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Ex-Trump Lawyer Cohen Enters Guilty Plea and Gets Mueller Cooperation Deal

November 29, 2018

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Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to a new federal charge and agreed to cooperate with Special Counsel Robert Mueller, admitting that he lied to Senate investigators about his former boss’s business plans in Russia.

Cohen entered a new guilty plea in a New York courtroom on Thursday. Cohen admitted to lying in 2017 to Senate intelligence committee members who asked about Trump’s plans for a Moscow real estate project.

The new charge is notable because it is brought by investigators on Mueller’s team, who are looking into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russians in the 2016 election.

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