Trump’s Moscow plans ran well into 2016: Cohen
BY CHRIS DOLMETSCH, CHRISTIAN BERTHELSEN, ERIK LARSON(C) 2018, BLOOMBERG NOV 29, 2018 - President Donald Trump’s former lawyer pleaded guilty to a new federal charge and agreed to cooperate with Special Counsel Robert Mueller, admitting that he lied to Congress about Trump’s business plans in Moscow in order to be consistent with the then-candidate’s public disavowals of Russia. Entering his plea in a hastily convened hearing in a New York federal courtroom on Thursday, Michael Cohen said he made false statements to Senate intelligence committee members last year about Trump’s plans for a Moscow real estate project. Cohen, who told the investigators that the plans had been scrapped in early 2016, admitted Thursday that negotiations had in fact continued through June that year.
That means the Trump Organization was continuing to pursue a business opportunity in Moscow deep into Trump’s run for president