A federal judge has undermined the credibility of former Trump fixer Michael Cohen, the Manhattan District Attorney’s top witness in the Stormy Daniels hush money case.
A federal judge has undermined the credibility of former Trump fixer Michael Cohen, the Manhattan District Attorney’s top witness in the Stormy Daniels hush money case.
On Wednesday, that exchange came back to haunt Cohen as another federal judge considered whether to shorten his supervised release. In his, U.S. District Judge Jesse M. Furman tore into Cohen for the high wire act, saying that he either lied at his August 2018 guilty plea hearing or at The federal judge also ridiculed the efforts by Cohen’s other lawyer, E. Danya Perry, to try to explain what happened. Furman rejected the notion that Cohen was merely trying to criticize the prosecutors for being too harsh.
The federal judge reasoned that Cohen can’t play both sides now, trying to rewrite the past while also feigning remorse. And he slammed Perry for “her zealous efforts at spin,” rejecting the notion that Cohen was merely trying to describe being unfairly pressured by the feds into a guilty plea. After the decision was issued, Cohen’s defense lawyer fought back, calling the judge’s description of what played out at the bank fraud trial “factually inaccurate and legally incorrect.”
Meanwhile, Habba suggested that Cohen hasn’t paid enough of a price—and should face even more prison time.
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