Two Republican congressional committee chairmen are again referring ex-Trump attorney Michael Cohen to the Justice Department for lying to Congress.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., had previously referred Cohen to the Justice Department after Cohen allegedly lied to Congress in a February 2019 hearing.
Cohen pleaded guilty in 2018 to campaign finance violations, making false statements to Congress and tax evasion. He was sentenced to three years in prison.
In a letter sent to Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday, obtained by Fox News, Comer and Jordan wrote that much of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s ongoing case against former President Donald Trump is based on testimony from Cohen, whom they called a “repeated liar .”
In the letter Wednesday, Jordan and Comer reminded Garland that Republicans, in February 2019, referred Cohen to the Justice Department “for perjury and knowingly making false statements during his testimony” before the House Oversight Committee on Feb. 27, 2019.
Jordan and Comer said, at the time, members cited “six specific lies told by Cohen and urged the Justice Department to take appropriate action.”
“Last year, we learned that Cohen separately lied again before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in a 2019 deposition,” they wrote. Cohen appeared to admit to being dishonest in Trump’s non-jury civil trial stemming from New York Attorney General Letitia James’ lawsuit.
“Cohen’s testimony is now the basis for a politically motivated prosecution of a former president and current declared candidate for that office,” Jordan and Comer wrote. “In light of the reliance on the testimony from this repeated liar, we reiterate our concerns and ask what the Justice Department has done to hold Cohen accountable for his false statements to Congress.”
Cohen, during his February 2019 testimony, “made willfully and intentionally false statements of material fact that were contradicted by the record established by the Justice Department in United States v. Cohen,” they wrote. Jordan and Comer also said Cohen made statements that were contradicted by witnesses with firsthand knowledge of the subject.
Those lies, according to Jordan and Comer, included Cohen denying committing various fraudulent acts, to which he had pleaded guilty in federal court.
Cohen also repeatedly testified that he did not seek employment in then-President Trump’s White House, “despite evidence from the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York demonstrating that ‘Cohen privately told friends…that he expected to be given a prominent role and title in the new administration.'”
Jordan and Comer also said Cohen stated that he “did not direct the creation of a Twitter account known as @WomenForCohen, which is contradicted by statements from the owner of the IT firm that created the account for Cohen.”
They also said Cohen lied when he said he did not have any reportable foreign government contracts, despite entering into two contracts in 2017 with entities owned in part by foreign governments.
Fox News Digital’s Brooke Singman contributed to this update.
