If President Donald Trump tries to pardon his former personal attorney Michael Cohen, would it make a legal difference if Cohen accepts?
“It’s complicated,” pardon scholar Daniel T. Kobil tells Bloomberg Law.
Cohen pleaded guilty again Nov. 29 just as the ink was barely dry on the latest reports that the president might still pardon his convicted ex-campaign head Paul Manafort.
Trump recently said he wouldn’t take clemency off the table for Manafort, but Trump’s ex-lawyer Cohen might be a less likely target for pardon.
Cohen attempted to cooperate with authorities after implicating Trump in criminal activity in August in ...
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