A lawyer for the president’s former campaign chairman apparently offered assurances as recently as Saturday.
Before he was Trump’s campaign chairman, the longtime lobbyist went to extreme lengths in a secret effort to bolster a Ukrainian politician, court papers show.
Some suspect Trump’s ex-campaign chairman is holding out for a pardon from the president.
In-person jury selection in the second trial of President Trump’s former campaign chairman is set to begin Monday.
On Tuesday, the president’s allies in Congress interviewed Ohr for eight hours about his relationship with dossier author Christopher Steele.
The missive raised more questions about Giuliani’s decision to work for foreign clients while serving as one of President Trump’s personal attorneys.
Trump, his son and others have repeatedly said that the president knew nothing about the 2016 Trump Tower meeting until he was asked about it by reporters in July 2017.
Lanny Davis, a spokesman and attorney for Cohen, expressed regret at not being clearer in assertions he made to reporters.
The 1999 report, sought by Democrats, largely cleared independent counsel’s office of wrongdoing.
The Treasury Department’s inspector general has launched an inquiry into the trip.