Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen sentenced to 3 years

13/12/2018 11:51

        Michael Cohen, U.S. President
        Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, was sentenced to a total
        of three years in prison on Wednesday for his role in making
        illegal hush-money payments to women to help Trump's 2016
        election campaign and lying to Congress about a proposed Trump
        Tower project in Russia.
        
        U.S. District Judge William Pauley in Manhattan sentenced
        Cohen to three years for the payments, which violated campaign
        finance law, and to two months for the false statements to
        Congress. The two terms will run concurrently.
        
        Cohen pleaded guilty to the campaign finance charge in
        August and to making false statements in November.