According to reports on December 29, 2023, court documents released that day showed that Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen admitted that he had misrepresented a false court precedent generated by an artificial intelligence (AI) program, which was included as a reference document in a formal court document.
Cohen is expected to be the key witness against Trump in a criminal trial against the former US president. He said in a sworn affidavit in Manhattan federal court that he did not realize the cases generated by the artificial intelligence program were fictitious.
Cohen's attorneys attached the cases to a motion asking the court to early end Cohen's supervised release status, which he had previously been in prison for related to campaign finance violations.
U.S. District Court Judge Jesse Furman said earlier in December 2023 that the three court cases cited in the motion did not exist. He asked Cohen's attorney, David Schwartz, to explain why Cohen should not be punished for citing a non-existent case.