‘FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES’

Lawyer Told Michael Cohen He Could ‘Sleep Well Tonight’ After Giuliani Chat: Report

“There was never a doubt and they are in our corner,” Robert Costello reportedly wrote to Cohen in 2018.

After talking to Rudy Giuliani, an attorney told Michael Cohen in an April 2018 email that he could “sleep well tonight” because he had “friends in high places,” CNN reports. Cohen reportedly provided two April 21, 2018, emails to Congress to back up his claim that Trump’s legal team dangled the prospect of a pardon for his longtime fixer. “There was never a doubt and they are in our corner,” the lawyer, Robert Costello, wrote to Cohen in one email. “Rudy said this communication channel must be maintained... Sleep well tonight, you have friends in high places.”

The emails reportedly do not specifically mention a pardon—and Costello told CNN it was Cohen who asked him to speak to Giuliani about a pardon in the first place. “The first time I kind of danced around the issue because Michael brought it up with me and I told him, ‘Look, this is way too premature... But if you want me to bring it up, I will bring it up.’ And I did,” he said. A source close to Cohen told the network that Costello was actually “pushing his relationship with Giuliani,” and Trump’s legal team was attempting to keep Cohen “in the fold as a way to keep him quiet.” Giuliani, on the other hand, told CNN that he spoke with Costello to reassure Cohen that Trump had no hard feelings for him after federal authorities seized materials from his home and office. Costello later told The Daily Beast that he was referencing a Garth Brooks song when he told a “suicidal” Cohen that he had “friends in high places.”

FRIENDS IN LOW PLACES

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