President Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen is open to sharing information on Trump with investigators, despite previously claiming he would “take a bullet” for the president, a new report says.
“He knows a lot of things about the President and he’s not averse to talking in the right situation,” a friend of Cohen said, per CNN. “If they want information on Trump, he’s willing to give it.”
Meanwhile, Cohen has felt distant from the president recently.
“He feels let down by him and isolated by him,” a different friend told CNN.
The report comes after Cohen’s home and office were raided by the FBI in April, where agents seized computers, phones, and other materials of Cohen’s. The raid has taken a toll on him and his family, CNN reports.
Cohen is under investigation to determine if he violated tax or campaign finance laws, but has not been charged with a crime yet.
In the event that Cohen is indicted, defense lawyers do not expect he will be charged with wrongdoing until a probe of how the documents were obtained in the raid is conducted, according to CNN.
It’s uncertain if Cohen intends to comply with federal investigators, a choice that will be determined based on what is contained in a potential indictment. For example, a friend of Cohen told CNN that Cohen may plead guilty if an indictment is not as severe as anticipated.
Earlier Tuesday, it was reported that Cohen had hired Guy Petrillo to represent him ahead of federal court proceedings in New York. Petrillo previously led the criminal division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of New York, the same office that is probing Cohen’s business dealings.
