PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s long-time lawyer is expected to make a full u-turn by striking a deal with prosecutors who are probing him for wire and bank fraud.
Michael Cohen – described as Trump’s fixer – is facing potential criminal charges in New York, while special counsel Robert Mueller also continues his Russia probe.
Cohen is now understood to have ditched his lawyers and is searching for new representation, as he prepares to ‘flip’, according to sources in the US.
Should he agree to cooperate with investigators, it is widely believed they will use the opportunity to put him under pressure to divulge information on the US President.
Lawyers have been poring over 3.7 million documents seized in an April FBI raid of Cohen’s home and office.
He has also reportedly been telling friends he expects to be arrested “imminently”.
In earlier tweets, President Trump branded the probe against Cohen a “witch hunt” and acknowledged the pressure he was under.
Cohen was the man who negotiated a nondisclosure agreement with porn star Stormy Daniels – the woman who claims she had an affair with Trump in 2006.
The lawyer signed the deal, although Trump - who was identified by a pseudonym - did not.
He later reimbursed Cohen for up to £185,000, according to a financial disclosure form.
Trump tweeted in May: “Mr Cohen, an attorney, received a monthly retainer, not from the campaign and having nothing to do with the campaign, from which he entered into, through reimbursement, a private contract between two parties, known as a non-disclosure agreement, or NDA.
“These agreements are…very common among celebrities and people of wealth.”
Cohen has been working for Trump since 2011 in an assortment of roles, earning him the nickname “bulldog”.
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