May 21, 2024, 9:56 a.m. ET


Jonah BromwichReporting from inside the courthouse

It’s hard to see how these emails could be viewed in any way other than how prosecutors want jurors to view them: They show Robert Costello misleading Michael Cohen, saying something to him directly and another thing behind his back.

Costello has just denied that once he began to believe that Cohen was in turn misleading him he was angry or upset. He was, he says, “informed.”