Donald Trump's longtime “fixer” and personal attorney has been sentenced to to 36 months (3 years) in federal prison, plus an additional 3 years of supervised release, in a case in the Southern District of New York. Read the rest
When Lanny Davis announced the launch of the Michael Cohen Truth Fund campaign through GoFundMe, he should have been laughed off of television. Appearing on the Today Show, Davis said his client "needs help from the American people to tell the truth." At that moment, Lanny became less like a lawyer and more like a televangelist. "We can save this nation from the firey pits of hell with the truth that only our dear brother Michael can deliver! Pick up the phone now and give in the name of the Lord Almighty!" Oh, and the cost of that truth? $500,000.
1 in 3 campaigns on GoFundMe are to cover medical expenses. People desperately looking for money to cover a surgery, pay for chemo costs, get a wheelchair for their kid. Money can be raised via GoFundMe for virtually anything. But there's something especially revolting about using it to help the man who once famously said he take a bullet for the President whose shitty health care policies are what has driven a lot of those desperate people to GoFund Me in the first place.
Less than 24 hours after its launch, the Michael Cohen Truth Fund has raised over $133,000. When I saw that amount, I was horrified. This is money that'll go to a man who purchased a $6.7 million dollar apartment FOUR months ago. A man who spent nearly a decade as Donald Trump's personal Ray Donovan. A man who didn't give a flying rat's ass about telling the truth until he realized he was looking at a lengthy prison sentence. Read the rest
A federal judge rejected a request from President Donald Trump and from Michael Cohen, his personal lawyer, for a temporary restraining order to keep federal prosecutors from reading files seized in 'no-knock' FBI raids last week. Read the rest
In New York today, a judge ordered Michael Cohen to reveal the name of a third client, someone who didn't want to be named. It's Sean Hannity. Read the rest
Four days after FBI agents raided Michael Cohen and seized loads of potential evidence, President Donald Trump called his longtime personal lawyer just “to check in” and see how things were going, no big deal.
“Defense lawyers often caution witnesses and subjects to no talk during an ongoing investigation because it appears like they may be conspiring together,” says the New York Times' Michael Schmidt about the story. Read the rest
A court filing in the case of President Donald Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen shows that prosecutors obtained “covert” search warrants on multiple email accounts belonging to Cohen. An early report says “Cohen is in fact performing little to no legal work,” according to sources, and “zero emails were exchanged with President Trump.”
If that's the case, attorney-client privilege doesn't apply.
According to all that is publicly known, Trump does not use email, personally. Others may read out the contents to him, or print out the messages. But he doesn't email.
Significant: In seeking the search warrants for Michael Cohen court docs say, the Government asserts concern "records could have been deleted" without the search of Michael Cohen's property.
— Shimon Prokupecz (@ShimonPro) April 13, 2018
FYI: they are therefore arguing attorney-client privilege does NOT apply. https://t.co/rO981OrAsw
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) April 13, 2018
Breaking: Court filing reveals prosecutors obtained “covert” search warrants on multiple email accounts of #MichaelCohen, showing “Cohen is in fact performing little to no legal work, and that zero emails were exchanged with President Trump."
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) April 13, 2018
Breaking: US Atty in NY argues #MichaelCohenRaid sought evidence of conduct “for which Cohen is under criminal investigation.” Court filing redacts what he is under investigation for. Filing responds to Cohen’s motion to restrain evidence collected.
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) April 13, 2018
Trump doesn't use email... https://t.co/HDJjWY4DfJ
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) April 13, 2018
Judge: “how did you get that understanding?”
Cohens lawyer: “discussions among the defense team about the case”
Judge: “who on the defense team said there were thousands?!?...How do you as an officer of the court have basis to tell me there are thousands of documents?”
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— Amber Jamieson (@ambiej) April 13, 2018
Just another Friday afternoon: Cohen search was separate from Mueller probe, prosecutors say https://t.co/pzaw3VuGMw via @bpolitics
— Joe Schneider (@joe_in_nyc) April 13, 2018
The government response to Michael Cohen’s motion to block review of the material seized during the search of his office https://t.co/5StphsLBxC
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) April 13, 2018
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