By Devlin Barrett Devlin Barrett Reporter focusing on national security and law enforcement Email Bio Follow May 6 at 10:15 AM Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former lawyer who pleaded guilty to tax, bank and campaign finance crimes, heads to prison Monday after spending months trying to delay his punishment by dangling the prospect of new incriminating information against others.
Cohen, once known as Trump’s bombastic “fixer,” pleaded guilty to five counts of tax evasion for concealing $4 million in income, lying to a bank that loaned him money, and making $280,000 in payments that amounted to a secret campaign donation to Trump’s campaign.He also pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about the duration and nature of his discussions regarding a proposed Trump Tower project in Moscow.
Cohen came under investigation in mid-2017 as special counsel Robert S. Mueller III examined his emails and phone records to determine if he had, in fact, conspired with any Russian officials to interfere in the 2016 election. Mueller did not find evidence of that, but instead found records suggesting Cohen had dodged taxes for years on income from his New York City taxi medallion business.
He has nothing to tell if he did he would have been spilling his guts all over the place he just wants everybody to wait for him to get out of prison don't be fooled he has nothing
Appears to be a strong man.
I think he may want to sit the “I have more lies” thing out.
Cohen had his chance to spill secrets. Instead, he held out until he realized that Trump was more than willing to throw him under the bus....then all of a sudden he wants to cooperate... Too late.
Tell the truth then I don't understand why he's withholding, what truth does he even have if any he lied before. I want Trump to go down but Cohen needs to put more on the table what does he know if anything
Did he take donnie with him and the rest of the dumb trumps.
Who cares....
Make up stuff on the way to jail.
I hope he enjoys his stay!AJ
SO WRONG WHEN HE WAS FOLLOWING ORDERS, WRONG MAN GOING TO PRISON
As a reminder, President Trump publicly referred to Michael Cohen as “my attorney” one year, one month and one day ago, on April 5, 2018. And in just 397 days, Cohen went from being the guy the President called “my attorney” to being a federal inmate.
Convicted liar.
Oh - give me a break. Who was the resistance in the cabinet btw? Do we know? I assume they r gone.
I don't think Cohen deserves sympathy, but look at the irony of his ruined life. He enters prison while his boss who directed him to do these crimes remains the leader of the free world and holder of our nuclear weapon codes!
Well fkn spill them
When he gets out Trump will still be POTUS lol
Resist___45 Oh well he has more time than a little to get it out
Resist___45 What’s he waiting for? America is losing to TrumpPutin.
How much time will he actually serve?
It’s just a shame his boss has not preceded him in going to jail. King Trump is the biggest criminal. MichaelCohen212
I would fabricate more secrets as well headed to the 'brink' wouldn't you ? The investigators has closed the book on this matter !!! Do your time like a soldier!!!
He’s had several opportunities to tell the truth about what he knows. This lying snakes deserves no more air time.
Ya he wants to sell a book obviously
It won’t reduce your jail time sweetie
Tell lol
I hope the guy eventually gets a break. He’s going to jail for something he was directed to do for someone who ISN’T going to jail. He’s the fall guy, trying for redemption, it’s just not fair.
Someone should tell him it is not a crime to slept with a porn star. That is private- lot of men do it!
A grifter to the end.
More likely he is looking forward to speaking without a special prosecutor’s rage at his noncompliance hanging over his head.
So Cohen’s going to jail, for fixing Trump crude sex activities, while Trump still sits in the WH!? Let that sink in. It’s appalling.
. PUTINtrump2020 GOP=GobblingOrangePoop .
What happened to, “I’m a changed man”...blah...blah...then do the right thing, spill the beans on Donald, instead of leveraging the secrets.
Cohen took the bullet today
Cohen and his attorney Lanny Davis now claim they're cooperating with the SDNY by handing over evidence of Trump's tax fraud and banking fraud.
'prison'
Michael Cohen is a traitor who sold out his boss to only get 3 years instead of a tall yardarm.
Michael Cohen is a Trump enabler and all around scum because he used his child as a human shield when he perp walked her into Federal Court. You're supposed to walk your daughter down the aisle, Mike, not parade her in front of National media on crutches. MichaelCohen
Spill Michael, spill
WaPo gonna keep running this for the next 3 years waiting for him to get out. 😂😂
Democrat extremists and their news buddies seem to love crooked lawyers!
There's plenty of fantasy writers out there we really can read made up stuff there that's done well enough for entertainment we don't more ridiculousness from a bad lawyer and a terrible liar
I'm blown away, he hasn't tried to convince people, his 2 dork sons are adopted.
Time for Individual1 to pay also. AmericansForImpeachment
Does he have any secrets on Area 51 he can share?
Book deal.
he knows everything and is ready to testify
Trumps day will come.
And you wonder why your credibility is in the toilet...
I hope he has more and good, so finally Trump has to go.
He's the Pee Wee Gaskins of political intrigue.
Here we see WaPo grasping, hoping, pleading that we consider—in spite of all evidence— that Trump is actually a Russian cut-out.
Yeah, sure.