Michael Cohen, former attorney to President Trump, is expected to plead guilty to making false statements to Congress regarding Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s ‘Russiagate’ investigation, ABC News reported
Cohen is expected to enter his plea in a federal court in Manhattan on Thursday. Since pleading guilty to tax evasion and campaign finance violations in August, Cohen has been cooperating with Mueller’s ongoing Russia investigation, and gave the Special Counsel more than 70 hours of recorded testimony.
Before flipping on his old employer, Cohen once said that he would “take a bullet” for the president. Cohen said that he has information that may be of interest to Mueller in August, but the statement was downplayed by Trump.
“If somebody defrauded a bank and he’s going to get ten or twenty years in jail, but you can say something bad about Donald Trump and you’ll go down to two years or three years, which is the deal he made – in all fairness to him, most people are going to do that,” Trump said at the time.
Now, ABC’s anonymous sources claim that Cohen will admit to making multiple false statements to two Congressional intelligence committees investigating alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia in the runup to the 2016 election. It is not yet clear what statements Cohen will admit were false.
Speaking ahead of the closed-door sessions in 2017, Cohen said that he “never saw anything” linking the Trump campaign to Russia in 2016. He also claimed that the Steele Dossier - compiled by an opposition research firm at the behest of the Clinton campaign and later used to kickstart the Mueller investigation - was “riddled with total falsehoods and intentionally salacious allegations.”
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