Michael Cohen's mystery third client is Sean Hannity

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Monday, 16 April 2018

quote [ Donald Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen also represents Fox News host Sean Hannity, Cohen's attorneys said Monday afternoon.

Cohen had told the court earlier he had at least 10 clients between 2017 and 2018, including the President, and the former GOP fundraiser Elliot Broidy who acknowledged paying $1.6 million to a Playboy model with whom he had an affair. ]

Back in the good ol' U.S. of A after a month overseas, and this be the news that greeted me at home. Full in extended (sparring us CNN autoplay hell)

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Judge Kimba Wood ordered Cohen to attend and provide information about his clients as she weighs an emergency action by Cohen's attorneys to stop prosecutors from reviewing more than a dozen electronic devices and documents seized during a FBI raid of Cohen's office, home and hotel room last week.
Cohen's lawyers had publicly identified Trump and Broidy as clients, but only revealed Hannity's name after the judge ordered them to.

Cohen's lawyers have called the raid "completely unprecedented" and asked the judge to let their lawyers review the documents or put in place a special master to comb through the seized material and separate communications that should be protected by attorney client privilege.

"This is perhaps the most highly publicized search warrant in the history of recent American criminal jurisprudence. It is paramount that the review of Mr. Cohen's data and documents be handled in such a way as to eliminate, as much as possible, even the 'appearance of unfairness,'" the letter said.

Late Sunday, lawyers for Trump asked for copies of the seized material to be turned over so the President could review them for confidential information.
Prosecutors with the US attorney's office in Manhattan said they have a "filter team" of lawyers separate from those involved in the investigation in place to review the documents for any communications between Cohen and his clients.
Prosecutor Thomas McKay told the judge during a sidebar session on Friday,

"This is a fast-moving investigation. We are devoting a large amount of resources to the whole case but, in particular, to our filter team to get this review done very quickly."

Cohen acknowledged that seven of the 10 clients he had in 2017 to 2018 involved business consulting over legal advice. He also listed in broad terms his legal work in the dozen years before he began working for the Trump Organization in 2007.

Last week, prosecutors said in a court filing that they have been investigating Cohen for months "for criminal conduct that largely centers on his personal business dealings."

They also said that Cohen appeared to have few clients other than the President and they had not uncovered any emails between the two suggesting the potential risk of violating attorney client privilege was slim.

The search warrant authorizing the raid indicated prosecutors were looking into potential violations of bank fraud, wire fraud, and campaign finance violations, sources told CNN. The warrant also sought information that included payments allegedly made to keep women silent about affairs with Trump more than a decade ago.

It also emerged Cohen facilitated a $1.6 million payment to a former Playboy model who said she became pregnant from a relationship with Broidy, who was the deputy chair of the Republican National Committee until he resigned Friday when the payment became public.

Broidy admitted to the relationship in a statement but did not address whether he impregnated the woman. He said Cohen reached out to him after being contacted by Keith Davidson, an attorney representing the woman, and said he retained Trump's lawyer "after he informed me about his prior relationship with Mr. Davidson."

Davidson also represented former adult film actress Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, a former playmate. Both women claimed to have affairs with Trump, who has denied the allegations.

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[by knumbknutz@7:54pmGMT]

Comments

Hugh E. said @ 8:43pm GMT on 16th Apr [Score:1 Underrated]

Speaking of sparing us CNN autoplay hell, there is this text-only official "lite" version.

hellboy said^[1] @ 8:03pm GMT on 16th Apr

Letting law enforcement look at potentially criminal evidence without letting the criminals destroy that evidence first is "unfair" in Dumpsterworld.

Gee, conflict of interest much, Sean? Made sure to disclose that on your fake news show, right?

Ankylosaur said @ 9:25pm GMT on 16th Apr

Taking bets on how long until Trump's lawyer's lawyers need to hire themselves lawyers.

hellboy said @ 10:02pm GMT on 16th Apr [Score:1 Underrated]

It's lawyers all the way down.

Taxman said @ 3:07am GMT on 17th Apr [Score:1 Funny]

Only the best.

kylemcbitch said @ 10:24pm GMT on 16th Apr

Cohen already has more lawyers than he has clients.

We are seeing the start of a full blown Mr. Meeseeks Esquire situation here.

