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‘Dirty deeds’: Cohen gets 3 years in prison
By LARRY
NEUMEISTER AND
TOM HAYS
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Michael
Cohen, President Don-
ald Trump’s one-time fixer,
was sentenced Wednesday
to three years in prison for
crimes that included arrang-
ing the payment of hush
money to conceal his boss’
alleged sexual affairs, tell-
ing a judge that he agreed
time and again to cover up
Trump’s “dirty deeds” out
of “blind loyalty.”
Separately, the legal
and political peril sur-
rounding Trump appeared
to deepen when prosecu-
tors announced that another
major piece of the investi-
gation had fallen into place:
The parent company of the
National Enquirer acknowl-
edged dispensing some of
the hush money in concert
with the Trump campaign to
fend off a scandal that could
have damaged his bid for
the White House.
Cohen, 52, shook his
head slightly and closed his
eyes as a judge pronounced
his sentence for evading
$1.4 million in taxes, lying
about Trump’s business
dealings in Russia and vio-
lating
campaign-finance
laws in buying the silence
of porn star Stormy Dan-
iels and Playboy center-
fold Karen McDougal, who
claimed they had sex with
the candidate. Cohen and
federal prosecutors have
said the payments were
made at Trump’s direction
to influence the election.
“Time and time again, I
felt it was my duty to cover
up his dirty deeds rather
than to listen to my own
inner voice and my moral
compass,” said a choked-up
Cohen, a lawyer who once
boasted he would “take a
bullet” for Trump. “My
weakness can be charac-
terized as a blind loyalty to
Donald Trump, and I was
weak for not having the
AP Photo/Craig Ruttle
Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, leaves federal court after his sentencing in New York on Wednesday.
strength to question and to
refuse his demands.”
The twin developments
represented a double dose
of bad news for the presi-
dent, who ignored report-
ers’ questions about Cohen
during an appearance at the
White House later in the
day.
Cohen is the first and,
so far, only member of
Trump’s circle during two
years of investigations to go
into open court and impli-
cate him in a crime, though
whether a president can be
prosecuted under the Con-
stitution is an open question.
In a possible sign of fur-
ther trouble for the pres-
ident, Cohen said he will
continue cooperating with
prosecutors, and one of his
legal advisers said Cohen
is also prepared to tell “all
he knows” to Congress if
asked.
At
the
sentencing,
defense
attorney
Guy
Petrillo pleaded for leni-
ency for Cohen, saying, “He
came forward to offer evi-
dence against the most pow-
erful person in our country.”
U.S. District Judge Wil-
liam H. Pauley III said the
defendant deserved mod-
est credit, 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.
The judge also ordered
Cohen to pay $1.39 mil-
lion in restitution to the IRS,
forfeit $500,000 and pay
$100,000 in fines. He was
ordered to report to prison
March 6 and left court with-
out comment.
The prison sentence was
in line with what prosecu-
tors asked for. Sentencing
guidelines called for around
four to five years, and the
government asked in court
papers that Cohen be given
only a slight break.
The sentence was the
culmination of a spectacular
rise and fast fall of a lawyer
who attached himself to the
fortunes of his biggest cli-
ent, helped him get elected
president, then turned on
him, cooperating with two
interconnected investiga-
tions: one run by federal
prosecutors in New York,
the other by special coun-
sel Robert Mueller, who is
looking into Russia’s efforts
to influence the presidential
election.
Beyond the guilty pleas,
it is unclear what Cohen
has told prosecutors or what
he has left to say, though
one of Mueller’s prosecu-
tors, Jeannie Rhee, said in
court that Cohen has “pro-
vided consistent and cred-
ible information about
core Russia-related issues
under investigation.” Legal
experts said Cohen could
get his sentence reduced by
cooperating.
In the hush-money case,
Cohen arranged for Amer-
ican Media Inc., parent of
the pro-Trump National
Enquirer, to pay $150,000
to McDougal to buy and
bury her story, according to
prosecutors. Cohen also said
he paid $130,000 to Dan-
iels and was reimbursed by
Trump’s business empire.
Both payments were made
during the heat of the 2016
campaign.
Prosecutors said those
secret payouts were not
reported as campaign con-
tributions and violated the
ban on corporate contribu-
tions and the $2,700 limit on
donations by an individual.
Shortly after Cohen’s
sentencing, federal author-
ities announced a deal not
to prosecute AMI. As part
of the deal, prosecutors
said, AMI admitted mak-
ing the payment to McDou-
gal “in concert” with the
Trump campaign to protect
him from a story that could
have hurt his candidacy. An
AMI representative had no
comment.
Trump had denied any
sexual relationship with the
women and argued on Twit-
ter earlier this week that
the payments to the women
were “a simple private trans-
action,” not a campaign con-
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tribution. And if it was a pro-
hibited contribution, Trump
said, Cohen is the one who
should be held responsible.
“Lawyer’s liability if
he made a mistake, not
me,” Trump wrote, adding,
“Cohen just trying to get his
sentence reduced. WITCH
HUNT!”
Trump’s legal culpabil-
ity could hinge on whether
the payments to the women
were, in fact, made at his
direction, and whether he
intended them to influence
the election.
In a case with some par-
allels, prosecutors in 2011
charged former Sen. John
Edwards with funneling
nearly $1 million in under-
the-table campaign contri-
butions to hide his pregnant
lover during his 2008 run
for president. Edwards had
argued that the payments
were a personal matter —
intended to keep things
secret from his wife — and
had nothing to do with the
election.
A jury acquitted the
Democrat on one charge and
deadlocked on other counts.
He wasn’t retried.
In addition to pleading
guilty to the campaign-fi-
nance and tax charges,
Cohen admitted lying to
Congress to conceal that
he was negotiating a pro-
posal to build a Trump sky-
scraper in Moscow well into
the presidential campaign
season. He said he lied out
of devotion to Trump, who
insisted during the campaign
that he had no business ties
whatsoever to Russia.
Daniels’ lawyer, Michael
Avenatti, who played a
major role in exposing the
hush-money
discussions,
said outside the courthouse:
“We will not stop until the
truth is known relating to the
conduct of Donald Trump.”
But he added: “Let me be
clear, Michael Cohen is nei-
ther a hero nor a patriot” and
“deserves every day of the
36-month sentence he will
serve.”
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