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House Oversight Committee Requests Information on Michael Cohen Case

Vishnu Kannan
Friday, July 19, 2019, 2:48 PM

On Friday, July 19 House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings sent a letter to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York requesting information related to two questions: First, whether the Justice Department’s policy against indicting a sitting president at all influenced the office’s decision not to bring charges against the president for violating campaign finance laws in the Michael Cohen case; and second, whether the attorney general or other department leaders influenced these decisions.

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On Friday, July 19 House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings sent a letter to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York requesting information related to two questions: First, whether the Justice Department’s policy against indicting a sitting president at all influenced the office’s decision not to bring charges against the president for violating campaign finance laws in the Michael Cohen case; and second, whether the attorney general or other department leaders influenced these decisions. The complete letter is available here and below.

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Vishnu Kannan is special assistant to the president at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Previously he was a James C. Gaither Junior Fellow in Carnegie’s Technology and International Affairs Program, a researcher at Lawfare and the Foreign Policy Research Institute, and an intern at the Brookings Institution. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University where he studied International Relations, Political Theory and Economics.

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