Källor: Trumps ex-advokat har frågats ut i timmar
Donald Trumps tidigare advokat Michael Cohen har den senaste månaden frågats ut i flera timslånga intervjusessioner av specialåklagare Robert Mueller, enligt källor till ABC News.
Muellers utfrågning gäller eventuella kopplingar mellan Ryssland och Trumps presidentvalskampanj 2016. Cohen ska också ha fått frågor om företagsaffärer och finansiella kopplingar mellan Ryssland och Trump.
Enligt källor ska Cohens frivilligt ha deltagit i förhören utan medgivande om lättnader från åklagare.
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Michael Cohen
Wikipedia (en)
Michael Dean Cohen (born August 25, 1966) is an American attorney who worked as a lawyer for Donald Trump until his termination of employment in May 2018.
Cohen served as a vice-president of the Trump Organization and special counsel to Donald Trump, and previously served as co-president of Trump Entertainment and was a board member of the Eric Trump Foundation, a children's health charity. He joined the Trump Organization after having been a partner at Phillips Nizer. His present status in those organisations is unclear.
As of April 2018, he has been under investigation by federal prosecutors on multiple matters, including bank fraud, wire fraud and campaign finance violations, arising in part from payments made by him in the Stormy Daniels–Donald Trump scandal.Cohen is licensed to practice law in the state of New York.
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