Cohen tells Congress he’s never been to Prague

Michael Cohen in testimony to the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Wednesday denied reports that he traveled to Prague in 2016 to meet with Kremlin officials to help Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. 

{mosads}“I’ve never been to Prague,” Cohen told the committee.

McClatchy reported in December that Cohen traveled to Prague. It said foreign intelligence agencies located the signal for a cellphone linked to Cohen in Prague sometime between August and September 2016. The report also said conversations between Russians that were intercepted noted that Cohen was in Prague.

Cohen denied the report shortly after it was published, though his comments Wednesday are his first repudiation under oath.

Cohen is known to have cooperated with special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Mueller has credited Cohen with providing “useful information” and said he went to “significant lengths” to aid the probe.

The president has denied any wrongdoing and claimed that Cohen lied to reduce his prison term. Republicans ripped into Cohen during the Wednesday hearing as part of an effort to raise questions about the credibility of his testimony.

Cohen will soon begin a three-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to a slew of charges, including lying to Congress about plans to build a Trump Tower in Moscow and campaign finance violations regarding hush money payments he made to women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump.