Michael Cohen says he is very confident that New York Attorney General Letitia James will file a civil lawsuit against former President Donald Trump.
The former personal lawyer to Trump argued to CNN on Wednesday that James has the goods after the prosecutor told a court that her investigators uncovered evidence that Trump’s company, the Trump Organization, misled banks and tax officials.
When asked on a scale of 1-10 how certain he is that James would sue Trump, Cohen said he believes the answer is “about as close to a 10 as you can get.”
“I don’t want to see Donald Trump go to prison, or Don Jr. or Eric or Ivanka or Jared or any of them, simply because I politically disagree with virtually everything that they stand for,” Cohen said. “I want them to go to prison for the crimes that they committed, and in this specific case, Attorney General Tish James has all the evidence.”
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Cohen said he provided documentary evidence to the attorney general’s office and the Manhattan district attorney’s office, adding that he is “not the only one.”
When asked if he could share what type of documents he provided, Cohen said he would rather not say due to a promise he made to the district attorney’s and the attorney general’s office to “not disclose documents or things that have not been previously disclosed to the public.” He did say he has seen the boxes in the possession of prosecutors and guessed there are more than 10 million documents.
James told a court late Tuesday that investigators had uncovered evidence of Trump’s company using “fraudulent or misleading” asset valuations to get loans and tax benefits. She subpoenaed Trump and his two adult children, Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr., on Dec. 30, 2021, for testimony, with a civil investigation into the family’s business practices, and was responded to in a motion by Trump and his two children to quash the demand for interviews.
In a statement released Wednesday, the Trump Organization accused James of “misleading the public” with her inquiry into the former president’s business empire.
Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison in December 2018 for a variety of crimes including campaign finance violations and lying to Congress about Trump’s business dealings with Russia. Cohen, whose sentence was reduced through good behavior, spent over a year in prison and 18 months under house arrest. He was released in November 2021 after serving two and a half years.
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Trump’s onetime lawyer filed a lawsuit against the former president and other administration officials on Dec. 16, 2021, for allegedly making a gag order conditional to serving his prison sentence under house arrest. He is seeking $20 million in damages and a jury trial for retaliation by false imprisonment to prevent him from publishing a book on his time with the former president.
Trump attempted to stymie James’s investigation and prevent her from cooperating with a separate criminal investigation by the Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus Vance Jr., with a lawsuit filed in December. The lawsuit claimed James’s effort was “guided solely by political animus and a desire to harass, intimidate, and retaliate against a private citizen who she views as a political opponent.”
