Trump lawyer: I'll invoke my Fifth Amendment right on Stormy Daniels
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New York: Michael Cohen, the long-time attorney of US President Donald Trump, told a federal judge on Wednesday that he will invoke his Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate himself in a lawsuit brought by adult entertainer Stormy Daniels.
Cohen’s declaration, in support of his request to pause proceedings in the civil case, cited an “ongoing criminal investigation by the FBI and US Attorney for the Southern District of New York.”
Earlier this month, the FBI raided Cohen’s home, office and a hotel room where he had been staying. That investigation includes looking into the effort to quash embarrassing stories about Trump during the 2016 campaign, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s personal attorney .
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Daniels, who alleges she had an affair with Trump years ago, is seeking to void a confidentiality agreement she signed just days before the 2016 presidential election in exchange for $US130,000 ($167,000) Cohen has said he facilitated the payment using his own money from a home-equity line of credit.
The suit, filed last month, named the President and Essential Consultants, a company Cohen created as a vehicle for the payment, as defendants. Daniels later added Cohen as a defendant.
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