Michael Cohen is expected to meet Manhattan prosecutors for the NINTH time in their probe into Trump and his business - adding to the 300 hours he has already spent cooperating
- Michael Cohen will meet with prosecutors for the ninth time this week in his continued cooperation with their investigation into the Trump Organization
- Adds to 300 hours he has already spent speaking with Manhattan prosecutors
- In a previous meeting Cohen identified longtime Trump CFO Allen Weisselberg as being involved in providing hush payments to Stormy Daniels
- Jennifer Weisselberg, who was married to Allen's son Barry from 2004-2018, has handed over three boxes of documents and a laptop
- She said her former father-in-law will turn on Trump to protect his own family
Michael Cohen will meet for the ninth time with Manhattan prosecutors this week, it was revealed Monday, in their continued criminal investigation into Donald Trump and his namesake business.
The meeting will add to the more than 300 hours Trump's former fix-it man has already spent coordinating with various inquiries, a source familiar with the investigation told New York Daily News.
As Cohen meets with Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.'s team he is still arguing the court should let up on his house arrest sentence due to his continued cooperation against his former boss and participation in several rehabilitation programs.
Vance's team probing Trump Organization is led by white-collar prosecutor Mark Pomerantz.
Cohen was convicted in 2018 of campaign finance violations while working as Trump's personal attorney – he was sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to nine charges.
Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen (pictured left on May 21) will meet with prosecutors for the ninth time this week in his continued cooperation with their investigation into the Trump Organization. In a previous meeting he identified Allen Weisselberg as being involved in the scheme to provide hush payments to former porn star Stormy Daniels
Less than a year after his sentencing, Cohen was released from Otisville Correctional Facility in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic on compassionate grounds. He has been confined to his Trump Park Avenue apartment in Lenox Hill ever since July 2020.
Cohen filed a letter Monday pleading with a Manhattan Federal Court judge to end his home confinement.
'The impetus for said request stems from the well-known fact that The Bureau of Prisons conspicuously slow walks these petitions to moot the determination,' he wrote in the letter representing himself.
Cohen told the Daily News: 'I am not asking for any special favors from the Department of Justice or the Bureau of Prisons. I am seeking judicial intervention to force the Bureau of Prisons to provide me what I am entitled to under the First Step Act.'
Also related to the Trump Organization probe, prosecutors on Thursday took multiple boxes of information from the home of the former daughter-in-law of top Trump Organization executive Allen Weisselberg – in the latest sign they are focusing the company's chief financial officer.
Manhattan prosecutors issued a subpoena for the bank records for Allen Weisselberg as they shift their attention to the longtime Trump Organization CFO
Jennifer Weisselberg, who used to be married to the executives son Barry, also a Trump Organization employee, delivered the materials outside of her New York apartment.
She said earlier this month her former husband's father will 'turn on' Donald Trump and revealed she has already given documents to prosecutors investigating the former president.
She claims she has seven boxes of records – although a copy of the subpoena and images obtained by the Washington Post showed she furnished three of them, plus a laptop computer.
She wheeled the materials out of her apartment building to a black Jeep.
Jennifer was married to Barry Weisselberg from 2004 to 2018 and the couple went through a divorce, and says she was able to obtain financial information through litigation.
The document handoff is the latest sign that investigators are focusing on Weisselberg, whose tenure at the Trump Organization goes back to his time working for Trump's father, as part of Manhattan D.A. Cy Vance's probe into Trump's finances.
The documents were obtained under a grand jury subpoena that specifically seeks documents related to the Trump-operated Wollman Rink in Central Park, which Barry Weisselberg managed.
Once a talking point for Trump on the campaign trail as a turnaround story, the rink became a flashpoint after the January 6th Capitol riot when Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the city was pulling out of contracts with the Trump Organization. The rink was operated on a cash-only basis.
Weisselberg ran the Trump Organization along with Trump's adult sons Don Jr. and Eric during Trump's time in the White House.
A source told the Post last month prosecutors are seeking to 'flip' Weisselberg in order to obtain his cooperation in their probe of Trump.
Jennifer Weisselberg, who was married to the longtime CFO's son Barry from 2004 to 2018, told CNN that Allen will turn on Trump to protect his own kids from liability
NY prosecutors in have already obtained eight years' worth of Trump's tax return information. Allen Weisselberg pictured second from right behind Trump and Donald Trump Jr.
Jennifer Weisselberg told CNN she thinks her father-in-law would flip.
'I think that he'll turn on him,' she said. 'I think that his sons have too much liability,' she said.
She also said investigators were seeking information about a Trump-owned apartment she lived in for years presented as a 'gift' where the couple lived for years and didn't pay rent.
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She told CBS news last month that she had been interviewed by prosecutors from Vance's office and the state attorney general's office, and told CBS they sought information on the arrangement.
Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen identified Allen Weisselberg as being involved in the scheme to provide hush payments to former porn star Stormy Daniels, who claims she had an affair with Trump.
Trump has denied wrongdoing, and charges have not alleged any wrongdoing by the Weisselbergs in the probe of Trump's finances.
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