Longtime Trump Attorney and Fixer Michael Cohen cops a plea deal and implicates POTUS in campaign finance violations. The president’s former attorney and longtime “fixer” entered into an eight-count plea deal with federal prosecutors investigating him for potential tax fraud and other financial crimes as well as campaign finance violations. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/ex-trump-lawyer-michael-cohen…
He implicated Donald Trump as an apparent co-conspirator in hush-money payments. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/nyregion/michael-cohen-plea-deal-tru…
Cohen faces a recommended prison sentence of four to five years. https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/21/michael-cohen-strikes-plea-de…
Doesn’t involve me, Trump says. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/doesnt-involve-me-trump-distanc…
The plea documents. https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/182-cohen-plea-deal/9bc6cd47e7c…
Former Trump Camaign Manager and Attorney Paul Manafort has been found guilty on eight of 18 counts in the financial fraud trial. The jury hangs on 10 counts. but convicted former POTUS campaign chairman Manafort of eight counts of tax and bank fraud but deadlocked on ten other charges after nearly four days of deliberations. https://www.courthousenews.com/paul-manafort-guilty-on-eight-counts-inc…
The judge declared a hung jury and a mistrial on the deadlocked charges. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/08/21/paul-manafort-v…
The convictions could mean decades in prison for Manafort, who now faces a new trial on additional federal banking and tax charges in Washington, D.C. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/manafort-jury-su…
Back to Cohen, now an admitted felon. How the deal went down. https://apnews.com/1d2b1d3e8bb14d15ba5e904be111a0a1
No cooperation deal? No problem. Cohen may end up cooperating anyway. https://www.justsecurity.org/60404/michael-cohen-cooperating-cooperatio…
The day the president was implicated in a criminal conspiracy. https://www.newyorker.com/news-desk/swamp-chronicles/the-president-has-…
Introducing “Individual 1,” an unindicted co-conspirator. MSNBC The meaning of the campaign-finance counts in the deal. https://www.lawfareblog.com/michael-cohen-plea-agreement-possible-meani…
Donald Trump’s terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day. https://newrepublic.com/article/150816/worst-day-yet-trumps-presidency
The president faces a reckoning. http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-swamp-20180821-story.ht…
How the feds announced the news. https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/michael-cohen-pleads-guilty-manhat…
What do prosecutors do now? https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/us/politics/cohen-trump-indicted.html
Back to Manafort, now a convicted felon: Blind confidence couldn’t save him. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/paul-manafort-guil…
What, exactly, he was convicted of. https://www.vox.com/2018/8/21/17692626/manafort-guilty-charges-verdict
Another sign of Mueller momentum. https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/paul-manafort-found-guilty-what-s…
Don’t discount Manafort’s ties to the Russians. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/opinion/guilty-verdict-paul-manafort…
He could still flip on Trump. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/08/could-paul-manafort-still-…
Trump could make a bad situation worse with a pardon. https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/08/21/paul-manafort-verdict…
Trump has more to fear from Cohen than Manafort after a day of DC Drama. http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-manafort-trump-20180821…
This is like Watergate on steroids. https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a22792950/michael-cohen-…
What the head-spinning news means for the Russia investigation. https://themarshallproject.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a92567c13c…
More than a conviction for Mueller. https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/21/manafort-mueller-guilty-trump…
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