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Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2022 8:15 pm Post subject: |
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trump testifies that getting hit by tomatoes is deadly assault.
but here we have trump lied under oath according to Cohen. this is in regards to during 2016 pre-election beating up and stealing protesters sign at trump tower. at the order of trump.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-denied-under-oath-knowing-about-2015-attack-on-protesters-but-michael-cohen-says-otherwise/ar-AAWFkgA?ocid=winp2oct&cvid=0a7119833461485b8e21e053e82183d9
Trump denied under oath knowing about 2015 attack on protesters, but Michael Cohen says otherwise
Quote: | Former President Donald Trump denied under oath knowing anything about a 2015 scuffle his security guards had with protesters outside Trump Tower, but his former lawyer Michael Cohen said Trump ordered the confrontation, according to newly filed court papers.
In an October 2021 deposition, parts of which were made public for the first time in a court filing Tuesday night, Trump said he "didn't know about" the altercation between his bodyguard Keith Schiller and a group of protesters until the day after it happened.
Trump defended Schiller's actions, according to the transcript.
"He did nothing wrong. He went out — I didn't know about it. But he went out, he heard there was a disturbance, and he went out. And he took a 50 cent sign down that was racist. He sees people dressed as Ku Klux Klansmen or whatever. People were probably complaining," Trump said.
After grabbing the protester’s sign, "he was attacked from behind, and they tried to get his gun," Trump said. "I don’t even know if he was carrying a gun. But if he was, they were obviously trying to get it."
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The protesters filed suit against Trump over the altercation, and the case was scheduled to go trial in New York's Bronx Supreme Court next month. Trump's attorneys sought to delay the trial date after a new witness came forward with evidence that's potentially helpful to the protesters — Cohen, Trump's former lawyer.
In a court filing Tuesday, the protestors' lawyer, Benjamin Dictor, said Cohen reached out to him after Trump's deposition and told him he was with Trump in his office when Schiller told the then-presidential candidate about the protest outside the building. Trump then told Schiller to "get rid of" the protesters, and Schiller later returned to Trump's office with the sign he'd taken from them, the filing said.
"Mr. Cohen’s description of the events that he observed on September 3, 2015 is not only additional direct proof of Trump’s control and management of his security personnel, it also directly contradicts and would therefore serve as rebuttal to the testimony of defendants Trump and Schiller," the filing says.
Trump's lawyer, Alina Habba, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. In court filings earlier this month, she accused Dictor of "trial by ambush" for trying to add the "surprise" witness before trial.
"It is highly suspect that Mr. Cohen chose to wait over six years since the filing of plaintiff’s complaint to volunteer to testify on the plaintiffs’ behalf," her filing says, calling Cohen "a former disgruntled employee of the Trump Organization" with "a long and well-documented disdain for Mr. Trump and (who) has publicly disparaged him on countless occasions."
Cohen said in a statement to NBC News that Habba “has learned quickly from Donald the art of deflection and denigration. Truth is truth.”
Cohen was sentenced in 2018 to three years in prison for what a federal judge in Manhattan called a “veritable smorgasbord” of criminal conduct, including facilitating secret payments to women who claimed they'd had affairs with Trump and lying to Congress about Trump’s business dealings with Russia.
He's since cooperated with investigations into Trump's business practices by New York attorney general's office and the Manhattan district attorney's office.
Dictor’s court filings say Cohen, who didn’t respond to an earlier subpoena from the Trump camp, has agreed to be deposed by both sides on May 17, potentially clearing the way for the trial to begin in June.
The deposition excerpts in the court filing also show Trump defending comments he'd made about protesters during his 2016 presidential campaign, including a rally where he told attendees, "if you see someone getting ready to throw a tomato, just knock the crap out of them, would you?"
"It was very dangerous," Trump told Dictor. "We were threatened. ... They were going to throw fruit," he said, calling it "very violent stuff."
