Michael Cohen, former President Donald Trump’s former attorney turned critic, admitted in court on Friday to inadvertently relying on fake legal citations generated by Google’s artificial intelligence chatbot service.
Mr. Cohen had served time in prison after pleading guilty in 2018 to federal charges of tax evasion, making false financial statements, and making improper campaign contributions. He pled guilty later that same year to perjury in Congressional testimony. He claimed he made the improper campaign contributions and false statements before Congress to help conceal an alleged affair between President Trump and an adult film star and to conceal efforts the Trump organization had made to develop property in Moscow, Russia, a project that hasn’t come to fruition.
