Michael Cohen’s Former Legal Adviser Disputes His Trump Trial Allegations

Robert Costello tells a congressional panel that the former president had nothing to do with Mr. Cohen’s plan to pay ‘hush money’ to Stormy Daniels.

Former President Donald Trump (L) at his Manhattan Criminal Court trial in New York on May 14, 2024. Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen departs from his home to attend his second day of testimony at Manhattan Criminal Court on May 14, 2024. Michael M. Santiago/Pool/AFP via Getty Images; David Dee Delgado/Getty Images

A former lawyer who once advised Michael Cohen testified in Congress on May 15 that some of Mr. Cohen’s testimony could be false in the ongoing Trump trial in New York.

Robert Costello, a former prosecutor who had worked for Mr. Cohen and former President Donald Trump, told a House Republican-led panel that the former president had nothing to do with Mr. Cohen’s plans to pay Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about allegations of a 2006 affair that the former president has denied.