was set to begin a three-yea prison sentence, all of whic embarrassed and angered th president. the bar spent weeks week prosecuting the questioning and at one point eve instructed justice officials i washington to draft a memo outlining legal arguments that could ve raised questions abou cohen s conviction and undercu similar prosecutions in th future the person on the receiving en of all that pressure, bearin the brunt of, it was that ma you see there on the right jeffrey berman, who was then the u.s. attorney for th southern district of new york. had been appointed by donald trump, and whose office wa prosecuted in the case against cohen. berman would later confirm, in his memoir, that barr tried to kill the investigation suggesting cohen s convictio on campaign finance charges be reversed and by mid 2020, barr an donald trump, fired berman so, essentially, barr and trum made sure that the potential case never materialized agains
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