occasion how to add information to a pdf document, and when gates said that when he got the document back, manafort had actually changed some of the numbers, falsifying some of their financial reports. of course, rick gates was a close associate to paul manafort for 12 years, but now he s flipped. he pleaded guilty, and he s telling all he knows to prosecutors. so, it will be interesting when he is back on the stand for more cross examination this morning. christine and phil? all right, jess that schneider, thank you for that. legal woes multiplying for michael cohen. the wall street journal reporting president trump s former lawyer and fixer is now under investigation for tax fraud. sources tell the journal the federal prosecutor in manhattan is looking into whether cohen underreported income from his taxi medallion business. the taxi licenses yielded hundreds of thousands of dollars over the last five years. the wall street journal also reporting federal investigators are l
and other places from time to time pieces of the investigation. he has only, i think, 17 full-time lawyers on his staff, which is very thin for the amount of work that he s got in front of him. and so having assigned and delegated individuals who are at justice, who can be using to him in pursuing leads is a logical consequence of all he s got on his table. so with the southern district in new york in michael cohen s case, it looked like he farmed out there. you have possible criminal activity related to taxi licenses, et cetera, things that wouldn t naturally be his focus under the russia investigation. with these hires, does that look like to you stuff that he wants to that he sees as under his umbrella or stuff he might want to say, hey, you take a look at this, not really relevant to the
michael cohen at one point had about 200 taxi licenses in new york. a lot of people have individual licenses there are people with two called mini fleets, and then there are big operators like michael cohen. behind all of this, the financing is heavily involved with russian emigres. russians involved in one case in a company that had a special benefit, a tax benefit, and was the last remaining remnant of richard nixon s black capitalism program, although it was helping immigrants from various countries, not black americans. and the people in this business are heavily the people who came here in the last decade of the soviet union. many cases been thrown out or urged to go, and have set up shop in all sorts of shady business was shady financing. so i suspect we will very quickly see once the taint team has done its work and the
do we know what they took from the hotel? i do not know what they took from the hotel. i do know they took his cell phone immediately. they took it immediately from him. would have taken it right out of his hands. right. has he been a criminal defendant before? i do not know the answer to that question. david cay johnston, i want to bring you in on this. you ve studied trump businesses for quite a while now. but also, you know a few things about the taxi business in new york, which is one of the more complicated and historically very, very shady and politically connected businesses. what is your reaction to this particular piece that s being revealed that they re investigating, special prosecutor robert mueller has referred something to the u.s. attorney in new york city where they re investigating michael cohen s relationship in the taxi business. i think it s going to put us on a ride right back the russians. michael cohen at one point had about 200 taxi licenses in new
they may be people with nmore information. again, a very, very busy scene here. one of the neighbors we spoke to earlier, what was said about the suspect and the family. i don t know anything about them. i don t see them really. i see them come in and out. a bagel store goes to every now and then. he blocked the driveway. that s about it. my tenant next door said he heard a lot of screaming and yelling in the house. somebody was arguing in the house, we don t know really what it was. do you nowhere he works? delivery. a little taxicab. reporter: delivery thing or taxi licenses, the ability to drive a taxi in new york city. again, that neighbor, others we talked to, said they really kept a very low profile. friendly people for the most part. the suspect they described as a religious man had a full beard at times. that doesn t seem to be what he looked like when this all happened, however. he may have been in this