Bonus Episode: The wind-up before the punch

Last week, two sentencing memos involving President Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen were released. Listeners will remember that Cohen pleaded guilty to tax and bank fraud, as well as making an illegal contribution to Trump’s political campaign in the form of the not-very-effective hush payment to Stormy Daniels. Those pleas were made on charges brought by the office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Additionally, Cohen pleaded guilty to lying to Robert Mueller’s investigators. The recommended sentence for Cohen’s crimes is looking like “substantial” prison time.