Fordham University is confirming Michael Cohen’s claim that he threatened to take legal action against the New York school if it released then-candidate Donald Trump’s academic records during the presidential campaign.
Fordham spokesman Bob Howe confirmed to The Associated Press that Trump’s legal team threatened action if any records were released.
Howe said a Trump attorney later sent a follow-up letter “summarizing the call and reminding us that they would take action against the university if we did, in fact, release Mr. Trump’s records.”
During his public testimony before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform on Wednesday, Cohen gave Congress a letter he said he wrote to the president of Fordham University in May 2015.
Cohen warned the university in the letter that several media outlets that requested Trump’s records had already been denied access to the records by his legal team. The letter also warned that Trump’s legal team would hold the school liable “to the fullest extent of the law” if it released his student records, which are protected by federal law.
In the letter, Cohen also warned that school could face “both criminal and civil liability and damages including, among other things, substantial fines, penalties and even the potential loss of government aid and other funding” if it violated the then-presidential candidate’s confidentiality.
“This criminality will lead to jail time,” Cohen stated in the letter.
Cohen told Congress on Wednesday that Trump directed him to threaten his high school, college and the College Board to prevent his grades and SAT scores from being released.
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