So anyway – Cohen was sentenced today; three years.
Judge William H. Pauley III said Mr. Cohen had committed a “veritable smorgasbord” of crimes involving deception and “motivated by personal greed and ambition,” each of which “standing alone warrant serious punishment.”
But he added that Mr. Cohen’s crimes — breaking campaign finance rules, tax evasion and lying to Congress — “implicated a far more insidious harm to our democratic institutions.”
“As a lawyer, Mr. Cohen should have known better,” the judge said.
Before he was sentenced, a solemn Mr. Cohen, standing at a lectern, sounded emotional but resolved as he told the judge he had been tormented by the anguish and embarrassment he had caused his family.
“I blame myself for the conduct which has brought me here today,” he said, “and it was my own weakness and a blind loyalty to this man” – a reference to Mr. Trump – “that led me to choose a path of darkness over light.”
If you’re going to be blindly loyal to someone…don’t choose Donald Trump.
Mr. Trump last week weighed in with his own sentencing recommendation, tweeting angrily, “He lied for this outcome and should, in my opinion, serve a full and complete sentence.”
Extra ice cream for lunch today.
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7 responses to “A veritable smorgasbord of crimes”
That’s good and all, but you forgot to admit that it was also for personal enrichment.
Yep, and his taxi medallion tax fraud was entirely independent of his involvement with Trump as I understand it. He was not an innocent man who fell in with a bad man — this was a case of criminals gravitating to each other.
I’ve just been reading about this; he was sentenced to 36 months imprisonment (plus 2 months for telling porkies, but to run concurrently, so in reality not an additional punishment) but was allowed to walk out of court and has until March to take himself to prison. Is this normal in the U.S. or just something reserved for the wealthy?
Yes and no — it’s apparently normal for those who can afford to post bail. Whether that equates to “wealthy” probably depends on the amount of bail, which in turn depends on the nature of the crime, etc.
That etc to encompass such mitigating factors as whiteness.
Sadly a little too late for him to come to the realization that he turned to the Dark Side only to follow Darth Cheeto.
“Darth Cheeto” hahahahaha