Tag: Michael Cohen

• Thursday, February 28th 2019 - 09:51 UTC

  Trump's ex lawyer ashamed of working for a conman, a cheat and a racist

  

  Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen called the US president a conman, a cheat and a racist in explosive congressional testimony on Wednesday, saying he was ashamed of a decade of working for the real estate billionaire.

• Friday, August 24th 2018 - 09:02 UTC

  Trump warns that any attempt to impeach him would crash the US economy

  

  US President Donald Trump has warned that any attempt to impeach him would result in the crash of the economy. The President made the claim as the White House struggled to manage the fallout from a plea deal Mr Trump's longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen made with prosecutors, and the conviction of his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort on financial charges.

• Tuesday, April 10th 2018 - 08:49 UTC

  FBI raids offices and home of Trump's personal lawyer; president calls it a “witch hunt”

  

  The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Monday raided the offices and home of U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen, law enforcement sources said, in a dramatic new development in a series of probes involving close Trump associates. Cohen’s lawyer, Stephen M. Ryan, said that U.S. prosecutors conducted a search that was partly a referral by the Office of Special Counsel, Robert Mueller.