Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former attorney, pleaded guilty as part of a plea deal Thursday to lying in the Justice Department’s Russia investigation.
Nov. 29 (UPI) — Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump ‘s former personal attorney, pleaded guilty as part of a plea agreement Thursday to lying to Congress in the Justice Department’s Russia investigation.
Prosecutors laid out the agreement in a nine-page filing in New York federal court.
The Justice Department charged Cohen for telling House and Senate committees last year that Trump’s “Moscow Project” to build a Trump Tower there ended in January 2016 — when it continued after that date.
Trump has said multiple times he had no business dealings in Russia — and Cohen told lawmakers he never contacted anyone in Russia about the real estate project. The filing Thursday said Cohen, in fact, spoke on the phone with a Russian intermediary for help with the development.
