(29 Nov 2018) President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, admitted Thursday he had lied to Congress about a Moscow real estate deal he had pursued on Trump’s behalf during the heat of the 2016 presidential campaign.
The guilty plea makes clear that prosecutors believe that Trump, who insisted repeatedly throughout the campaign that he had no business dealings in Russia, was continuing to pursue the project weeks after he had clinched the Republican nomination for president and well after he or his associates have publicly acknowledged.
The negotiations about building a Trump Tower in Moscow continued as late as June 2016 – the same month Trump’s oldest son met in Manhattan with a Kremlin-connected lawyer – even though Cohen told two congressional committees last year that they ended that January.
"Cohen lied about the extent of his conversations not only with people in the Trump Organization about this deal, but that they went on a lot longer further into the campaign than we previously knew," explains AP reporter Chad Day.
Cohen also discussed the proposal with Trump on multiple occasions and with unidentified members of the president’s family, according to court papers filed by special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating Russian interference in the presidential election and possible coordination with the Trump campaign.
Prosecutors say Cohen is cooperating with Mueller and has met with his team seven times.
"What this shows is that he has been providing a significant amount of information to their investigation, that they do consider it to be material to what they’re investigating and pursuing. And so I think that we’re just scratching the surface right now about what Michael Cohen may have told them," Day says.
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