While testifying Monday at former President Donald Trump’s criminal hush-money trial in New York City, prosecution witness Michael Cohen admitted he stole from the Trump Organization in 2017.
Cohen, who had worked as Trump’s lawyer and fixer, replied in the affirmative when defense attorney Todd Blanche pressed him on an IT firm he hired to rig polls, according to The New York Times.
Reporter Maggie Haberman noted in a blog that RedFinch was owed $50,000, but Cohen paid the firm only $20,000 even though he had asked for a $50,000 reimbursement from the Trump Organization.
One of Haberman’s colleagues who joined her in the courtroom said Blanche led a line of questioning that “makes Cohen sound extra shady,” pressing about him having “like, a duffle bag of cash?”
Asked if he stole from the Trump Organization after being repaid more than he was owed — $100,000 with the…
