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DetlefK

(16,670 posts)
Wed Mar 6, 2019, 03:30 PM Mar 2019

WH lawyers could be on the hook for Michael Cohen's perjury. [View all]

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/03/white-house-lawyers-could-be-in-quite-serious-trouble-after-cohen-delivers-testimony-edits-to-congress-ex-federal-prosecutor/

“”Michael Cohen is getting ready to testify on the Hill. His attorney writes a statement, I’m told, and Michael then edits it, and then it’s circulated among the other attorneys because they all had a joint defense agreement,” Borger said, outlining the context. “It was Ivanka and Jared’s attorneys, and the president’s attorneys, etcetera and everybody makes their little red pencil inputs on it, and that is the testimony Michael gives.”

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“If the lawyers in changing his testimony actually changed the facts, that’s quite serious for the lawyers. It’s unlikely given the caliber of these lawyers, but that is a question I would want to know with respect to that.”
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