"It's worse than tomato, it's other things also. But tomato, when they start doing that stuff, it's very dangerous. There was an alert out that day."
He then said the 2016 remark to the crowd was made "sort of in jest. But maybe, you know, a little truth to it. It's very dangerous stuff. You can get killed with those things." |
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Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2023 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/michael-cohen-trump-s-former-fixer-meets-with-manhattan-investigators/ar-AA16rLOS?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=88407828404f4757c857c4ed80112dab
Michael Cohen, Trump's former "fixer," meets with Manhattan investigators
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Michael Cohen, former President Donald Trump's ex-attorney and "fixer," met Tuesday afternoon with investigators from the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, the latest sign that its years-old investigation into Trump may be picking up steam.
Cohen confirmed that he was asked for an interview by investigators for the D.A., Alvin Bragg, as he arrived for the meeting at a government office building in downtown Manhattan.
"They're calling me in for the 14th time, so we'll see what happens," Cohen said, adding that he hasn't met with investigators since the current district attorney took office more than a year ago. "This is my first time meeting with Alvin Bragg."
The interview comes four days after two Trump Organization companies were sentenced to pay a combined $1.6 million penalty stemming from a December conviction on 17 criminal counts related to tax fraud.
A spokesperson for Bragg declined to comment Tuesday. |
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Posted: Tue May 09, 2023 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/michael-cohen-accuses-trump-of-using-500m-lawsuit-for-witness-intimidation/ar-AA1aWCTG?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=11615b83d2b04acaad7a5ae8e29c115a&ei=15
Michael Cohen accuses Trump of using $500m lawsuit for witness intimidation
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Donald Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen on Monday asked a federal judge to dismiss a $500m lawsuit filed by the former president just weeks after Trump was indicted in New York over hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels, contending that it was an unlawful effort to engage in witness intimidation.
The motion argued the fact that Trump’s lawsuit only came when he was charged last month by the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, instead of when Cohen first made the claims years before, suggested that Trump had sued him out of retribution. Cohen is expected to serve as the star witness for the prosecution at trial.
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Trump’s lawsuit, which accuses Cohen of spreading false information about him and breaching contractual obligations through his public statements, also directly references Cohen’s role in the hush money case.
“The complaint in this case is yet another brazen and indeed unlawful attempt to intimidate and silence a key witness against Mr Trump,” Cohen’s lawyers wrote in a 35-page motion filed in federal court in Florida. “Mr Trump’s campaign of retaliation should be shut down.”
Cohen’s suggestion that Trump was engaging in witness tampering against him may face hurdles under New York state law, since the lawsuit was not a direct attempt to influence his testimony and Cohen is unlikely to change course. |
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Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2023 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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trump paysoff Cohen...
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/michael-cohen-trump-organization-settle-13-million-civil-suit-rcna95603?
Michael Cohen, Trump Organization settle $1.3 million civil suit
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In February 2019, Michael Cohen enraged Donald Trump and his team by testifying before the House Oversight Committee and making a series of damaging allegations about the then-president. The lawyer’s testimony was, among other things, the first domino that led to Trump’s indictment in New York.
It was a week later when Cohen went further, filing a civil lawsuit against the Trump Organization, alleging that the business owed him quite a bit of money. Today, as NBC News reported, that case was resolved.
Former Trump personal lawyer-turned-ferocious critic Michael Cohen has settled his lawsuit seeking $1.3 million in legal fees from the Trump Organization, sources told NBC News. Attorneys for Cohen and the Trump company were in New York state Supreme Court in Manhattan on Friday working out the final terms of the deal, which were not disclosed.
The litigants appear to have waited until the last minute: Jurors had already been selected for this case, and opening arguments were set to begin on Monday.
Note, this now-settled case filed by Cohen is separate from a related lawsuit filed against Cohen: In April, Trump sued his former fixer, seeking at least a half-billion dollars — no, that’s not a typo — over alleged breaches of contract and “unjust enrichment.”
