House GOP goes after ‘convicted liar’ Michael Cohen, urges Justice Department to investigate recent lies

EXCLUSIVE: Two Republican congressional committee chairmen are again referring ex-Trump attorney Michael Cohen to the Justice Department for lying to Congress, Fox News Digital has learned. 

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., had previously referred Cohen to the Justice Department after Cohen allegedly lied to Congress in a February 2019 hearing. 

Cohen pleaded guilty in 2018 to campaign finance violations, making false statements to Congress and tax evasion. He was sentenced to three years in prison.

In a letter sent to Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday, obtained by Fox News, Comer and Jordan wrote that much of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s ongoing case against former President Donald Trump is based on testimony from Cohen, whom they called a “repeated liar.” 

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In the letter Wednesday, Jordan and Comer remind Garland that Republicans, in February 2019, referred Cohen to the Justice Department “for perjury and knowingly making false statements during his testimony” before the House Oversight Committee on Feb. 27, 2019. 

Jordan and Comer said, at the time, members cited “six specific lies told by Cohen and urged the Justice Department to take appropriate action.” 

“Last year, we learned that Cohen separately lied again before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in a 2019 deposition,” they wrote. Cohen appeared to admit to being dishonest in Trump’s non-jury civil trial stemming from New York Attorney General Letitia James’ lawsuit. 

“Cohen’s testimony is now the basis for a politically motivated prosecution of a former president and current declared candidate for that office,” Jordan and Comer wrote. “In light of the reliance on the testimony from this repeated liar, we reiterate our concerns and ask what the Justice Department has done to hold Cohen accountable for his false statements to Congress.” 

Cohen, during his February 2019 testimony, “made willfully and intentionally false statements of material fact that were contradicted by the record established by the Justice Department in United States v. Cohen,” they wrote. Jordan and Comer also said Cohen made statements that were contradicted by witnesses with firsthand knowledge…