A challenge for Garland critics.

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47. Tax evasion and campaign-finance violations among a few others .

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/12/politics/michael-cohen-sentencing/index.html

Veritable smorgasbord of fraudulent conduct’

Cohen’s sentence resulted from two cases. In August, he pleaded guilty in a Manhattan US attorney’s case to two campaign-finance violations tied to payments he made or orchestrated to women during the campaign – adult-film star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal – to stay silent about alleged sexual encounters with Trump.

Prosecutors have said that in executing the payments, Cohen “acted in coordination with and at the direction of” Trump, who has denied having the affairs with the two women. Cohen also pleaded guilty to five counts of tax fraud and one count of making false statements to a bank.

In late November, Cohen was charged in a separate case from the special counsel’s office with one count of lying to Congress about how long discussions involving a proposed Trump Tower in Moscow had extended into the 2016 campaign.

On Wednesday, US District Judge William Pauley III sentenced Cohen to 36 months in prison for the case from New York federal prosecutors and two months for the special counsel’s matter; the sentences will be served concurrently.

They must still be investigating Trump.

Prosecutors have said that in executing the payments, Cohen “acted in coordination with and at the direction of” Trump, who has denied having the affairs with the two women.