Michael Cohen says he was "active and eager participant" in "golden showers" and "tax fraud" in book
Cohen will revisit the alleged "pee tape" from the explosive Steele Dossier on Trump's Russian ties in his new book
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ROGER SOLLENBERGER
AUGUST 15, 2020 3:23AM (UTC)
In the 3,700-word foreword from his forthcoming memoir, "Disloyal," Michael Cohen, the former personal lawyer and "fixer" of President Donald Trump, describes his life working for his former client in terms of organized crime, comes clean about "screaming threats" on his client's behalf and admits to being an "active and eager participant" in some of the most notorious and salacious episodes involving the future leader of the free world.
"From golden showers in a sex club in Vegas, to tax fraud, to deals with corrupt officials from the former Soviet Union, to catch and kill conspiracies to silence Trump's clandestine lovers, I wasn't just a witness to the president's rise — I was an active and eager participant," Cohen writes in the foreword, dated March 11, 2020, which he says he began penning on legal pads in the early morning hours at the white-collar Otisville Federal Prison located about an hour and a half drive from his former Manhattan high-rise apartment.
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Cohen had earlier been furloughed from that prison amid concerns over the spread of COVID-19. However, he was soon remanded, apparently for writing this book. His book's website directly quotes federal Judge Alvin Hellerstein:
The purpose of transferring Mr. Cohen from furlough and home confinement to jail is retaliatory, and it's retaliatory because of his desire to exercise his First Amendment rights to publish a book and discuss anything about the book or anything else he wants on social media.
"In 21 years of being a judge and sentencing people and looking at terms and conditions of supervised release, I've never seen such a clause," Hellerstein added. He allowed Cohen to return to house arrest.
While Cohen's multiple felony counts include fraud and perjury, and his own redemption testimony drew further accusations of lying to Congress, he makes clear that doesn't expect credit from readers given this history with the truth.
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"As you read my story, you will no doubt ask yourself if you like me, or if you would act as I did, and the answer will frequently be no to both of those questions," he writes.
To wit, the "golden showers" line above alludes to an evening at a Las Vegas strip club called "The Act," which was previously revealed in David Corn and Michael Isikoff's book about the Trump-Russia saga, "Russian Roulette":
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The Act was no ordinary nightclub. Since March, it had been the target of undercover surveillance by the Nevada Gaming Control Board and investigators for the club's landlord — the Palazzo, which was owned by GOP megadonor Sheldon Adelson — after complaints about its obscene performances. The club featured seminude women performing simulated sex acts of bestiality and grotesque sadomasochism — skits that a few months later would prompt a Nevada state judge to issue an injunction barring any more of its "lewd" and "offensive" performances. Among the club's regular acts cited by the judge was one called "Hot for Teacher," in which naked college girls simulate urinating on a professor. In another act, two women disrobe and then "one female stands over the other female and simulates urinating while the other female catches the urine in two wine glasses." (The Act shut down after the judge's ruling. There is no public record of which skits were performed the night Trump was present.)
Of course, a similar lewd scenario appears in former British intelligence official Christopher Steele's series of intel briefs on Russian election interference, in which four sources help Steele assemble a scene now known colloquially as the "pee tape" passage.
Trump, the story goes, was captured on video at the Ritz Carlton Moscow during the 2013 Miss Universe Pageant watching sex workers urinate on a bed that then-President Barack Obama and -First Lady Michelle Obama had slept on not long before, according to what has become known as the "Steele dossier." Russian intelligence reportedly had the tape in its possession, Steele's sources said, and held it over Trump as "kompromat," or blackmail.
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However, when Cohen was asked directly about the pee tape in his nationally televised tell-all Congressional testimony, he offered no fireworks.
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"I've heard about these tapes for a long time," Cohen said. "I've had many people contact me over the years. I have no reason to believe that that tape exists." YET HE LIKES TO SWIM IN PISS.
