House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said Monday he will not be helping President Trump’s former attorney and fixer Michael Cohen get a delay on his upcoming prison sentence.
“I don’t get involved in sentencing matters as a practice. I never have in Congress and that’s been my policy,” Schiff told CNN Monday.
Cohen, who is scheduled to start his three-year prison sentence in early May, sent a letter last week through his attorneys to multiple Democratic members of Congress which said he had come across new documents that could be of interest to their inquiries into Trump. The letter said Cohen found a hard drive containing millions of files.
“To date, Mr. Cohen has located several documents that we believe have significant value to the various congressional oversight and investigation committees,” the letter reads.
Although he said he would not interfere in the sentencing, Schiff noted he was still interested in seeing any potential material from Cohen that could assist with the intelligence panel’s investigation.
“We continue to encourage Mr. Cohen to provide us any materials that he has that are relevant to our investigation,” Schiff said. “We will continue to do so and hope that he has additional information to offer.”
Cohen pleaded guilty last year to lying to Congress, tax evasion, fraud, and campaign finance violations. In February he testified before Congress, saying Trump was a racist, a conman, and a cheat and that he lied on behalf of the president.
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