{"id":1903494,"date":"2023-03-22T22:26:21","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T02:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/letter-shows-false-claims-made-to-investigators-about-michael-cohens-130000-hush-money-payment-to-stormy-daniels-report\/"},"modified":"2023-03-22T22:26:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T02:26:47","slug":"letter-shows-false-claims-made-to-investigators-about-michael-cohens-130000-hush-money-payment-to-stormy-daniels-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/letter-shows-false-claims-made-to-investigators-about-michael-cohens-130000-hush-money-payment-to-stormy-daniels-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter Shows False Claims Made To Investigators About Michael Cohen\u2019s $130,000 Hush Money Payment To Stormy Daniels: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fletter-shows-false-claims-made-to-investigators-about-michael-cohens-130000-hush-money-payment-to-stormy-daniels-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1903494&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>A letter that is five years old has surfaced, indicating that Michael Cohen, President Trump\u2019s former fixer, lied to investigators about a hush money payment made during the 2016 presidential election. The letter, dated February 8, 2018, was written by Cohen\u2019s attorney Stephen M. Ryan to the Federal Election Commission about the payment Cohen made to pornographic actress Stormy Daniels. In the letter, Ryan claimed that Cohen used his personal funds to facilitate a payment of $130,000 to Daniels. The letter further stated that neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign was involved in the transaction with Daniels, nor did either party reimburse Cohen for the payment directly or indirectly.<\/p>\n<p>However, Cohen pleaded guilty six months after that letter was written to several charges in federal court, including campaign finance violations related to the payment to Daniels. Cohen is a key figure in the Manhattan District Attorney\u2019s Office grand jury investigation into former President Donald Trump&#8217;s alleged involvement in that payment to Daniels. Cohen has told investigators for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and the grand jury that he made the payments at the direction of Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Although the letter was not presented to the grand jury, it could impact Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg\u2019s decision on whether to seek an indictment, given Cohen\u2019s credibility problems.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney Robert Costello, who used to advise Cohen, reportedly attacked Cohen&#8217;s credibility in court this week, claiming to have information that contradicted some of Cohen&#8217;s current statements, and that this information could be exculpatory for Trump. The grand jury did not meet on Wednesday but is expected to reconvene on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"c-link c-link--focus-visible\" href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>This is a breaking news story; refresh the page for updates.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A five-year-old letter surfaced Wednesday that appeared to show\u00a0President Trump\u2019s former fixer\u00a0Michael Cohen\u00a0lied to investigators about a hush money payment made during the 2016 presidential election. The letter, dated February 8, 2018, was written by Cohen\u2019s attorney Stephen M. Ryan to the Federal Election Commission about the payment Cohen made to porn actress Stormy Daniels.\u00a0In<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1903495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[21915,4856,22153,17179,4854,21889,5366,4509,5177,4755,10848,3819,21285],"class_list":["post-1903494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-21915","tag-claims","tag-cohens","tag-daniels","tag-false","tag-hush","tag-investigators","tag-letter","tag-michael","tag-money","tag-payment","tag-report","tag-stormy"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1903494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1903495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1903494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1903494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1903494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}