AOC's questions years ago helped spark the investigation into Trump's business. Now, he's been ordered to pay $355 million.
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In 2019, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez questioned Michael Cohen about Donald Trump. Cohen's answers eventually led to Letitia James's fraud lawsuit.

In 2019, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez questioned Michael Cohen about Donald Trump. Cohen’s answers eventually led to Letitia James’s fraud lawsuit.

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    In 2019, Cohen, the former Trump lawyer who was sentenced in 2018 to three years in prison for crimes he committed while working for Trump, testified before the House Oversight and Reform Committee.

    Ocasio-Cortez again asked Cohen if the former president had ever inflated his assets. “Yes,” Cohen answered.

    “Who else knows that the president did this?” she continued.

    “Allen Weisselberg, Ron Lieberman, and Matthew Calamari,” Cohen answered, referring to the former Trump Org CFO, current executive vice president, and current COO, respectively.

    Weisselberg was ordered to pay $1 million in penalties on Friday.

    “I thank Judge Engoron for his acknowledgment of my veracity and hope this helps to expose Trump, Habba, Kise, and Robert’s never-ending lies and attacks about me,” Cohen said in a statement to Business Insider. “Truth always rises!”

    James gave a nod to Ocasio-Cortez’s line of questioning when she filed her lawsuit in 2022.

    “I will remind everyone that this investigation only started after Michael Cohen, the former lawyer, his former lawyer, testified before Congress and shed light on this misconduct,” James said at the time.

    Cohen later testified in October during the trial, saying that Trump “arbitrarily elected” numbers when valuing his assets. “And my responsibility, along with Allen Weisselberg, primarily, was to reverse engineer” the value of Trump Organization assets, Cohen said, “to achieve the number that Mr. Trump tasked us.”