President Donald Trump's lawyer is denying a report that claimed he's under investigation by the FBI over his contacts with the Russian government that also said he pitched a back channel to the White House to resolve the Crimea crisis.

The New York Times said that Michael Cohen, Trump's personal lawyer, hand-delivered a report to Michael Flynn before his resignation as national security advisor that accused the Ukrainian president of corruption.

The document reportedly suggested a smear campaign to force the Russian hardliner's ejection from office.

It was part of secret plot to lift U.S. sanctions on Russia if the country agreed to remove troops from eastern Ukraine. The Ukrainian government would subsequently hold a referendum on leasing Crimea to Russia.

Cohen told LawNewz.com that the allegations against him are '100 percent untrue,' however. 'I have not been contacted by anyone from the FBI or any government organization,' he said.

President Donald Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, is denying a report that claimed he's under investigation by the FBI over his contacts with the Russian government that also said he pitched a back channel to the White House to resolve the Crimea crisis

'I acknowledge that the brief meeting took place (about Russia and Ukraine referenced in the NY Times article), but emphatically deny discussing this topic or delivering any documents to the White House and/or General Flynn,' his statement said.

The Times article claims that Cohen is being probed by the FBI over an allegation in the so-called dirty dossier that was compiled against Trump. The document says he met with a Russian official in Prague to discuss election hacking.

Except Cohen says he wasn't in the foreign country at the time, and the Russian official he supposedly met with told Times that he had never even met the Trump associate.

'It would take any half decent, unbiased journalist 10 minutes to verify the inaccuracies in the dossier,' Cohen said in his statement.

According to the Times, Cohen also offered to deliver a peace plan between Russia and Ukraine to the White House.

It was part of secret plot to lift U.S. sanctions on Russia if the country agreed to remove troops from eastern Ukraine. The Ukrainian government would subsequently hold a referendum on leasing Crimea to Russia.

The document allegedly contained proof of corruption by Ukrainian president Petro O. Poroshenko that could be used against him.

Andrii V. Artemenko, a Ukrainian lawmaker involved in its creation, told the Times he has 'names of companies, wire transfers' that prove the corruption.

'A lot of people will call me a Russian agent, a U.S. agent, a C.I.A. agent. But how can you find a good solution between our countries if we do not talk?' Artemenko told the newspaper.

Cohen is said to have given the envelope to Flynn during a trip to the White House earlier this month to meet with Trump.

He did not speak to the president himself about the proposal. Neither did Felix Sater, a former business associate of Trump's who the Times says is also involved in the plot.

The New York Times reports that the proposal includes damning information about Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko who met with Vice President Mike Pence on Saturday in Munich, Germany

Before Michael Flynn was fired, the Times says that Cohen, businessman Felix Sater (left) and Ukrainian lawmaker Andrii Artemenko (right) hatched a proposal to bring about peace between Russia and Ukraine

Last week Trump cut Flynn out of the administration as suspicion about the content of his talks with Russia grew.

Trump said he could no longer trust the adviser because he misled the vice president about a conversation he had with a Kremlin representative about sanctions.

The incident alongside other 'instances' or 'questionable behavior prompted the president to ask for his resignation.

The FBI had already questioned Flynn about the call - touching off a White House investigation into his initial claim that the subject didn't come up. He acknowledged later that it might have.

The White House says he was dismissed because of his false statements, not his contacts with the foreign government before Trump's January inauguration.

Last week Trump cut Michael Flynn out of the administration as suspicion about the content of his talks with Russia grew

'We got to a point not based on a legal issue but based on a trust issue where the level of trust between the president and General Flynn had eroded to the point where he felt he had to make a change,' press secretary Sean Spicer said during a press briefing last week.

Before Flynn was fired, the Times says that Cohen, Sater and Artemenko hatched a proposal at Manhattan's Loews Regency, a luxury hotel on Park Avenue, to bring about peace between Russia and Ukraine.

'Who doesn’t want to help bring about peace?' Cohen told the Times.

He confirmed the meeting to LawNewz.com.

Barack Obama issued sanctions against Russian individuals and companies in 2014 for the countries' annexation of Crimea.

He piled even more on to the list in January as retaliation for the country's meddling in the November election.

Thirty-five Russian diplomats were ordered out of the country and two Russian compounds were to close as a result.

Seven days before his swearing-in ceremony, President Trump said he wasn't opposed to lifting some sanctions once in charge.

'If you get along and if Russia is really helping us, why would anybody have sanctions if somebody’s doing some really great things?' he said.

His administration says it won't back down from punishing actions for the invasion of Crimea, though, until Russia removes its forces from Ukraine.