{"id":193671,"date":"2018-12-12T05:03:13","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T10:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=193671"},"modified":"2018-12-12T05:03:13","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T10:03:13","slug":"ex-trump-lawyer-michael-cohen-faces-possible-jail-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/12\/12\/ex-trump-lawyer-michael-cohen-faces-possible-jail-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex Trump lawyer Michael Cohen faces possible jail sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_178315\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-178315\" style=\"width: 693px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/693px-Trump_executive_Michael_Cohen_012_5506031001_cropped-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-178315\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/693px-Trump_executive_Michael_Cohen_012_5506031001_cropped-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"693\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/693px-Trump_executive_Michael_Cohen_012_5506031001_cropped-2.jpg 693w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/693px-Trump_executive_Michael_Cohen_012_5506031001_cropped-2-231x300.jpg 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 693px) 100vw, 693px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-178315\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Cohen&#8217;s sentencing hearing is scheduled for 11 a.m. at a courthouse in Manhattan. (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=65874233\">File Photo By IowaPolitics.com\/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2014 A lawyer who made his career protecting President Donald Trump is set to learn whether co-operating with federal investigators will lessen his punishment for dodging taxes, lying to Congress and violating campaign finance laws.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Cohen&#8217;s sentencing hearing is scheduled for 11 a.m. at a courthouse in Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>He could get around four years in prison. His lawyers have asked for leniency.<\/p>\n<p>They say some of his crimes were motivated by overenthusiasm for Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Cohen pleaded guilty to misleading Congress about a Trump real estate project in Moscow and orchestrating prohibited payments to two women who said they had affairs with Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Cohen also dodged $1.4 million in taxes.<\/p>\n<p>New York prosecutors have urged a judge to give Cohen a substantial prison term.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 A lawyer who made his career protecting President Donald Trump is set to learn whether co-operating with &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":178315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","mauthors-jim-mustian","mauthors-larry-neumeister","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}