According to the plan, should Cohen have lined up for the hearing of the control committee in the house of Representatives 7. February, but the testimony is now postponed indefinitely.
the Reason is allegedly to be threats against his family from the president Trump and his attorney, Rudy Giuliani.
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This comes in a statement from the Cohens attorney, Lanny Davis.
Cohen must put his and his family’s safety the highest, ” says Davis.
After the statement from the lawyer, the black president Trump that Cohen “has been threatened by the truth.”
– He also has other clients, I suppose. And he will not tell the truth to me or the other clients, ” said Trump to reporters at The white house Wednesday, according to NBC News.
“Legitimate concerns”
Attorney Davis says that Cohen wishes to thank the komitéleder Elijah Cummings that he may participate in such hearing, and that he looks forward to witnessing at an appropriate time.
In a joint statement with democrat Adam Schiff, who is leading the etterretningskomiteen, ” says Cummings that Cohen had “legitimate concerns” for the safety of his family.
– Attempt to scare witnesses, scaring the family members, or prevent them from testifying before Congress is the classic mafiataktikker that we condemn in the strongest degree, ” said Cummings and Schiff, according to The New York Times.
Furthermore, they said that U.s. laws prohibit attempts to discourage, intimidate, or otherwise pressuring a witness to give testimony in front of Congress.
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Trump’s lawyer, Giuliani, appeared on several tv channels in the course of the weekend, where among other things, he called Cohen for a “serieløgner”, writes CNN.
on Sunday, said Giuliani that he was not sure whether the president spoke with Cohen about his upcoming testimony in the congress, but gave the impression that it would not have been important if Trump did just this.
According to news agency AP trades postponement of the hearing also about the fact that Cohen is still working in the special investigator Robert Muellers Russia-investigation.
That Cohen is willing to tell the prosecution and the public about what he knows about Trump’s involvement in the crimes of Cohen himself has said guilty, is one of the greatest threats to Trumps presidency, writes The New York Times.
“Hysjpenger”
the control committee in the house of Representatives is investigating the payment of so-called “hysjpenger” to former Playboy model Karen McDougal and pornostjernen Stormy Daniels during the election campaign in 2016. The women claim to have had an affair with Trump, something he himself has rejected.
Claims Trump attended the hysjpengemøte
Cohen has said that Trump asked him to pay the money – a claim Trump has been rejected.
Cohen was in December sentenced to three years in prison for, among other illegal valgkampfinansiering. His sentence starts 6. march. He has also admitted to have lied to the Senate etterretningskomité about Trump’s plans to build a Trump Tower in Moscow.
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