so that plan would give the president s brand-new hotel in d.c. top tier luxury competition right across the street. huh. so a few months into the trump administration, the administration announced, hey, new plan. an unexpected change in plan. that old plan will be scrapped. now there will not be a new hotel, or a big new development on the site of the fbi building. and in fact, they ve decided to change directions 180 degrees and will keep the fbi headquarters where it is and build them a new building on the same site. and the white house said this would save the taxpayers money but it will cost more. and also it will hold fewer agents than the original plan called for. the white house said the president had nothing to do with this dramatic change in plans that would so impact his own personal bottom line. they said it that was that it was the fbi call. the part of the administration ore seeing the project and
press coverage and there were bragging rights involved for the prosecutors when the indictments came down. but looking back on it now, what seems particularly interesting for us now is that it wasn t ome the prosecutors who had bragging rights about that sting. now, as i mentioned, this was a joint law enforcement operation. and it involved a whole bunch of different law enforcement entities including nypd and prosecutors in queens. and it also involved another agency. whose annual report that year contained some of the juiciest details we got about this whole operation. and that entity, which was a key part of this sting operation, was the fraud squad at the new york state insurance department. and the new york state insurance department doesn t have that name any more. that insurance department has now been incorporated into an agency called the new york department of financial services. but it still does the same work and they ve still got the same law enforcement
i don t know if he s provided all of. it i do know from reporting he brought some of it with him today. i particularly know that there was material related to the edits made in his initial congressional testimony brought today. and along with, i believe, drafts that he found, there is also communication with the lawyers involved that he found that he brought to the committee today. i have no idea what kinds of edits were made on those drafts. sometimes you could have a draft that doesn t necessarily have red line edits and just changes where no one explains the changes but here is one draft on one day and then another draft with changes but you don t know what happened in between. but there is communication amongst the lawyers about what was changed and i think that that communication is almost more valuable than a red line edit. because is there a clear contention from mr. cohen that his testimony was false in part because he was advised how to
investigations into collusion or paying off women. we re being very deliberative. we re going after something very specific. getting all the facts. and i believe in the end it will be very clear that he used public money to get private profit. if he did use public money to get private profit, if he is using his office to financially benefit himself and his company, is that a is that a crime? and if so, who prosecutes it? well, we re going to talk to the justice department. that s why we want to be deliberative. that s what we want to have hearings. but you need information in advance of that. also, as you pointed out, they ve lied about it. ms. murphy from the gsa said, no, no, there weren t really any meetings. it was the fbi that wanted to do it, but i think the evidence will show that he was very much a part of this, and it will depend on how you want to define corruption. i think the public can look at that and see that s just not the way government s supposed to run. congr
about how much money you inherited from your dad and whether or not you are self-made or whether or not you won the popular vote or your inaugural crowd or whether you actually built one inch of the wall. lying is lying is lying. it could be a whole way of life it turns out. but it is different when you lie in your written financial statements. that you have submitted to financial institutions and in an effort to get bank loans or defraud insurance companies. when you lie in financial statements, those industries are tightly regulated. at least against that kind of fraud. and when you lie to those kinds of financial institutions, for those kinds of purposes, and there is documentation of it, you re telling the kinds of lie that s get chased down and prosecuted by among others the types of people willing to open up a fake scrap yard in queens and film themselves getting fire bombed multiple times to lock up 50 mobsters. and to the extent that michael cohen s testimony and supporting