Lawfare Archive: Michael Cohen vs. the Committee with No Bull
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
From February 27, 2019: On Wednesday, February 27, 2019, Michael Cohen—the former executive vice president of the Trump Organization, former deputy finance chairman of the Republican National Committee, and former personal lawyer to Donald Trump—paid a visit to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform. Cohen accused the president of campaign finance violations after taking office. He alleged that he was present when Roger Stone gave Trump advance notice of the WikiLeaks dump of the hacked DNC emails. And he claimed that the president's statements in a meeting with Jay Sekulow led Cohen to conclude that the president wanted Cohen to make false statements to Congress. So we cut out all of the bickering, all of the procedural obstructions, and all the rest of the frivolity, to bring you just the one hour of testimony you need to hear.
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| 0:22.0 | rational security, chatter, law fair no bull, and the aftermath. |
| 0:29.0 | Hello, this is LawFair entering Christiana Wayne with a podcast |
| 0:35.0 | of the LawFair Archives for July 3rd, 2021. |
| 0:39.0 | This week, the Trump Organization and its CFO were indicted by a New York Grand Jury |
| 0:43.0 | on 15 counts of financial crimes, including scheme to defraud, |
| 0:48.0 | grand larceny, and tax evasion. |
| 0:51.0 | The first two were the LawFair Archives for July 3rd, 2021. |
| 0:55.0 | The endigments are part of a criminal investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney's sidevants |
| 1:05.0 | that began in 2018 after Michael Cohen, Trump's former lawyer and former vice president |
| 1:11.0 | of the Trump Organization, pleaded guilty in the Southern District of New York |
| 1:16.0 | to campaign finance violation. |
| 1:18.0 | As listeners will remember, Cohen has had a host of legal troubles in the past few years. |
| 1:24.0 | In addition to the SDNY conviction, he was indicted for false testimony |
| 1:29.0 | by the Robert Mueller investigation. |
| 1:31.0 | He then agreed to testify before the House Oversight Committee in 2019 |
| 1:35.0 | to provide a full and honest account of his work on behalf of the former president. |
| 1:41.0 | For today's episode from the Archives, I've returned to that February 2019 testimony |
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