UPDATE: 2:06 PM ET – Cohen has reached a plea deal. Details to come.
UPDATE 2:12 PM ET – Hearing set for 4 PM.
President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen is discussing a plea deal with prosecutors, NBC News reports. Cohen has not been charged but is believed to be under investigation for tax fraud and banking related matters.
The plea deal could be reached today.
“In addition to bank and tax fraud questions arising from Cohen’s taxi business, federal prosecutors are looking into whether the hush-money payments Cohen arranged with women who claimed they had sexual encounters with Trump amount to violations of campaign finance law,” NBC reports.
Cohen, who was Trump’s “fixer” and traveled the world to work out real estate deals, could turn on the President.
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