Michael Cohen once expressed interest in running for the mayor of New York. On election night 2016, about the time it was becoming clear that Donald Trump would win the presidency, Cohen told several people in Trump Tower that he, too, was thinking about going into politics, Axios reported. “This is the beginning of a…
The former chief financial officer for Evgeny “Taxi King” Freidman pleaded guilty Thursday to helping the Michael Cohen-connected cab manager steal $5 million in unpaid MTA surcharges, officials said. Andreea Dumitru, 43, and Freidman hid millions in unpaid taxes through filing false returns from 2012 through 2016, according to the New York State Attorney General’s…
Benjamin Brafman, the New York criminal defense attorney representing Harvey Weinstein, has had his fair share of famous clients, from mafia members to Martin Shkreli. But only one ever tried to get him to break Shabbat. At a 2015 conference, Brafman, a religious Jew, told some fellow lawyers about a time when Sean Combs, the…
Michael Cohen’s use of his Trump Organization email to conduct his taxi business has become more legally significant after his former medallion manager, Evgeny Freidman, agreed to work with federal prosecutors as part of a plea deal, according to experts and reports. That’s because public records obtained exclusively by the Forward show that Cohen used…
Michael Cohen distanced himself from former business partner Gene Friedman following the latter’s cooperation with government prosecutors, Talking Points Memo reported. “Gene Friedman and I are not partners and have never been partners in this business or any other,” Cohen tweeted on Wednesday. Friedman, dubbed the “Taxi King”, has reportedly for years managed Cohen’s taxi…
The editors of the satire news site The Onion revealed to Politico on Sunday that they received an angry email from Donald Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen in 2013, fuming over a satirical article published under Trump’s name with the headline, “When You’re Feeling Low, Just Remember I’ll Be Dead In About 15 Or 20 Years.”…
Michael Cohen is becoming an outcast within the Trump administration. The Daily Beast reported on Monday that several Trump administration figures have taken pains to avoid talking to and about Cohen since his controversy over a six-figure payment to silence President Trump’s alleged mistress during the 2016 campaign grew into a larger scandal surrounding his…
Correction, May 17, 2:20 p.m.: The story was edited to reflect that Cohen solicited Qatar Investments, a division of Qatar Investment Authority, and not the government itself. Michael Cohen, President Trump’s personal attorney, solicited a payment of at least $1 million from Qatar Investment Authority in late 2016, in exchange for access to and advice…
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