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Heres how it came to be. In may of this year, may 22nd, the New York Times had a scoop that they probably only got because they are specifically the New York Times. They sent crack reporters to an otherwise sleepy courthouse in albany, new york, not a Federal Courthouse, a state court, because that day in that state court in new york, a longtime Business Partner of Michael Cohens, A Taxicab Mogul Named Gene Friedman Who everybody called the taxi king, he was in court. He had been facing really serious charges in new york, Tax Evasion Charges in new york more than 5 million and four criminal co...

Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Charge of grand larceny, a big stack of charges involving a large amount of money and potentially a large amount of jail time. The story they uncovered at the courthouse that day, for some reason, friedman had gotten this huge Criminal Liability he was facing winnowed down to almost nothing. All the prison time and felonies evaporated. Instead of being tried for evading 5 million in taxes, prosecutors let him plead guilty to one count of evaluating 50,000 worth of taxes. Not 5 million, 50,000. Instead of decades in potential pr...

Story out of albany. the new york state attorney general and the new york state tax department bringing a big criminal case against cohen's partner in the taxi business and flipping him like a flapjack in sleepy little state court in albany, new york, three months ago today. the law enforcement official who made that happen is somebody you might not know. her name is barbara underwood. you probably remember the previous attorney general very high profile who was turfed out of office in a very ugly scandal involving allegations of sexual misconduct. his name was eric schneiderman and he aggress...

When he imploded, new york state lawmakers decide'ed they would have the solicitor general from the state of new york slide over from schneiderman's office and become the temporary acting ag. thinking we need a legal official, solicitor-general argues cases, can she take over for a second? i don't even know if the new york state lawmakers knew what they had done when they picked barbara underwood, who this was they were putting into the attorney general's office in their state. she is a bigger deal than any of them. she is freaking impressive, argued 20 cases before the supreme court, magna cu...