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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,044 posts) Sat May 4, 2019, 02:14 PM May 2019

Prosecutors refuse final meeting with Cohen as prison looms

WASHINGTON — For months, President Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen tried — but failed — to position himself as a whistleblower in the vein of Watergate hero John Dean.

As the time ticked down toward his deadline to report to prison, Cohen also lost the interest of the one group of people who could help him out: the federal prosecutors he desperately hoped would ask a judge to shorten his sentence.

Since mid-March, prosecutors in New York have rebuffed Cohen's repeated offers to provide more information about alleged wrongdoing by Trump and other people in his orbit, Cohen's attorney Lanny Davis told The Associated Press on Friday.

"Why not see him?" Davis asked. "What's the downside? He's about to go to prison."

Cohen's legal team reached out to prosecutors in March asking for an opportunity to meet for a "frank discussion" about reducing his sentence, based on his cooperation. That meeting never happened.

That snub might be the best evidence yet that Cohen's months-long campaign to sell himself as a potential witness hasn't paid off.

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Prosecutors refuse final meeting with Cohen as prison looms (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2019 OP

So is SDNY under Barr? That expains everything. Then SDNY will not prosecute anyone close to Trump. triron May 2019 #1

I actually have sympathy for Cohen. The puppet's going to prison and the puppeteer is free. Vinca May 2019 #2

He should have entered into a formal cooperation agreement EleanorR May 2019 #4

No way. He's just a slightly dumber grifter than the gop leadership. lindysalsagal May 2019 #5

If Obama had had an affair with a hooker and then paid her to keep quiet EleanorR May 2019 #3

triron

(22,007 posts)

1. So is SDNY under Barr? That expains everything. Then SDNY will not prosecute anyone close to Trump.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sat May 4, 2019, 03:15 PM

May 2019

Vinca

(50,279 posts)

2. I actually have sympathy for Cohen. The puppet's going to prison and the puppeteer is free.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sat May 4, 2019, 03:20 PM

May 2019

He should spend the next 3 years penning a tell-all book as a guide for prosecutors when Barr is gone.

EleanorR

(2,393 posts)

4. He should have entered into a formal cooperation agreement

Reply to Vinca (Reply #2)

Sat May 4, 2019, 03:29 PM

May 2019

But he didn't want to talk about all of his crimes and those of others that he knew about. He thought he could talk about some of his crimes on his terms and get a reduced sentence, or even help from trumpie. Didn't work out that way.

lindysalsagal

(20,693 posts)

5. No way. He's just a slightly dumber grifter than the gop leadership.

Reply to Vinca (Reply #2)

Sat May 4, 2019, 04:16 PM

May 2019

But lack of intelligence didn't stop him from breaking the law a gajillion times. He did, after all, pass the NYS bar.

EleanorR

(2,393 posts)

3. If Obama had had an affair with a hooker and then paid her to keep quiet

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sat May 4, 2019, 03:27 PM

May 2019

He'd already be gone and republicans would still be screaming, shame. But being the mind-bendingly hypocritical and cowardly folks they are, they say and do nothing.

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