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NEW YORK - JUNE 3: Honoree businessman Evgeny A. Freidman attends the UJA-Federation of New York's Russian Leadership Division's Charity Ball at The Bowery Hotel June 3, 2009 in New York City. (Photo by Neilson Bar... NEW YORK - JUNE 3: Honoree businessman Evgeny A. Freidman attends the UJA-Federation of New York's Russian Leadership Division's Charity Ball at The Bowery Hotel June 3, 2009 in New York City. (Photo by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images) MORE LESS

May 30, 2018 12:28 p.m.

There are some new details which shed a bit of light on what Evgeny Freidman (the New York City taxi kingpin) may have offered state and federal prosecutors to get his no jail time plea deal in his massive state tax-fraud case.

The details are as follows, as first reported last night by CNN. (For background on Freidman and his relationship to Cohen see this post from last week.)

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