Medical issues delay Cohen’s hearing

WASHINGTON — Michael Cohen’s private testimony before the Senate intelligence committee has been postponed “due to post-surgery medical needs,” his attorney said Monday.

Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, is under subpoena from the committee and was scheduled to talk to the panel today. Cohen’s attorney, Lanny Davis, said in a statement that the interview had been postponed for medical reasons. Davis said last month that Cohen had undergone minor shoulder surgery.

Cohen pulled out of a public hearing in the House Oversight and Reform Committee that was scheduled for Feb. 7, citing threats from Trump and the president’s attorney-spokesman, Rudy Giuliani.

Cohen will now talk to the House intelligence panel on Feb. 28. It is unclear whether he has scheduled a new date to speak to the Senate investigators, who subpoenaed him to appear.

Cohen talked to both committees in 2017 and has since pleaded guilty for lying to them about his role in a Trump business proposal in Moscow. Cohen acknowledged misleading lawmakers by saying the project was abandoned in January 2016 when he actually continued pursuing it for months.

He’s set to begin a three-year prison sentence in March. He has also pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations for his role in payments to a former Playboy model and porn actress who had alleged affairs with Trump. Trump has denied the allegations.