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by Axios | 11.29.18

President Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen is pleading guilty to lying to the Senate Intelligence Committee about the length and scope of his work on plans to build a Trump Tower in Moscow.

The big picture: This is the first time that Cohen, who pleaded guilty in the Southern District of New York in August to campaign finance violations, has been charged in the Mueller investigation. He has reportedly spent more than 70 hours in interviews with the special counsel, per ABC News.

Per CNN, Cohen told congressional investigators that he had stopped working on a deal to build a Trump Tower in Moscow in January 2016. He has admitted that he had discussions about the deal as late as August 2017.
Cohen reportedly said he lied out of loyalty to Trump and \"to be consistent with the president's political messaging, per NBC News' Tom Winter.

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