Petrillo said Cohen offered "his relevant knowledge" to the Special Counsel's office "knowing that he'd face a barrage of attack by the president." "He knew that the president might shut down the investigation."
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Calling the SDNY memo unfair, Petrillo said, "I don't really understand the strident tone of the memo."
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On his client's treatment, Petrillo said: "Mr. Cohen had the misfortune to be counsel to the president."
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Petrillo lashed out at the Southern District, suggesting prosecutors are angry at playing second fiddle to Mueller. "Power to the Southern District," Petrillo said. "They want to build a bigger case than they've already made. God bless them."
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Petrillo steps down, and Special Counsel's Office prosecutor Jeannie S. Rhee is now up.
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Special Counsel's Office prosecutor Jeannie S. Rhee said that Cohen provided "credible" and "valuable information" regarding "any links between a campaign and a foreign government." "Mr. Cohen has sought to tell us the truth," Rhee said.
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"There's only so much we can say about the particulars at this time, given our ongoing investigation," Rhee said. Kept tight-lipped throughout her remarks. More on what she said soon. SDNY's Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicolas Roos is now up.
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Roos hits back and says that Cohen "cannot have it both ways." "To do so would send the wrong message," Roos says, the message being that "selective cooperation" would be rewarded.
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Roos: "The charges portray a pattern of deception, of brazenness and of greed." The campaign finance charges, Roos said, were particularly "serious because of the tremendous societal costs."
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Roos adds that Cohen's actions harmed the interests of "free and transparent elections, and in committing these crimes, Cohen has eroded faith in the electoral process."
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Roos: The unfairness here is not to Mr. Cohen here, but to the public.
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Roos down, and Cohen is up next to address the court.
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Cohen stands up and brings his prepared speech to the podium.
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Cohen: "I stand before your honor humbly and painfully aware that we are here for one reason." "I take full responsibility for each act that I pleaded guilty to ...." including those implicating the "President of the United States of America."
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Cohen began his remarks by stating that: "Today is the day that I am getting my freedom back." ... "I have been living in a personal and mental incarceration ever since the day that I accepted the offer to work for a real estate mogul whose business acumen that I deeply admired."
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Hitting back at Trump's tweet calling him weak, Cohen agreed and added that his "weakness was a blind loyalty to Donald Trump."
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Cohen describes "seeing the unbearable pain that my associations and my actions brought to my entire family." "This is why I did not enter into a cooperation agreement."...
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The thread broke mid-way through, and so I'm connecting it here.https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1072895719323910145 …
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