Most recently, Jordan and Comer said, was in October 2023, when Cohen “admitted to lying to Congress” during his testimony in the Letitia James case against Trump.
When asked if he was being “honest” in front of the House Intelligence Committee in February 2019, Cohen testified: “No.”
“So you lied under oath in February of 2019? Is that your testimony?” Trump attorney Alina Habba asked him.
“Yes,” Cohen replied.
The revelation prompted current House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner, R-Ohio, and committee member, House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., in October to refer Cohen again to the DOJ for perjury and knowingly making false statements to Congress.
Just last week, Turner and Stefanik doubled down on their calls for another DOJ investigation into Bragg’s “star witness.”
“Currently, Manhattan’s popularly elected District Attorney, Alvin Bragg, is using Cohen as his star witness in an ongoing criminal prosecution of President Donald Trump,” Jordan and Comer wrote, noting that Bragg’s case “relies heavily on Cohen’s testimony and credibility.”
But the lawmakers said, in short, “to prosecute President Trump, Bragg has revived this ‘zombie’ case relying on a known — and convicted — liar and his testimony at a congressional hearing in which he lied at least six times.”
Jordan and Comer stressed that Bragg, “a popularly elected, partisan prosecutor, is using this convicted liar to carry out his politically motivated prosecution of a former president.”
“Therefore, we again request that the Justice Department investigate whether any of Mr. Cohen’s testimony warrants another charge” for violating the law, they wrote.
Former President Donald Trump, left, and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. (Getty Images)
“Congress cannot perform its oversight function if witnesses who appear before its committees do not provide truthful testimony,” Jordan and Comer wrote.
The unprecedented criminal trial for Trump is ongoing. Cohen is expected to be called to testify.
Cohen arranged the $130,000 hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election.
Trump, later, made several payments of $35,000 to Cohen, who was his personal attorney at the time. Bragg is trying to prove those payments, which totaled $420,000, were a reimbursement for the hush money payment.
But Trump defense attorneys say that the $35,000 payments were “not a payback,” but instead, legal payments.
In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, Trump said it was not falsifying a record for a bookkeeper to note a payment as “legal expense” while paying a legal fee.
Former President Donald Trump walks to speak to the press at the end of the day during his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City on Tuesday.
“They call it a legal expense — and that’s what it was. It was a legal expense,” Trump told Fox News Digital. “It was legal fees paid to a lawyer — that’s called a legal expense.”
Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree.
The charges are related to alleged payments made ahead of the 2016 presidential election to silence Daniels about an alleged 2006 extramarital affair with Trump.
Bragg must convince the jury that not only did Trump falsify the business records related to alleged hush money payments, but that he did so in furtherance of another crime: conspiracy to promote or prevent election, which is a felony.
On their own, falsifying business records and conspiracy to promote or prevent election are misdemeanor charges.
