Michael Cohen's Business Partner Agrees to Cooperate as Part of Plea Deal
Source: New York Times
A significant business partner of Michael D. Cohen, President Trumps 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. Cohens conduct was initially examined by Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel investigating the 2016 election that led to Mr. Trumps victory, and then referred to the United States attorneys office in Manhattan. Last month, federal agents carried out search warrants at Mr. Cohens home, his office and a hotel room where he was staying, seeking documents related to his business associates and accountants.
Mr. Trumps lawyers have been resigned to the strong possibility that the investigation of Mr. Cohens businesses could lead him to cooperate with federal prosecutors.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/22/nyregion/michael-cohen-trump-taxi-cooperation.html
DeminPennswoods
(15,290 posts)nt
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Hope he gets 24/7 protection.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)meanwhile, Dirty Donny* and his cloddish Krewe of republican Kronies are drenched in flop sweat.
* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief
BigmanPigman
(51,623 posts)Tons of felony charges and many years in jail and millions to pay in restitution to the state for tax evasion and grand larceny if he didn't cooperate.
BumRushDaShow
(129,359 posts)Russian taxi mob guys.
BigmanPigman
(51,623 posts)are Cohen and Freidman? You would naturally assume they would be Russian names...go figure. I guess this is the New York wing of the Russian mob family.
BumRushDaShow
(129,359 posts)Above link lists it as "Евгений Наумович Фридман" in Russian.
BigmanPigman
(51,623 posts)Ivanka needs to be anglicised too...it sounds too "Russian". Perhaps Carol or Gloria.
BumRushDaShow
(129,359 posts)I expect her name came from her mother (Ivana), who is Czech.
Igel
(35,337 posts)Evgenii is equivalent to "Eugene."
The most common hypocoristic is Zhenya, parallel to "Gene."
As for "Fridman," it's "Friedman." Otherwise "Frid" would sound like the beginning of "fritters" in most Americans' dialect.
BumRushDaShow
(129,359 posts)You just made me think of this guy -
(Jonathan Frid)
XRubicon
(2,212 posts)No pardons on state charges!
Next up Cohen.
mpcamb
(2,873 posts)PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)These are State charges and trump can't pardon him!
Gee Donnie, hope you're sweating bullets, you treasonous p.o.s.
notdarkyet
(2,226 posts)Piss off cohen. If hes doing tons of time, he is gonna take trump down with him. Trumps bad attitude is going to be his undoing.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)All Mueller had to do was say "pretty please."
This is going to be interesting.
BumRushDaShow
(129,359 posts)It was the SDNY!
OldManTarHeel
(435 posts)Do the time . . or tell the rhyme.
C'mon Michael . . . come clean and save your ass.
pecosbob
(7,542 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,359 posts)because of his own money-laundering in the past. But he may be able to provide specific info regarding the time period around the election (i.e., whether he was a conduit for various slush funds).