Ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen to testify before grand jury on hush-money investigation

Former President Trump's ex-attorney Michael Cohen is set to testify Monday before a grand jury investigating hush-money payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels on behalf of Trump.

Cohen's scheduled testimony comes as prosecutors are nearing a decision on whether to bring charges against the former president as part of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s investigation into the payments. Bragg's office has questioned at least seven other people before the grand jury.

Trump was asked to testify before the New York grand jury next week.

Cohen has already done 20 interviews with Bragg's office and will appear before the grand jury on Monday afternoon, his attorney Lanny Davis told Axios.

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"Mr. Cohen will continue to cooperate," Davis said. "We are impressed with Mr. Bragg’s team and its careful and meticulous approach."

In 2018, Cohen pleaded guilty to federal charges, including campaign finance violations, and was sentenced to three years in prison for arranging payments to Daniels and model Karen McDougal to keep them from going public. The former president has denied having the affairs.

Cohen paid Daniels $130,000 through his own company and was later reimbursed by Trump's company, which logged the payments as "legal expenses." McDougal’s received $150,000 through the publisher of the supermarket tabloid the National Enquirer.

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Trump slammed the investigation on Friday, writing on social media that the probe is a "Scam, Injustice, Mockery, and Complete and Total Weaponization of Law Enforcement in order to affect a Presidential Election!"

Prosecutors appear to be investigating whether Trump committed crimes in arranging the payments or in how they were accounted for internally at the Trump Organization.

The Trump Organization "grossed up" Cohen’s reimbursement for Daniels' payment for "tax purposes," according to federal prosecutors who filed criminal charges against Cohen for the payments in 2018.

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Federal prosecutors said during Cohen’s criminal case that Trump was aware of the payments to the women. But the U.S. attorney’s office in New York did not criminally charge the then-sitting president. Trump's legal team claimed victory when the federal case was closed.

The Manhattan district attorney's office later launched a separate investigation.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Suspects arrested in Georgia for stealing nearly 700 cans of powdered baby formula

Georgia police arrested three suspects after they allegedly stole $26,000 worth of powdered baby formula from metro Atlanta supermarkets.

According to the Cartersville Police Department, the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office issued an alert to law enforcement agencies in the area requesting officers keep their eyes peeled for a car suspected of being involved in a series of shoplifting incidents at Publix supermarkets in which cans of baby formula were taken.

Cartersville Police officers located the vehicle on Thursday in the parking lot at the city's Publix on 300 Cherokee Place. Officers then waited for the suspects to leave the store.

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Regulo Sanchez-Romero, Mateo Sanchez-Romero, and a 16-year-old juvenile were taken into custody after they exited the store carrying 12 cans of stolen powdered baby formula.

Officers searched the vehicle and discovered an additional 662 cans valued at $26,000, police said.

The two adults were charged with felony theft by shoplifting, felony theft by receiving and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Regulo Sanchez-Romero was also charged with driving while unlicensed and Mateo Sanchez-Romero was also charged with providing a false name and date of birth.

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Both men gave officers Dallas, addresses, police said. They were both booked into the Bartow County Jail.

Investigators are working to determine if the suspects were also responsible for similar thefts in other jurisdictions.

This comes as baby formula has been difficult to find over the past year after FDA inspectors temporarily shut down the largest domestic formula factory in the U.S. because of bacterial contamination.