Michael Cohen’s lawyer, Guy Petrillo, said Cohen has been treated unlike other defendants by prosecutors, noting that “Mr. Cohen had the misfortune to have been counsel to the President.”
From CNN’s Erica Orden
Michael Cohen’s lawyer, Guy Petrillo, said Cohen has been treated unlike other defendants by prosecutors, noting that “Mr. Cohen had the misfortune to have been counsel to the President.”
Cohen long served as the President’s personal attorney and Trump’s “fixer.” Cohen even once boasted he would “take a bullet” to protect his longtime boss.
Petrillo, in court today, said Cohen wants to cooperate but that “he’s wary of a long term cooperation agreement.”
“He wants both to remove himself and remove his family from the glare of the cameras,” he said.
From CNN’s Erica Orden
Michael Cohen’s lawyer Guy Petrillo, addressing the court, said that his client “came forward to offer evidence against the most powerful person in our country,” alluding to Cohen’s testimony about President Trump.
Cohen, Petrillo said, couldn’t “anticipate the full measure of attack that would be made against him” by both the President and “partisans and citizens who happen to be aligned with the President.”
Petrillo said special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election “is of utmost national significance, no less than seen 40 years ago in Watergate.”
Petrillo also noted Cohen’s actions “stand in profound contrast to the decision of some others not to cooperate and allegedly to double deal while pretending to cooperate.
