The former president alleges that Cohen broke their attorney-client relationship and breached a confidentiality agreement.
Former president Donald Trump is suing his former attorney Michael Cohen for $500 million over allegations that Cohen violated their attorney-client relationship and breached a confidentiality agreement.
According to a 32-page lawsuit filed by Trump’s lawyers on Wednesday, Trump accuses Cohen of revealing “confidences” in an “embarrassing or detrimental way.” Cohen, the suit alleges, also breached a confidentiality agreement and spread “falsehoods” about Trump “with malicious intent and to wholly self-serving ends.”
The lawsuit comes after Trump pleaded not guilty in a Manhattan court on April 4 to 34 felony charges that he falsified business records to conceal $130,000 in reimbursement payments to Cohen, who paid adult-film actress Stormy Daniels in 2016 trying to keep her from publicly claiming she had an affair with Trump.
