CONGRESS/DEMS/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Democratic lawmakers will question U.S. President Donald Trump’s former aide Michael Cohen at a public hearing on Wednesday [2-27-19] over whether Trump’s lawyers misled ethics officials about illegal hush payments to women during the 2016 presidential campaign, according to a memo seen by Reuters. Cohen will be asked in the House of Representatives Oversight Committee about his decade of work as Trump’s personal lawyer and self-described ‘fixer’ before he pleaded guilty to crimes last year and turned on his former boss. A Democratic staff memo outlining plans for the hearing said Trump’s lawyers ‘appeared to provide false information’ to federal ethics officials about whether Trump reimbursed Cohen for hush payments made to a former adult film star known as Stormy Daniels, who said she had sex with Trump in 2006.”
–Mark Hosenball, Nathan Layne, “Democrats on oversight panel to quiz ex-Trump lawyer Cohen on hush money payments: memo,” Reuters, February 26, 2019 3:33 pm