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struggle4progress

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Sat Feb 23, 2019, 03:20 PM Feb 2019

Faces legal issues for rest of his presidency, no matter what Mueller finds

By CHRIS MEGERIAN
FEB 22, 2019 | 4:15 PM
WASHINGTON

... Prosecutors in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Washington and Virginia are all pulling at threads that the FBI started unraveling two years ago. Legal problems, and possibly further indictments of Trump’s friends and aides, are likely to shadow the president for the rest of his White House tenure ...

The U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York, for example, successfully prosecuted Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, for hush money payments to two women who claimed they had affairs with Trump. He pleaded guilty to two campaign finance violations, among other crimes.

Prosecutors from the same office also have issued subpoenas for records from Trump’s inauguration, including how the inaugural committee spent a record $107 million. The U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, based in Brooklyn, is reportedly conducting a related probe.

So is the U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., where a lobbyist, Sam Patten, has already pleaded guilty to helping a Ukrainian oligarch illegally buy tickets to Trump’s inauguration ...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/judge-dismisses-charges-over-boy-s-death-waterslide-n974921




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Faces legal issues for rest of his presidency, no matter what Mueller finds (Original Post) struggle4progress Feb 2019 OP
Hope it's for the rest of his life. sinkingfeeling Feb 2019 #1
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