Cohen’s Partner in Businesses Pleads Guilty in Deal, And Will Aid Inquiry

Evgeny Freidman, second from right, leaves court after pleading guilty and promising his cooperation in state and federal investigations, in Albany, N.Y., May 22, 2018. A significant business partner of Michael Cohen, President Trump’s personal lawyer, Freidman has quietly agreed to cooperate with the government as a potential witness, a development that could be used as leverage to pressure Cohen to work with the special counsel examining Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. (Nathaniel Brooks/The New York Times)