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Michael Cohen, ex-lawyer for former President Donald Trump, is expected to attest connected Monday, Fox News has learned.
Cohen is expected to beryllium the prima witnesser for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and his squad for his relation successful arranging a $130,000 outgo successful 2016 to big histrion Stormy Daniels to reportedly support her communicative that she had a intersexual brushwood with Trump successful the aboriginal 2000s.
Trump, later, made respective payments of $35,000 to Cohen, who was his idiosyncratic lawyer astatine the time. Trump has denied the brushwood happened.
Those payments served arsenic the ground for Bragg's indictment of Trump connected charges of falsifying concern records. Bragg is trying to beryllium those payments were reimbursements for the outgo to Daniels.
Michael Cohen, erstwhile idiosyncratic lawyer to US President Donald Trump, right, extracurricular national tribunal successful New York. (Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
But Trump defence attorneys accidental that the $35,000 payments were "not a payback," but instead, ineligible payments.
Trump has pleaded not blameworthy to 34 counts of falsifying concern records successful the archetypal degree.
Michael Cohen is expected to attest Monday successful the transgression proceedings of N.Y. v. Trump. (Getty Images)
Cohen pleaded blameworthy successful 2018 to run concern violations, making mendacious statements to Congress and taxation evasion. He was sentenced to 3 years successful prison.
The erstwhile president has antecedently called Cohen a "proven liar."
HOPE HICKS: COHEN CALLED HIMSELF ‘MR. FIX IT’ ONLY BECAUSE HE 'BROKE IT'
Trump speaks to the media arsenic helium leaves tribunal during his proceedings astatine Manhattan Criminal Court connected April 22, 2024 successful New York City. (Brendan McDermid-Pool/Getty Images)
Earlier this week, property caput for the 2016 Trump run and White House communications director, Hope Hicks, testified that Cohen would telephone himself "Mr. Fix It," but lone due to the fact that "he archetypal broke it."
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She testified that helium would often frustrate run unit and bash things that were not helpful.
The unprecedented way of the erstwhile president and presumptive GOP nominee for the 2024 predetermination resumed Friday for time 15 of witnesser testimony.
Fox News Digital's Chris Pandolfo contributed to this report.
Brianna Herlihy is simply a authorities writer for Fox News Digital.
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