Whether today’s settlement touched on the former president’s $500 million case is, at least for now, unclear.
But as one of Team Trump’s many legal disputes fades away, I’m reminded of something then-candidate Trump said in 2016. “I don’t settle cases,” the Republican bragged during a primary debate in 2016. “I don’t do it because that’s why I don’t get sued very often, because I don’t settle, unlike a lot of other people.”
And yet, the Republican appears to settle cases with some regularity. Last fall, for example, he reached a settlement with a group of protesters who claimed his security guards assaulted them outside Trump Tower in 2015.
Three years earlier, he also settled a case regarding his fraudulent charitable foundation, paying $2 million in penalties, and shuttering the entity altogether.
The settlement came after the then-president publicly declared, “I won’t settle this case!”
None of this, of course, should be confused with the $25 million settlement Trump had to pay in the Trump University case, in which the president ran a “school” that was little more than a scam created to take advantage of unsuspecting students who trusted the Republican.
He also vowed not to settle that case, shortly before he settled the case. |
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Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2023 5:06 pm Post subject: |
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/michael-cohen-s-fight-to-discover-who-ordered-his-silence-as-condition-of-prison-release-fails/ar-AA1fszDF?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=a594ae0daea24018e99e30d39abc6723&ei=22
Michael Cohen's fight to discover who ordered his silence as condition of prison release fails
Quote: | AFreedom of Information Act filed by former President Donald Trump's one-time personal attorney and fixer Michael Cohen in an effort to find out why he was forced to sign a nondisclosure agreement before being released from prison has been rejected.
Cohen claims the extremely unusual move was imposed on Trump's orders because the former Trump was trying to silence him. He refused to sign the NDA and had to serve another two weeks in prison.
Cohen, who was ordered under the terms of this agreement not to write a book about his experiences, has been in an extensive legal battle over alleged retaliation from the Trump administration.
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According to a letter sent to Cohen's attorney Jeffrey Levine Friday, the Federal Bureau of Prisons stated that the information is exempt from FOIA because it's "information that could be withheld under civil discovery, attorney-client, or attorney-work product privileges," "information about individuals when disclosure would be a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy," and information the release of which could result in "endangering the safety or life of any individual."
"What kind of bulls--t is this?" he posted to X on Friday. "After years of fighting with DOJ and BOP ... they are denying releasing ANY information. I want and we all need transparency from OUR government. They are hiding and Congress needs to act!"
"This is wrong," Cohen told Raw Story. "To prove Trump administration’s weaponization of the DOJ, I need these documents. They will not release them because they know it will implicate them all in the intentional violation of a citizen's First Amendment right."
Cohen pleaded guilty to bank fraud, tax evasion and campaign finance violations after helping facilitate a hush payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels to keep an affair between her and Trump hidden from 2016 voters — the same deal that is the focus of Trump's criminal indictment by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. Since then, Cohen has fought to expose his former boss, and testified in the grand jury proceedings in the Manhattan case. |
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Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2023 1:20 am Post subject: |
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https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/michael-cohen-reason-celebrate-trump-org-ruling-rcna117643?
Why Michael Cohen had reason to celebrate the Trump Org ruling
Quote: | What led to the brutal Trump Organization court ruling? Oddly enough, it started with Michael Cohen’s hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels. |
Quote: | Donald Trump didn’t need another brutal legal setback, but yesterday afternoon, the former president received one anyway. A New York judge concluded that the Republican’s business committed repeated acts of fraud over the course of several years, deceiving lenders, and both overvaluing and undervaluing his assets to Trump’s benefit.
As the news reached the public, law professor Jen Taub used social media to thank Michael Cohen, the former president’s former fixer, for the developments. Soon after, the lawyer replied, simply, “You’re welcome.”
This might’ve seemed like a bit of bravado, but Cohen was touching on an underappreciated point that’s entirely true.
