{"id":2204933,"date":"2024-03-23T20:56:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T00:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michael-cohen-blasts-problematic-lack-of-transparency-from-doj\/"},"modified":"2024-03-23T20:59:25","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T00:59:25","slug":"michael-cohen-blasts-problematic-lack-of-transparency-from-doj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michael-cohen-blasts-problematic-lack-of-transparency-from-doj\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Cohen criticizes DOJ for lack of transparency"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fmichael-cohen-blasts-problematic-lack-of-transparency-from-doj%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=2204933&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>Michael Cohen&#8217;s Concerns: Lack of\u2064 Transparency in Trump&#8217;s Hush Money Case<\/h2>\n<p>Attorney Michael Cohen recently voiced his deep concerns \u2064about the alarming lack of \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ruth-bader-ginsburgs-mysterious-1-million-prize\/\" title=\"Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Enigmatic M Prize\">transparency\u2064 surrounding<\/a> former President Donald Trump&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-big-problem-with-the-stormy-daniels-hush-money-case-against-trump\/\" title=\"The Big Problem With The Stormy Daniels Hush Money Case Against Trump\">hush money case<\/a> in New York.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d like to know what\u2019s going on. \u2064I\u2019d like to know what\u2019s going on with the SDNY,\u2062 which is \u2062problematic. I\u2019d like to know what\u2019s going on at the DOJ.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The\u200b attorney delved into \u2064his frustrations during pretrial hearings at the U.S. District Court for \u2064the Southern District of New\u2064 York. He\u200d later took to The\u2063 Weekend show to share his thoughts and express skepticism towards the \u200dDepartment of Justice&#8217;s handling\u2064 of the case.<\/p>\n<h3>Challenging the Lack of Information: Cohen&#8217;s Quest \u2063for Transparency<\/h3>\n<p>Cohen\u200c disclosed that he \u200dhad initiated a \u2062Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to obtain crucial documents related to the\u200b case, shedding light on the alleged \u200dhush money payments Trump made to several women in 2018. However, the response to his FOIA request\u2063 remained silent for three years, only to be followed by\u200b a sudden surge of documents when Trump&#8217;s current legal team made a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-child-soldiers-of-the-culture-war\/\" title=\"The Child Soldiers of the Culture War\">similar request<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThose documents belong to the \u2063people, and they should have been released under FOIA because I\u2019ll tell you what those documents are\u200b going to show,\u201d<\/strong> Cohen \u2064emphasized. He further added, <strong>\u201cIt\u2019s \u200cgoing to show that Donald Trump, through a willing and\u200c complicit bloviated Attorney General,\u2063 went ahead, weaponized the United States \u2062Department of\u200d Justice and unconstitutionally remanded a United States\u2062 citizen.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s lawyers initially sought a 90-day extension to \u2063sift through the massive influx of documents provided by federal prosecutors, but ultimately agreed to a 30-day postponement\u2062 with \u2062Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.<\/p>\n<h3>Legal Battles Unfold: Delays and Witness Lists<\/h3>\n<p>The anticipated jury selection, originally set for Monday, will see a rescheduled date following an upcoming hearing. Among the prominent figures on Bragg&#8217;s list of witnesses, Michael Cohen stands alongside adult film actress Stormy Daniels, who confirmed receiving hush money from the former president.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney Michael Cohen expressed concerns over transparency in ex-President Donald Trump&#8217;s hush money case in New York. Cohen attended pretrial hearings at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and shared insights on The Weekend show about the case<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2631,"featured_media":2204934,"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\/03\/AP24080669331873-1024x683.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2204933","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\/03\/AP24080669331873-1024x683.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204933","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\/2631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2204933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2204934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2204933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2204933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2204933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}