Michael Cohen (lawyer)
Michael Dean Cohen (born August 25, 1966) is an American attorney and convicted felon. He worked as a lawyer for Donald Trump from 2006 until he was fired in May 2018.
| Michael Cohen | |
|---|---|
| Cohen in 2011 Cohen in 2011 | |
| Born | Michael Dean Cohen August 25, 1966 Lawrence, New York, U.S. |
| Conviction(s) | Fraud; Perjury |
| Penalty | 3 years in prison; fines; asset forfeiture; disbarment |
| Spouse | Laura Shusterman (m. 1995) |
| Children | 2 |
Cohen was a vice-president of the Trump Organization and special counsel to Donald Trump,[1] and was co-president of Trump Entertainment and was a board member of the Eric Trump Foundation.[2]
As of April 2018[update], he has been under investigation by federal prosecutors on multiple matters, including bank fraud, wire fraud and campaign finance violations due to payments made by him in the Stormy Daniels–Trump scandal.[3][4] The investigation led to him pleading guilty on August 21, 2018 to eight counts of campaign finance violations, tax fraud, and bank fraud.[5] On December 12, 2018, Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison.[6]
Cohen, after his conviction, wrote a memoir titled Disloyal, where he accused Trump of telling him to commit the crimes he was convicted of, and talked about his other personal stories.
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Cohen's petition against Barr for a writ of habeas corpus
Cohen's declaration that his incarceration violated his First Amendment rights
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References
- ↑ Helderman, Rosalind (January 19, 2017). Michael Cohen will stay Trump's personal attorney – even in the White House. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/01/19/michael-cohen-special-counsel-to-donald-trump-will-follow-him-to-washington/. Retrieved February 1, 2017.
- ↑ Nathan-Kazis, Josh (July 20, 2015). Meet Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's Jewish Wingman. http://forward.com/news/312123/meet-michael-cohen-donald-trumps-jewish-wingman/. Retrieved January 15, 2016.
- ↑ Apuzzo, Matt (April 9, 2018). "F.B.I. Raids Office of Trump's Longtime Lawyer Michael Cohen". The New York Times.
- ↑ Leonnig, Carol D.; Hamburger, Tom; Barrett, Devlin (April 9, 2018). "Trump attorney Cohen is being investigated for unknown reasons.". The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/fbi-seizes-records-related-to-stormy-daniels-in-raid-of-trump-attorney-michael-cohens-office/2018/04/09/e3e43cf4-3c30-11e8-974f-aacd97698cef_story.html.
- ↑ "Michael Cohen Says He Arranged Payments to Women at Trump's Direction". The New York Times. August 21, 2018. Retrieved August 22, 2018.
- ↑ "Ex-Trump lawyer Cohen jailed for 36 months". BBC News. 2018-12-12. Retrieved 2018-12-12.
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