May 20, 2024, 12:39 p.m. ET
Jonah BromwichReporting from inside the courthouse
Susan
Hoffinger returns to what prosecutors say are crimes. She asks if the $420,000 that Michael Cohen received in 2017 — the reimbursement for the hush money, additional money to cover taxes, a reimbursement for the payment to the tech company, RedFinch, and a bonus — had anything to do with legal services. No, he says.
Hoffinger again emphasizes that the financial documents connected to the payments were false, because they said the payments were in exchange for legal services. Cohen agrees that they were false.