Michael Cohen’s one-time lawyer accused him on Wednesday of committing perjury during his testimony the day before in former President Donald Trump’s New York trial.

Longtime criminal defense attorney Robert Costello told a House Weaponization Subcommittee hearing that Cohen was lying when he took the stand on Tuesday and accused Costello of strong-arming him to stay quiet about Trump in 2018.

“I read Michael Cohen’s testimony from yesterday’s trial in New York on the way down on the train, and virtually every statement he made about me was another lie,” Costello told the panel, according to the Washington Examiner. “The story he told yesterday was that Rudy Giuliani and I were somehow conspiring to try and keep him quiet, to try and keep him from flipping … and that’s ridiculous.”

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