I think "bringing down the Trump Org" would make him crazier than impeachment.

[Miles Archer]

How Michael Cohen could help the feds get the Trump Organization
By Erica Orden, CNN

Updated 10:17 AM ET, Tue December 11, 2018

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/11/politics/michael-cohen-trump-organization/index.html

New York (CNN)In most respects, Michael Cohen was a frustrating witness for New York investigators.

He toyed with, but wouldn't commit to, "full cooperation" with prosecutors, according to court filings. He refused to tell them about crimes for which he hadn't been charged. He wouldn't meet with them about "other areas of investigative interest." With officials in the state attorney general's office, he provided only corroboration for what they already knew, and with the state tax department, only what investigators could have obtained with a subpoena or two.

But there is one probe in the Manhattan US Attorney's office for which President Donald Trump's former personal attorney has proved helpful, according to court filings and people familiar with the matter: The investigation of the Trump Organization. That probe, and Cohen's participation in it, poses one of the most significant threats to the President's family business.

The investigation has been underway since before Cohen was first charged in August, CNN has reported, and is the subject of an ongoing grand jury investigation. The inquiry stems from the original campaign-finance charges against Cohen for making or orchestrating payments during the presidential campaign to silence women -- adult-film actress Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal -- who claimed sexual encounters with Trump. (Trump has denied those claims.)

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. I think the reason Cohen cooperated fully with Mueller and less so with SDNY

might have been because when it became obvious Trump was throwing him under the bus and wouldn't pardon him, he decided to get even with Trump and rat him out to Mueller with respect to Russia and related matters, and he was also forthcoming with SDNY regarding the Trump Organization. He was less cooperative regarding his own, unrelated crimes, maybe hoping his cooperation with Mueller would influence SDNY to go a little easier on him (apparently not). But I'm guessing that his decision to cooperate to the extent he did, was based on a desire to get back at Trump for abandoning him.

[ScratchCat]

3. I think it is more likely that

The other crimes SDNY wanted to talk about involved the taxi coin bit which is mob related. I don't think he was interested in rolling over on his mob buddies right now. His relationship with Trump only goes back a decade or so. But he has been in cahoots with other shady people longer than that. I suspect he doesn't find it beneficial to piss off more people over other, unrelated crimes.

[Bleacher Creature]

2. This times a million. I want the full Randolph and Mortimer Duke ending for that whole family.