Michael Cohen
Lawyer to US President Donald Trump
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| October 2024 | The Supreme Court declined to hear Cohen's appeal regarding his lawsuit against Trump. |
| July 2024 | Cohen asked the Supreme Court to allow him to sue Trump, claiming retaliation after being sent back to prison following his announcement to write a critical book about Trump. |
| May 2024 | Cohen testified about his deteriorating relationship with Trump, revealing he was persuaded by his family to stop lying on Trump's behalf and subsequently pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations, tax evasion, and lying to Congress. |
| May 14 2024 | Cohen testified that the McDougal hush money was undertaken to ensure Trump's election success, and confirmed he did not alter the recording of the conversation. |
| May 14 2024 | Cohen admits to pressuring Daniels' attorney to get her to sign a false statement denying the affair, revealing he knew the statement was untrue. |
| May 13 2024 | The jury in Trump's New York criminal trial heard the taped conversation between Trump and Cohen. |
| May 13 2024 | Cohen testifies in Trump's New York criminal trial, directly implicating Trump in directing the hush money payment to Daniels and discussing the details of the non-disclosure agreement. |
| October 5 2023 | Trump dropped the lawsuit against Cohen after being scheduled to give sworn testimony the following week. |
| October 5 2023 | Trump dropped the lawsuit against Cohen prior to being scheduled to give sworn testimony. |
| July 2023 | Reaches a settlement with the Trump Organization in the legal fees lawsuit. |
| April 2023 | Trump sued Cohen for $500 million, alleging breach of attorney-client privilege. |
| February 2023 | Cohen was interviewed 15 times by investigators at the Manhattan DA's office by this point in their ongoing investigation. |
| February 2023 | Cohen launched a new podcast/YouTube show called Political Beatdown, collaborating with Ben Meiselas from the MeidasTouch team. |
| 2022 | Manhattan District Attorney's office decided not to pursue charges against Trump, partly due to concerns about relying too heavily on Cohen's testimony. |
| November 22 2021 | Cohen was released from home confinement and his sentence expired. He immediately stated his continued commitment to providing information for ongoing investigations. |
| September 2020 | Michael Cohen released his memoir 'Disloyal: A Memoir', which provides a critical account of Donald Trump, describing him with highly negative characterizations including 'a cheat, a mobster, a liar, a fraud, a bully, a racist, a predator, a con man'. |
| August 2020 | Cohen publicly stated to CNN that there was no connection between the photo incident and Falwell's campaign endorsement. |
| July 24 2020 | Cohen was released from FCI Otisville and returned to home confinement. |
| July 23 2020 | A judge ordered Cohen's return to home confinement after he filed a suit claiming his re-arrest was to prevent the release of his book 'Disloyal: A Memoir'. |
| July 23 2020 | A judge ordered Cohen's return to home confinement after he filed a lawsuit claiming his re-arrest was an attempt to prevent him from releasing his book about Trump. |
| July 23 2020 | U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein ordered Cohen's return to home confinement, ruling that the government had retaliated against him. |
| July 20 2020 | Cohen filed a lawsuit against Attorney General Bill Barr and federal prison officials, claiming his First Amendment rights were violated by his re-imprisonment. |
| July 9 2020 | Cohen was taken back into federal custody after refusing home confinement conditions that restricted media communication. |
| July 2 2020 | Cohen was photographed dining at a Manhattan restaurant while on prison furlough. |
| May 21 2020 | Cohen was released from prison early due to COVID-19 concerns and placed under house arrest. |
| 2019 | The defamation lawsuit filed by Stormy Daniels against Michael Cohen was dismissed by the court. |
| May 6 2019 | Michael Cohen reported to FCI Otisville prison to serve his sentence. |
| April 2019 | Cohen reported finding a hard drive containing 14 million documents, which required 26 people to review within 45 days as demanded by the judge. |
| March 2019 | Cohen sued the Trump Organization for allegedly refusing to reimburse his legal fees. |
| March 6 2019 | Cohen returned to the House Intelligence Committee for additional questioning. |
| February 28 2019 | Cohen testified behind closed doors to the House Intelligence Committee for more than seven hours. |
| February 27 2019 | Cohen gave 10 hours of public, televised testimony before the House Oversight Committee, where he described Trump as a 'racist,' 'con man,' and 'cheat', and admitted to various misconduct related to Trump. |
| February 26 2019 | Cohen was officially disbarred by the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, losing his legal license as a consequence of his criminal actions. |
| February 26 2019 | Cohen testified in a closed-door hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee for more than seven hours. |
| January 2019 | Documents were released revealing that Cohen, along with Donald Trump and Donald Trump Jr., obtained handgun carry permits through donations to police organizations, despite lacking proper credentials. |
| January 23 2019 | Cohen announced through his attorney that he would postpone his testimony due to 'ongoing threats against his family' from President Trump and Rudy Giuliani. |
| January 10 2019 | Michael Cohen agreed to testify publicly before the House Oversight Committee to provide a 'full and credible account' of his work for Donald Trump. |
| 2018 | Stormy Daniels filed a defamation lawsuit against Michael Cohen, challenging a statement he made to the media about her alleged relationship with Donald Trump. |
| 2018 | Following felony convictions, Cohen was disbarred from practicing law in New York. |
| December 2018 | McClatchy reported that a cellphone of Cohen's was detected around Prague and an eastern European intelligence agency had intercepted a Russian communication claiming Cohen was in Prague. |
| December 12 2018 | U.S. District Judge William H. Pauley III sentenced Cohen to three years in prison, a $50,000 fine, $1.4 million in restitution, and $500,000 in forfeiture. During sentencing, Cohen acknowledged his actions and criticized Trump. |
| November 29 2018 | Cohen pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about the Trump Tower Moscow project, admitting he was motivated by loyalty to Trump and attempting to be consistent with Trump's denials of Russian ties. |
| October 2018 | Cohen conducted at least 50 hours of interviews with Mueller's investigators and New York State investigators, cooperating in investigations involving the Trump Organization and Trump Foundation. |
| October 2018 | New York State Department of Taxation and Finance announced it would review allegations of potential gift tax evasion related to Trump's inheritance from his father. |
| October 11 2018 | Cohen re-registered as a Democrat, distancing himself from the current administration's values. |
| August 2018 | Pleads guilty to eight counts including campaign-finance violations, tax fraud, and bank fraud, admitting to violating campaign-finance laws at Trump's direction to influence the 2016 presidential election. |
| August 23 2018 | In a Fox News interview, Trump claimed he was not aware of the hush-money payments until 'later on'. |
| August 22 2018 | New York State Department of Taxation and Finance subpoenaed Michael Cohen in connection with an investigation into potential tax law violations by the Donald J. Trump Foundation. |
| August 21 2018 | Michael Cohen surrendered to the FBI and pleaded guilty to eight criminal charges, including tax evasion, making false statements, and campaign finance violations related to payments made during the 2016 presidential election. |
| July 2018 | Cohen's attitude towards Trump changed after the Helsinki summit, causing him to doubt Trump's loyalty to the United States. |
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