New York attorney Robert Costello says he told the grand jury that a key witness, former Trump fixer Michael Cohen, cannot be trusted — another strange twist in a seven-year legal saga that now has Trump on the precipice of an indictment.
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Grand jury proceedings are not public, but Costello said that he urged the grand jury to ask for the complete package of material he had given to the prosecutors. “I said: ‘There’s 321 emails, you need to see each and every email, which follow in chronological fashion and give you the life history of Michael Cohen dealing with our firm,’” Costello told reporters.
Costello said in those conversations — in addition to saying he arranged the hush money payments to protect Trump’s reputation — Cohen claimed that he didn’t know of any crimes Trump had committed. Years ago, federal prosecutors considered that and ultimately did not file charges against Trump — though they did accept a guilty plea from Cohen for arranging the payment.wise to charge Trump with a crime stemming from that conduct, particularly given the outcome of a past case against John Edwards, the 2008 Democratic presidential candidate who beat criminal charges that hush money used to hide an extramarital affair amounted to illegal campaign contributions.
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