Michael Cohen could have faced 7 years in prison for stealing $60K...

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33% : Michael Cohen could have faced up to seven years in prison if he'd been charged and convicted of stealing from his former longtime boss Donald Trump -- as he admitted to doing in his testimony Monday, legal experts said.Cohen, 57, told jurors in the hush money trial against the former president, that he stole $60,000 from the Trump Organization after overstating how much he needed to be repaid for fronting funds to a poll-rigging tech company called Red Finch.
28% : Trump, 77, denies the charges and has maintained that the DA's case rests on the word of Cohen, an ex-con admitted liar.
23% : Saland said Trump wouldn't likely agree to work with prosecutors in a case against Cohen for the theft because it would require coming clean about the fact he was paying Red Finch for alleged shady favors.
18% : They are trying to demonstrate that he is always trying to monetize his relationship with Donald Trump," Bachner, a seasoned criminal defense attorney, said.
13% : But "practically speaking this would never get prosecuted unless Donald Trump cooperated" Saland noted, adding that would have been unlikely since "it would expose him to what appears to be misconduct.

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