Michael Cohen: podcast appearances and interviews

Michael Dean Cohen is an American former lawyer who served as an attorney for Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States. He held roles including vice president of the Trump Organization and personal counsel to Trump, and was often described as his fixer. Cohen also served as co-president of Trump Entertainment and from 2017 to 2018 was deputy finance chairman of the Republican National Committee. He was employed by Trump until May 2018, a year after the initiation of the special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections. In August 2018, Cohen pleaded guilty to eight counts including campaign-finance violations, tax fraud, and bank fraud, stating he violated campaign-finance laws at Trump's direction to influence the 2016 presidential election. He also pleaded guilty to lying to U.S. congressional committees about efforts to build a Trump Tower in Moscow. Cohen was sentenced to three years in federal prison and ordered to pay a fine; he was disbarred in New York and completed his sentence in November 2021. Following his release, Cohen sued the Trump Organization over legal fees, with the parties reaching a settlement in July 2023. He also faced a lawsuit from Trump for allegedly breaching his legal trust, which Trump dropped in October 2023.