New York Daily News

Big reveal on Cohen is set for today

- BY STEPHEN REX BROWN

The search warrant that resulted in a raid on Michael Cohen’s law office and residence in New York last year will be published Tuesday, possibly shedding light on the early stages of the investigat­ion into President Trump’s former fixer.

Manhattan Federal Judge William Pauley ordered prosecutor­s to release the warrant and accompanyi­ng documents in response to a request from news organizati­ons.

The government had opposed releasing the documents related to the April 9, 2018, raid, arguing it could jeopardize “ongoing investigat­ions.”

The feds’ investigat­ion ultimately led to Cohen pleading guilty to his role in arranging hush money payments during the 2016 presidenti­al campaign to porn star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal, both of whom claim to have had affairs with Trump.

Cohen (photo) also pleaded guilty to tax evasion and lying to Congress.

The former lawyer, 52, is due to begin serving a threeyear prison sentence May 6 for the “veritable smorgasbor­d” of crimes he committed, as a Manhattan federal judge put it at his sentencing in December.

Cohen, who obtained his law license in 1992, was disbarred last month due to his criminal record.

In his guilty plea in November, Cohen said he lied to Congress about a Trump Tower developmen­t in Moscow during the campaign out of a flawed sense of “loyalty” to Trump.

Cohen supports the release of the affidavits, his publicist said in a statement late Monday. Making the documents public “furthers his interest in continuing to cooperate and providing informatio­n and the truth about Donald Trump and the Trump Organizati­on to law enforcemen­t and Congress,” the statement said.

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