Former President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, said in a tweet on Friday that he is cooperating with authorities investigating the President and his family.
“I was questioned and agreed to cooperate with several government agencies to testify about the #Trump and #TrumpFamily offense,” Cohen I wrote. “I am doing this in large part because #Trump and his family tried, and fortunately failed, to destroy America’s democracy.”
Cohen, who worked for Trump for years as his personal lawyer and calls himself a “fixer,” began serving a three-year prison sentence in 2019 for financial crimes and lying to Congress. He was released in July to serve the rest of his sentence at home due to concerns that unsafe conditions in prison could put him at risk of contracting the coronavirus.
In recent years, Cohen has spectacularly turned on his former boss, calling him a “con man” and “a cheater” during a dramatic testimony before Congress in 2019. He wrote a book about his time working for Trump called: “Unfair, a memory.”
Trump and his family have already faced intense scrutiny about their business. In 2019, a federal judge ordered Trump to pay $ 2 million in damages after the Trump Foundation, which was also run by his three eldest children, admitted in a deal that the president personally misused the foundation’s funds to help his 2016 presidential campaign, among other abuses.
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office is also continuing its criminal investigation of Trump and his business operations. In addition, two House Democrats asked FBI Director Christopher Wray to open a criminal investigation into Trump after a leaked phone call showed him pleading with Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to overturn his state’s election.
He also faces the possibility of federal tax investigations and a range of issues involving the Trump administration – from the administration’s policy of separating children from children to possible conflicts of interest and potential violations of the campaign finance law.
