Cohen acknowledges rigging polls for Trump in 2014 and 2015
January 18, 2019
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump's estranged former lawyer is acknowledging that he paid a technology company to rig Trump's standing in two online polls.
Michael Cohen tweeted Thursday that "what I did was at the direction of and for the sole benefit of" Trump.
Technology company owner John Gauger told The Wall Street Journal that Cohen promised him $50,000 for work including using computers to enter fake votes for Trump in a 2014 CNBC poll asking people to identify top business leaders and a 2015 poll of potential presidential candidates. Gauger says Cohen paid him about a quarter of t...
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