it was your CROOKED son! One must wonder what kind of deal Michael would have cut with the guards to save himself if he were in the same terrible circumstances you were in. He is a liar, cheat, and criminal. AND he is YOUR SON. Deal with it.
This fraud, whom BTW, I despised on his daily Hannity entreaties 2 1/2 years ago during the campaign, has been a criminal all his life. He was one of the reasons that I had a hard time warming up to Trump.
Or that Cohen is a willing stooge....