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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2018
Ex-Trump lawyer Cohen gets 3 years in prison
By LARRY
NEUMEISTER
and TOM HAYS
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Michael
Cohen, who as President
Donald Trump’s personal
lawyer and fi xer once vowed
he would “take a bullet”
for his boss, was sentenced
today to three years in prison
for an array of crimes that
included arranging the pay-
ment of hush money to two
women that he says was
done at the direction of
Trump.
The sentence was in line
with what federal prosecu-
tors asked for. Sentencing
guidelines called for around
four to fi ve years behind
bars, and prosecutors asked
in court papers that Cohen
be given only a slight break.
U.S. District Judge Wil-
liam H. Pauley III said
Cohen deserved modest
credit for his decision over
the summer to admit guilt
and cooperate in a federal
investigation of efforts by
Russians to infl uence the
presidential election, but his
assistance “does not wipe
the slate clean.”
“Somewhere along the
way Mr. Cohen appears to
have lost his moral com-
pass,” the judge said. “As a
lawyer, Mr. Cohen should
have known better.”
Cohen told the judge just
before he was sentenced that
loyalty to Trump led him
astray.
“It was my blind loy-
alty to this man that led me
to take a path of darkness
instead of light,” he said. “I
felt it was my duty to cover
up his dirty deeds.”
Cohen’s lawyers had
AP Photo/Julio Cortez
Michael Cohen, right, arrives at federal court with his
daughter, Samantha Cohen, center, and son, Jake Cohen.
argued for leniency, say-
ing he decided to cooper-
ate with investigators rather
than hold out for a possible
pardon.
“He came forward to
offer evidence against the
most powerful person in our
country,” Cohen’s lawyer,
Guy Petrillo, told the judge
during the hearing.
Cohen, 52, pleaded guilty
in August to evading $1.4
million in taxes related to his
personal businesses. In the
part of the case with greater
political repercussions, he
also admitted breaking cam-
paign fi nance laws in arrang-
ing payments in the waning
days of the 2016 election
to porn star Stormy Daniels
and Playboy model Karen
McDougal, both of whom
said they had sexual encoun-
ters with Trump.
Cohen became the fi rst —
and so far, only — member
of Trump’s circle during two
years of investigations to go
into open court and impli-
cate the president in a crime,
though whether a president
can be prosecuted is a matter
of legal dispute.
Last month, Cohen also
pleaded guilty to lying to
Congress about Trump’s
business dealings in Rus-
sia. He admitted hiding the
fact that he was negotiating
a proposal to build a Trump
skyscraper in Moscow well
into the presidential cam-
paign. He said he lied out of
devotion to Trump, who had
insisted during the campaign
that he had no business ties
whatsoever to Russia.
The sentence was the cul-
mination of a spectacular
rise and fast fall of a lawyer
who attached himself to the
fortunes of his biggest client,
helped him get elected pres-
ident, then turned on him,
cooperating with two inter-
connected
investigations:
one run by federal prosecu-
tors in New York, the other
by special counsel Rob-
ert Mueller, who is looking
into Russian efforts to infl u-
ence the race for the White
House.
At the sentencing hear-
ing, a prosecutor in Muel-
ler’s offi ce, Jeannie Rhee,
said Cohen has “sought to
tell us the truth and that is of
the utmost value to us.”
“He has provided consis-
tent and credible information
about core Russia-related
issues under investigation,”
she said without elaborating.
WORLD IN BRIEF
nn’s December 2016 phone discussions of
Obama administration sanctions with Rus-
sian ambassador Sergey Kislyak, conversa-
tions that triggered intelligence community
alarms and led to his ouster from the admin-
istration after offi cials said he had lied to
them about the communications.
Associated Press
Flynn’s lawyers
say his lie to FBI
‘uncharacteristic’
WASHINGTON — Lawyers for Presi-
dent Donald Trump’s former national secu-
rity adviser Michael Flynn are asking a
judge to spare him prison time, saying he
had devoted his career to his country and
taken responsibility for an “uncharacteristic
error in judgment.”
The arguments to the judge Tuesday
echoed those of special counsel Robert
Mueller’s offi ce, which last week said Fly-
nn’s cooperation — including 19 meetings
with investigators — was so extensive that
he was entitled to avoid a prison sentence.
