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Your copy of Michael Cohen’s opening testimony: ‘He is a racist, conman, cheat’

Michael Cohen, former attorney and fixer for President Donald Trump, speaks to the press at the Hart Senate Office Building after testifying to the Senate Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. Last year Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison and ordered to pay a $50,000 fine for tax evasion, making false statements to a financial institution, unlawful excessive campaign contributions and lying to Congress as part of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential elections. Mark Wilson/Getty Images

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Michael Cohen, former attorney and fixer for President Donald Trump, speaks to the press at the Hart Senate Office Building after testifying to the Senate Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. Last year Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison and ordered to pay a $50,000 fine for tax evasion, making false statements to a financial institution, unlawful excessive campaign contributions and lying to Congress as part of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential elections. Mark Wilson/Getty Images
By Jim Galloway
Feb 27, 2019

WSB Radio's Jamie Dupree has kindly sent along the prepared opening testimony of Michael Cohen, former fixer and attorney for President Donald Trump, who will give public testimony for the first time today. It requires a language alert, but click here to download, or simply stroll through it below:

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Jim Galloway, the newspaper’s former political columnist, was a writer and editor at the AJC for four decades.

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