Michael Cohen — President Donald Trump’s former longtime attorney, “fix-it man,” and associate — has been sentenced to three years in prison for financial crimes (such as tax evasion and bank fraud), campaign finance violations (involving hush money payments made on Trump’s behalf), and lying to Congress (about the Trump Tower Moscow project).
He’s set to begin his prison sentence for those crimes on May 6, 2018 — but before then, he’s promised to recount his dealings with Trump in a House Oversight Committee hearing. Cohen will be questioned about Trump’s business practices and hush money payments to women who alleged affairs with Trump during the 2016 campaign.
Cohen spent about a decade as Trump’s lawyer and as a Trump Organization executive.