Yesterday. It was chronicles by long time aide, timber wolfs detail concluded. God speed former president george h. W. Bush, youll be missed by all of us. That is our broadcast on this friday night. Thank you for being with us. Have a good weekend. From nbc headquarters here in new york. Bob mueller revealing Michael Cohens crime as well as new detail on his crimes with russia. Calling for substantial prison time. Lets get right two it. T two major Court Filings that are out tonight. Michael cohen has been helpful in his investigation. Prosecutors up in new york say he deserves years in jail. All of this is a week before a judge will sentence cohen for all the above. Lets look at the latest in the mueller filing. Bob mueller says he is not taking any position on how much time Michael Cohen should serve, but he knows that cohen first came into his office and lied to them. Not just about anything, but specifically about money. Now then mueller says in the new filing that we just got in o
executive-1 is allen weisselberg. prosecutors described his key role in covering up the commission of that felony by falsifying the books of that new york business. now, the reason weisselberg was apparently not the reason weisselberg was not charged in that hush money scheme was that he apparently got immunity in exchange for his testimony. but, again, the testimony in that case was only used to lock up michael cohen, and individual-1 and executive-1 both got away. these questions still linger about why sdny closed out that case and why michael cohen is still the only person who ever faced the music for those felonies, even though federal prosecutors identified other people having played bigger, more important roles in those felonies than he did. but that was it, apparently, in terms of any federal case. perhaps one day we ll find out what happened at sdny there. but tonight the washington post was first to report, and
commission of those felonies who actually benefitted from the commission of those felonies. but then they closed the case without ever bringing charges against that individual. it is one thing to think that individual-1, president trump, was safe from indictment himself there because he was president at the time and the justice department won t indict a sitting president. but he s no longer president. nevertheless, that sdny case was closed. in addition to individual-1, though, there was also executive-1, described by prosecutors. executive-1, a top executive who prosecutors said disguised the reimbursements to cohen for those hush money payments, disguised them as legal expenses on the trump organization s books. executive-1 is allen weisselberg. prosecutors described his key role in covering up the commission of that felony by
paid out to two women to stop those women from speaking publically about them allegedly having affairs with the president. those payments were designed to hush those women before the campaign. the payments were, therefore, designed to benefit his presidential campaign. they were illegal payments. they were, in fact, federal felonies. michael cohen remains the only person who went to prison for that scheme. even though he didn t benefit from those payments. donald trump did. that said, federal prosecutors quite famously in court documents that he committed those felonies in coordination with and at the direction of individual-1, who was donald trump. it was of course the person who was also the beneficiary of the actions described in those felony counts. and then that raised all sorts of actually still outstanding questions as to why federal prosecutors from the southern district of new york would ascribe that kind of blame to an individual who directed the