Former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen has settled a lawsuit with the namesake company of his former employer, ex-United States President Donald Trump, over an alleged $1.7m in unpaid legal fees.
Lawyers for Cohen and the Trump Organization announced on Friday that they had agreed on settlement terms in a video hearing with Manhattan Judge Joel Cohen.
Their decision comes three days before Cohen’s lawsuit, filed in 2019, was slated to go to trial in state court. Details of the agreement were not made public, but Michael Cohen said on Friday that the dispute “has been resolved in a manner satisfactory to all parties”.
The settlement concludes a civil lawsuit for Trump’s company as the former president, who is seeking the White House again in 2024, faces mounting legal woes, including criminal charges at the federal and state levels.
Cohen’s lawsuit over his legal bills, however, stood to give the former Trump ally a spotlight for his vocal criticisms of the ex-president. The trial was also expected to feature testimony from the former president’s son, Donald Trump Jr, as early as next week.
Cohen is set to play a central role next year, in March 2024, when the elder Trump faces state criminal charges for allegedly falsifying business records in a hush-money case involving an adult film star.
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