Read: Mueller and prosecutors sentencing filings for Michael Cohen
Source: Vox
Special counsel Robert Mueller and federal prosecutors in New York each filed their sentencing memoranda for President Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen Friday.
In August, Cohen pleaded guilty to tax evasion, bank fraud, and campaign finance violations in a case brought by the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. Those campaign finance charges were about hush money payments Cohen arranged in 2016 for women who alleged sexual encounters with Trump.
Then last week, Cohen pleaded guilty to an additional charge of lying to Congress, as part of a new plea deal with Mueller. Cohen admitted he'd lied about the timing and extent of talks about a project to build a Trump Tower in Moscow.
Mueller's team wrote that Cohen had "taken significant steps to mitigate his criminal conduct," and that "the information he has provided has been credible and consistent with other evidence."
Read more: https://www.vox.com/2018/12/7/18130805/michael-cohen-sentencing-memo-mueller
So Mueller's memo is more positive than that of the SDNY.
This is the 7 page Mueller memo.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5453418-Mueller-Cohen-filing.html
George II
(67,782 posts)...there will be an addendum. This memo isn't redacted, but if an addendum shows up that will probably be redacted.
pnwmom
(108,995 posts)pecosbob
(7,544 posts)I need Seth...
janx
(24,128 posts)Mueller's was very carefully written. Mentions of "the Organization" the frequent mention of "others" tend to point in certain directions.
Wow.
pecosbob
(7,544 posts)but it's going to be nuclear...
BigmanPigman
(51,632 posts)The fucking moron should be very worried. Conspiracy and Individual 1 is key!
elleng
(131,138 posts)*should receive a substantial prison term of roughly four years, despite his cooperation, federal prosecutors in New York said on Friday.
Mr. Cohen, 52, is to be sentenced in Manhattan next week for two separate guilty pleas: one for campaign finance violations and financial crimes charged by federal prosecutors in Manhattan, and the other for lying to Congress in the Russia inquiry, filed by the Office of the Special Counsel in Washington.
Prosecutors in Manhattan said the crimes Mr. Cohen had committed marked a pattern of deception that permeated his professional life, and though he was seeking a reduced sentence for providing assistance to the government, he did not deserve much leniency.
He was motivated to do so by personal greed, and repeatedly used his power and influence for deceptive ends, . .
At the same time, the special counsels office released its own sentencing recommendation to the judge for Mr. Cohens guilty plea for misleading Congress.
The special counsel seemed to offer a more positive view of Mr. Cohens cooperation with the Russia investigation, saying he has gone to significant lengths to assist the special counsels investigation.'>>>
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/07/nyregion/michael-cohen-sentence.html
George II
(67,782 posts)....of about 3 years (that's what one CNN pundit said), so it can be between 3 and 4 years.
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)or a much reduced sentence if he cooperated fully with the SDNY. Up to now he hasn't agreed to be a cooperating witness with the SDNY, and they're the ones setting his sentence. He has to cop to every crime he's ever committed. They might want information on his other client. Anyone remember who Cohen's other client was? Sean Hannity. Wouldn't it be wonderful if Sean Hannity went down with the Trump sinking ship?
Muskiteer
(34 posts)Or is a President above the law under a Justice Department memo?
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)And welcome to DU!
still_one
(92,421 posts)execute some of those crimes is left untouched, something is very wrong in our system