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In that instance, it wasn t him lying to the irs, it was lying to the bank in order to get a loan. so all that, michael cohen s first day in federal court that all made sense. it made sense that he was in court in new york. it made sense it was the u.s. attorney s office from new york that had their guy on the steps pounding his chest a little over cohen s guilty pleadings. of course in terms of the national impact of that court appearance, the blaring headlines were about the other two financial felonies michael pled to at the same time because those other two weren t just about his business practices or his taxes or his handbag resale hobby. those other two felonies were about the guy he had worked for for more than a decade. the other two felonies that day were the campaign finance felonies cohen pled to. felonies he said donald trump had directed him to commit. those two felonies involved hush money payments that were designed to influence the ....