Revisiting our earlier coverage, exactly one year ago this week, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced a sweeping lawsuit against the former president and the Trump Organization. The civil case was rather devastating: The state attorney general’s office, pointing to more than 200 instances of fraud over 10 years, announced that it was seeking roughly $250 million in civil penalties.
After the case was unveiled, The New York Times noted in passing:
The investigation started after Michael D. Cohen, Mr. Trump’s former personal lawyer and fixer, testified to Congress that Mr. Trump and his employees had manipulated his net worth to suit his interests.
That was true, but the match that lit the flame was struck before Cohen’s congressional testimony.
Around this time seven years ago, then-candidate Trump agreed to pay hush money to a porn star named Stormy Daniels, in the hopes of keeping secret before the 2016 election an alleged extra-marital affair. Cohen took the lead in orchestrating the illegal payment.
As has been well documented, this did not go unnoticed. Cohen was ultimately charged, prosecuted, convicted, and sentenced to prison, even as his former client was rewarded with the presidency.
It was around this time that the lawyer turned on Trump. In early 2019, as part of an apparent payback campaign, Cohen delivered dramatic congressional testimony on Trump’s alleged financial crimes — including asset value inflation and systemic fraud at the Trump Organization.
Cohen’s testimony was a political bombshell, but just as importantly, it was watched with great interest by officials in the New York attorney general’s office.
Indeed, James specifically told reporters when unveiling the civil case, “I will remind everyone that this investigation only started after Michael Cohen, the former lawyer, [Trump's] former lawyer testified before Congress [and] shed light on this misconduct.”
In other words, had it not been for the hush-money payment, Cohen wouldn’t have been criminally charged. And if he hadn’t been charged, Cohen might not have turned against Trump. And if the lawyer hadn’t turned on the former president, Cohen might not have exposed financial irregularities inside Trump’s operation, which in turn wouldn’t have led to the state attorney’s general’s case, which in turn wouldn’t have led to the court ruling.
After the shout-out from James, Cohen added online, “I want to personally thank [the New York attorney general] for acknowledging my participation and assistance in bringing accountability to the Mandarin Mussolini! My journey to the truth has been filled with sadness, pain and anger. Today’s announcement makes it all worth it!”
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Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2024 1:47 am Post subject: |
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/michael-cohen-says-he-s-been-asked-to-testify-to-congress-about-trump-and-barr-throwing-him-back-in-prison/ar-BB1jMCfq?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=f39c531b0dd94ec3c5eba8afdc8135c4&ei=9
Michael Cohen Says He’s Been Asked to Testify to Congress about Trump and Barr Throwing Him Back in Prison
Quote: | During a segment on the hit MeidasTouch series Political Beatdown with Michael Cohen and Ben Meiselas, former Trump attorney Michael Cohen broke the news that he has been asked to testify before a congressional committee for the 8th time, this time to discuss Donald Trump's unconstitutional remand of Cohen back to prison on the eve of the publishing of his book, Disloyal: A Memoir: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump.
Cohen told co-host Ben Meiselas:
It appears that I am going to be asked for now the 8th time to appear at a congressional committee in order to discuss the unconstitutional remand of me back to prison by Donald Trump, by Bill Barr, and to lay out entire reasons, which goes to my book, Revenge. They were going to do an entire hearing on it, which will be live. So if you think I should do it and ensure that I do it live, rest assured, this is – it's insane in terms of just how bad Bill Barr acted as a attorney general under the control and the dominion of Donald Von-Shitz-In-Pants.
Back in 2020, Cohen was asked to sign a document that would have barred him from publishing a book during the remainder of his prison sentence while he was out on furlough due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Upon his refusal, officers sent him back to prison.
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In July of that year, a federal judge ruled that the decision to remand Cohen back to prison was indeed retaliation by the Trump administration against Cohen's then-upcoming publication of a tell-all book about Donald Trump and ordered that Cohen be released into home confinement.
Now, it appears Cohen will have another opportunity to share his story.
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