Cohen, Pecker, Weisselberg: The Men With Trump's Secrets Work for the Feds Now

[DonViejo]

Prosecutors immunized the president’s accountant and tabloid confidant. His former fixer implicated him in court. This is far from over.

MIMI ROCAH
ELIE HONIG

08.24.18 3:28 PM ET

When Michael Cohen walked past the “something huge is happening” metal barricades and into the federal courthouse in downtown Manhattan on Tuesday to plead guilty to a litany of crimes, we got a first hand view of one of the ways Cohen had earned his title “fixer” for Donald Trump for many years. One of the crimes to which the president’s formerly loyal-I-would-die-for-you fixer pleaded guilty was to helping arrange an illegal scheme whereby women would be paid off for their silence to keep stories about Trump’s affairs out of the media prior to the election.

But that wasn’t all.

Cohen also gave testimony under oath in front of a federal judge that the president directed him to do that. But that’s not all, either. He also pleaded guilty to basically cooking the books of the Trump Organization to cover up those hush money payments as legal fees and “tech services.”

But even that’s not all.

We now know from the charging document (called an Information) to which Cohen pleaded guilty, that several other people, identified but not named, were involved in that scheme. The Information identifies a “Chairman of a Media Company,” and Executive-1 and Executive-2 of what is clearly the Trump Organization, as participating in this scheme. Based on reporting and the facts in the Information, it’s clear that the media chairman is David Pecker of American Media, Inc. (the National Enquirer), a longtime ally of Trump, and that Executive-1 is Allen Weisselberg, chief financial officer of the Trump Organization.

And we now know, based on further reporting, that both of those men received some kind of immunity deal in exchange for their cooperation. Usually, immunity entails giving essentially a pass on prosecution to someone who has some criminal exposure but is less culpable than people about whom they can testify.

more
https://www.thedailybeast.com/cohen-pecker-and-weisselberg-the-men-with-trumps-secrets-work-for-the-feds-now?ref=home

[Scurrilous]

1. K&R

[2naSalit]

2. With Weiselberg, they don't need

any of the family to flip, they need to go to prison so we can start to repair our country.