Michael Cohen revealed Wednesday during public testimony that he has spoken to special counsel Robert Mueller’s team seven times.
The admission was made as President Trump’s former lawyer appeared before the House Oversight Committee.
Cohen also claimed in his opening testimony that Trump “knew that Roger Stone was talking with Julian Assange about a WikiLeaks drop of Democratic National Committee emails.” Assange is the founder of WikiLeaks.
Mueller’s team is investigation Russian interference in the 2016 election and potential collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.
Cohen, Trump’s former “fixer,” was sentenced to two months in federal prison in December after he pleaded guilty to “knowingly and willfully” making “a materially false, fictitious and fraudulent statement and representation” to the House and Senate Intelligence Committees in 2017 about Trump Organization negotiations to build a Trump Tower in Moscow before the 2016 election.
Those two months, handed down through a case brought by special counsel Robert Mueller, will be served concurrently with the three years he received as part of the campaign finance violations and tax and bank fraud case he faced last year in New York.
In his opening testimony, Cohen apologized to lawmakers for lying to Congress.
