Oh Lordy, let there be tapes!
Heh. Friday the thirteenth, mofos!
@isepick I see what you did there. I approve.
You really have to wonder if Cohen has created a new metric for “Really Fucking Stupid”
Seriously ?
Recordings?
By an Attorney
Digital no less. Digital is forever
Even if he wipes the hard drives it’s still there
If he did it with his phone it’s still there
@sickneffintired I think there’s a slight flaw in your analysis. Cohen pretends to be a lawyer, but he’s really just a thug in a cheap suit.
Somewhere, Alexander Butterfield is smiling.
When I was an active reporter, I gotta say that the one-party consent thing in new york was really helpful.
It also sounds as if relatively few of these conversations will be protected by any kind of privilege, especially if Cohen was in the habit of playing them to third parties.
But Trump knows everything about the cyber and he says you can acid wash those recordings except it’s a very expensive process. 
Seriously, though, these people, I swear. Always taking advantage, never being altruistic, always suspecting others of being just as crooked as themselves. It’s like they don’t realize there’s a whole world out there full of relatively trustworthy people who agree to do things, shake hands, do what they said they’d do, then pay the bill and everyone’s happy. There are spouses who stay faithful, rich people who help their less fortunate neighbors, public servants who actually serve the public. It’s nice, that world. And they have no idea.
‘‘Cohen would record business and political conversations, save the tapes and often play them for colleagues.’’
what about Attorney-client privilege?
He was absent that day.
Imagine the treasure trove this will be. The sky’s the limit! 
Point taken
Not far from the truth
He ain’t done much Lawyerin’
His appearance as the accused in court will probably be the first time he has seen the inside of a courtroom
Michael Cohen, the Donald Trump attorney under federal investigation, has a Michigan connection: He is a 1991 graduate of Cooley Law School.
Cohen, 51, attended Cooley’s Lansing campus, according to a spokesman for the law school, which is now affiliated with Western Michigan University.
A native of Long Island, N.Y., Cohen went to American University for his bachelor’s degree. After graduating law school, he was co-owner of a taxicab company and got involved in real estate. He was hired by the Trump organization in 2006.
There is no privilege having Cohen for your attorney.
I actually think it’s one of the few smart things he’s done. When working with someone as woefully dishonest and childishly vindictive as PP, it only makes sense to hold onto some insurance. When he throws Cohen under the bus, and he will if he thinks it suits him, Cohen will have tapes that either prove he’s telling the truth or that can be leveraged as part of plea negotiations.
When the fat lady’s libretto is recited, the very stable genius will be indicted.
Trump allies are concerned.
But I thought if he’s innocent then there’s nothing to hide.
He is a lawyer in name only. So they can claim privilege when their backs are against the wall.
Absolutely
Took me a while but I think I got it. Didn’t Butterfield admit to the existence of the Nixon tapes but said he never previously volunteered their existence because no one ever asked him?