ComposerNate said @ 5:35am GMT on 17th Apr

Last week, I was thinking about all the rats leaving the ship, and how John Bolton was jumping on as if he knew he deserves to drown, and wondered how Sean Hannity might join them. If the Republican Party is to be dissolved, the propaganda wing cannot be left standing.

C18H27NO3 said @ 2:40pm GMT on 17th Apr

I was asking myself the same question. How can Fauxnewz and brietbart be destroyed from within? How do you pull the curtain back and expose them for what they are. Lying destroyers of society. Civility has been ignored, and the aim is to divide and conquer, not unify and progress.

Because if those two, along with sinclair disappear, the toxic culture they spread can be eliminated or at least mitigated. It's already close enough to russia's state run media.

ComposerNate said^[4] @ 2:50pm GMT on 17th Apr

Bannon was using Russian money to steal Facebook data, though I'm unsure how much Bannon's drop can sink Breitbart unless Robert Mercer is also imprisoned. The NRA was filtering Russian money into the Trump campaign, so hopefully there will be accountability for that arm of RNC propaganda. Whatever Alex Jones is, parents of two children killed in the Sandy Hook massacre have filed defamation lawsuits against him.

bbqkink said @ 6:42am GMT on 17th Apr

The more this goes on the more respect I have for Rod Rosenstein. his latest move Splitting this Trump is brilliant it up strengthens it and make it harder to attack...and put a good judge in charge it seems

You Know President Donald Trump Wants To Attack Her

norok said @ 10:56pm GMT on 16th Apr [Score:-3 Boring]
filtered comment under your threshold

Taxman said @ 3:23am GMT on 17th Apr [Score:2 Underrated]

What rights are eroding?

The government isn’t doing anything that isn’t prescribed by current law. Law enforcement is getting approval from the judiciary for any raids.

Cohen is getting his day in court.

How are you complaining about being repressed?

knumbknutz said @ 2:56pm GMT on 17th Apr

I never had privilege relations with that man

:...while responding on his radio show to news that he had been identified as one of Cohen's three clients, Hannity explicitly stated that he was never represented by nor had he ever retained Cohen. He bent over backwards to deny the relationship, claiming nothing more than a few harmless chit-chats over real estate."

C18H27NO3 said @ 5:10pm GMT on 17th Apr [Score:2 Funsightful]

So if Cohen wasn't contracted by hannity, and he wasn't his client/ no money exchanged for services, then there are no attorney client privileges to be had, or violated. Right?

Right?!!?

Ankylosaur said @ 4:20pm GMT on 17th Apr

It was nothing suspicious, he was just looking to buy a dacha.

knumbknutz said^[1] @ 5:00pm GMT on 17th Apr

Putting aside the sideshow factor here, it's a bit disconcerting that one of the most influential conservative news(*ahem*) personalities in the country is using his public platform to attempt to discredit the investigation of a man who turns out to be his own attorney.

HoZay said @ 4:38pm GMT on 17th Apr

Definitely not using Cohen's victim-silencing service.

rylex said @ 12:55am GMT on 17th Apr [Score:0 Insightful]

So like how the patriot act was passed then?

Ankylosaur said @ 2:04am GMT on 17th Apr [Score:3 Insightful]

2008: OBAMA WIlL IMPOSE SHARIA LAW!
2009: OBAMACARE WILL EUTHANIZE YOUR GRANDMA!
2010: THERE'S A COMMUNIST IN THE WHITE HOUSE!
2014: TAKE UP ARMS AGAINST THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AT BUNDY RANCH!
2016: LOCK HER UP! LOCK HER UP!
2018: Woah now, let's not cheer on rash judgements or actions...

TheThirstyMonk said @ 2:41am GMT on 17th Apr [Score:1 Underrated]

You forgot a few...

2012: SANDY HOOK WAS A FALSE FLAG BY OBAMA TO TAKE OUR GUNS!
2015: JADE HELM IS AN OBAMA PLOT TO TAKE OVER AMERICA!

mego said @ 3:20am GMT on 17th Apr

Jade Helm wasn't a conspiracy theory.

You think it's a coincidence that Texas is still a state?

ComposerNate said @ 5:39am GMT on 17th Apr

The people I don't like are the greatest threat to life on Earth, increasingly dangerous for four decades.

1	ScoobySnacks
2	HoZay
3	Paracetamol
4	lilmookieesquire
5	Ankylosaur