Michael Cohen’s closed-door testimony before the House Intelligence Committee is being delayed until the end of February, the panel announced Wednesday.
“In the interests of the investigation, Michael Cohen’s testimony has been postponed until February 28th,” Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said in a statement.
Cohen had been scheduled to testify privately to the committee Friday as part of its investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
The delay is the second instance in which a date for Cohen to testify before Congress has been scrapped.
President Trump’s former fixer was scheduled to testify voluntarily before the House Oversight Committee on Thursday, but he postponed it last month citing “ongoing threats” by Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani. That testimony has yet to be rescheduled.
In either case, Cohen would be cutting it close. He is scheduled to report to federal prison on March 6 after pleading guilty to a handful of crimes, including bank fraud, illegal campaign contributions, and lying to Congress.
Cohen is expected to testify to at least one other committee before he reports to prison for his three-year prison sentence. He was subpoenaed in late January to testify behind closed doors before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Feb. 12.
