Former Trump Attorney Michael Cohen gives a brief statement to members of the press as he arrives to fulfill with the Manhattan District Attorney on February 08, 2023 in Recent York City.
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Michael Cohen, the previous personal lawyer for former President Donald Trump, is ready to testify Monday to a grand jury in Recent York City, setting the stage for a possible indictment of Trump, Cohen’s lawyer Lanny Davis said Friday.
Trump is being investigated by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office in reference to a $130,000 hush money payment Cohen made on his behalf to porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 presidential election to maintain her quiet about her alleged sexual liaison with Trump years earlier.
Cohen on Friday met for greater than seven hours with officials from the DA Alvin Bragg’s office together with his attorney Davis.
“Mr. Cohen has met with the Manhattan DA 20 times, and is impress with Mr. Bragg’s careful and meticulous approach,” Davis told CNBC.
After that session, Cohen said he would now not be making public statements in regards to the case. Cohen is scheduled to testify before the grand jury on Monday afternoon.
The meeting got here a day after The Recent York Times reported that Trump had been offered the possibility to testify to the grand jury, a proposal typically prolonged to the expected targets of criminal prosecutions.
If Trump is charged within the case, he would change into the primary American president, former or otherwise, to face criminal charges.
A lawyer for Trump, Joseph Tacopina, scoffed in an interview Friday with CNBC at the concept of the previous president being charged.
Tacopina noted that Trump has denied having sex with Daniels. And the attorney said that Trump was the goal of extortion by Daniels, and decided to pay her to resolve the “nuisance” of her demand for her silence shortly before the election.
Trump is currently in search of the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
