Parnas gives up Rudy, Rudy gives up trump. Nobody knows more about trump than Rudy, and Rudy has no loyalty.
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That "significant hardship for Mr. Parnas to continue being represented by paying two attorneys in this matter,” would quickly resolve itself if Mr. MacMahon simply followed his ethical professional responsibility to provide to persons of limited means at least 50 hours of pro bono publico legal services per year and additional services at a substantially reduced fee.
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I have to wonder if he isn’t sending a signal that he is going to start ratting everyone out if he doesn’t get some hard cash and soon. It would probably be easier and cheaper for anyone he has dirt on to arrange an “accident” so he better be careful where and what he eats and let someone else answer the door.
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Yes and if I remember right he got $1 mil from the oligarch holed up in Vienna and funneled $500k to Rudy. So there’s still $500k “off the books” somewhere.
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Rats leaving sinking ships…
I got my paralegal certificate in CA and one of the things we talked about were clients who didn’t pay their bills. In CA, you CANNOT withdraw due to non-payment. I thought this was pretty much everywhere. Can the attorney actually do this?
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Highly unlikely that DOJ has no interest in listening to Parnas make a proffer of testimony. The reporting makes it clear that DOJ is investigating multiple other people, including Giuliani. If the prosecutors were looking to do a cover up for Trump, arresting and charging Lev and Igor would be about the worst possible way to go about it.
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In Texas you can withdraw for nonpayment - lawyers aren’t slaves.
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My understanding is you cannot just dump the client, instead you have to petition the court to be released from the case, as is happening here. Amusingly, usually the petition cites something like irreconcilable differences with the client, rather than "I ain’t gonna get paid’ like this one does. The court can order the attorney to continue to represent the client regardless. I vaguely recall that for federal courts there is a fund that pays attorneys forced to continue, but it isn’t much by attorney standards, something like $125/hr. In Parnas’ case I expect the judge will release the attorney, since Parnas still has attorney Bondy (who comes up with these names?) representing him.
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You can’t dump someone in the middle of a trial - it depends on where you are in the process but a court can’t force a lawyer to work for free.
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You can ask to withdraw on the basis of non-payment in California, or any other state that I am aware of. See Calif. R. Prof’l Conduct 3-700( C )(1)(f). But you always have to ask permission of the court before you can withdraw, which is what Parnas’ attorney is doing with this motion. The judge doesn’t necessarily have to let you out of the case, and might not do so at all just depending on where the case stands, e.g., if you’re asking to withdraw right before trial.
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The legal strategy has not changed, and Mr. Parnas remains firmly committed to providing his evidence and testimony to Congress
okay, what are you waiting for,
an invitation
walk right in and start blabbing.
I’m sure someone will listen to all you have to say.
I suggest the house intelligence committee or judiciary as a good place to start.
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Bullshit…the only money that dried up is that which was being spent on his defense by others so long as he toed the line. Since he’s signaled he’s not going to, they’ve stopped paying his lawyer.
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‘Sorry, I don’t speak Russian’.
- Edward McMahon —and would an Ed McMahon guffaw be totally out of line here?
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Makes sense. I was wondering how he could be pleading financial difficulties with Kremlin $s available.
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Next up, shopping for a walker.
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He and his wife managed to get evicted at one point. Money has been flowing though his hands that he does not dare touch.
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Same in California
Wait… Parnas was playing with $ millions while jetting around Europe and Ukraine as I understand it. Did I get that wrong? Or does he have exceptionally bad financial skills?
2006 NYT story on Bondy, who once represented Peter Gotti. https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/28/nyregion/a-man-fond-of-snakes-and-accepting-of-mobsters.html