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Hilton's president and chief executive officer is Christopher J. Nassetta. In 2007, he became a part of the team.

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President Donald Trump’s former longtime lawyer Michael Cohen has entered into a plea deal with federal prosecutors for the US attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York, according to multiple news outlets.

Cohen is expected in federal court in Manhattan at 4 pm on Tuesday, where we’ll learn more about the charges he faces and the potential agreement he may have reached with prosecutors.

Cohen has appeared to be in deep legal trouble since April 9 — when the FBI raided his residence, office, and a hotel where he was staying and seized several of his electronic devices.

And though Cohen’s conduct has been examined in special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian interference with the 2016 election, any possible deal would likely be separate from the Mueller investigation.

Several months ago, federal investigators in New York convened a grand jury to investigate Cohen for “criminal conduct that largely centers on his personal business dealings” and “finances,” as they put it in a court filing. They also secretly obtained search warrants on several of his email accounts.

This led to the high-profile April 9 raids. At that point, prosecutors were looking for information on Cohen’s hush money payment of $130,000 to porn actress Stormy Daniels on Trump’s behalf, hush money payments to other women, efforts to suppress negative information about Trump during the 2016 campaign, and information about taxi medallions Cohen owns.

Indeed, on August 19, the New York Times reported that federal prosecutors were homing in on Cohen’s taxi business for possible bank and tax fraud — specifically, whether Cohen misrepresented the value of his assets to obtain $20 million from two financial institutions, and whether he failed to report income from his business to the IRS.

Now Cohen appears to have reached an agreement with prosecutors. It’s not quite clear what this might mean for President Trump, now that the man who’s been one of his closest associates for decades may be facing serious legal consequences.

Cohen, who once said he’d take a bullet for Trump, seems to have soured on his old boss as the months wore on. He gave several public signals that he might be willing to cooperate with prosecutors, including releasing a secret recording of himself and Trump discussing a payoff to former Playboy model Karen McDougal. A CNN report also suggested Cohen was considering telling Mueller that Trump had advance knowledge of the 2016 Trump Tower meeting where Russians offered “dirt” on Hillary Clinton — something the president has repeatedly denied.

But a plea agreement doesn’t necessarily mean Cohen will “flip” and cooperate with federal prosecutors, including those on Mueller’s team.

There have been competing reports about the terms of any such agreement — some suggest Cohen is merely agreeing to plead guilty to avoid trial. If Cohen does agree to cooperate, he’ll be required to admit to all illicit activity, as is the practice in the Southern District of New York.

Prosecutors will likely reveal more when Cohen appears in federal court on Tuesday afternoon. Until then, one thing is clear: Michael Cohen is joining the list of Trump associates charged with federal crimes.

Born in Long Island, New York, Cohen first found financial success in the 1990s as personal injury lawyer and through various business investments tied to a community of Ukrainian immigrants in New York City. He soon began investing in real estate, including Trump properties, which is how he entered Trump’s orbit. In the early 2000s, Cohen intervened on the mogul’s side in a fight for control of the condo board of Trump World Tower in New York.

Trump was impressed, and not long afterward, in early 2007, he offered Cohen a job: executive vice president and special counsel for the Trump Organization. The job’s duties were varied. In his first few years, Cohen would be involved in matters ranging from a New Jersey development project to mixed martial arts live events.

By 2011, he had taken a leading role in advising Trump on his growing political ambitions, launching a website called “Should Trump Run?” and flying to Iowa to meet with Republican operatives. (Trump ended up not running for president in 2012.)

Things were going well for Cohen. He took on an ever-larger role in the Trump Organization, helping to explore potential development projects in the former Soviet republics of Georgia and Kazakhstan. He made high-dollar, eyebrow-raising real estate purchases. And after Trump officially launched his run for president in June 2015, Cohen was quite busy behind the scenes.

He threatened a reporter: In July 2015, Cohen tried to stop the website the Daily Beast from running a story about an old deposition Trump’s ex-wife Ivana Trump made in which she said Trump had raped her. He did this by making profane threats against Beast reporter Tim Mak. “I’m warning you, tread very fucking lightly, because what I’m going to do to you is going to be fucking disgusting,” Cohen said during a phone call with Mak, which Mak recorded.

