{"id":2245080,"date":"2024-05-15T12:31:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T16:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michael-cohens-ex-lawyer-accuses-him-of-lying-during-trump-trial-testimony\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T12:33:01","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T16:33:01","slug":"michael-cohens-ex-lawyer-accuses-him-of-lying-during-trump-trial-testimony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michael-cohens-ex-lawyer-accuses-him-of-lying-during-trump-trial-testimony\/","title":{"rendered":"Former lawyer of Michael Cohen alleges that he lied during Trump trial testimony"},"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\">26<\/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-cohens-ex-lawyer-accuses-him-of-lying-during-trump-trial-testimony%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=2245080&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--><p>Bob Costello, a\u2062 former \u200clawyer of\u2063 Michael Cohen, accused \u200bhim of perjury\u2062 during his testimony in Donald Trump&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trumps-criminal-hush-money-trial-set-for-march-25\/\" title=\"Trump's hush money trial scheduled for March 25\">hush money trial<\/a>. Costello, a seasoned defense attorney, \u200dtestified \u200cin Congress that Cohen lied about\u2063 being pressured to keep quiet about Trump in 2018. He \u2063stated\u200b that Cohen&#8217;s\u2063 statements in \u200cthe trial were false. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jean-pierre-insists-white-house-not-involved-with-twitter-censorship-psaki-said-the-opposite-last-year\/\" title=\"Jean-Pierre Insists White House \u2018Not Involved\u2019 With Twitter Censorship. Psaki Said The Opposite Last Year.\">summary provided<\/a> is concise\u2062 and accurately captures the key points of the\u2063 original\u200c text.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_78\">\n<p>A lawyer who once worked for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/michael-cohen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Michael Cohen\">Michael Cohen<\/a> accused him on Wednesday of perjuring himself during his testimony this week in former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s hush money trial.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Costello, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alan-dershowitz-new-york-ag-should-be-removed-from-trump-family-investigation\/\" title=\"Alan Dershowitz: New York AG Should Be Removed From Trump Family Investigation\">longtime criminal defense attorney<\/a>, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/congress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Congress\">Congress<\/a> that when Cohen took the stand on Tuesday and accused Costello of pressuring him to stay quiet about Trump in 2018, he was lying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI read Michael Cohen\u2019s testimony from yesterday\u2019s trial in New York on the way down on the train, and virtually every statement he made about me is another lie,\u201d Costello said.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div>\n<blockquote data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>A lawyer who once worked for Michael Cohen accused him on Wednesday of perjuring himself while testifying this week during former President Donald Trump\u2019s hush money trial.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Costello, a longtime criminal defense attorney, said that when Cohen took the stand and accused\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/808EGxYNBR\">pic.twitter.com\/808EGxYNBR<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dcexaminer\/status\/1790766177947357278?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 15, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Costello\u2019s remarks came during a House Weaponization of the Federal Government Subcommittee hearing, during which he described his experience representing Cohen for a couple months beginning in April 2018 while the Department of Justice was investigating Cohen.<\/p>\n<p>A few months later, in August 2018, Cohen would plead guilty to several crimes, including tax evasion, lying to a bank, and campaign finance violations.<\/p>\n<p>Costello said Cohen appeared desperate to find a way to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-l-a-d-a-s-husband-who-pulled-a-gun-on-a-blm-leader-requests-diversion-to-avoid-jail\/\" title=\"Former L.A. D.A.\u2019s Husband Who Pulled A Gun On A BLM Leader Requests Diversion To Avoid Jail\">avoid jail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will do whatever the F I have to do. I will never spend one day in jail,\u201d Costello recalled Cohen saying repeatedly during their first meeting at the Loews Regency Hotel in Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>Costello said Cohen was frantically seeking an \u201cescape route\u201d and had even admitted to contemplating jumping off the roof of the hotel two nights prior.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Costello said that he advised Cohen to bring any damning information he had about Trump forward to the U.S. attorney\u2019s office in New York, and that this could help Cohen stay out of jail. However, Cohen replied that he had no evidence against Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI swear to God, Bob, I don\u2019t have anything on Donald Trump. \u2026 I don\u2019t have anything on Donald Trump,\u201d Costello recalled Cohen saying.<\/p>\n<p><em>This story is developing.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Costello, a former lawyer for Michael Cohen, claimed on Wednesday that Cohen committed perjury in his recent testimony in ex-President Trump&#8217;s hush money trial. Costello, an experienced defense attorney, testified that Cohen falsely accused him of coercion to remain silent about the matter during his appearance on Tuesday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":2245081,"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\/05\/AP24135432862924.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2245080","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\/05\/AP24135432862924.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245080","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\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2245080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2245081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2245080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2245080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2245080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}