“Candidly, this man’s life has been turned upside down over the past week,” Ryan said of Cohen
Pity party at Mikey's house, this Saturday!! Be there or be square!!McDermott isn’t exactly a fly-by-night law firm. They certainly went into this knowing the difference between permissible representation and impermissible representation.
That being said … the road to hell is paved with willingness to associate with Donald Trump.
And the campaign money was from Russians?
It likely would be legal for the Trump campaign to pay Cohen’s legal bills in the Russia investigation, as long as both parties agreed to it, since that probe grew out of the 2016 campaign, experts in campaign finance say. But if the payments also cover McDermott’s representation of Cohen in the probe into his finances, they could violate campaign finance laws.
But, um, didn’t Mueller refer it to SDNY because it was not relevant to the Russia investigation?
Even more poop train stories!
Any money around Donald Trump will be used by Donald Trump for whatever he needs or whatever strikes his fancy, regardless of what the money was actually earmarked for. Exhibit A: Donald Trump’s “charity” foundation.
“Cohen has reportedly said he’d rather “jump out of a building than turn” on his friend and longtime business partner.”
That’s an odd thing to say. It’s almost like someone told him he would be ‘jumping’ out of a building if he turned on Trump.
leaving this here
Would anyone be surprised if Cohen wound up facedown in a ditch somewhere sooner than later?
The investigation has been going on for months. It came “out of the blue” for Cohen only when the feds raided his house, office, and hotel room.
On the one hand, the same lawyer can represent a client on different matters and bill them separately. On the other hand, it introduces a heck of a complication and yeah, potential ethical issues. I hope the firm has some very specific paperwork from Cohen saying that he’s ok with the same lawyer being paid by trump’s campaign and by him for things where their interests may conflict. Because otherwise there’s little question it will be a subject for both appeal and malpractice litigation once Cohen gets clobbered.
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This arrangement stinks to high heaven. it raises some serious campaign finance questions (use of money donated for political purposes for defense of a third party’s common garden variety crimes) and legal ethics. Just who do those lawyers represent and what happens when Cohen’s interest split from Trump’s which will happen soon if it hasn’t already occurred.
More and more Republitrumps have the aura of human waste. Piss. Shit. What’s next? Projectile vomit?
It came out of the blue in that his client had been getting away with crimes for decades, and now, suddenly, just because his co-conspirator is president…
This just in: Lawyer for subject of criminal probe says candidly that his client has done nothing wrong! Investigators react: Apologize for disrupting innocent man’s life, give him two orchestra tickets for “Hamilton” and coupon for dinner for two at Cheesecake Factory!
And the campaign money was from Russians?
I wondered about that myself.
According to last night’s Maddow, a good part of the Cohen raid was explicitly focused on Drumpf. The charges were redacted in the public presentation, but are generally known to relate to campaign finance, bank and wire fraud. I’m thinking Cohen was involved with illegal contributions and a slush fund (which brings in the silencing payments to various former lovers.) While I think it’s worth asking whether or not Donnie represented these contributions as his own money, I’d guess these weren’t dominantly Russian or apparently Russian-influenced, or there would have been no need to refer the case to SDNY as they’d have fallen within Mueller’s purview.