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1/ “Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former lawyer, will for the first time publicly accuse the president of criminal conduct while in office related to a hush-money payment to a porn star.”
wsj.com/articles/cohen…
wsj.com/articles/cohen…
2/ Shocking!:
“Cohen also will make public some of Trump’s private financial statements and allege that Trump at times inflated or deflated his net worth for business and personal purposes, including avoiding paying property taxes”
wsj.com/articles/cohen…
“Cohen also will make public some of Trump’s private financial statements and allege that Trump at times inflated or deflated his net worth for business and personal purposes, including avoiding paying property taxes”
wsj.com/articles/cohen…
3/ “The financial statements were developed by Mr. Trump’s accountant,” Allen Weisselberg.
wsj.com/articles/cohen…
wsj.com/articles/cohen…
4/ “Among the most explosive and potentially damning aspects of Mr. Cohen’s testimony will be providing evidence of potential criminal conduct since Mr. Trump became president.”
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5/ Cohen “will also discuss how long Mr. Trump continued to ask about plans for a Trump Tower project in Moscow after the Iowa caucuses had taken place in February 2016.”
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6/ Cohen “also is expected to provide more detail about his lies to Congress and address in some capacity a BuzzFeed News report asserting he told special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s office that the president directed him to lie.”
washingtonpost.com/world/national…
washingtonpost.com/world/national…
7/ ”Cohen’s credibility will be on trial in the three-day event, after he pleaded guilty to nine felonies, including lying to Congress...The main event for the public will be Wednesday, when he testifies” in an open House session.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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8/ On the Trump/Cohen tapes, Allen Weisselberg, the CFO of the Trump Org, is referred to by Cohen - who says Weisselberg was aware of LLCs being used to funnel illegal payments. Reupping my April column on why Weisselberg matters:
bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
9/ Weisselberg has decades of history with the Trumps and knows most of the financial secrets. My column from last July:
bloomberg.com/amp/opinion/ar…
bloomberg.com/amp/opinion/ar…
10/ Weisselberg’s immunity deal with the SDNY last August may have taken the Trump probes - and President Trump’s potential legal exposure - to a new place. It’s all about the money trail and Weisselberg handled a lot of the money - for decades:
bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
11/ That time Allen Weisselberg lost $1 billion of President Trump’s money: amazon.com/dp/044669617X/… 