Flynn, who pleaded guilty to lying to the
FBI about conversations during the presi-
dential transition period with the then-Rus-
sian ambassador to the United States, will
next week become the fi rst White House
offi cial punished in the special counsel’s
ongoing probe into whether the Trump cam-
paign coordinated with Russia during the
2016 presidential election.
Flynn’s absence from the public eye,
despite entreaties from supporters to take an
aggressive stance against the Russia investi-
gation, has made him a source of continuing
intrigue. His sentencing has the makings of a
bookend moment for the investigation given
that Flynn — a visible presence on the cam-
paign trail, in high-level transition talks and
in the chaotic early days of the administration
— was an early, and pivotal, part of the case
who appeared to enjoy the president’s sym-
pathy even after his departure from the White
House.
Central to the investigation are Fly-
France: Massive
manhunt for
gunman after attack
STRASBOURG, France — A massive
manhunt involving hundreds of police and
soldiers was underway today for a suspected
extremist who yelled “God is great!” in
Arabic during a shooting spree around one
of Europe’s most famous Christmas mar-
kets. The assault in the eastern French city
of Strasbourg killed two, left one person
brain dead and injured 12 others, authorities
said.
Police union offi cials identifi ed the sus-
pected assailant as Frenchman Cherif
Chekatt, a 29-year-old with a thick police
record for crimes including armed robbery
and monitored as a suspected religious rad-
ical by the French intelligence services. His
parents and two brothers, also known for
radicalism, have been detained.
Refl ecting Strasbourg’s international
nature, the dead included a Thai tourist,
and an Italian was reportedly among the
wounded. The U.S. government, among oth-
ers, warned citizens in the area to be vigi-
lant. The city is home to the European Par-
liament and considers itself a capital of
Europe — and promotes itself as the “cap-
ital of Christmas.”
Some 720 members of the security forces
were hunting for the gunman today. Prosecu-
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Ex-judges: End
immigration arrests
at courthouses
BOSTON — Dozens of retired state and
federal judges called today on U.S. immigra-
tion offi cials to stop making arrests at court-
houses of people suspected of being in the
country illegally, saying immigrants should
be free to visit halls of justice without fear-
ing they will be detained.
Nearly 70 former judges from 23 states —
including federal judges and state supreme
court justices — said in a letter sent to Act-
ing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforce-
ment Director Ronald Vitiello that court-
house arrests are disrupting the criminal
justice system.
The judges are urging Vitiello to add
courthouses to the list of so-called “sensitive
locations” that are generally free from immi-
gration enforcement, like schools and places
of worship. They say that only “unequivocal
guarantees and protections will restore the
public’s confi dence that it can safely pursue
justice in our nation’s courts.”
Immigration offi cials have said commu-
nities are forcing their hand by refusing to
transfer immigrants in local prisons and jails
to ICE custody. They also argue that court-
house arrests are safer for agents because
people have to go through metal detectors
when they enter courthouses.
ICE says it’s going into courthouses only
for certain targets, like gang members and
public safety threats and immigrants who
have been previously deported or ordered to
leave.
UN chief calls for
compromise and
sacrifi ce at climate talks
KATOWICE, Poland — The United
Nations secretary-general called on coun-
tries to make compromises and sacrifi ces in
talks over tackling global warming, as some
observers warned the meeting in Poland
could collapse without an agreement on key
issues.
Making his second dramatic appeal in the
space of 10 days, Antonio Guterres told min-
isters and senior diplomats from almost 200
countries that they should consider the fate
of future generations.
His call came as the two-week meeting
in Katowice shifted from the technical to
political phase, with ministers taking over
negotiations.
Campaign groups warned of the risks of
failure and accused powerful players such
as the European Union of not pushing hard
enough to reach an agreement.
“A new leadership must step up,” said
Vanessa Perez-Cirera of the environmental
group WWF. “We cannot afford to lose one
of the twelve years we have remaining.”
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tor Remy Heitz said Chekatt was shot in the
arm during an exchange of fi re with French
soldiers during his rampage in the city center
on Tuesday. He then took a taxi to another
part of the city, boasting of the attack to the
driver. There, he exchanged more gunfi re
with police and disappeared.
The attack is a new blow to France, which
saw a wave of Islamic extremist killings in
2015 and 2016. It came amid a month of pro-
tests against President Emmanuel Macron
that have blocked roads around the coun-
try, led to rioting in the capital and put heavy
strain on police.
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