A former lawyer for Donald Trump has admitted that he lied to Congress about a Russian property deal involving the US President during the 2016 election.
Michael Cohen admitted before a federal judge in Manhattan that negotiations to build a skyscraper in Moscow had continued until June 2016, while Trump was running for the White House – five months longer than Cohen had originally stated.
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