Trump Sues Key Witness In Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s Case $500m
LAGOS APRIL 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President Donald Trump has sued Michael Cohen, his former attorney and “fixer” who has emerged as a key witness in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s criminal case against Trump, for $500 million — alleging that Cohen “spread falsehoods” about him and violated a confidentiality agreement.
The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in federal court for the Southern District of Florida, claims that Cohen breached his attorney-client privilege by revealing Trump’s “confidences, and spreading falsehoods … likely to be embarrassing or detrimental, and partook in other misconduct” in violation of the New York Rules of Professional Conduct.
The court document says Cohen also breached a confidentiality agreement he signed as a condition of employment by “spreading falsehoods” about the 76-year-old Trump “with malicious intent and to wholly self-serving ends.”
Trump’s legal team write in the suit that Cohen “misrepresented a business expenditure, and stated that he was owed an extra $74,000 over the true amount of the expenditure.”
The suit also alleges that Cohen committed the violations through public statements, books, a podcast series and “innumerable mainstream media appearances.”
Donald Trump sued his former attorney and “fixer” Michael Cohen on Wednesday for $500 million in federal court in Florida. AP
As a result, Trump claims, he has “suffered vast reputational harm as a direct result.”
The former president is seeking “compensatory, incidental, and punitive damages” in an amount to be determined at trial “but expected to substantially exceed” $500 million, the complaint said.
Trump also wants as restitution any “profits, payments, compensations, advances, royalties” or other proceeds Cohen receives from the publication of his books or his podcast.
=Former President Donald Trump is alleging his former attorney Michael Cohen spread “falsehoods” about him. REUTERS Michael Cohen is serving as the key witness in Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s case against Trump. UPI
He also wants the $74,000 returned, plus interest.
Cohen testified a number of times before the Manhattan grand jury investigating a $130,000 hush-money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election. The panel returned a 34-count indictment against Trump for falsifying business records.
Cohen made the payment to Daniels to ensure her silence about a sexual affair she alleged she had with the real estate mogul a decade earlier.
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In 2018, Cohen pleaded guilty to violating federal election law with the Daniels payment and was sentenced to three years in federal prison.
Trump has denied having an affair with Daniels or having any involvement in the payment. He pleaded not guilty at his arraignment in Manhattan criminal court April 4 to the charges in the indictment.
New York Post
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