9/20/18: ABC News reports that Michael Cohen is talking to Mueller’s team. The president’s former personal lawyer has had “multiple interview sessions lasting for hours.” Those interviews have been held in both Washington D.C. and New York City, where Cohen has spoken to prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York.
Topics of interest include:
Trump’s dealings with Russia – including financial and business ties (possible crime: money laundering)
Collusion with Russians during the 2016 campaign (legally speaking: possible conspiracy)
Any pardon offers Cohen might have received (i.e. obstruction of justice; witness-tampering)
The inner workings of the Trump family charity and Trump Organization, where Cohen served as executive vice president for ten years (tax fraud)
We can also assume investigators will ask Cohen:
Did you travel to Prague in early 2016 and meet with Russians about covering up payments to hackers who were going after Clinton’s emails? (conspiracy)
Who knew about the secret June 9, 2016, meeting with Russians? Was there another meeting, three days earlier, to strategize? (perjury; obstruction of justice)
Did Trump pay hush money settlements to other than the two women already known, and the doorman, during the campaign? (campaign finance violations)
What light can you shed on Donald J. Trump’s taxes? (tax evasion)
As a businessman, is Trump a crook? (everything)
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