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Tue Feb 26, 2019, 03:34 PM Feb 2019

Echoes of Watergate: ex-lawyer expected to tell all to committee

CHRIS MEGERIAN
FEB 26, 2019 | 7:25 AM
| WASHINGTON

After more than a decade as the keeper of Donald Trump’s secrets, Michael Cohen has been spilling the beans about the president’s private business deals, foreign interests and alleged mistresses to federal prosecutors in Washington and New York ...

“He has the potential to be a very devastating witness,” said Dean, 80, who completed his own transformation from criminal presidential aide to star witness more than four decades ago ...

Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), chair of the House Oversight Committee, told reporters that the hearing “may very well be a turning point in our country's history” ...

... as Dean learned during the Watergate scandal, hearings can prove unpredictable ...

https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-michael-cohen-trump-oversight-hearing-20190226-story.html

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