He asked for cash for Trump’s foundation: In August 2015, Ukrainian steel billionaire Victor Pinchuk reached out through an intermediary and asked presidential candidate Trump to speak at a conference he was hosting in Kiev. Trump accepted — but the next day, Cohen sent word back that Trump would require a $150,000 donation to the Trump Foundation in return for speaking, and the payment was made.

He worked on the Moscow Trump Tower project: In October 2015, the Trump Organization signed a letter of intent to build this tower. Russian-born developer Felix Sater emailed Cohen, “I will get [Russian President Vladimir] Putin on this program and we will get Donald elected… Buddy our boy can become President of the USA and we can engineer it.” And in January 2016, Cohen emailed Putin’s spokesperson Dmitry Peskov asking for help with the project. Cohen claims he never got a response, and the company abandoned the project soon afterward.

He arranged hush money payments: Most famously, Cohen paid Stormy Daniels $130,000 to keep quiet about an alleged 2006 sexual encounter with Trump just weeks before the 2016 election.

But he was also reportedly in the loop for a similar payment made by the National Enquirer’s parent company, American Media Inc.: a $150,000 payment to former Playboy model Karen McDougal, buying the rights to her story alleging an affair with Trump in 2006 and 2007.

Cohen reportedly had helped arrange a deal between McDougal and American Media Inc. in August 2016. The deal wasn’t for the tabloid to publish her story, but to pay to hush it up: McDougal sold the rights for $150,000 and the promise that it would publish some of her fitness columns in exchange for her staying quiet about the alleged affair. (The Wall Street Journal reported on the deal between McDougal and AMI in November 2016. In April 2018, McDougal successfully sued to get out of the agreement.)

Last month, Cohen’s lawyer Lanny Davis released a tape, which he said was from September 2016, that included a recording of Trump and Cohen where they appear to be discussing setting up a shell company to pay back AMI for hushing up McDougal’s story. The tape was reportedly seized in the FBI’s raid on Cohen’s property.

After Trump won the election, Cohen announced he’d leave the Trump Organization but would continue to work as Trump’s personal attorney, in what some observers saw as an effort to hold on to his attorney-client privilege with the new president.

He also took on two new clients: Elliott Broidy, a fundraiser for the Republican National Committee (RNC) who paid hush money to a Playboy model who said Broidy had impregnated her, and Fox News host Sean Hannity, for services Hannity claims “dealt almost exclusively about real estate.”

Cohen is expected to plead guilty to campaign finance violations, and bank and tax fraud.

Cohen’s legal troubles kicked into high gear on January 12, 2018, when Wall Street Journal reporters Michael Rothfeld and Joe Palazzolo reported, for the first time, that Cohen had paid $130,000 for Stormy Daniels’s silence near the end of the presidential campaign.

In October 2016, as Election Day drew near, Daniels threatened to come forward with her story alleging a 2006 sexual encounter with Trump.

Cohen wanted to keep Daniels quiet. He created the shell company Essential Consultants LLC and on October 27, 2016, wired $130,000 to Daniels’s lawyers. The following day, Daniels and Cohen signed a nondisclosure agreement — the validity of which is now subject to a lawsuit. Daniels stayed quiet, and not long afterward, Trump won the presidential election.

When the FBI raided Cohen’s office, residence, and hotel room and seized potential evidence, they were reportedly looking for evidence related to the Stormy Daniels payment, among other things.

Some of those other things allegedly included Cohen’s taxi medallion business. On August 19, the New York Times reported that federal prosecutors were also homing in on Cohen’s taxi business for possibly bank and tax fraud — specifically, whether Cohen misrepresented the value of his assets to obtain $20 million from two financial institutions, and whether he failed to report income from his business to the IRS.

The Southern District of New York, in pursuing cooperation deals, traditionally requires defendants to admit to all crimes they’ve committed, even if they’re unrelated to questions that sparked the initial investigation. But it’s not yet clear if Cohen is willing to cooperate — or if he has anything of value for federal prosecutors to make a deal worthwhile.

