NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MARCH 13: Former Donald Trump lawyer and loyalist Michael Cohen walks out of a Manhattan courthouse after testifying before a grand jury on March 13, 2023 in New York City. The grand jury is investigating payments Cohen arranged and made on behalf of the former president. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Michael Cohen’s lawyers called on Donald Trump to sit for a deposition that will take place on September 6 in Miami.
The notice came after Trump sued Cohen, his former lawyer, for $500 million in April. Trump claimed that Cohen spread lies and violated attorney-client privilege by cooperating with prosecutors in their investigation into hush-money payments that the former president made before the 2016 election.
In his complaint, Trump’s lawyer stated that his client had “Suffered vast reputational harm as a direct result of [Cohen’s] breaches,” and alleged that Cohen had taken part in the fraud.
Just last week, Cohen settled a lawsuit with the Trump Organization that he had filed in 2019. The lawyer was seeking $1.3 million in legal fees and accused the company of neglecting a contractual deal to “indemnify Mr. Cohen and to pay attorneys’ fees and costs incurred by Mr. Cohen.”
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