Washington (CNN) The President's former attorney Michael Cohen testified that Donald Trump directed his charity organization to refund a "fake bidder" for a portrait of himself.

"Mr. Trump directed me to find a straw bidder to purchase a portrait of him that was being auctioned at an Art Hamptons Event," Cohen told the House Oversight Committee in a public hearing Wednesday.

"The objective was to ensure that his portrait, which was going to be auctioned last, would go for the highest price of any portrait that afternoon," Cohen said.

According to Cohen, the "fake bidder" purchased the portrait for $60,000.

Cohen alleged that Trump directed the Trump Foundation to use its funds to reimburse the bidder and kept the art, which Cohen claims currently hangs in one of Trump's country clubs.

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