3:42 p.m. ET, May 20, 2024
The key points from paralegal Daniel Sitko, the defense’s first witness
Daniel Sitko, a paralegal for defense attorney Todd Blanche, testified on Monday as the defense’s first witness and said he put together a summary chart of calls between Michael Cohen and attorney Robert Costello.
Cohen-Costello calls: Cohen previously testified he spoke with Costello a number of times but never formally retained him. The jury in this case has already seen emails from Costello offering to serve as a backchannel to Trump after Cohen’s home and office were searched by the FBI.
The record shows there were 75 calls between Cohen and Costello, answered and unanswered, in April, May, and June of 2018, Sitko testified. One call on May 27, 2018, was 96 minutes long, the record shows.
No further call info: On cross-examination, Sitko confirmed there’s no way to tell who was on the calls because they came from the general line of the firm Davidoff Hutcher & Citron.
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