Bloomberg Law
April 19, 2018, 3:49 PM UTC

Trump Lawyer Cohen Drops Suits Against BuzzFeed, Fusion GPS

• Cohen denies Russia dossier claims that he worked with Kremlin • Former Playboy model Karen McDougal drops her AMI lawsuit

Michael Cohen, the longtime personal attorney for President Donald Trump, dropped his defamation lawsuits against BuzzFeed and the investigative firm Fusion GPS over a dossier of information about contacts between Trump and Russia.

Cohen used a pair of court filings late Wednesday to end the lawsuits he filed in January, which claimed the dossier contained a series of false assertions about him. His decision to abandon the suits in their early stages came as he faces a criminal investigation by federal prosecutors in ...

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