Last month, former Trump attorney Michael Cohen admitted that he lied under oath to Congress during a February 2019 deposition. During the deposition, Cohen told the Congressional committee he was not instructed by Trump to inflate his net worth. Trump attorney Alina Habba questioned Cohen during cross examination on his February 2019 statements back in October during the ongoing New York civil-fraud trial. Habba asked, “So you lied under oath in February of 2019? Is that your testimony?” Cohen admitted, “Yes.”
Representatives Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) and Mike Turner (R-Ohio) sent a criminal referral to the DOJ today. Stefanik posted on X, “The Biden Justice Department must take off its partisan blinders and investigate disgraced fraudster and disbarred attorney Michael Cohen, a felon previously convicted for lying to Congress, who just admitted to lying again to Congress.”
In December 2018, Cohen was convicted for lying to Congress in 2018 and was sentenced to three years in federal prison and a $50,000 fine. Cohen completed his sentence in November 2021.
