Elijah Cummings is the sleazeball who ordered IRS Thug Lois Lerner to oppress conservatives.
The Rats in the IRS fed Cohens tax returns to Avenatti. No one has even been suspended.
I don't think he gave LL her marching orders. She got them from the Obama Executive branch.
However, I will agree that EC is a despicable Congresscritter. I watched C-SPAN back in ~2012 when the House hearing were going on and EC was on that committee. Poor Jim Jordan fought the good fight but EC and the Demonrats fought the Republicans to a standstill and thus won. I haven't watched Congressional hearings on C-SPAN since.