Michael Cohen gave the House Intelligence Committee documents on Wednesday that amended the false written statement he delivered to Congress in 2017.
President Trump’s former personal attorney, who is meeting privately with the intelligence panel for a second time in a week Wednesday, sought to further explain his public testimony before the House Oversight Committee last week, CNN reported.
Cohen admitted to lying to Congress and committing campaign finance law violations.
During the testimony, Cohen said that Trump’s personal lawyer Jay Sekulow made changes to his statement to the House and Senate Intelligence Committees in 2017. He also said the changes were received by a lawyer to Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, who are both White House advisers.
“There were changes made, additions — Jay Sekulow, for one,” Cohen said during the hearing last week. “There were several changes that were made including how we were going to handle that message, which was — the message of course being — the length of time that the Trump Tower Moscow project stayed and remained alive.”
Among those statements that Cohen sought to clarify include what he testified to lawmakers about the Trump Organization’s pursuit of a Trump Tower Moscow project during the 2016 campaign.
It’s unclear, however, specifically what was changed in the prepared statement.
