He spoke eight times with Robert S. Mueller III’s investigators, appeared before three congressional committees and helped federal prosecutors with at least two criminal inquiries into President Trump’s inner circle. But on Monday, perhaps the most important number in Michael D. Cohen’s life will be 1,095: the number of days in a three-year prison term. Mr. Cohen, the president’s former fixer and current antagonist, must report to the federal prison in Otisville, N.Y., where he is to begin serving his sentence for campaign finance violations, tax evasion and other crimes. Mr. Cohen, who implicated the president in the scheme, was among the earliest subjects of Mr. Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Although the special counsel’s office ultimately handed over the Cohen investigation to federal prosecutors in Manhattan, Mr. Cohen was a central figure in Mr. Mueller’s report, which named him more than 800 times.

Source: New York Times May 06, 2019 09:00 UTC