Overview

• Michael Cohen's lawyer, David M. Schwartz, has been accused of citing non-existent court cases in a legal filing, raising suspicions of using AI program ChatGPT for research.
• U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman said that none of the three cases cited by Schwartz in a bid to end Cohen's supervised release early appear to exist.
• Furman has ordered Schwartz to provide copies of the cited decisions by December 19, or face sanctions.
• This follows a similar incident earlier this year where a lawyer was found to have used ChatGPT for research and ended up citing three non-existent court decisions.
• Cohen, a former lawyer for President Trump, was sentenced to three years in prison in 2018 for federal tax crimes, lying to Congress and campaign finance violations.