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Michael Cohen reportedly plans to accuse Trump of crimes in House testimony
Cohen’s lawyer says Trump’s longtime fixer has the receipts to back up his claims.
On Wednesday, February 27, Michael Cohen — President Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer and fixer — is scheduled to publicly testify before the House Oversight Committee. The hearing begins at 10 am ET and can be watched live online on the committee’s website.
The hearing promises to be explosive. While questions specifically about Russia will be off the table due to special counsel Robert Mueller’s continuing investigation, Cohen will be questioned about Trump’s business practices and hush-money payments to women who alleged affairs with Trump during the 2016 campaign.
Cohen spent about a decade as Trump’s lawyer and as a Trump Organization executive. But last year, he fell under FBI investigation and had a bitter falling out with the president. Eventually, he pleaded guilty to financial crimes, campaign finance violations regarding the hush-money payments, and lying to Congress about his efforts to strike a Russian business deal for Trump. He’s set to begin a three-year prison sentence for those crimes on May 6.
Cohen was originally scheduled to testify to the Oversight Committee earlier this month, but he refused to appear, citing “threats against his family” from President Trump and Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who have both made innuendos about potential criminality from Cohen’s father-in-law.
https://www.vox.com/2019/2/26/18241180/michael-cohen-house-testimony-what-time-how-to-watch
On Wednesday, February 27, Michael Cohen — President Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer and fixer — is scheduled to publicly testify before the House Oversight Committee. The hearing begins at 10 am ET and can be watched live online on the committee’s website.
The hearing promises to be explosive. While questions specifically about Russia will be off the table due to special counsel Robert Mueller’s continuing investigation, Cohen will be questioned about Trump’s business practices and hush-money payments to women who alleged affairs with Trump during the 2016 campaign.
Cohen spent about a decade as Trump’s lawyer and as a Trump Organization executive. But last year, he fell under FBI investigation and had a bitter falling out with the president. Eventually, he pleaded guilty to financial crimes, campaign finance violations regarding the hush-money payments, and lying to Congress about his efforts to strike a Russian business deal for Trump. He’s set to begin a three-year prison sentence for those crimes on May 6.
Cohen was originally scheduled to testify to the Oversight Committee earlier this month, but he refused to appear, citing “threats against his family” from President Trump and Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who have both made innuendos about potential criminality from Cohen’s father-in-law.
https://www.vox.com/2019/2/26/18241180/michael-cohen-house-testimony-what-time-how-to-watch
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