Michael Cohen expected to testify before Manhattan grand jury
The grand jury is hearing testimony on hush money payments allegedly made on behalf for former President Donald Trump.
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The grand jury is hearing testimony on hush money payments allegedly made on behalf for former President Donald Trump.
A source tells CBS News that Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen is scheduled to testify Monday before a Manhattan grand jury investigating hush money payments made on the former president's behalf.
A grand jury in Manhattan is examining allegations related to alleged "hush money" payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels during the 2016 campaign.
He was there to prepare for a possible appearance before a grand jury probing allegations related to alleged "hush money" payments to an adult film actress during Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
The meeting is the latest sign that Manhattan prosecutors' years-old investigation into Trump may be picking up steam.
Cohen was on house arrest for 18 months after more than 13 months in federal prison.
Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison in 2018 after pleading guilty to campaign finance charges and lying to Congress, among other crimes.
A federal judge ruled Thursday Michael Cohen will be released from prison again; the judge agreed he was sent back to prison as payback for the tell-all book he's writing about Trump.
The federal Bureau of Prisons said that Cohen had "refused the conditions of his home confinement and as a result, has been returned to a BOP facility."
Cohen was first informed in April that after a 14-day quarantine, he would serve the remainder of his term at home due to concerns about the coronavirus pandemic, CBS News reports.
Cohen is being let out early after 14 inmates and seven staff members at the federal prison in Otisville tested positive for coronavirus.
Back in December, Cohen was sentenced to three years behind bars for tax evasion, lying to Congress and campaign finance crimes.
Documents that led to the search of former Trump attorney and personal fixer Michael Cohen's home and office were released on Tuesday.
President Donald Trump's former personal attorney will testify before lawmakers on Capitol Hill, where he is expected to call the president a racist and con man, CBS News reports.
President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer will publicly accused the president of criminal conduct for the first time during his Congressional hearing Wednesday, CBS News has confirmed.
A disgraced former commander in the NYPD's gun-licensing bureau claims certain people got star treatment when it came to applying for gun permits in the city.
Cohen told a federal judge on Wednesday he felt it was his duty to cover up the president's "dirty deeds."
Cohen reportedly admitted to making false statements in 2017 to the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence about a plan to build a Trump Tower in Moscow.
Cohen's attorney says he made the change to distance "himself from the values of the current" administration.
Vanity Fair and The Wall Street Journal, citing anonymous sources, were first to report the development involving David Pecker, CEO of the tabloid's publisher, American Media Inc.
The president's former attorney pleaded guilty to eight counts Tuesday, including two campaign finance violations involving payments to silence women.
Cohen says Trump directed him to arrange the payment of hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels and a former Playboy model to fend off damage to his White House bid.
President Donald Trump is firing back at his longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen after the release of a recording Cohen secretly made of a conversation between the two men.
President Donald Trump blasted his former attorney Michael Cohen on Twitter for reportedly secretly recording at least one conversation between them.
Federal investigators uncovered the recording, which runs about two minutes, in April during raids on Cohen's home and offices.
