Officials familiar with the case said the proof is in the lack of evidence in the 25 pages of court papers Mueller has filed on Cohen over the past two weeks.
On page 5, Mueller stated that Cohen "Has provided relevant and truthful information" about "His own contacts with Russian interests during the campaign" to prosecutors in their investigation of Russian election interference.
Though Mueller details contacts Cohen made with various Russians, he offers no evidence he contacted Kremlin officials in Prague, as described in the dossier.
Cohen pleaded guilty last month to a single count of providing false testimony to Congress related to a Moscow real estate venture - which suggests there was no reason for him to correct his September 2017 statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee claiming, "I have never in my life been to Prague or to anywhere in the Czech Republic."
Cohen has offered his passport to show he has never traveled to Prague - nor even left the country during the time alleged.
The most sensational report was last April when a McClatchy report said Mueller had evidence that Cohen "Secretly made a late-summer trip" there during the 2016 presidential campaign.
"If Cohen met with Russians and hackers in Prague as described in the dossier," the article stated, "It would provide perhaps the most compelling evidence to date that the Russians and Trump campaign aides were collaborating."
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2018/12/11/mueller_files_undercut_cohens_infamous_appointment_in_prague.html
On page 5, Mueller stated that Cohen "Has provided relevant and truthful information" about "His own contacts with Russian interests during the campaign" to prosecutors in their investigation of Russian election interference.
Though Mueller details contacts Cohen made with various Russians, he offers no evidence he contacted Kremlin officials in Prague, as described in the dossier.
Cohen pleaded guilty last month to a single count of providing false testimony to Congress related to a Moscow real estate venture - which suggests there was no reason for him to correct his September 2017 statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee claiming, "I have never in my life been to Prague or to anywhere in the Czech Republic."
Cohen has offered his passport to show he has never traveled to Prague - nor even left the country during the time alleged.
The most sensational report was last April when a McClatchy report said Mueller had evidence that Cohen "Secretly made a late-summer trip" there during the 2016 presidential campaign.
"If Cohen met with Russians and hackers in Prague as described in the dossier," the article stated, "It would provide perhaps the most compelling evidence to date that the Russians and Trump campaign aides were collaborating."
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2018/12/11/mueller_files_undercut_cohens_infamous_appointment_in_prague.html
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