Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen told Congress that Jay Sekulow instructed him to lie.

The Democratic Coalition, along with its chairman Jon Cooper and co-founder Scott Dworkin, just filed a bar complaint against President Trump’s lawyer Jay Sekulow for suborning perjury in his former lawyer Michael Cohen’s testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee about a Trump Tower project in Moscow.

The Democratic Coalition is a national Super PAC based in Washington, D.C. It is chaired by Jon Cooper, former Democratic majority leader of the Suffolk County (NY) Legislature and Long Island campaign chairman for President Barack Obama. Senior Advisor Scott Dworkin is the Co-Founder of the Democratic Coalition, host of the Dworkin Report podcast and Series Editor of Meet the Candidates 2020: A voter’s guide.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller convicted Michael Cohen for testifying falsely under oath to the Senate Intelligence Committee in 2017. Cohen consulted with Jay Sekulow about the content of his impending testimony, and the Georgia licensed lawyer instructed him to materially misrepresent the end date of Trump’s Moscow Tower project, which continued through the very end of the 2016 primary election.

In doing so, Sekulow violated the Georgia Bar’s professional ethics code and may be removed from the legal profession for his actions to cover up Donald Trump’s Russian business ties.

“It is utterly unethical for a lawyer to advise and assist a witness to lie,” says Massachusetts lawyer J. Whitfield Larrabee, whose filings against Paul Manafort to the Connecticut bar resulted in his permanent disbarment. “The fact that the complaint is supported with Cohen’s deposition testimony, and that it relates to lies he told for which he was convicted and sentenced, gives further weight to the complaint.”

“If Jay Sekulow engaged in the conduct alleged in our complaint, he should be permanently disbarred,” says Jon Cooper. “The conduct described in our complaint would support charges against Sekulow for criminal conspiracy and obstruction of justice.”

“The allegations warrant further investigation as they suggest that both Sekulow and Cohen may have assisted Donald Trump in obstructing justice,” says Scott Dworkin. “Both Trump and his personal lawyer must be held accountable for what looks like clearly like suborning perjury, a crime against Congress.”