The planned testimony of Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney and fixer for President Donald Trump, at the House Intelligence Committee was rescheduled Wednesday to Feb. 28 — just days before he is slated to report to a federal prison.
Cohen was originally scheduled to testify before the panel this Friday.
But Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., in a terse, one-sentence statement, said Cohen’s closed-door testimony would be delayed until Feb. 28 “in the interests of the investigation.”
Schiff did not elaborate.
Cohen is still considering testifying in public at the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee before he begins serving a three-year criminal sentence in prison.
He had originally been scheduled to testify at that committee on Thursday, but last month postponed his appearance because of what his legal advisor Lanny Davis called “threats” by Trump and Trump’s current lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, against Cohen’s family.
Trump, meanwhile, is slated to be in Vietnam on Feb. 28 for his second summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.
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