Original Source -> Michael Cohen is expected to enter into a plea deal with federal prosecutors

via The Conservative Brief

[theconservativebrief]

President Donald Trump’s former longtime lawyer Michael Cohen has entered into a plea deal with federal prosecutors for the US attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York, according to multiple news outlets.

Cohen is expected in federal court in Manhattan at 4 pm on Tuesday, where we’ll learn more about the charges he faces and the potential agreement he may have reached with prosecutors.

Cohen has appeared to be in deep legal trouble since April 9 — when the FBI raided his residence, office, and a hotel where he was staying and seized several of his electronic devices.

And though Cohen’s conduct has been examined in special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian interference with the 2016 election, any possible deal would likely be separate from the Mueller investigation.

Several months ago, federal investigators in New York convened a grand jury to investigate Cohen for “criminal conduct that largely centers on his personal business dealings” and “finances,” as they put it in a court filing. They also secretly obtained search warrants on several of his email accounts.

This led to the high-profile April 9 raids. At that point, prosecutors were looking for information on Cohen’s hush money payment of $130,000 to porn actress Stormy Daniels on Trump’s behalf, hush money payments to other women, efforts to suppress negative information about Trump during the 2016 campaign, and information about taxi medallions Cohen owns.

Indeed, on August 19, the New York Times reported that federal prosecutors were homing in on Cohen’s taxi business for possible bank and tax fraud — specifically, whether Cohen misrepresented the value of his assets to obtain $20 million from two financial institutions, and whether he failed to report income from his business to the IRS.

Now Cohen appears to have reached an agreement with prosecutors. It’s not quite clear what this might mean for President Trump, now that the man who’s been one of his closest associates for decades may be facing serious legal consequences.

Cohen, who once said he’d take a bullet for Trump, seems to have soured on his old boss as the months wore on. He gave several public signals that he might be willing to cooperate with prosecutors, including releasing a secret recording of himself and Trump discussing a payoff to former Playboy model Karen McDougal. A CNN report also suggested Cohen was considering telling Mueller that Trump had advance knowledge of the 2016 Trump Tower meeting where Russians offered “dirt” on Hillary Clinton — something the president has repeatedly denied.

But a plea agreement doesn’t necessarily mean Cohen will “flip” and cooperate with federal prosecutors, including those on Mueller’s team.

There have been competing reports about the terms of any such agreement — some suggest Cohen is merely agreeing to plead guilty to avoid trial, while others say he’s willing to work with prosecutors. If Cohen does agree to cooperate, he’ll be required to admit to all illicit activity, as is the practice in the Southern District of New York.

Prosecutors will likely reveal more when Cohen appears in federal court on Tuesday afternoon. Until then, one thing is clear: Michael Cohen is joining the list of Trump associates charged with federal crimes.

Born in Long Island, New York, Cohen first found financial success in the 1990s as personal injury lawyer and through various business investments tied to a community of Ukrainian immigrants in New York City. He soon began investing in real estate, including Trump properties, which is how he entered Trump’s orbit. In the early 2000s, Cohen intervened on the mogul’s side in a fight for control of the condo board of Trump World Tower in New York.

Trump was impressed, and not long afterward, in early 2007, he offered Cohen a job: executive vice president and special counsel for the Trump Organization. The job’s duties were varied. In his first few years, Cohen would be involved in matters ranging from a New Jersey development project to mixed martial arts live events.

By 2011, he had taken a leading role in advising Trump on his growing political ambitions, launching a website called “Should Trump Run?” and flying to Iowa to meet with Republican operatives. (Trump ended up not running for president in 2012.)

Things were going well for Cohen. He took on an ever-larger role in the Trump Organization, helping to explore potential development projects in the former Soviet republics of Georgia and Kazakhstan. He made high-dollar, eyebrow-raising real estate purchases. And after Trump officially launched his run for president in June 2015, Cohen was quite busy behind the scenes.

He threatened a reporter: In July 2015, Cohen tried to stop the website the Daily Beast from running a story about an old deposition Trump’s ex-wife Ivana Trump made in which she said Trump had raped her. He did this by making profane threats against Beast reporter Tim Mak. “I’m warning you, tread very fucking lightly, because what I’m going to do to you is going to be fucking disgusting,” Cohen said during a phone call with Mak, which Mak recorded.

