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Donald Trump faced his third indictment this week, with the federal government naming six people as co-conspirators who had colluded with the former president in an attempt to overthrow 2020 election results.
In an interview with CNN, Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer, discussed the six unnamed co-conspirators who have since been unmasked by the media.
What Happened: Special counsel Jack Smith, who filed the indictment, isn't letting anyone escape, Cohen said in the interview. “Each and every one of them knows that this is me that they're talking about,” Cohen said.
Cohen also said Rudy Giuliani, Trump's personal lawyer and a former Department of Justice staffer, may have already spoken to investigators. “Rudy has no interest in spending his remaining days on this planet behind bars for Donald Trump,” Cohen said.
What is more important are those who are missing from the list of co-conspirators, Cohen said, adding the names of Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and Mark Meadows, the latter of whom served as White House chief of staff in 2020 and 2021.
“You see nothing of Jared Kushner. Jared Kushner was the secretary of everything. How is it possible that he is not listed here? … He was on Donald's lap the entire time from the day Donald entered the White House to the day that he left,” Cohen said.
When asked whether Kushner would cooperate against Trump, Cohen said, “Oh, in a heartbeat. Do you think Jared is any different than Donald? Do you think that Donald wouldn't throw Jared under the bus in order to save himself? The answer is an emphatic yes.”
Why It's Important: Incidentally, just after the FBI raided Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence, several political analysts, along with the former president's niece Mary Trump, said that Kushner was the Mar-a-Lago mole who had tipped off the federal agency regarding classified documents that Donald Trump had handled.
Kushner, however, has denied the allegations. The New York Times reported in mid-July that Kushner testified before a federal courthouse in Washington D.C. in June, saying that he thinks that Trump truly believed the election results were stolen.
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The 70-year-old cricketer-turned-politician was accused of misusing his premiership minister from 2018 to 2022 to buy and sell gifts in state possession that were received during visits abroad and worth more than 140 million Pakistani rupees ($635,000). Khan was not in court for the hearing, but the Reuters news agency reported that his lawyer said the former prime minister had been arrested in Lahore.
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CNN — (CNN) — A lawyer for Charles McGonigal, the former head of counterintelligence for the FBI’s New York field office who has been charged with concealing $225,000 he allegedly received from a former Albanian intelligence employee, said he expects the case against his client in Washington, DC, to be resolved without going to trial.
The 22-year veteran of the FBI, who retired in 2018, was charged in January in two separate indictments in New York and DC in the alleged scheme and for allegedly working with a sanctioned Russian oligarch after he retired.
During a status conference Friday in the DC case, McGonigal’s attorney, Seth DuCharme, noted that defendants have two choices – to plead guilty or go to trial – and said there was a “decent chance the case is going to be resolved” without having to go to trial and that they should know for certain just after Labor Day.
McGonigal has pleaded not guilty to both indictments.
DuCharme’s comments suggest that government prosecutors and McGonigal’s attorneys may be working through a plea agreement in the case, though DuCharme noted he was interested in seeing the rest of the prosecutor’s discovery in the case, which includes national defense documents that still require some redactions.
It’s unclear what a plea agreement between prosecutors and McGonigal would look like and what charges, ultimately, he might plead guilty to.
Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly set another hearing for September 13.
“Hopefully we’ll have a good update for you the next time we see you,” DuCharme told Kollar-Kotelly.
In the case charged in New York, a status report on that matter is due on Tuesday.
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Donald Trump faced his third indictment this week, with the federal government naming six people as co-conspirators who had colluded with the former president in an attempt to overthrow 2020 election results.
In an interview with CNN, Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer, discussed the six unnamed co-conspirators who have since been unmasked by the media.
What Happened: Special counsel Jack Smith, who filed the indictment, isn't letting anyone escape, Cohen said in the interview. “Each and every one of them knows that this is me that they're talking about,” Cohen said.
Cohen also said Rudy Giuliani, Trump's personal lawyer and a former Department of Justice staffer, may have already spoken to investigators. “Rudy has no interest in spending his remaining days on this planet behind bars for Donald Trump,” Cohen said.
What is more important are those who are missing from the list of co-conspirators, Cohen said, adding the names of Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and Mark Meadows, the latter of whom served as White House chief of staff in 2020 and 2021.
“You see nothing of Jared Kushner. Jared Kushner was the secretary of everything. How is it possible that he is not listed here? … He was on Donald's lap the entire time from the day Donald entered the White House to the day that he left,” Cohen said.
When asked whether Kushner would cooperate against Trump, Cohen said, “Oh, in a heartbeat. Do you think Jared is any different than Donald? Do you think that Donald wouldn't throw Jared under the bus in order to save himself? The answer is an emphatic yes.”
Why It's Important: Incidentally, just after the FBI raided Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence, several political analysts, along with the former president's niece Mary Trump, said that Kushner was the Mar-a-Lago mole who had tipped off the federal agency regarding classified documents that Donald Trump had handled.
Kushner, however, has denied the allegations. The New York Times reported in mid-July that Kushner testified before a federal courthouse in Washington D.C. in June, saying that he thinks that Trump truly believed the election results were stolen.
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