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BREAKING: Government requests that Cohen receive a "substantial term of imprisonment, one that reflects a modest downward variance from the applicable Guidelines range."

Probation recommends 42 months.

Story coming.

Note: Mueller and the SDNY are filing separately. This particular sentencing memo is from SDNY's deputy Robert Khuzami.

And here comes Mueller, saying that any sentence should be concurrent with the SDNY ones.

Here is a developing story on the SDNY sentencing memo for Michael Cohen; Mueller update ahead. courthousenews.com/ex-trump-lawye…

Mueller's sentencing brief for Michael Cohen is linked to in the story. courthousenews.com/wp-content/upl…

Interesting footnote: "This initial meeting with the [Special Counsel's Office], on August 7, 2018, was set up at Cohen’s request." Cohen lied in that meeting about the Moscow project.

#AlwaysReadTheFootnotes Mueller says that Cohen lied to him about a 2015 radio interview urging Trump to meet with Putin at the U.N. General Assembly.

#AlwaysReadTheFootnotes, Part 3: SDNY claims that Cohen overstated his cooperation: "Cohen subsequently determined not to fully cooperate."

Hence, no 5K1.1 letter.

#AlwaysReadTheFootnotes, Part 4. SDNY says that Cohen didn't tell @NewYorkStateAG anything new, and only cooperated with state tax authorities about, wait for it... "his own state taxes."

"Within the confines of the SCO investigation itself, the Office does not dispute that Cohen’s assistance to the SCO was significant."

But SDNY "cannot assess the overall level of Cohen’s cooperation to be significant."

Brutal.

The story on the site is still a stub, and an update is on the editing queue. I'll have one more coming after that. I'll let you know when it's live.

Wherein prosecutors cite Michael Cohen’s backfiring effort to intimidate @TimKMak in a recorded phone broadcast by NPR.

Hear the exchange prosecutors cited here:

https://twitter.com/timkmak/status/1071168640916033536?s=21