Michael Cohen, President Trump's former personal lawyer, was recently interviewed by prosecutors from the New York district attorney's office as part of an investigation into how the Trump Organization handled payments made to two women who say they had affairs with Trump, people with knowledge of the matter told CNN on Wednesday.
Cohen is currently serving a three-year prison sentence at a facility in Otisville, New York, after pleading guilty last year to campaign finance violations and lying to Congress. Cohen set up hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal ahead of the 2016 presidential election, in order to keep the women quiet about their alleged affairs with Trump. He was reimbursed for the $130,000 he paid Daniels, and last year, prosecutors alleged the Trump Organization considered these fees legal expenses, even though Cohen did not do any actual work for the company in 2017.
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