I don't think Michael Cohen is a bad man, but, he allowed himself to be dragged into a corrupt real estate company for the monies it brought. I also wonder if Michael Cohen felt intimidated in any way to continue his employment with Trump.
There is a difference between the ideas of corruption and entitlement by Trump and the actions of Michael Cohen. Cohen took the heat for Trump and he made a lot of money doing so, but, those monies would not be available to him if Trump didn't first exact his actions.
Michael Cohen needs no one's help in defending himself.
Why isn't the FBI handling this? Are there American entities involved with this? Every financial institution in the USA needs to investigate any potential of harboring these monies and report it to the FBI. There are significant laws regarding the reporting of large movements of money to detect terrorists. No USA institution should be in violation of those laws.
16 February 2012
By Rupert Neate
A high court judge (click here) has issued an arrest warrant for a Kazakh billionaire accused of committing one of the world's biggest ever frauds.
Mukhtar Ablyazov, who is alleged to have embezzled $5bn (£3.2bn), was found guilty of lying to the court about the scale of his vast fortune, including a £17m mansion on The Bishops Avenue, known as London's "billionaires' row". Mr Justice Teare sentenced Ablyazov to 22 months in jail for "serious" and "brazen" contempt of court in trying to hide more than £34m of assets from creditors, who claim he siphoned off billions of pounds from the Kazakh bank he used to run, BTA.
Ablyazov fled to Britain in 2009 after the bank he chaired defaulted on £8bn of debt owed to majority-state-owned Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), Barclays and others. The judge said Ablyazov has been accused of "fraud on an epic scale" and of using the bank "as if it were his own private source of funds"....
Mr. Hice us chasing rainbows. Signatures are signatures. Checks are checks. Mr. Cohen has already stated much of what the US House is looking for can be found with the Southern District of New York US Attorney's office.
The Republicans strongly appear to be under the influence of Trump no different than Mr. Cohen was at one time.
Lanny Davis is a wealthy man who can easily provide Pro Bono services to Michael Cohen. It is generous of him and he intends to have Michael Cohen to be honest and bring about the truth to the American people. I am concerned that if Michael Cohen had another attorney the truth would still be buried.
Lanny Davis is known to have a friendship with the Clintons as former members of the federal authority of the USA. I think I feel better about Lanny Davis' friendships than I do about Trump's in Asia.
There are many people that feel responsible for the failed election of Hillary Clinton. The longer this continues the more Americans are realizing the Clinton loss in 2016 was an assault against the country. If Lanny Davis is dedicated to revealing the truth, then I am not surprised. He is as an American as anyone else and he has a right to seek to protect this democracy.
Mark Meadows is barking up the wrong tree because Michael Cohen has already discussed this with his council. This is the third day of testimony and there have been legal dynamics continuing throughout.
Higgins is a piece of work. The prosecuting authorities don't necessarily need Cohen's boxes when it comes to bank information and otherwise. Michael Cohen already stated what evidence he had can be found at the SDNY. There are no secrets stated today that isn't already known. Oops, there it is. Higgins is defending the president.
July 6, 2019
New Orleans -- A Louisiana congressman (click here) is apologizing for the "unintended pain" caused by a video of his visit to a gas chamber at a Nazi concentration camp.
Rep. Clay Higgins said in an email Wednesday that he was retracting the video, recorded at the Auschwitz camp in Poland that is now part of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum....
The guy opposes bipartisanship.
September 14, 2018
By Drew Broach
U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins, R-Port Barre, (click here) has been a solid supporter of GOP President Donald Trump, and has raised and spent more money in his re-election campaign than anyone else in the race. But he's also facing more opponents than any Louisiana incumbent, and is the only one challenged by a member of his own party....
September 29, 2016
By Walter Pierce
[Editor's Note: (click here) The IND reached out to former Opelousas Police Chief Perry Gallow, who says Higgins' comments on both of the incidents below are misleading. "I am disappointed," Gallow says. "I really thought that Clay had turned the page. He preaches a lot about redemption, but his claims are, for the most part, inaccurate." More to come from that interview later this week.]
On May 31, 2007, Perry Gallow, then the police chief in Opelousas, wrote a letter to the mayor and city council informing them that on “May 18, 2007, Police Officer Clay Higgins rendered all equipment/property in his possession to Assistant Chief Smith/Opelousas Police Department, thereby resigning his position as Police Officer. A recommendation of disciplinary action, suspension without pay, regarding Mr. Higgins was approved at the Special Council Meeting of May 15, 2007. Due to his abrupt resignation, disciplinary action cannot be imposed.”
In addition to the letter to the mayor and council informing them of Officer Higgins’ resignation, Gallow attached a series of police department documents from his office including minutes of the Opelousas Police Department’s Discipline Review Board concerning the March 14, 2007, incident. Included among several accounts of police misconduct lodged against several officers within those minutes — their names are redacted — was the accusation against Patrol Officer First Class Clay Higgins: “Pfc. Clay Higgins used unnecessary force on a subject during the execution of a warrant and later gave false statements during an internal investigation. Although he later recanted his story and admitted to striking a suspect in handcuffs and later releasing him ...
That is precious. Michael Cohen needed to record Donald Trump to defend himself to David Pecker. Why do I get the feeling Trump told Pecker that he had given the monies to Cohen and Cohen needs to be forthcoming. Amazing. Trump is a thief. He entered into financial arrangements to pay off his protections against disclosure of an affair with a Playboy model and then welched on it.
There is nothing new about that.
December 12, 2018
By Ryan Lucas
A federal judge (click here) sentenced Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen to three years in prison on Wednesday following Cohen's guilty pleas to a number of political and finance crimes.
Those three years would be followed by three years of supervised release, and Cohen also is subject to forfeiture of $500,000, restitution of $1.4 million and fines totaling $100,000....
The government is receiving plenty of money from Mr. Cohen to defray the cost of the prosection. He is going to need money and plenty of it.
Additionally, Michael Cohen lost his legal license.
I forgot, the Republicans use these hearings as fodder for political commercials. Rep. Greg Steuben reminded me of that fact.
Rep. Chip Roy is from the 12th District of Texas. That is a district of San Antonio and north. Mr. Roy needs to speak to his peers that represent the Texas border because the people along the Texas border do not want a wall. He is complaining about wasting time on the testimony of Michael Cohen. I don't find it a waste of time to collect unlawful activity of a freely elected president. I might add, I am not completely sure Trump was freely elected by an electorate free of influence by an enemy of the USA.
Americans should be concerned about the priorities of Chip Roy. The reality that he disdains NATO only brings more concern about his criticism of Michael Cohen.
January 28, 2019
By Bill Lambrecht
...When the House voted 357-22 last week (click here) to prevent President Donald Trump from withdrawing from NATO, as the president has threatened to do, Roy was in the distinct minority supporting Trump.
In an even more lopsided tally, Roy was one of just seven House members, all Republicans, voting against legislation to ensure that some 800,000 federal workers affected by the government shutdown get back pay. After Senate passage and a 411-7 House vote, Trump signed the measure into law....
It is completely obvious to me there are relationships between communist leaders and Mr. Trump. THAT reality together with the information currently accumulated by SDNY and the Special Council which taints the 2016 election to favor Trump is most worrisome. Yet. The Republicans don't find it at all concerning.
It would seem the Democrats are the only ones willing to worry about the USA Constitution and the sovereign nature of the USA and it's elections.
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