My guess is if Cohen ever had anything of consquence he would have used it to stay out of jail. Congress can't overturn his conviction reduce his sentence or pardon him there will be a lot of hype over this but I doubt it amounts to anything.
Bad guess.
. Cohen’s father publicly said that he didn’t escape a Nazi concentration camp and come to America to have his name sullied by his son.
Paying his debt to society is the way Cohen is making up to his family and putting their name back into good graces.
Imagine having a son like Cohen or Trump. Men who lie and steal and commit Felonies. For Republicans it’s OK. Because that’s how they like their president. But for the rest of the world it’s embarrassing.
I imagine revenge is a big part of this. Doing The right thing for the wrong reasons is still the right thing.
Michael Cohen testifies before Congress on Wednesday, but his
opening statement was
published by The New York Times late Tuesday.
In it, the disgraced former attorney to President
Donald Trump painted a picture of a “racist,” a “conman” and a “cheat” sitting in the Oval Office. Then, in
scathing detail, Cohen listed examples of each in action.
Here are some of the most stunning excerpts from the statement:
“MR. TRUMP IS A RACIST”
“He once asked me if I could name a country run by a black person that wasn’t a ‘shithole.’ This was when Barack Obama was President of the United States.
“While we were once driving through a struggling neighborhood in Chicago, he commented that only black people could live that way.
“And, he told me that black people would never vote for him because they were too stupid.”
TRUMP HAS A VERY LOW OPINION OF HIS ELDEST SON, DONALD TRUMP JR.
“Mr. Trump had frequently told me and others that his son Don Jr. had the worst judgment of anyone in the world. And also, that Don Jr. would never set up any meeting of any significance alone – and certainly not without checking with his father.”
HOW TRUMP DODGED SERVICE IN VIETNAM
“Mr. Trump claimed it was because of a bone spur, but when I asked for medical records, he gave me none and said there was no surgery. He told me not to answer the specific questions by reporters but rather offer simply the fact that he received a medical deferment.
He finished the conversation with the following comment. ‘You think I’m stupid, I wasn’t going to Vietnam.’
TRUMP IS NOT A PATRIOT
“The sad fact is that I never heard Mr. Trump say anything in private that led me to believe he loved our nation or wanted to make it better. In fact, he did the opposite.
“When telling me in 2008 that he was cutting employees’ salaries in half ― including mine ― he showed me what he claimed was a $10 million IRS tax refund, and he said that he could not believe how stupid the government was for giving ‘someone like him’ that much money back.”
TRUMP ‘REVELED’ IN REFUSING TO PAY HIS BILLS
“One of my more common responsibilities was that Mr. Trump directed me to call business owners, many of whom were small businesses, that were owed money for their services and told them no payment or a reduced payment would be coming. When I advised Mr. Trump of my success, he actually reveled in it.”
TRUMP KNEW ABOUT ROGER STONE AND WIKILEAKS
“In July 2016, days before the Democratic convention, I was in Mr. Trump’s office when his secretary announced that Roger Stone was on the phone. Mr. Trump put Mr. Stone on the speakerphone. Mr. Stone told Mr. Trump that he had just gotten off the phone with Julian Assange and that Mr. Assange told Mr. Stone that, within a couple of days, there would be a massive dump of emails that would damage Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Mr. Trump responded by stating to the effect of ‘wouldn’t that be great.’”