Overview
- Cohen published a Substack post Friday asserting he felt pressured and coerced by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and New York Attorney General Letitia James to deliver testimony useful to their cases against President Trump.
- He writes that prosecutors sought only testimony that would help secure a conviction or judgment, alleging they at times used leading questions to elicit answers that fit their narrative.
- Cohen says he began cooperating with New York prosecutors in 2019 while incarcerated and continued after release, in part hoping cooperation would shorten his confinement and supervised release.
- He previously testified in the New York civil fraud suit and the Manhattan criminal hush‑money case, which resulted in a large civil judgment and a criminal conviction that are now under appellate scrutiny.
- Recent appellate action includes a directive for a federal judge to revisit an earlier decision that kept the hush‑money case in state court, a move Cohen describes as exposing how the cases were built.