READ: Michael Cohen’s plea agreement

By Kelly Cohen

Published November 29, 2018 4:47pm ET

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READ: Michael Cohen’s plea agreement — Michael Cohen walks out of federal court, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018, in New York. Cohen, President Donald Trump's former lawyer, pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about work he did on an aborted project to build a Trump Tower in Russia. He told the judge he lied about the timing of the negotiations and other details to be consistent with Trump's "political message." | (Julie Jacobson/AP)

President Trump’s ex-personal attorney Michael Cohen pleaded guilty Thursday to making false statements to Congress in 2017 about the ongoing Russia investigation.

Cohen “knowingly and willfully made a materially false, fictitious and fraudulent statement and representation” to the Senate Intelligence Committee about a Trump real estate project in Russia, according to the criminal information unveiled in the Southern District of New York by special counsel Robert Mueller.

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