Read: Mueller and prosecutors sentencing filings for Michael Cohen

[pnwmom]

Source: Vox

Special counsel Robert Mueller and federal prosecutors in New York each filed their sentencing memoranda for President Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen Friday.

In August, Cohen pleaded guilty to tax evasion, bank fraud, and campaign finance violations in a case brought by the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. Those campaign finance charges were about hush money payments Cohen arranged in 2016 for women who alleged sexual encounters with Trump.

Then last week, Cohen pleaded guilty to an additional charge of lying to Congress, as part of a new plea deal with Mueller. Cohen admitted he'd lied about the timing and extent of talks about a project to build a Trump Tower in Moscow.

Mueller's team wrote that Cohen had "taken significant steps to mitigate his criminal conduct," and that "the information he has provided has been credible and consistent with other evidence."

Read more: https://www.vox.com/2018/12/7/18130805/michael-cohen-sentencing-memo-mueller

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So Mueller's memo is more positive than that of the SDNY.

This is the 7 page Mueller memo.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5453418-Mueller-Cohen-filing.html

[George II]

1. Thanks for this one, too. You're quick!!! I'm guessing that like the Flynn memo Tuesday...

...there will be an addendum. This memo isn't redacted, but if an addendum shows up that will probably be redacted.

[pnwmom]

2. Years of pent-up frustration are driving me!

[pecosbob]

3. This appears to add a lot more info re:collusion than did the SDNY report...

I need Seth...

[janx]

7. You noticed that too?

Mueller's was very carefully written. Mentions of "the Organization" the frequent mention of "others" tend to point in certain directions.

Wow.

[pecosbob]

9. I know were going to get a redacted version of Manafort later today

but it's going to be nuclear...

[BigmanPigman]

4. He is getting nailed for GREED!

The fucking moron should be very worried. Conspiracy and Individual 1 is key!

[elleng]

5. Michael Cohen, Trump's Ex-Fixer, Should Get Prison Term of About 4 Years, Prosecutors Say.

*should receive a “substantial” prison term of roughly four years, despite his cooperation, federal prosecutors in New York said on Friday.

Mr. Cohen, 52, is to be sentenced in Manhattan next week for two separate guilty pleas: one for campaign finance violations and financial crimes charged by federal prosecutors in Manhattan, and the other for lying to Congress in the Russia inquiry, filed by the Office of the Special Counsel in Washington.

Prosecutors in Manhattan said the crimes Mr. Cohen had committed “marked a pattern of deception that permeated his professional life,” and though he was seeking a reduced sentence for providing assistance to the government, he did not deserve much leniency.

“He was motivated to do so by personal greed, and repeatedly used his power and influence for deceptive ends,” . .

At the same time, the special counsel’s office released its own sentencing recommendation to the judge for Mr. Cohen’s guilty plea for misleading Congress.

The special counsel seemed to offer a more positive view of Mr. Cohen’s cooperation with the Russia investigation, saying he “has gone to significant lengths to assist the special counsel’s investigation.”'>>>

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/07/nyregion/michael-cohen-sentence.html

[George II]

6. But even Mueller's memo recommends something like "slightly lower than the guideline"....

....of about 3 years (that's what one CNN pundit said), so it can be between 3 and 4 years.

[SergeStorms]

11. I think Cohen could get time served...

or a much reduced sentence if he cooperated fully with the SDNY. Up to now he hasn't agreed to be a cooperating witness with the SDNY, and they're the ones setting his sentence. He has to cop to every crime he's ever committed. They might want information on his other client. Anyone remember who Cohen's other client was? Sean Hannity. Wouldn't it be wonderful if Sean Hannity went down with the Trump sinking ship?

[Muskiteer]

8. So can/will Trump be prosecuted and indicted as a co-conspirator?

Or is a President above the law under a Justice Department memo?

[DesertRat]

10. Stay tuned.

And welcome to DU!

[still_one]

12. If Cohen serves time for the various crimes, and Trump, the co-conspiritor, who ordered Cohen to

execute some of those crimes is left untouched, something is very wrong in our system