Michael Cohen, who once said he’d « take a bullet » for Donald Trump but has now agreed to work with Robert Mueller to help build the case against « Client 1, » is asking a judge for no prison time — but Trump’s hoping that the judge throws the book at his former « fixer. »
Michael Cohen, who once said he’d « take a bullet » for Donald Trump but has now agreed to work with Robert Mueller to help build the case against « Client 1, » is asking a judge for no prison time — but Trump’s hoping that the judge throws the book at his former « fixer. »
« ‘Michael Cohen asks judge for no Prison Time,' » Trump tweeted Monday. « You mean he can do all of the TERRIBLE, unrelated to Trump, things having to do with fraud, big loans, Taxis, etc., and not serve a long prison term? He makes up stories to get a GREAT & ALREADY reduced deal for himself, and get his wife and father-in-law (who has the money?) off Scott Free. He lied for this outcome and should, in my opinion, serve a full and complete sentence. »
On Friday, Cohen, 52, asked a judge to give him no prison time for the various crimes to which he has pleaded guilty, including campaign finance violations and tax and bank fraud. « Cohen theoretically could get up to 70 years in prison if sentenced to consecutive terms for all his crimes, NBC notes. « But sentencing guidelines would call for any prison term to be much less than that, in the range of several years.
