Michael Cohen and Guy Petrillo, one of Cohen's criminal defense attorneys, traveled from NYC to DC Monday to speak Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigators.
CNBC:
Cohen's meeting with Mueller's team was only the latest in a series of sit-downs the attorney has had with the special counsel's office since pleading guilty in August to federal criminal charges. Those included campaign contribution violations related to payments to two women, purportedly at the behest of Trump. That case was brought by federal investigators in the Southern District of New York, not Mueller's team.
On Monday, an ABC News reporter caught Cohen on video walking through the Union Station railroad complex on Capitol Hill in Washington, accompanied by Petrillo.
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Cohen is due to be sentenced Dec. 12 in U.S. District Court in Manhattan on charges of tax evasion, making false statements to a bank, and the two campaign contribution violations.
When he pleaded guilty, he did so without an explicit agreement to cooperate with prosecutors in hopes of reducing his potential criminal sentence.
But his voluntary cooperation with Mueller's team, as well as other meetings Cohen has reportedly had with federal prosecutors in New York and with New York state law enforcement officials, could win him leniency from the sentencing judge.
Cohen has previously participated in multiple interview sessions totaling more than 40 hours with investigators from the office of the special counsel Robert Mueller in Washington, D.C., and federal prosecutors in New York City, sources have told ABC News.
Sources familiar with the matter also say that the special counsel’s questioning of Cohen has focused on Trump’s alleged ties with Russia and the investigation into the Trump campaign’s alleged collusion with Russia during the 2016 presidential election.
Cohen’s participation in the interviews has been voluntary and without the promise of leniency from prosecutors, people close to the matter told ABC News. He is reportedly also voluntarily meeting with lawyers from the New York State Attorney General's office and the District Attorney's office in Manhattan.
Those discussions, sources say, have been focused on the president's business and his family's charitable foundation.
Michael Cohen, President Trump's former personal attorney, mysteriously arrives in Washington, D.C. (ABC News)