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The Rachel Maddow Show
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The DA's Motion to Dismiss the Michael Cohen Tax Fraud Charge
The statute in New York that says you can bump this up to a felony requires that you have an intent to commit some other crime. So that's why you wouldn't necessarily need to charge it. The DA has suggested in his oral remarks that one way is the federal campaign laws. A third way is he talked about AMI issuing false statements, and that this was in furtherance of those false statements. And a fourth way was tax charges, exactly what you had laid out,. Rachel, in terms of the scheme to have Michael Cohen commit tax fraud.
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