Michael Cohen’s attorney and lawyers for President Trump discussed last year the possibility of a presidential pardon, the Wall Street Journal reports
The Journal, citing conversations with people familiar with the discussions, reported that the talks occurred in April after the FBI raided Cohen's office, home and hotel room. The conversations, the paper said, took place between Stephen Ryan, Cohen's attorney at the time, and Jay Sekulow, Rudy Giuliani and Joanna Hendon, then the President's personal lawyers.
" Read MoreWhile testifying before the House Oversight Committee last week, Cohen, who is set to begin serving a three-year prison sentence in May, said he hadn't requested, nor would he accept, a pardon from Trump.The paper reported that during the discussions, Ryan"left the impression that if Mr. Cohen couldn't rely on a pardon, he might cooperate" with prosecutors in the Manhattan case.
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