Former FBI Assistant Director: Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen Could Spend ‘Decades’ in Prison
Former FBI Assistant Director Frank Figliuzzi said on Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen could spend “decades” behind bars as a result of the raid on his Manhattan office.
“If you’re looking at multiple violations of everything that we’ve heard come out of the possible search warrant motivations, you’re looking at decades, a couple of decades potentially, if they’re all found guilty,” he told MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough.
The remarks come just after an FBI raid of Cohen, who orchestrated a $130,000 non-disclosure deal with Stormy Daniels, the adult film star claiming to have had an affair with Trump.
Figliuzzi thinks that might be what the raid is about.
“This could be primarily about Stormy Daniels,” he said. “If you think about the election violation, that could be the contribution in kind by paying her off. If you think about bank fraud, it could be getting a home equity loan to pay her off. If there’s tax violations, if could be the fabricated Delaware corporation to pay her off.”
However, rather than focusing on those aspects, Figliuzzi believes Daniels’ allegations of threats to the safety of her and her daughter are more significant. If true, that scenario could be in violation of the Hobbs Act, which concerns extortion and robbery crossing state lines, including actual and attempted cases.
“Remember Stormy is claiming that a threat was launched in the Las Vegas parking lot against her and her child,” he said. “There could be a federal Hobbs Act violation, there could be interstate travel to communicate a threat, there could be interstate communication of a threat versus via phone or a computer, and if that’s found in the search results yesterday, if it’s found that Trump knew about that, we’re into a conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act. That’s a serious crime.”
Watch the clip above, via MSNBC.
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