Former Trump ‘fixer' Cohen tells federal judge he wasn’t aware AI he used had generated fake cases

Former Donald Trump lawyer and “fixer” Michael Cohen reportedly told a federal judge that he unknowingly passed along to his attorney fake legal case citations that were generated by artificial intelligence.

The fake cases, the New York Post reports, were included in filings that were part of an effort to finish his supervised release early, which followed his guilty plea on charges of tax evasion and campaign finance offenses in 2018.

A judge earlier this month, according to the Associated Press, asked a lawyer for Cohen to explain how non-existent court rulings were cited in a motion submitted on Cohen’s behalf.

In two court filings unsealed Friday, Cohen and his legal team told a Manhattan federal judge that Cohen had given the false citations to his lawyers, but wasn’t aware that the service he was using was an artificial intelligence app that could produce citations and descriptions that looked real but weren’t.