where Michael Cohen was federally charged, pleaded guilty, and served time in prison for various crimes including some financial ones as well as campaign-related ones. 45 was on the other end of the payments given to Cohen to reimburse him for his dealing with Daniels, while attempting to mask it as "business expenses", among other things.
Speculating that if there are appeals, there may be thinking that this could be done as a rebuke of a federal judge and have it run up through the federal court system right to his hand-picked SCOTUS vs running it through the NY state court appeals process. These are still state charges that are not being charged federally.
And just as I was typing this, there was a radio report on this adding that by moving to federal court, the jury pool would be broader (within the jurisdiction of SDNY) vs the state court (where the pool would be limited to the one borough - Manhattan).
I.e., - this is SDNY's borders (which actually extend outside of NYC proper) - https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/about-district
And within that, you can see where Manhattan is within the area that SDNY covers and could imagine the "narrower" pool for Manhattan.
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