President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, pleaded guilty to the Mueller team to lying to Congress about the timing of a proposed Trump building project in Moscow.
Mueller is also considering additional charges against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort for allegedly violating an earlier plea deal.
The Cohen plea also comes after Trump's legal team provided written responses to prosecutors' questions.
A Trump Tower in Moscow was never built, but the negotiation-which Cohen now says continued to June 2016-seems more significant than a meeting at the Trump Tower in New York that same month between a Russian lawyer and Trump campaign officials, Coffey added.
Cohen told Congress that negotiations for a Trump Tower in Moscow wound down in January 2016.
Cohen previously pleaded guilty to violating federal campaign finance laws for paying off two women before the election who claim to have had affairs with Trump.
Regarding the Trump Tower meeting, Donald Trump Jr. said Veselnitskaya promised opposition research on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, but only talked about Russian adoption policy and the 2012 Magnitsky Act, a U.S. law in response to Russian corruption.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/11/30/no-end-in-sight-cohen-manafort-developments-seen-as-keeping-mueller-probe-going-into-2019/
The Hill reports that Flake, R-Ariz., plans to again push for a vote on the Mueller legislation next week, and that he told CNN he thinks there are enough votes in the Senate to pass the bill.
"Sen. Flake's display will be over when the Senate adjourns by Dec. 14 and he will have accomplished nothing," Thomas Jipping, deputy director of The Heritage Foundation's Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies and senior legal fellow.
"A few weeks later, when the 116th Congress begins, President Trump will send back to the Senate the nominees Flake caused to lapse and they will be confirmed," he said.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, canceled panel votes Wednesday for 25 judicial and executive nominations following Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., halting an endeavor by Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., and Flake to advance the Mueller bill, the Washington Examiner reported.
"I have informed the majority leader that I will not vote to advance any of the 21 judicial nominees pending in the Judiciary Committee, or vote to confirm the 32 judges awaiting confirmation on the Senate floor, until S. 2644 is brought to the full Senate for a vote," Flake said Wednesday.
"After delaying Supreme Court nominations and further delaying qualified judicial nominees this year, Sen. Flake seems to have abandoned his reputation of prioritizing principle in favor of fulfilling personal wishes," Tom McClusky, president of March for Life Action, said in a statement provided to The Daily Signal.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/11/30/flake-continues-to-hold-judicial-confirmations-hostage-to-vote-on-mueller-protection-bill/
Mueller is also considering additional charges against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort for allegedly violating an earlier plea deal.
The Cohen plea also comes after Trump's legal team provided written responses to prosecutors' questions.
A Trump Tower in Moscow was never built, but the negotiation-which Cohen now says continued to June 2016-seems more significant than a meeting at the Trump Tower in New York that same month between a Russian lawyer and Trump campaign officials, Coffey added.
Cohen told Congress that negotiations for a Trump Tower in Moscow wound down in January 2016.
Cohen previously pleaded guilty to violating federal campaign finance laws for paying off two women before the election who claim to have had affairs with Trump.
Regarding the Trump Tower meeting, Donald Trump Jr. said Veselnitskaya promised opposition research on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, but only talked about Russian adoption policy and the 2012 Magnitsky Act, a U.S. law in response to Russian corruption.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/11/30/no-end-in-sight-cohen-manafort-developments-seen-as-keeping-mueller-probe-going-into-2019/
Flake Continues to Hold Judicial Confirmations Hostage to Vote on Mueller Protection Bill
Retiring Sen. Jeff Flake is staying true to his pledge to not advance judicial nominees in the Senate Judiciary Committee, unless a bill that would prevent President Donald Trump from firing special counsel Robert Mueller gets a Senate vote.The Hill reports that Flake, R-Ariz., plans to again push for a vote on the Mueller legislation next week, and that he told CNN he thinks there are enough votes in the Senate to pass the bill.
"Sen. Flake's display will be over when the Senate adjourns by Dec. 14 and he will have accomplished nothing," Thomas Jipping, deputy director of The Heritage Foundation's Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies and senior legal fellow.
"A few weeks later, when the 116th Congress begins, President Trump will send back to the Senate the nominees Flake caused to lapse and they will be confirmed," he said.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, canceled panel votes Wednesday for 25 judicial and executive nominations following Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., halting an endeavor by Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., and Flake to advance the Mueller bill, the Washington Examiner reported.
"I have informed the majority leader that I will not vote to advance any of the 21 judicial nominees pending in the Judiciary Committee, or vote to confirm the 32 judges awaiting confirmation on the Senate floor, until S. 2644 is brought to the full Senate for a vote," Flake said Wednesday.
"After delaying Supreme Court nominations and further delaying qualified judicial nominees this year, Sen. Flake seems to have abandoned his reputation of prioritizing principle in favor of fulfilling personal wishes," Tom McClusky, president of March for Life Action, said in a statement provided to The Daily Signal.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/11/30/flake-continues-to-hold-judicial-confirmations-hostage-to-vote-on-mueller-protection-bill/
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