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Before he pleaded guilty and began assisting federal prosecutors last summer, Michael D. Cohen, President Trumps former fixer, spoke with a lawyer who agreed to reach out to the presidents legal team on his behalf.
The lawyer, Robert J. Costello, had about a dozen conversations with Mr. Trumps lead lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, according to emails and documents reviewed by The New York Times and interviews with people involved in the matter. In one email, the discussions were characterized as a back channel of communication.
During one of the conversations last April, Mr. Costello said in an interview, he asked whether Mr. Trump might put a pardon on the table for Mr. Cohen, who was under federal investigation for a variety of possible crimes, including arranging hush-money payments to two women who had said they had affairs with Mr. Trump. Mr. Giuliani told Mr. Costello that the president was unwilling to discuss pardons at that time, Mr. Costello said in the interview, and they did not discuss it again.
Now federal prosecutors have requested the emails and documents from Mr. Costello, according to a copy of the request, which cited an investigation into possible violations of federal criminal law but offered no further detail. The request, sent last week, was for any documents related to Mr. Cohen as well as any bills Mr. Costello had sent him.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/prosecutors-seek-records-on-cohens-back-channel-with-giuliani/ar-BBUK5TG?li=BBnb7Kz
Wouldn't it be funny if America's mayor got caught up in this shit.
RockRaven
(14,974 posts)be a player, an important person, make a name for themselves in the right circles...
but they are going to find out the hard way that everyone who does Trump's bidding, or the bidding of his peons, gets absolutely destroyed by their own actions.