Former Trump counsel Cohen underneath review for taxation fraud

WASHINGTON – Federal prosecutors in New York are examining either US President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, committed taxation fraud, a Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people informed with a investigation.

Cohen, who was Trump’s personal lawyer, has not been charged with any crime. The FBI seized papers and files as partial of investigations by sovereign prosecutors in New York stemming in partial from a mention by a US special counsel’s bureau looking into probable coordination between Trump 2016 debate aides and Russia.

Moscow denies interfering in a US choosing and Trump denies collusion by his campaign, describing a examine as a domestic magician hunt. Cohen did not immediately respond to a Reuters ask for comment.