Trump’s personal lawyer guilty to lying to US Congress over Russia

President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty on Thursday to lying to Congress over the ongoing Russia investigation in connection with a Moscow real-estate deal and Russian contacts pursued during the 2016 election.

The 52-year-old, for years one of the Republican billionaire’s closest aides, admitted one count of making false statements relating to a real-estate deal at the roughly hour-long hearing, an official confirmed.
The Trump Tower deal — which never got off the ground — has been a focus of an investigation into whether the Trump campaign conspired with Russian operatives during the 2016 campaign, The New York Times reported.