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BREAKING from @chrisgeidner: Federal Prosecutors Say Michael Cohen Should Serve A "Substantial Term Of Imprisonment"
buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisg…
This is the submission from prosecutors in SDNY, *not* special counsel Robert Mueller's office. That's also due today, so stay tuned buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisg…
In the special counsel office's sentencing memo for Cohen, prosecutors said Cohen admitted he had talked with "Individual 1" (Trump, based on the description) in 2015 about reaching out to Russia about a meeting with Putin during a UN visit (didn't happen) buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisg…
As for cooperation: Mueller's office says Cohen talked about his contacts with "Russian interests" during the campaign, attempts by Russian nationals to reach the campaign, and gave info about contacts with ppl connected to the White House in 2017-2018 buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisg…
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Some fireworks in court this morning as a judge criticized the lawyer representing Concord Management & Consulting in the special counsel Russian troll farm case for his language and harsh words about Mueller's office in filings — "unprofessional, inappropriate, and ineffective"
The judge told attorney Eric Dubelier that his strategy was "ineffective" and that his approach to filings — including pop culture quotes (see: assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5676…) and accusing Mueller's office basically of lawlessness — was "undermining your credibility in this courthouse"
"Knock it off," Judge Dabney Friedrich told Dubelier. This then led to a heated exchange where Dubelier said he needed to consult his client since the judge had accused of unprofessional conduct, and now there might be bias from the judge. There's no bias, the judge replied.
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New: This morning the DC Circuit vacated an injunction that had blocked the Trump admin's ban on transgender military service — this doesn't change the status quo, since injunctions issued by other courts still stand, but it's still noteworthy assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5674…
This is the first win for the administration in litigation over the transgender military service policy — judges in DC, WA, and CA issued injunctions. The cases went up on appeal, but DOJ then petitioned SCOTUS before the circuits ruled, which was unusual: buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisg…
SCOTUS hasn't weighed in yet, and now in the meantime the DC Circuit has issued a ruling. It's a per curiam judgment, and not "published," which means it's not precedent for the circuit and no one judge on the panel is the named author, it's just on behalf of the court
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Remember how Jerome Corsi filed a civil lawsuit against Robert Mueller, claiming various violations of his rights? A judge today denied Corsi's bid to have the case assigned to the same judge who ruled against the NSA bulk surveillance program a few years ago, Judge Richard Leon
Corsi is represented by Larry Klayman, who argued the NSA case before Leon. Normally cases are randomly assigned, unless they're related to another case. Klayman today argued the cases were related, since Corsi claims he's been illegally surveiled by the special counsel's office
But "related" has specific meanings under the court rules. For cases that have been dismissed at the district court level, as Klayman's NSA cases were (he's on appeal), Corsi's case would need to involve the same parties and subject to be "related"
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So. That was Friday.
A decade ago (this morning), we learned Trump had decided on two nominations:
— AG: Trump Says He Is Nominating Former AG William Barr To Be AG buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
— UN: Trump To Nominate A Former Fox News Host And State Dep’t Spox To The Top UN Job buzzfeednews.com/article/emilyt…
Then, I reported this somewhat unusual news item —> The Justice Department Still Hasn't Told The Government Accountability Office That Jeff Sessions Quit buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisg…
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💣#AWFDY💣

SCO: sets foundation establishing how #TeamTrump conspired w/ RU/Putin to defraud the US & subvert the 2016 elex. ThIs is ominous for #TeamTrump

SDNY asserts Cohen violated campaign finance law (felony), he "acted in coordination w/ & at the direction of" Trump,
💣#AWFDY💣

Which means SCO has other evidence which corroborates Cohen’s stmts

11/15, Cohen rec’d the contact info for & spoke w/, a RU nat’l who claimed to be a “trusted person” in the RU Fed’n

📌Who could offer the campaign “political synergy” & “synergy on a gov’t level.”
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📌Per Cohen RU Nat’l (Dmitry Klokov?) repeatedly proposed a meeting btwn Individual 1 (Trump) and Putin.

📌The RU Nat’l told Cohen that such a meeting could have a “phenomenal” impact “not only in political but in a business dimension as well,” re TT Moscow
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BREAKING: Federal Prosecutors say Trump's longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen should serve a "Substantial Term Of Imprisonment."
via @chrisgeidner @BuzzFeedNews #Maddow
buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisg…
At Michael Cohen's initial meeting with the SCO on AUG 7, 2018 – which Cohen requested – he voluntarily provided info relevant to other aspects of the SCO’s ongoing investigation, but provided false answers when asked about the Moscow Project.
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From the Mueller filing: Michael Cohen explained that he did not pursue the proposed meeting in Russia [via Felix Sater] because he was working on the Moscow Project with a different individual who had his own connections to the Russian government.
#Maddow
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NEW: Federal prosecutors have filed their sentencing memo on Michael Cohen. It's not kind. They say his crimes "were marked by a pattern of deception that permeated his professional life."
Federal prosecutors in New York say Michael Cohen should receive a "substantial term of imprisonment," even after giving him some credit for his cooperation with Mueller's investigation.
President Trump makes an appearance in DOJ's sentencing memo for his former lawyer, Michael Cohen. He is "Individual-1."
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This will be my MICHAEL COHEN thread for today.
Cohen's lawyer just alerted the court that their claim in their sentencing memo that Cohen had paid $6 million in taxes during the years at issue in the case was wrong. It was actually $1.9 million. They regret the error.
Here's our @BuzzFeedNews story, from @ambiej, on Cohen's filing from last week —> buzzfeednews.com/article/amberj…
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DAY TWO, from me —> Michael Cohen's Guilty Plea Leaves A String Of Questions Unanswered buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisg…
"Michael Cohen's guilty plea is just the beginning." buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisg…
In following up on the Cohen plea — buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisg… — I've thought a lot about this, which is that Giuliani told me that first night I talked with him in early May almost precisely what happened. (Even though he later said he was still figuring everything out then.)
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