{"id":36,"date":"2018-12-01T22:21:17","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T22:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/polfact.com\/articles\/?p=36"},"modified":"2018-12-01T22:21:17","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T22:21:17","slug":"michael-cohen-pleaded-guilty-in-federal-court-to-one-count-of-making-false-statements-to-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/polfact.com\/articles\/2018\/12\/01\/michael-cohen-pleaded-guilty-in-federal-court-to-one-count-of-making-false-statements-to-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Cohen pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of making false statements to Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"snapshot\">\n<li>Donald Trump&#8217;s former personal attorney pleaded guilty on Novermber 29, 2018 to one count of giving false statements to Congress in its investigation of Russia&#8217;s interference in the 2016 presidential election.<\/li>\n<li>Cohen admitted that he lied to Congress about his efforts to build a Trump Tower in Russia through June 2016, which is later than he originally stated in his congressional testimony.<\/li>\n<li>Cohen said that he made false statements to Congress out of loyalty to the president and to align with Mr. Trump\u2019s \u201cpolitical messaging.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Previously, Cohen pleaded guilty to federal charges of committing campaign finance violations and financial crimes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Read More:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/11\/29\/nyregion\/michael-cohen-trump-russia-mueller.html\">Cohen Pleads Guilty and Details Trump\u2019s Involvement in Moscow Tower Project<\/a> | NY Times <span class=\"badge badge-primary\">Left-Center<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/nationworld\/politics\/ct-michael-cohen-plea-deal-20181129-story.html\">Cohen pleads guilty to lying to Congress about Russian project; president calls him &#8216;weak&#8217;<\/a> | Chicago Tribune <span class=\"badge badge-danger\">Right-Center<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump&#8217;s former personal attorney pleaded guilty on Novermber 29, 2018 to one count of giving false statements to Congress in its investigation of Russia&#8217;s interference in the 2016 presidential election. Cohen admitted that he lied to Congress about his efforts to build a Trump Tower in Russia through June 2016, which is later than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/polfact.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/polfact.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/polfact.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polfact.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polfact.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/polfact.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39,"href":"https:\/\/polfact.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/polfact.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polfact.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polfact.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}