Trump's lawyer gets 3-years

CNN wrote:The Enquirer never published her account. It was "caught," and then it was "killed."
https://money.cnn.com/2018/02/16/media/trump-catch-and-kill/index.html

Bloomberg wrote:National Enquirer Parent Cooperates on Trump Hush-Money Probe

Chris Dolmetsch, Gerry Smith and David Voreacos
Bloomberg•December 12, 2018

(Bloomberg) -- National Enquirer publisher American Media Inc. agreed to accept responsibility for its role in a $150,000 payment to silence a former Playboy Playmate about her alleged affair with Failing Cheeto-Faced Ferret-Wearing Shit Gibbon before the election.

Under a non-prosecution agreement, the company admitted its purpose was to suppress the woman’s story and prevent it from influencing the election. According to the cooperation agreement with AMI, Trump’s longtime lawyer Michael Cohen and another campaign official met with AMI Chairman David Pecker about the scheme around August 2015. That official’s involvement has not been previously reported.

The announcement came shortly after Cohen was sentenced to 3 years in prison, in part for his role in the hush payment, which he has said was directed by Trump.

The prosecutors said they’d previously reached a non-prosecution agreement with AMI about its role in making the payment before the 2016 presidential election.

“As a part of the agreement, AMI admitted that it made the $150,000 payment in concert with a candidate’s presidential campaign, and in order to ensure that the woman did not publicize damaging allegations about the candidate before the 2016 presidential election,” the prosecutors wrote in a statement announcing the deal.

A spokesman for the company declined to comment.
https://news.yahoo.com/national-enquirer-parent-cooperates-trump-183059483.html?.tsrc=notification-brknews

Jules wrote:Will the lawyer's lawyer appeal?
Will he take tips from Kushner's ex jailbird dad?
Will Trump pay visits to his prison with luxury food parcels?

questions..... questions.... questions …..

Original Quill wrote:

Jules wrote:Will the lawyer's lawyer appeal?
Will he take tips from Kushner's ex jailbird dad?
Will Trump pay visits to his prison with luxury food parcels?

questions..... questions.... questions …..

It was a plea deal, with a sentence indeterminate.  There is no appeal absent special circumstances.  What we learned yesterday is what the sentence will be.

The US Attorney who put Charles Kushner away, Chris Christie, has moved on to become Governor of New Jersey, and thence is now with the Trump team.  I'm told there have been some testy exchanges in the Cabinet room, and Jared has vetoed Christie from ever becoming Attorney General.

Trump and Attorney Michael Cohen have had a severe parting of ways.  As a part of his plea deal, Cohen allocated, in substance, that Trump was his co-conspirator in the hush money payoffs.  Another powerful witness agrees, and corroborates Cohen's story that Trump was the co-conspirator.

Trump retorts that Cohen is a steadfast liar, ironically neglecting to mention that he was lying to protect Trump's ass.  Trump also points to Cohen's law license, and claims he (Trump) was acting on advice of counsel.  Problem: in order to plead 'advice of counsel' you must prove you first asked the counsel.  So far from asking, Trump is captured on tape ordering the lawyer to make the hush money payments.  Oppps…