By Lauren del Valle and Devan Cole|CNN

Former President Donald Trump is taking legal action against Michael Cohen for $500 million in damages for presumably breaching his agreement as Trump's previous personal attorney.

The suit, submitted in a Florida federal court on Wednesday, accuses Cohen of spreading out incorrect info about Trump and breaching his contractual obligations to the former president in Cohen's public statements, published books, podcast series and other media looks.

Cohen, Trump's onetime "fixer," has actually just recently reentered the national spotlight after Trump pleaded not guilty recently to 34 charges of falsifying organization records following an investigation into hush cash payments made to adult movie star Stormy Daniels. The payments were coordinated by Cohen in the days prior to the 2016 election, and Cohen's cooperation with district attorneys has actually drawn the ire of the former president.

" Mr. Trump is once again utilizing and abusing the judicial system as a kind of harassment and intimidation against Michael Cohen," Lanny Davis, Cohen's attorney, stated in a statement.

" Mr. Cohen will not be hindered and is positive that the fit will stop working based upon the truths and the law," he included.

Trump's legal team stated in the fit that the former president has "no option but to seek legal redress" to combat an emboldened Cohen, who they declare has actually recently ramped up incorrect declarations about his former employer.

According to the claim, Cohen revealed secret information in speaking about his prior-attorney-client relationship with Trump throughout media interviews about the Manhattan District Attorney's grand jury examination that caused the former president's indictment.

" During one such look, for example, Defendant talked about that he testified in front of the Manhattan District Attorney's grand jury, and suggested that Plaintiff was, by virtue of Defendant's knowledge of secret information, criminally exposed," the lawsuit states.

Cohen also breached an employee privacy agreement he signed with The Trump Organization when he released his 2 books that discuss Trump, the lawsuit claims.

Cohen "picked to take advantage of his private relationship with (Trump) to pursue financial gain and repair a reputation shattered by his repeated misstatements and deceptive acts, fueled by his animus toward the Plaintiff and his family members," the suit states.

Cohen never ever asked for consent from Trump to disclose any secret information that ought to've been safeguarded by that agreement and his attorney-client commitments before publishing the books, according to the lawsuit.

The problem also declares that, like his books, Cohen has actually put out "inflammatory, deceptive, or outright false" info in his podcast "Mea Culpa."