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Fred Sanders

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70. Depends. Cohen was prosecuted by NY prosecutions office. The Bookkeeper testified at a grand

Fri Aug 24, 2018, 12:28 PM

Aug 2018

jury under immunity which led to Cohen's indictment and guilty plea.

Were Trump's taxes revealed? Frankly do not think so.

Mueller not involved in this.

Sorry to say...

"Prosecutors in Manhattan, Mr. Lacovara said, “could seek permission from the deputy attorney general to do what we did in Watergate, which was to prepare a ‘road map’ of evidence bearing on the president’s culpability and send it to the House Judiciary Committee, which has jurisdiction over impeachment.”

Both the Manhattan prosecutors handling the Cohen case and Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel investigating the Trump campaign’s ties with Russia, are bound by Justice Department policies banning the prosecution of sitting presidents."

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/us/politics/cohen-trump-indicted.html

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