Judge Suggests Michael Cohen May Have Committed Perjury In Trump Civil Fraud Trial

A federal judge has suggested that Michael Cohen former personal attorney to former President Donald Trump may have committed perjury under oath during his testimony in a civil fraud trial against the former president last year. 

Judge Jesse M. Furman’s comments in a written order denying Cohen’s request for early release from court supervision have given fresh support to Trump’s claims that his onetime lawyer is an untrustworthy liar.

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During the October 2023 trial in a Manhattan state court Cohen insisted that he wasn’t actually guilty of tax evasion despite having pleaded guilty to the charge in 2018. When asked if he had lied to the federal judge who accepted his guilty plea Cohen responded “Yes.”

“Cohen repeatedly and unambiguously testified at the state court trial that he was not guilty of tax evasion and that he had lied under oath” to the late Judge William H. Pauley III Furman wrote. He said Cohen’s testimony “gives rise to two possibilities: one Cohen committed perjury when he pleaded guilty before Judge Pauley or two Cohen committed perjury in his October 2023 testimony.”

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The judge’s findings come as Cohen is poised to be a star prosecution witness in Trump’s upcoming criminal trial in New York. Trump who lost the civil fraud case and was ordered to pay a $454 million penalty has repeatedly attacked Cohen’s credibility accusing him of committing “MASSIVE PERJURY” on the witness stand.

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