Legal Cohen: 'There still remains much to be told' in Trump saga

Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen said Monday that "there still remains much to be told" about the president, as his feud with his ex-boss continues.

Cohen — who has said the president directed him to lie about hush-money payments and that Trump artificially inflated and deflated his assets to suit his own purposes — did not elaborate. He heads to federal prison in Otisville, N.Y., Monday to begin a three-year sentence for a series of tax fraud and lying charges.


"I hope that when I rejoin my family and friends that the country will be in a place without xenophobia, injustice and lies at the helm of our country," he said. "There still remains much to be told. And I look forward to the day that I can share the truth."

In addition to the prison time, Cohen will have to forfeit $500,000 in assets and pay $1.4 million in restitution to the IRS. Cohen told the House Oversight Committee in February that Trump directed him to lie about the president’s knowledge of hush-money payments to women who say they had affairs with Trump. He also said Trump knew Democratic emails would be dumped during the 2016 campaign and about a meeting with a Russian lawyer offering dirt on Hillary Clinton.

