of this with donald trump s longtime tax lawyer, sherry dillon, you remember her at the first press conference in the transition, all about how president trump transitioned him for the payments. and meanwhile, chairman cummings says, get ready for a lot more witnesses. we ll go through, we ll figure out who we want to talk to, and we ll bring them in. people in the trump family, ivanka trump, donald trump jr.? just follow the transcript. just follow the transcript. this is what subpoena power looks like, this is what it looks like when a mueller witness, like michael cohen, who spent so much time with donald trump goes under oath. in some ways, the investigative leads that they re following on today are even bigger than what was laid out yesterday. now, as for the statement by this powerful chairman, follow the transcript, well, we did. donald trump jr. and ivanka trump. it would either be eric trump. rhona graff is the mr. trump s executive assistant.
one who worked in the white house and another lawyer who represents trump in a personal capacity, she was actually the one that orchestrated that stunt during the transition where trump sat there by the big piles of papers and supposedly handed over control of his business to his son. the lawyer that orchestrated that and another lawyer that worked in the white house according to elijah cummings tonight they may themselves be in trouble for making false statements about those hush money payments. quote, new documents obtained by the committee from the office of government ethics described false information provided by the lawyers representing president trump including sherry dillon, president trump s personal attorney and steven passantino who left the white house to represent the trump organization. president trump s former attorney michael cohen is now going to prison in part for his role in these hush money payments. during the guilty plea, mr. cohen said he did this in coordination
payments and those letters make the explosive allegation that it s not just michael cohen, that two additional trump lawyers, one who worked in the white house and another lawyer who represents trump in a personal capacity, she was actually the one who orchestrated that stunt during the transition where trump sat there by the big piles of papers and supposedly handed over control of his business to his sons. the lawyer who orchestrated that and another lawyer who worked in the white house, according to elijah cummings tonight, they themselves may be in trouble for making false statement about those hush money payments. quote, new documents obtained by the committee from the office of government ethics describe false information provided by the lawyers representing president trump, including sherry dillon, president trump s personal attorney and stephen pass teen owe, former deputy white house counsel for compliance and ethics. eek. who has now left the white house to represent the trum
reimbursement changed over time. the other attorney made similar statements to federal ethics officials and also saying that they suggested that according to the attorney, according to cummings, suggested there was a retainer with cohen for these payments. it was later revealed from the southern district of new york prosecutors that there was no retainer for this agreement. we did reach out to both dillon and the other attorney. there s no comment. we reached out to the white house who just said they have not commented either. we reached out to the trump organization. cummings sent a separate letter to the trump organization demanding document bs by next friday and threatening additional documents if he didn t get compliance. a significant allegation here about potentially misleading federal ethics officials.
payments and later changed their story. specifically, he is referring to sherry dillon, trump s personal attorney. according to the letter, dillon said in spring of 2018 that trump, quote, never owe eowed a money to michael cohen. he paid $130,000 to stormy daniels to silence those stories about the affair. after may 8, 2018, when rudy giuliani, another trump attorney, went on fox news and disclosed that trump had a role in reimbursing michael cohen for these payments, according to cummin cummings letter, the stories changed. dillon said cohen knew he would be reimbursed for the payment. the quote, neck nichlt fmechani