I can already hear the dog whistles. New York Lawyer. Shylock. Judas. Michael (((Cohen))). Whether we would have chosen him or not, the President’s former fixer, Michael Cohen, who pled guilty on Tuesday to evading personal income taxes, making an unlawful corporate campaign contribution and six other counts, is a Jew. This unfortunately makes him…
The New York City’s Taxi and Limousine Commission demanded Cohen withdraw his interest in 10 taxi medallions, or they could be nullified, Politico reported. A commission rule stipulates that it can strip licenses from owners with felony convictions. It “intends to revoke all medallions in the attached ‘Exhibit A,’” according to a letter from commission…
Michael Cohen’s father, a Holocaust survivor, encouraged him to cut ties with President Trump, the Wall Street Journal reported. It was a turning point for Cohen, Trump’s former longtime personal attorney, who had been in ever-increasing legal jeopardy since April. Maurice Cohen urged his son not to protect the president, saying that he didn’t survive…
Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and confidant, has transformed into our country’s unexpected saving grace and he knows it. He can do no wrong in our eyes after executing the ultimate betrayal: pleading guilty to assisting a certain “candidate” in the 2016 election by illegally paying hush money to women that he allegedly slept with…
After Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former personal lawyer, plead guilty to eight felony charges on Tuesday, other Michael Cohens began to weigh in. These Michael Cohens have been under attack in the past by Twitter users confusing them with Trump’s Cohen. Now, after receiving months of harassment that was not yet for them, they’re trying…
Michael Cohen served for many years as President Trump’s loyal personal lawyer. But after Cohen pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to a series of crimes including tax fraud, bank fraud and campaign finance violations, more attention began to be cast on Cohen’s own personal lawyer, Lanny Davis — especially after Davis told multiple media…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A Jew makes news, but does that make it Jewish news? Take the case of Michael Cohen, who pleaded guilty Tuesday to fraud and campaign finance improprieties, directly implicating his former boss, President Donald Trump. Cohen, whose father survived the Holocaust, began his education at a yeshiva day school but transferred to…
Michael Cohen entered a guilty plea on August 21 and, when questioned by the judge about his state of mind and consumption of drugs or alcohol said “Last night at dinner I had a glass of Glenlivet 12 on the rocks.” As whisky correspondent for the Forward, I was asked by our political writers to…
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