The former advocate of Trump admits having lied to the Congress on the links between Russia and its ex-boss

The investigations of the special prosecutor, Robert Mueller, in charge of shedding light on the potential links between Russia and Donald Trump gets tough for the latterMichael Cohen, his former lawyer, has just surprised his world this Thursday by showing up in a court of Manhattan. He pleaded guilty to having lied to Congress about a real estate project in Moscow from his ex-boss, tells the Washington Post. If the existence of these plans were known, Michael Cohen, who has worked a dozen years with Donald Trump and was then imposed as its main board, had claimed previously that the case had been abandoned in January. The admission of perjury in front of the congressmen shows that this project has lived well beyond, endure, while the presidential campaign was in full swing in the United States. More specifically, as noted on Twitter, our correspondent in the United States, Jean-Bernard cade tree, Donald Trump had the idea of setting up a Trump Tower in the Russian capital. On several occasions, and in the summer of, Donald Trump has asserted that he had no business or interest in Russia.

It is necessary to tell that the thing is essential: the leaders of this country are suspected, more widely, to have tried to influence the election in order to elect the billionaire.

Over time, Michael Cohen has emerged as a crucial staple of this survey sprawling and complex that infuriates Donald Trump for months, the plunging sometimes in outbursts of anger that he does not seek so much to hide. Last August already, Michael Cohen had admitted violating the law on financing of election campaign, buying the silence of two women so that they do not evoke their connections alleged with Donald Trump. He has also been recognized by having been found guilty of tax evasion, and fraud to the bank. But working with the team of Robert Mueller as the initiative of the day suggests, it is this time not his case that Michael Cohen promises to worsen, but the sound of her former boss. 'Donald Trump acknowledges that he had a project of Trump tower in Moscow. He has not tried to hide it, and that as a candidate it was not a problem. He said that his former lawyer Cohen is 'low' and that it 'ment to reduce his sentence.