NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MARCH 13: Former Donald Trump lawyer and loyalist Michael Cohen walks out of a Manhattan courthouse after testifying before a grand jury on March 13, 2023 in New York City. The grand jury is investigating payments Cohen arranged and made on behalf of the former president. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty […]Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Published December 30, 2023
Cohen said he hadn’t kept up with ’emerging trends (and related risks) in legal technology’
Former Trump fixer Michael Cohen admitted in newly unsealed court papers he mistakenly gave his lawyer fictitious legal citations he got from the artificial intelligence program Google Bard.
In the sworn declaration made public Friday, Cohen said he had not kept up with “emerging trends (and related risks) in legal technology” and therefore was unaware that “Google Bard was a generative text service that, like ChatGPT, could show citations and descriptions that looked real but actually were not.”
He said he did not realize that his lawyer who used the citations in a legal motion on his behalf “would drop the cases into his submission wholesale without even confirming that they existed.”
Cohen’s admission comes just shortly after a district judge questioned the existence of three legal rulings cited in a motion requesting to end Cohen’s post-prison supervision early.
U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman issued an order requesting Cohen’s lawyer, David M. Schwartz, hand over copies of the three rulings he said didn’t exist.
Schwartz had until Dec. 19 to hand over the copies or explain in writing why he should not be sanctioned by the court. He also requested to know “what role, if any, Mr. Cohen played in drafting or reviewing the motion before it was filed.”
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FILE – Michael Cohen leaves for a break during the civil business fraud trial of former President Donald Trump at New York Supreme Court, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023, in New York. Former Trump lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen says he unwittingly passed along to his attorney bogus artificial intelligence-generated legal case citations he got online before they were submitted to a New York judge. Cohen made the admission in a court filing unsealed Friday, Dec. 29, in Manhattan federal court as a judge decides whether to punish one of Cohen’s lawyers, who cited the fake cases in a submission to the judge. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah, File)
Published December 29, 2023
The former lawyer “did not realize that Google Bard was a generative text service that, like Chat-GPT, could show citations and descriptions that looked real but actually were not,” he wrote.
Cohen added that he thought Google Bard was a “supercharged search engine” and said he had successfully used it in the past to find true information.
The revelation comes after a judge in the case, who said she could not locate the three cases, ordered the lawyer who submitted the invented citations, David Schwartz, to respond to the court with any reasons why he should not be sanctioned over the matter.
Schwartz said in his response, which was also unsealed on Friday, that he had been under the impression that Cohen’s attorney E. Danya Perry had come up with the cases and that he therefore did not question them when Cohen emailed them to him to use.
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SOURCE: www.washingtonexaminer.com
RELATED: House GOP Issues Criminal Referral Against Michael Cohen Over Trump Trial Testimony
(Left) Former President Donald Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen leaves the New York State Supreme Court after testifying at Trump’s fraud trial in New York City on Oct. 25, 2023. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images); (Right) Former President Donald Trump sits in court during his civil fraud trial at New York State Supreme Court in New York City on Oct. 25, 2023. (Seth Wenig-Pool/Getty Images)
Published November 14, 2023
House Republicans issued a criminal referral against former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen for his testimony in the former president’s New York fraud trial.
The letter, which was sent by House Intelligence Chairman Mike Turner (R-Ohio) and Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), said that Mr. Cohen committed perjury and “knowingly made false statements” before a congressional panel several years ago.
The letter asks Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate Mr. Cohen after he told a court several days ago that he lied about his handling of former President Donald Trump’s business dealings in sworn testimony in front of a House panel. He said that he made false claims under oath when said that neither President Trump nor a former Trump Organization chief financial officer told him to inflate numbers on the former president’s personal financial statements.
During questioning during the trial, Trump lawyer Alina Habba asked Mr. Cohen: “So you lied under oath in February of 2019? Is that your testimony?” He responded, “Yes.”
“Mr. Cohen, were you being honest in front of the Permanent Select Committee when you testified on Feb. 28, 2019?” Ms. Habba also asked. Mr. Cohen replied, “No.”
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SOURCE: www.theepochtimes.com
