The Daily Caller: Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen has reached a plea deal with federal prosecutors, according to ABC News.
Cohen
has been under investigation in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the
Southern District of New York for bank fraud, tax evasion and campaign
finance violations.
The New York Times reported
on Sunday that investigators were looking into $20 million in bank
loans given to companies controlled by Cohen and his family. The
52-year-old lawyer is also being investigated over payments he made to
women who claimed to have had affairs with President Donald Trump. FBI
agents raided Cohen’s home, office and hotel room on April 7.
NBC News reported earlier Tuesday that Cohen was discussing a plea deal with the government. CNN reported that Cohen was not planning to cooperate with prosecutors as part of the deal.
New
York prosecutors took over the Cohen investigation after a referral
from special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating possible
collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government. It is
unclear . . . .
. . . . whether the New York case overlaps with the Mueller probe,
though Cohen has been accused in the infamous Steele dossier of taking
part in a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Kremlin.
Cohen
has vehemently denied the allegations in the dossier, including the
claim that he traveled to Prague in August 2016 to meet with Russian
government officials.
The investigation has caused a major rift
between Cohen and Trump. Cohen, who has said in the past that he would
take a bullet for his former boss, has reportedly told associates that
he feels that Trump has left him exposed legally. One focus of the
investigation is a $130,000 payment that Cohen made in October 2016 to
Stormy Daniels, the former porn star who claims she had an affair with
Trump in 2006.
Cohen’s lawyer, Lanny Davis, did not respond to a request for comment about his plea deal.
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