Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team continued to ask witnesses about the involvement of President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen in the presidential campaign weeks after federal investigators raided the lawyer’s office and hotel room, CNBC reported on Tuesday.
The investigators also wanted to know why Cohen didn’t get a job at the White House and if the attorney carried out personal business while working as an employee of the Trump Organization.
The latest details emerged a week after Cohen pleaded guilty to eight federal counts, including campaign finance charges. Cohen implicated Trump by saying he ordered Cohen to move ahead with arranging payments during the campaign to two women to keep silent about affairs with Trump in order to influence the election.
Following the raid on Cohen’s office in April, the special counsel continued asking witnesses about the attorney into at least May, according to sources.
In June, Ukrainian politician Andrii Artemenko, who testified before a grand jury in the Mueller probe, told ABC News he believed “that Michael Cohen is the target of this investigation.”
Both a spokesman for the special counsel’s office and Cohen’s attorney Lanny Davis declined to comment about the CNBC report.
Legal experts said the fact that Mueller was still asking potential witnesses about Cohen indicates he could still have a key role in the ongoing federal probe into whether anyone on the Trump campaign coordinated with Russia to influence the election.
“It is too easy to poke holes in an unreliable corroborating witness who is cooperating to get as low a sentence as possible,” said Nick Gravante, a white-collar defense attorney in New York. “That means as a prosecutor you have to get others to corroborate Cohen’s story in order to combat any doubt being thrown toward the prosecution by defense attorneys.”
According to other former Trump employees, investigators could be exploiting Cohen’s close association with the president as a possible way to obtain pivotal information, especially connected to the Trump Organization and any possible deals it made with foreign banks, particularly Russian ones.
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