recover from the surgery. but secondly, they said he is wanted in congress and that s been very time consuming in terms of him getting ready to go to prison. over three consecutive days michael cohen is scheduled to ee give testimony to three congressional committees. he ll talk behind closed doors tuesday and thursday to the intelligence committees. in between the intelligence committee hearings on tuesday and thursday, on wednesday starting at 10:00 a.m. eastern, there will be what everybody is expecting to be a blockbuster day of testimony from cohen in open session before the house oversight committee under the leadership of democratic chairman elijah cummings. and the reason everybody is expecting this to be a bit of a blockbuster is not just because it s going to be an open hearing. it s also because of the list of topics that chairman comings publicly released ahead of the testimony to give us a sense of what cohen will be testifying y about.
michael cohen but the new york times reports that he is since his sentence, he is meeting with federal prosecutors now and he s reportedly giving them at least interesting, if not valuable information. the new york times reports tonight that mr. cohen apparently opened up some new information with prosecutors and sdny that brought the felony charges against him who thereafter told the judge hearing his case he was not being that corporative. quoting from the times michael d cohen, president trump s lawyer and fixer met with p prosecutors in manhattan offering information about possible irregularities within the president s family business and about a donor to the inaugural committee.a mr. cohen that worked with the
by this office but as cohen partially acknowledges, it was his decision and declined to provide full information about the scope of criminal conduct in which he may have engaged or had knowledge. indeed cohen only met with the office, the sdny prosecutors about the participation of others in the campaign finance crimes to which cohen pled guilty. cohen specifically declined to be debriefed under uncharged criminal conduct if any in his past. cohen further declined to meet with this office about other areas of investigative interest to successfully cooperate with this office, they must undergo full debriefings that encompass the full criminal history and any and all information about crimes committed by themselves and others.om this process permits them to assess the candor, culpability and complications to any he potential cooperators and
trump organization and the russian government. so he pleads to most of that stuff in august. he pops up again in november to plead to the one additional felony and in december, soon after he popped up in court to plead guilty to the one additional felony. michael cohen was back in the al same courtroom before the judge to be sentenced on all of those felonies put together on the one from the special counsel s office about lying about trump tower moscow plus all the bo earlier felonies including the campaign finance felonies he pled to after being charged by sdny. you might remember that the special counsel s office basically asked for lenience for the judge for cohen. they described him as a valuable cooperating witness but the other prosecutors, the prosecutors for sdny, the prosecutors who brought most of the charges for which cohen pled guilty, they did not ask the
results in cooperating witnesses who having accepted full responsibility for any and all misconduct are credible to law enforcement and hopefully to judges and juries. cohen affirmatively chose not to pursue this process. cohen s efforts fell short of cooperation as that term is properly used in this district because michael cohen elected not to pursue more full some cooperation including other subjects and on his own history, this office cannot assess the overall level of cohen s cooperation to be significant. and so judge, throw him in jail. and that is in part how michael cohen ended up with a three-year prison sentence that he was due to start in a couple weeks, he ll now start in may. and by all accounts, michael cohen was shocked to get a three-year prison sentence. it was clear his family was definitely shocked by the length