He was expected to take the fall for Trump. Donald Trump is supposed to be untouchable and he pays men like Michael Cohen to be the loyal person that cares about Trump more than anyone else does.
Michael Cohen would not have received a three year sentence if he didn't see the light and tell all he knew about the covert activities of Donald Trump, including his hush money that would have cost him the election if the country knew about it. This is an election issue and it should carry a great deal of brevity in allowing someone to continue to occupy the White House.
Donald Trump is shady. His business dealings are shady and he operates the White House like a play toy. He doesn't care about the country. It is heading for disaster, but, like Trump says, "I won't be around when it happens."
December 12, 2018
By Benjamin Weiser and William K. Rashbaum
Michael D. Cohen, (click here) a former lawyer for President Trump, was sentenced to three years in prison on Wednesday after denouncing Mr. Trump and explaining that “I felt it was my duty to cover up his dirty deeds.”
Mr. Cohen gave an emotional apology to the court for his involvement in a hush-money scandal to buy the silence of two women who said they had had affairs with Mr. Trump. The payments were meant to influence the 2016 election. Mr. Cohen said his blind loyalty to Mr. Trump led him to ignore “my own inner voice and my moral compass.”
The sentencing in federal court in Manhattan capped a startling fall for Mr. Cohen, 52, who had once hoped to work by Mr. Trump’s side in the White House but ended up a central figure in the inquiry into payments to a porn star and a former Playboy model before the 2016 election.
Judge William H. Pauley III said Mr. Cohen called Mr. Cohen’s crimes a “veritable smorgasbord of fraudulent conduct” and added, “Each of the crimes involved deception and each appears to have been motivated by personal greed and ambition.”...
