for a Moment he hesitates as he comes out of the courtroom. Michael Cohen, a runs directly to the waiting car, rises and disappears behind the darkened Windows. On this day, the dozens of journalists who were waiting outside in the cold to get no further answers from him. And also no reaction to the verdict. A judgment that is not turn out to be hard, as it would have been possible – and yet so much harder, as Michael Cohen, his defenders, and especially his family, who had gathered for the verdict in Manhattan, have hoped. Shocked to have cast his wife and his two children, reports a Reporter from the hall.
Three years in prison, is the judgment. 36 months behind bars, especially because Michael Cohen has helped his former client Donald Trump. Trump American presidential candidate, Cohen was his personal lawyer. The New York Federal court sentenced the 52-Year-old mainly because of tax evasion and false statements to the U.S. Congress. But also because he had paid in the election campaign hush money to two women who claimed to have an affair with Trump had – a violation of American election laws. And probably the case, Cohen would have come, ultimately, never before the court, if it would not have gone in reality, the current U.S. President.
The nearly two-year tenure of Trump is actually overshadowed since the beginning of allegations and suspicions. Former Familiar of Trump have come to the attention of law enforcement authorities to stand trial or have been sentenced. But in these last weeks of the year the legal disputes have increased once again to the dramatic. This is especially the suspicion of a possible intervention of Russia in the U.S. presidential election of 2016, the Ministry of justice appointed a special investigator Robert Mueller engaged for a year and a half. But it also Trumps business conduct and also to be private.
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Cohen, who had stood for twelve years, faithful to Trumps side, decided after a FBI search warrant and to cooperate in the face of a threat of a long prison sentence. However, he worked according to the court, never fully with law enforcement, but was only able to provide information, of which he hoped that they took advantage of him – including information that incriminate the President, or such, of which the investigators had already noted.
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On Wednesday, Cohen repeated his statement that Trump had arranged the hush money payments. It was his task to cover trump’s “dirty deeds”. “I take full responsibility for every deed, to which I have pled guilty: my personal and those of the President of the United States of America was involved,” says Cohen, and announces its readiness to continue to cooperate with investigators. In March, he will begin his prison sentence.
On Cohen’s trail, the FBI came by the special investigator Mueller and the big question now is, what are the points Cohen this may still help. Mueller, who had praised the helpfulness of the defendant expressly, and for a low prison sentence argues, is to clarify which agreements had trump’s campaign team with Russia. Also, the U.S. Congress is examining an alleged interference in the presidential election in 2016, the Trump as the winner was gone.
Cohen had admitted, among other things, to have the Congress in connection with a planned but never-realized project Trumps in Moscow lied to. Accordingly, the project was followed far in the election campaign of 2016 – contrary to what Cohen originally specified. Both in the case of the Bribe and the lie of the construction project, the prosecution is convinced that Cohen has “acted in coordination with and under the leadership of the” Trump. For the cash flows from the October 2016 illegal campaign aid, because they had been done in order to reduce trump’s chances of Election. “Cohen was the intention, to influence the presidential election in 2016.” Trump rejects all accusations. Cohen, he is called a liar, the hope of a lower sentence.
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is Open, what are the consequences of the case, Cohen and the other investigation around former employees of trump for President. Mueller would have to prove that Trump knew all of this, or acting even a crime – the statement of Cohen’s is not enough. But even if Mueller could demonstrate that, it must have no legal consequences. It is controversial whether the Constitution permits criminal charges against a sitting President. The Alternative would be the procedure for impeachment. About the would have to decide but in the end, the Senate. And the trump is the Republicans have a majority.
