A conspiracy to build hotels

According to the Hill, Cohen's alleged lies stem from testimony he gave in 2017, when he told the House Intelligence Committee that a planned real-estate deal to build the Trump Moscow Hotel had been abandoned in January 2016 after the Trump Organization decided that "the proposal was not feasible." While Cohen's previous plea was an agreement with federal prosecutors in New York, this marks the first time Cohen has been charged by Mueller.

Trump's attorney to plead guilty on lying to Congress.   He lied about a hotel project in Moscow, and this was and remains Trump's crime business, building hotels and selling rooms to oligarchs.

Trump was never in a position, intellectually or otherwise to collude on American policy, he simply didn't have time or knowledge to make that deal at the moment in question, the hectic months before the election.