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US President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer and self-described “fixer” Michael Cohen has been subpoenaed to testify by the US Senate Intelligence Committee, Cohen’s adviser Lanny Davis says.
The serving of a subpoena, which comes a day after Cohen postponed an appearance before a House of Representatives investigative panel, means Cohen is likely to appear before the intelligence panel in mid-February, according to MSNBC and CNN.
“This morning the Senate Intelligence Committee served Michael Cohen with a subpoena,” Mr Davis said in a statement.
A New York lawyer who once said he would take a bullet for Mr Trump, Cohen is a central figure in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into possible ties between Mr Trump’s campaign and Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election, as well as possible obstruction of justice.
Mr Trump, whose presidency has been clouded for many months by the Mueller investigation, called his former confidant Cohen a “rat” in a tweet last month for cooperating with prosecutors.
Reuters
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