Cohen in November pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about a Trump Tower project in Moscow that the president's real estate company was pursuing at the same time he was running for president in 2016. Cohen had told congressional committees that the project ended in January 2016 but later said it continued well into the campaign, at least until June of that year.
After his closed-door hearing before House Intelligence Committee in February, Republicans accused Cohen of lying to the committee and called on the chairman to release his testimony. Reps. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Mark Meadows, R-N.C., have referred the matter to the Department of Justice.
Cohen and his legal team have stood by the testimony.
In his statement on Thursday, Davis argued Cohen has cooperated with investigators and Congress by submitting a significant amount of evidence or participating in multiple testimonies, but his client is the only person in the Trump Organization who has been prosecuted.
\"The actions against Mr. Cohen appears to be selective prosecution and the sentence imposed is a disproportionate one,\" Davis said in the statement.
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