WASHINGTON, DC — Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney and “fixer,” will testify publicly before Congress next month, lawmakers say. Cohen’s testimony before the House Oversight and Reform Committee will be the first major public hearing for Democrats, who have promised greater scrutiny of Trump.
Cohen is a pivotal figure in investigations by special counsel Robert Mueller into potential coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign, and by federal prosecutors in New York into campaign finance violations related to hush-money payments to two women who say they had sex with Trump. Trump has denied it.
Cohen has pleaded guilty in both investigations and was sentenced last month to three years in prison. His attorney Lanny J. Davis released a statement by Cohen saying: “In furtherance of my commitment to cooperate and provide the American people with answers, I have accepted the invitation by Chairman Elijah Cummings to appear publicly on February 7th before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform,”
Cohen said he looks forward to having a platform where he can give a “full and credible account” what happened.
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