Posted on 04/13/2018 4:24:36 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
NEW YORK — Lawyers for President Donald Trump and his longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen went to court Friday trying to stop federal prosecutors from getting at private material — but wound up with a judge ordering them to disclose Cohen’s client list in public.
U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood on Friday ordered attorneys for Cohen to hand over a list of Cohen’s law clients and proof of their relationship by 10 a.m. Monday, so she can decide whether materials seized from Cohen’s office by federal law enforcement agents last week should be protected by attorney-client privilege.
That list will be a public record, Wood said, because the identities of an attorney’s clients are not subject to attorney-client privilege unless the mere name itself would reveal the kind of advice sought or given.
Wood’s order raises the possibility of further embarrassing disclosures involving Cohen, who is already at the center of a legal dispute involving adult-film actress Stormy Daniels, who is suing the president to void a nondisclosure agreement negotiated by Cohen concerning a sexual encounter Daniels says she had with Trump in 2006.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
She almost became Attorney general under the first Clinton Administration but had a nanny problem.
Calm down and stop assuming the rest of us are idiots that haven’t been paying attention, we are. The current “crimes” Mueller has “uncovered” are nothing burgers and he knows it (it’d be pathetic to follow through and they could be pardoned anyway). He’s rattling cages hoping something falls out of it. None of it sticks to PDJT and they know it.
They WANT to shout from the rooftops that PDJT is guilty of obstruction of justice because he’s corrupt. They’re now desperate as they’ve nothing left. The means to get rid of PDJT must be manufactured and, at this point, every day that passes Mueller and the media look more and more idiotic, have less and less credibility, and guilty of a witch hunt. Which is demonstrated by their ratings.
It’s obvious they want PDJT to fire him, it’s the “cover up” that is worse than the “crime” (e.g. Watergate). If you don’t believe every media outlet in the nation, if not the planet, isn’t ready to scream “obstruction and corruption” and demand his resignation I believe you’re the one not paying attention. Do you really believe there aren’t those in the GOPe and DNC that won’t be screaming, in unison, for him to step down? We’d never hear the end of it which would be the very “chaotic environment detrimental to the best interests of the country” they’ll claim should be the final reason for him to “do the right thing”.
If PDJT KNOWS he has done nothing wrong then he should give them more rope, to hang themselves. They would NEVER want to go into an actual court room, the defense would have exploratory powers which would drag up all the crimes by Democrats, WITH EVIDENCE, and expose this sham for what it really is. Do not do what your enemy wants, and by their behavior, this is what they want - they’re just daring him too do it.
Kimba Wood. They couldn’t pick a better judge, could they.
“It’s obvious they want PDJT to fire him, it’s the “cover up” that is worse than the “crime” (e.g. Watergate).”
Only in your mind and the idiot talking heads on TV. Trump has the constitutional authority to fire anyone of his underlings...including Mueller. Mueller is conducting an OVERT COUP under the guise/color of law.
When Mueller presents his laundry list of crimes to Congress, it will give them the cover they need to impeach Trump. It will be their duty to uphold the rule of law dontcha know. They won’t have that COVER if he exercises his constitutional authority to fire a traitorous bastard conducting a coup for the corrupt state. Got it?
ok, so you just jump to calling me an idiot.
I don’t think you’re as smart as you believe you are.
Wood is nothing more than a Clinton hack dressed in a robe.
I’m not calling you an idiot...just fuzzy in your logic ;)
All he has are accusations, not “crimes”, that would require convictions, which means trials. They NEVER intended for any of this to go to trial, it is the last thing they want as they wouldn’t be able to stop the exposure of Dem/FBI/DOJ crimes due to discovery powers of the defense. This was always about getting PDJT to resign or getting Congress to impeach, which will never happen with this Congress. So they’ll try to continue it all until the election, hoping Dems will regain majority.
If that happens, we’ll be looking at civil war as it only happen through voter fraud and evidence from a poisoned tree, rendering it unlawful.
...nothing fuzzy in this logic, the last thing they want are trials. So it’s win now or risk losing in blood. That is why it is so over the top...but it won’t work.
How can he produce a list of clients if they seized all of his records?
“How can he produce a list of clients if they seized all of his records?”
His records are gone. He can’t respond except to pull a line from Hillary’s bag of tricks: “I’m sorry; I don’t recall.”. It always worked for her.
Wood also officiated at a non-denominational wedding service for billionaire George Soros in 2013.
About the Authors:
Laura Nahmias
https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/staff/laura-nahmias
Laura Nahmias is a reporter for POLITICO New York, covering City Hall and Mayor Bill de Blasio.
Josh Gerstein
http://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/profile/josh-gerstein
Josh Gerstein is a senior White House reporter for POLITICO, specializing in legal and national security issues. Gerstein joined the pathbreaking political news outlet just before President Barack Obama’s inauguration and has reported extensively on how Obama’s pledge to close the Guantanamo Bay prison for war-on-terror captives went awry.
About the Judge:
Kimba Maureen Wood (born January 21, 1944)[1][2] is a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimba_Wood
About the court filing:
“Prosecutors said in court filings that Cohen is under criminal investigation, but no charges have been filed.”
Redacted Charging document https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000162-c035-db71-a37e-e4bff8f00001
“the USAO-SDNY has already received correspondence from counsel for the Trump Organization (Cohen’s former employer), which referenced the searches conducted of Cohen’s premises and claimed:
We consider each and every communication by, between or amongst Mr. Cohen and the Trump Organization and each of its officers, directors and employees, to be subject to and protected by the attorney-client privilege and/or the work-product privilege.”
“Accordingly, the nature of the USAO-SDNY’s investigation and the nature of the offenses—which sound in fraud and evidence a lack of truthfulness—weighed heavily in favor of the USAO-SDNY’s decision to execute search warrants.”
ROBERT S. KHUZAMI
Attorney for the United States,
Acting Under Authority Conferred
by 28 U.S.C. § 515
By:
Thomas A. McKay
Rachel Maimin
Nicolas Roos
Assistant United States Attorneys
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimba_Wood
In the Nannygate matter of 1993, Wood was Bill Clinton’s second unsuccessful choice for United States Attorney General.[7] Like Clinton’s previous nominee, Zoë Baird, Wood had hired an illegal immigrant as a nanny, but unlike Baird, she had paid the required taxes on the employee. Wood employed the illegal immigrant at a time when it was legal to do so, before the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 made the hiring of illegal immigrants unlawful.[8] The threat of a repetition of the same controversy nevertheless led to the hasty withdrawal of Wood from consideration.
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Note, she is an experienced Judge.
“Wood also officiated at a non-denominational wedding service for billionaire George Soros in 2013.”
Ouch, thanks for that bit of info. Explains a lot.
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