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    Mueller’s Memos and the Alleged Lies of the Trump Lieutenants

    The sentencing documents offer the clearest signs yet of how investigators are encircling the president.
    by Natasha Bertrand Dec 07, 2018 4 minutes
    Source: Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

    Memos issued by federal prosecutors on Friday about President Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen—together with a sentencing memo filed earlier this week about Trump’s former national-security adviser Michael Flynn—offer the clearest indication yet of how investigators are encircling the president and perhaps reaching the climax of the 19-month probe into a potential conspiracy between Trump and Russia in 2016.

    Cohen and Flynn are among five former Trump associates whom prosecutors have accused of lying either to prosecutors or to Congress over the past year. While much of Flynn’s sentencing memo was redacted, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s sentencing memo for Cohen—who has pleaded guilty to charges including tax evasion, bank fraud, campaign-finance violations, and lying to Congress—was highly revealing and contained new details about

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