by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE, Dec 29 – A month after Michael Cohen testified in the NY Attorney General's lawsuit against the Trump Organization, Cohen on November 29 asked to have his federal supervised released terminated early - calling his state testimony "well received."
This is in a filing with U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge Jesse M. Furman, now on Patreon here.
On December 4, the US Attorney's Office opposed Cohen's request, quoting his state court testimony that he lied to SDNY Judge Pauley. Response letter on Patreon here.
Inner City Press was in NYS Judge Engoran's courtroom when Michael Cohen admitted to having lied to SDNY Judge William Pauley. (The transcript Cohen annexes misspells it "Pauly.')
LATE of December 8 Cohen new counsel replied, that he was a predicate for the NY AG case against Trump. Full letter on Patreon here
Judge Furman noted a footnote therein, that cases in the first submission could not be verified. Inner City Press tweeted out the Order here.
On December 18 - the day after Inner City Press noted that Cohen's lawyer worked at Gotham Government Relations along with the Obama administration official charged with hate crimes for harassing a halal food truck vendor - Judge Furman issued an order from which it appears there have been seal filings: "ORDER as to Michael Cohen... In light of the upcoming holidays, Defendant shall file any response by December 28, 2023."
But December 28 came and went and nothing in the docket - not Schwartz' pre-December 19 submission, nor anything from Cohen. Inner City Press after 7 pm filed with Judge Furman to unseal all of it, letter on DocumentCloud here.
On December 29 Judge Furman, to his credit docketing the unsealing request, noted that the filings would be unsealed with some redactions. Cohen's second counsel says Cohen gave the fake cases to Schwartz, and that the citations "were produced by Google Bard, which Mr. Cohen misunderstood to be a super-charged search engine, not a generative AI service like Chat-GPT." Oops. We'll have more on this.
Watch this site.
More on Patreon here.
The case is US v. Cohen, 18-cr-602 (Furman)
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