Michael Cohen's Usefulness To Prosecutors May Be Drying Up Michael Cohen's Usefulness To Prosecutors May Be Drying Up https://www.newsmax.com/CMSPages/GetFile.aspx?guid=3031d819-304a-48bc-9ff8-3248a45845f1&SiteName=Newsmax&maxsidesize=600 As Michael Cohen seeks another reprieve from his three-year prison sentence, there are mounting indications his usefulness to federal prosecutors is drying up. Several prosecutors assigned to his campaign-finance violation case in New York have moved on to other jobs, and authorities recently returned electronic devices that the FBI seized from Cohen a year ago Tuesday. Even Democratic lawmakers seem reluctant to intervene on behalf of President Donald Trump's former lawyer and fixer, who said last week that he has uncovered new evidence implicating Trump and needs more time to review digital files recently returned to him. Meanwhile, special counsel Robert Mueller's closing of his probe into Russian attempts to influence the 2016 presidential election effectively shuts the door on Cohen emerging as a key witness in that investigation. "They're not going to be making any new cases with his testimony," predicted David S. Weinstein, a former federal prosecutor in Miami. When the FBI raided Cohen's home and office, some pundits declared it the beginning of the end of Trump's presidency. It was only a matter of time, they speculated, before Cohen gave investigators a roadmap to Trump's supposed misdeeds. Cohen stoked those flames as recently as Thursday by saying he was cooperating in federal probes he wasn't at liberty to discuss. But there are growing signs that he may wind up being the only person to go to prison for the hush-money scandal that has dogged Trump's presidency. With Cohen scheduled to report to prison May 6, his attorneys have reached out to Democrats in Congress, asking them to write letters saying Cohen's three-year sentence for tax evasion, campaign finance violations and other crimes should be postponed because his help is needed going through a "substantial trove of new information, documents, recordings, and other evidence." But tellingly, federal prosecutors themselves made no such request. To be sure, federal authorities in New York don't appear to be finished scrutinizing people close to Trump. Investigations continue into the president's inaugural committee. Among other things, authorities are looking into payments made to vendors and whether foreigners illegally donated. ( READ FULL STORY IN LINK BELOW ) https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/us-trump-lawyer-investigation/2019/04/09/id/910862/