A federal prosecutor told a judge on Friday that former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen should spend between 51 and 63 months in prison for a range of federal crimes including tax evasion and violating campaign finance laws.
He tried to 'influence the election from the shadows,' according to Robert Khuzami, the acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, by arranging payoffs to porn actress Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal in order to avoid October-surprise embarrassment for then-candidate Donald Trump.
The government's sentencing recommendation tells a story of Cohen also working 'in coordination with and at the direction of' Donald Trump – by his own admission – to arrange for the National Enquirer to buy the rights to the two women's stories and 'kill' them, preventing media exposure of their claims.
'Cohen coordinated his actions with one or more members of the campaign,' according to the memo, 'including through meetings and phone calls, about the fact, nature, and timing of the payments.'
'As a result of Cohen’s actions, neither woman spoke to the press prior to the election.'
Cohen has helped Special Counsel Robert Mueller with 'information that assisted ... in ongoing matters,' according to a sentencing memo filed Friday in New York.
But the level of cooperation, Khuzami wrote, was too small to warrant more than token leniency. And Cohen, he revealed, made an 'affirmative decision not to become' a cooperating witness.
A separate memo from Mueller covering a different case spells out a greater level of assistance, saying it is sufficient to warrant sentences to run concurrently.
Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen should spend between 51 and 63 months in federal prison, according to a prosecutor's memo
The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York wrote that Cohen worked at the direction of President Donald Trump in 2016 to arrange payments to two women for the purpose of keeping their sexual affair allegations from becoming public before the election
Special Counsel Robery Mueller spelled out in a separate memo four ways in which Cohen has been helpful to his Russia probe
'Cohen’s description of those efforts is overstated in some respects and incomplete in others,' Khuzami wrote. 'To be clear: Cohen does not have a cooperation agreement.'
Condemning Cohen's end-around attempt to influence the 2016 election, Khuzami wrote that '[w]hile many Americans who desired a particular outcome to the election knocked on doors, toiled at phone banks, or found any number of other legal ways to make their voices heard, Cohen sought to influence the election from the shadows.'
'He did so by orchestrating secret and illegal payments to silence two women who otherwise would have made public their alleged extramarital affairs with Individual-1,' he added, referring to President Trump.
'Cohen, an attorney and businessman, committed four distinct federal crimes over a period of several years. He was motivated to do so by personal greed, and repeatedly used his power and influence for deceptive ends,' he wrote.
'Now he seeks extraordinary leniency – a sentence of no jail time – based principally on his rose-colored view of the seriousness of the crimes; his claims to a sympathetic personal history; and his provision of certain information to law enforcement.
'But the crimes committed by Cohen were more serious than his submission allows and were marked by a pattern of deception that permeated his professional life (and was evidently hidden from the friends and family members who wrote on his behalf).'
Former Playboy model Karen McDougal (left) and porn actress Stormy Daniels (right) both claimed to have slept with Donald Trump in the past, but the government says Cohen coordinated with Trump to make sure the women were paid for their silence – in effect a pair of massive campaign contributions designed to save the election for Trump
Khuzami told the court that Cohen should be punished for 'extensive, deliberate, and serious criminal conduct,' and that 'a substantial prison term is requireda.'
Longtime friends of Cohen have assembled a counter-narrative to bolster the former Trump lawyer as he tries to stay out of jail – lauding him as a family man who provided advice on school bullying and once offered to buy his teacher a car.
Cohen, who is best known as a fixer for President Trump who got his hands dirty negotiating payoffs to women who claim they slept with the president, also fielded pitches from a friend who wanted to open a children's barbershop and helped others get their children into the right school.
He wouldn't so much as sip a glass of wine at a dinner with an acquaintance who proposed selling artisan chocolates, locally grown fresh fruit and nuts at a Trump golf pro shop in California, one friend attested.
'He is what I call the true meaning of a "mensch,"' wrote real estate agent Kelly Gitter, in one of the 37 letters that Cohen allies sent to the judge hearing his case.
President Trump has termed Cohen 'weak' for cooperating with prosecutors and said he should serve a full sentence, while zealous presidential allies have called him a 'rat' for cooperating.
But according to a letter submitted by Cohen's father, he once earnestly promised an elementary school teacher he would buy him a car to replace his junker.
'He is my beloved son. A brief story can explain a great deal,' Maruice Cohen, who survived the Holocaust, wrote the court.
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