Michael Cohen’s onetime legal adviser is expected to testify before grand jury examining if Trump broke laws when indirectly paying off Stormy Daniels.
for the payment to Daniels, which Trump said was made “to stop the false and extortionist accusations made by her.”
Cohen waived attorney-client privilege in 2019, Costello said, freeing him to tell investigators about their conversations. He declined to detail those conversations when reached by phone on Sunday. The Manhattan district attorney’s office, which has met with Cohen more than 20 times since a probe began under Bragg’s predecessor Cyrus R. Vance Jr. first spoke to Costello on Friday, the person with knowledge of the situation said. A spokesperson for Bragg declined to comment. Lanny J. Davis, an attorney for Cohen, declined to comment.Cohen has said publicly he paid Daniels $130,000 with the expectation that Trump would pay him back.
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