{"id":2202889,"date":"2024-03-20T17:47:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T21:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-hush-money-witness-michael-cohen-grilled-for-perjury-judge\/"},"modified":"2024-03-20T17:50:55","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T21:50:55","slug":"trump-hush-money-witness-michael-cohen-grilled-for-perjury-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-hush-money-witness-michael-cohen-grilled-for-perjury-judge\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge questions Michael Cohen about potential perjury regarding Trump hush money"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Ftrump-hush-money-witness-michael-cohen-grilled-for-perjury-judge%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=2202889&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--><h2>Federal Judge Denies\u2062 Michael Cohen&#8217;s Request for Early Release<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A federal judge on Wednesday declined to shorten Michael Cohen&#8217;s post-prison monitoring for tax evasion, grilling the disbarred \u200dattorney for\u200d &#8220;perjury&#8221; in anticipation of his testimony in the criminal hush money trial\u2062 involving former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Cohen&#8217;s Credibility Challenged \u200bin Court<\/h3>\n<p>Judge Jesse M. Furman \u200bof Manhattan raised doubts\u200c about Cohen&#8217;s \u200dtruthfulness, citing his contradictory \u200cstatements regarding tax evasion. Despite pleading guilty to\u200b tax evasion, Cohen claimed innocence during a civil trial last year. This inconsistency\u200c led Furman to question the veracity of Cohen&#8217;s\u2064 past and current testimonies.<\/p>\n<p>Furman&#8217;s ruling means Cohen remains under supervised release until November,\u200c subject to strict monitoring \u2062by a federal probation officer\u2063 to ensure \u200bcompliance with the court&#8217;s \u200cterms.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cohen&#8217;s supervised release extended until November<\/li>\n<li>Probation\u200c officer\u200d to\u2062 monitor\u200b his activities<\/li>\n<li>Judge&#8217;s \u200cdecision impacts Trump&#8217;s legal defense<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Implications for Trump&#8217;s Legal Strategy<\/h3>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s legal team could leverage Furman&#8217;s\u2064 decision in the upcoming hush money trial to challenge Cohen&#8217;s credibility as a key witness. \u200dManhattan\u2063 District\u200b Attorney Alvin Bragg is counting on Cohen&#8217;s testimony\u200d to shed \u2064light on Trump&#8217;s alleged\u200b involvement in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-live-trump-leaving-new-jersey-to-make-dc-court-appearance-for-jan-6-case\/\" title=\"LIVE: Trump departs New Jersey for DC court hearing on Jan. 6 case.\">hush money\u200c payments<\/a> to\u200c Stormy Daniels.<\/p>\n<p>In light of Cohen&#8217;s troubled past \u200cand\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-doubles-down-on-vaccine-mandate\/\" title=\"Biden admin. doubles down on vaccine mandate\">ongoing legal battles<\/a>,\u200c doubts persist\u200d about his reliability as a witness in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jury-selection-for-chauvin-trial-delayed\/\" title=\"Jury selection for Chauvin trial delayed\">high-profile trial<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Turley, a law \u200bprofessor, criticized the reliance on\u200d Cohen&#8217;s testimony, suggesting it weakens the\u2062 prosecution&#8217;s case. Despite prosecutors often using convicted \u200cfelons as\u200c witnesses, Cohen&#8217;s history of perjury accusations raises significant concerns about his credibility.<\/p>\n<h3>Further Legal Developments<\/h3>\n<p>Judge Juan\u2062 Merchan&#8217;s recent ruling \u2064allowing Cohen\u200c and Daniels to testify\u200c in \u200cthe hush \u2062money trial, despite \u2063objections from Trump, sets the\u200c stage for a\u200c contentious legal battle ahead.<\/p>\n<p>The trial&#8217;s delay, triggered by new documents released by the \u2064U.S. Attorney&#8217;s\u2062 Office \u200bfor the Southern District\u200c of New York, underscores the complex legal landscape surrounding Trump&#8217;s impending \u200bcriminal trials.<\/p>\n<p>As the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fani-willis-looking-at-12-indictments-in-trump-2020-election-case-report\/\" title=\"Fani Willis faces 12 indictments in Trump's 2020 election case, per report.\">legal drama unfolds<\/a>, the role of\u2064 key witnesses like Cohen and the\u2062 validity\u2063 of their testimonies will \u2064continue\u2062 to\u200d shape the outcome of \u2063these high-stakes trials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge denied Michael Cohen&#8217;s request to shorten post-prison monitoring for tax evasion, probing the disbarred lawyer on possible &#8220;perjury&#8221; before his testimony in the hush money trial involving ex-President Donald Trump. Judge Jesse M. Furman of Manhattan questioned Cohen&#8217;s credibility in refusing early release from monitoring<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2633,"featured_media":2202890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/donald-trump-stormy-daniels-michael-cohen-1024x591.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2202889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/donald-trump-stormy-daniels-michael-cohen-1024x591.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202889","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\/2633"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2202889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2202890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2202889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2202889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2202889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}