US Justice aims to „significant“ prison sentence for the lawyer Michael Cohen, the former legal representative of President Donald Trump. The Federal Prosecutor’s Office filed a similar application on Friday in New York. Among other things, she accuses Cohen of violations of tax and campaign finance laws as well as knowledgeable false statements to Congress. The sentence against Cohen should be announced on Wednesday.
Prosecutors accuse him of violating a number of laws over the years for „personal greed“. He used his power and influence for „fraudulent purposes,“ federal prosecutor Robert Khuzami said. He recommended a 51 to 63-month prison sentence for Cohen, who was closely associated with Trump personally and for more than a decade and a half.
Cohen recently pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about contacts with Moscow and Trump’s real estate project in the Russian capital. It was about the planned construction of a Trump skyscraper in Moscow.
Otherwise, the allegations made by the federal prosecutor against Cohen relate, inter alia, to hush money payments to two alleged former sex partners Trumps, the porn actress Stormy Daniels and the former „Playboy“ model Karen McDougal. These payments are said to have violated election campaign finance laws.
