Michael Cohen Admits Trump Tower-Moscow Talks Continued Well Into 2016 Campaign

Michael Cohen walks out of federal court on Thursday in New York. Cohen admitted he lied to Congress about Donald Trump’s real estate negotiations in Moscow.

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Updated at 3:03 p.m. ET

Donald Trump and his aides continued negotiations about a potential Trump Tower project in Moscow well into the 2016 presidential campaign, his ex-lawyer Michael Cohen acknowledged in a guilty plea in a New York federal court on Thursday.

Cohen admitted that he lied to Congress last year when he said that those discussions had ended in January 2016 and that his overtures to the Russian government went unrequited.