here s how it came to be. in may of this year, may 22nd, the new york times had a scoop that they probably only got because they are specifically the new york times. they sent crack reporters to an otherwise sleepy courthouse in albany, new york, not a federal courthouse, a state court, because that day in that state court in new york, a long-time business partner of michael cohen s, a taxicab mogul named gene friedman who everybody called the taxi king, he was in court. he had been facing really serious charges in new york, tax evasion charges in new york more than $5 million and four criminal counts of tax fraud and facing a charge of grand larceny. a big stack of charges involving a large amount of money and potentially a large amount of jail time. the story they uncovered at the courthouse that day, for some reason, friedman had gotten this huge criminal liability he was facing winnowed down to almost
nothing. he was able to work out some sort of deal where all of that priso
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charge of grand larceny, a big stack of charges involving a large amount of money and potentially a large amount of jail time. the story they uncovered at the courthouse that day, for some reason, friedman had gotten this huge criminal liability he was facing winnowed down to almost nothing. all the prison time and felonies evaporated. instead of being tried for evading $5 million in taxes, prosecutors let him plead guilty to one count of evaluating $50,000 worth of taxes. not $5 million, 50,000. instead of decades in potential prison time the deal he cut with prosecutors got him zero prison time. people do plea deals all the time they offer their testimony for prosecutors letting them off the hook and going easier on
them. this was like the mother of all plea deals. the amount he offered must have been very very valuable to the government given how sweet the deal was he got from them in return. that happened in la
do a redo. to check out the piece on our they were very unhappy with the website. quite fascinating. mueller report. that s going to wrap up this no collusion. no obstruction. hour of msnbc live. no nothing. they are very unhappy. andrea mitchell reports starts they are angry about it. right now. they have to get ore their aver thank you. right now power play. anger. wait a minute. they have to get over their donald trump gives the attorney anger and they have to get into general sweeping new authority to declassify closely guarded infrastructure, drug prices and things like that because they want to do a redo like even the secrets about the russia investigation as he accuses fact they are asking bob mueller former fbi officials of treason, to come and testify. a crime punishable by death. he just gave them a 434-page you look at comey, mccabe, report which says no collusion, probably people higher than which leads to absolutely no that. if you look at his lover, lisa obstruction
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