He asked for cash for Trump’s foundation: In August 2015, Ukrainian steel billionaire Victor Pinchuk reached out through an intermediary and asked presidential candidate Trump to speak at a conference he was hosting in Kiev. Trump accepted — but the next day, Cohen sent word back that Trump would require a $150,000 donation to the Trump Foundation in return for speaking, and the payment was made.

He worked on the Moscow Trump Tower project: In October 2015, the Trump Organization signed a letter of intent to build this tower. Russian-born developer Felix Sater emailed Cohen, “I will get [Russian President Vladimir] Putin on this program and we will get Donald elected… Buddy our boy can become President of the USA and we can engineer it.” And in January 2016, Cohen emailed Putin’s spokesperson Dmitry Peskov asking for help with the project. Cohen claims he never got a response, and the company abandoned the project soon afterward.

He arranged hush money payments: Most famously, Cohen paid Stormy Daniels $130,000 to keep quiet about an alleged 2006 sexual encounter with Trump just weeks before the 2016 election.

But he was also reportedly in the loop for a similar payment made by the National Enquirer’s parent company, American Media Inc.: a $150,000 payment to former Playboy model Karen McDougal, buying the rights to her story alleging an affair with Trump in 2006 and 2007.

Cohen reportedly had helped arrange a deal between McDougal and American Media Inc. in August 2016. The deal wasn’t for the tabloid to publish her story, but to pay to hush it up: McDougal sold the rights for $150,000 and the promise that it would publish some of her fitness columns in exchange for her staying quiet about the alleged affair. (The Wall Street Journal reported on the deal between McDougal and AMI in November 2016. In April 2018, McDougal successfully sued to get out of the agreement.)

Last month, Cohen’s lawyer Lanny Davis released a tape, which he said was from September 2016, that included a recording of Trump and Cohen where they appear to be discussing setting up a shell company to pay back AMI for hushing up McDougal’s story. The tape was reportedly seized in the FBI’s raid on Cohen’s property.

After Trump won the election, Cohen announced he’d leave the Trump Organization but would continue to work as Trump’s personal attorney, in what some observers saw as an effort to hold on to his attorney-client privilege with the new president.

He also took on two new clients: Elliott Broidy, a fundraiser for the Republican National Committee (RNC) who paid hush money to a Playboy model who said Broidy had impregnated her, and Fox News host Sean Hannity, for services Hannity claims “dealt almost exclusively about real estate.”

Cohen’s legal troubles kicked into high gear on January 12, 2018, when Wall Street Journal reporters Michael Rothfeld and Joe Palazzolo reported, for the first time, that Cohen had paid $130,000 for Stormy Daniels’s silence near the end of the presidential campaign.

In October 2016, as Election Day drew near, Daniels threatened to come forward with her story alleging a 2006 sexual encounter with Trump.

Cohen wanted to keep Daniels quiet. He created the shell company Essential Consultants LLC and on October 27, 2016, wired $130,000 to Daniels’s lawyers. The following day, Daniels and Cohen signed a nondisclosure agreement — the validity of which is now subject to a lawsuit. Daniels stayed quiet, and not long afterward, Trump won the presidential election.

When the FBI raided Cohen’s office, residence, and hotel room and seized potential evidence, they were reportedly looking for evidence related to the Stormy Daniels payment, among other things.

Some of those other things allegedly included Cohen’s taxi medallion business. On August 19, the New York Times reported that federal prosecutors were also homing in on Cohen’s taxi business for possibly bank and tax fraud — specifically, whether Cohen misrepresented the value of his assets to obtain $20 million from two financial institutions, and whether he failed to report income from his business to the IRS.

The Southern District of New York, in pursuing cooperation deals, traditionally requires defendants to admit to all crimes they’ve committed, even if they’re unrelated to questions that sparked the initial investigation. But it’s not yet clear if Cohen is willing to cooperate — or if he has anything of value for federal prosecutors to make a deal worthwhile.

Original Source -> Michael Cohen is expected to enter into a plea deal with federal prosecutors

via The Conservative Brief