Lawyer, Michael Cohen accepted his own fate in a deal with prosecutors. The Michael Cohen case thats shaking the political and legal worlds tonight. Michael cohen devoted more than a decade of his professional life to being the president s attorney and goto fixer. He once said he would take a bullet for donald trump. I said with Michael Cohen and he told me he could barely walk by trump tower because it made him so sad. To look at a place where they spent a decade together working side by side. Less than two years into the president s term, their once close relationship turned to mutual hostility. Things have shifted. I think he couldnt walk by trump tower now because he would get so angry. Cohens plea deal followed months of controversy. The media reported extensively on cohens alleged Hush Money Payments to a porn star and a maybe model. Whose claims of affairs with donald trump might have few people who knew Michael Cohen as a young man who would predicted he would one day be embro
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do not forget. she began carrying this folder of news clippings, and possible leads connected to her mother. i talked to many families of many disappeared people over the years, i could see the light in her eyes that this was one of those people who was not going to let this go. but anna s father, it seemed, had given it up. not only on finding his wife again. but on himself. he was changing over the years. in front of my eyes. this calm, patient, sturdy, steady person. was emotional. falling apart? angry. he was a menace. i saw him at the food banks. i saw him with girlfriends that you had to pay for. i saw his demeanor change from a proud, working man. to a street thug. he was in a dire world spiral. desperate for money, he tried small time crime.
steady person. was emotional. falling apart? angry. he was a menace. i saw him at the food banks. i saw him with girlfriends that you had to pay for. i saw his demeanor change from a proud, working man. to a street thug. he was in a dire world spiral. desperate for money, he tried small time crime. a drug deal. got caught. he was lucky, a first offense. so he only got probation. he told me he only did the drug deal because he needed the money to keep her home. wendy s home. he said if i keep the house, she ll come home, and have something to come home to. he lost the house. six years after wendy disappeared, he was living in an apartment in a serious part of town. cutting bottles to make ends