Fraud and bank fraud according to three sources and the deal would include jail time and a substantial monetary fine. This plea is no doubt a big blow to the president with cohen having been part of President Trumps inner circle for more than a decade. We anticipate prosecutors with the office of the u. S. Attorney for the Southern District of new york to address the public about the deal. Any minute now that will be live when it happens. For now, lets go to cnns brynn begi gingras. Has he pled guilty yet . Reporter these proceedings happen on time. Very timely here at Federal Court, especially with the sdny. One can only assume he is in the courtroom right now and i can tell you We Dont Have Transmission from the courtroom. It is a Federal Courthouse and not able to verify that 100 . Certainly any minute now safe to say. These are, of course, as you
mentioned, jake, charges of bank and tax fraud related to cohens business of taxis and Campaign Finance and cohen is going to appear befo
consensus on ten of these counts so at the time, the judge told in the courtroom the jury was not present, the judge had said, yes, i probably would allow a partial verdict here and instructed the jury to go back to the deliberations and continue pressing forward to see if they could come to consensus on all counts but given the fact that the judge said he might be happy with or come to terms with a partial verdict, that was when the situation was a little bit more unclear. now the question is, what will the judge do now that there are ten counts that this jury is essentially hung on those ten counts? will the judge be satisfied with that? possibly not. this judge may opt to do another alan charge or as it s called here a sawyer s charge. he might send the jury back again. but, jake, we re still waiting to hear word inside the courtroom what the judge does. when we know that, we ll get
or two questions from the jury pertaining to what they should do if they can t come to a consensus on a single count. that was around 11:00 this morning and then that s when the judge gave them what is essentially an allen charge, termed here in virginia as a sawyer s charge. and the judge said to them you should go back into the courtroom, continue deliberations whether to this one count you can t come to consensus. we re unsure how many counts the jury may have had some question on. so that happened just past 11:00 a.m. they went back into the jury deliberation room at 11:58. here we stand at about 4:15, 4:20. about four and a half hours the jury has been there in deliberating so we ll wait to see, jake, what the note says. unclear if it s more clarification questions or if it could be a verdict here. so we re going to wait and see and get back to you as soon as