Michael Cohen's Business Partner pleads guilty to

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Michael Cohen's Business Partner pleads guilty to tax evasion & agrees to cooperate as a witness


When it is all said and done, looking back on it, how deceptively easy it will have appeared to be.

Rolling one crook up upon another, everybody looking to save themselves and their families and willing to flip to do it.

And before any of you righties pull out your usual lame shit about it ‘having nothing to do with Trump’, imagine if it were a business associate of Obama’s lawyer?

Fire in the hole! Exploding heads!!

A significant business partner of Michael Cohen, Evgeny A. Freidman (a Russian immigrant known as the Taxi King), has quietly agreed to cooperate with the government as a potential witness, NYT reports.

A significant business partner of Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s personal lawyer, has quietly agreed to cooperate with the government as a potential witness, a development that could be used as leverage to pressure Mr. Cohen to work with the special counsel examining Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

Under the agreement, the partner, Evgeny A. Freidman, a Russian immigrant who is known as the Taxi King, will avoid jail time, and will assist government prosecutors in state or federal investigations, according to a person briefed on the matter.

Mr. Cohen’s conduct was initially examined by Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel investigating the 2016 election that led to Mr. Trump’s victory, and then referred to the United States attorney’s office in Manhattan. Last month, federal agents carried out search warrants at Mr. Cohen’s home, his office and a hotel room where he was staying, seeking documents related to his business associates and accountants.

Mr. Trump’s lawyers have been resigned to the strong possibility that the investigation of Mr. Cohen’s businesses could lead him to cooperate with federal prosecutors.


https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/22/nyregion/m...ation.html

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