Posted on 06/13/2018 7:45:26 AM PDT by GIdget2004
As attorneys for Michael Cohen rush to meet Judge Kimba Wood’s Friday deadline to complete a privilege review of over 3.7 million documents seized in the April 9 raids of Cohen’s New York properties and law office, a source representing this matter has disclosed to ABC News that the law firm handling the case for Cohen is not expected to represent him going forward.
To date, Cohen has been represented by Stephen Ryan and Todd Harrison of the Washington and New York firm, McDermott, Will & Emery LLP.
No replacement counsel has been identified as of this time.
Cohen, now with no legal representation, is likely to cooperate with federal prosecutors in New York, sources said. This development, which is believed to be imminent, will likely hit the White House, family members, staffers and counsels hard.
After the federal raids on Cohen’s properties, President Trump lashed out in a tweet, writing, “Attorney-client privilege is dead!”
He told reporters at the White House that the move against his longtime personal attorney, which he likened to a break-in, was a “disgraceful situation.”
“It’s an attack on our country in a true sense. It’s an attack on all we stand for,” the president said during a meeting with senior military leadership at the White House. “That is really now on a whole new level of unfairness.”
Cohen then went to federal court in Manhattan arguing that his attorneys should be given a first look at the materials seized in the raids for items potentially covered by attorney-client privilege before federal prosecutors could examine the haul.
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So much for the right to representation. Now Mueller’s targets can’t even get lawyers because the lawyers don’t want to be targeted and raided too.
Didn’t see the word Russia any place oh wait Mueller....
“likely” Fake news!
Fake news
Hey Bob, you sure you’re on the right thread?
Really scary if Trump had something to hide, however, they intercepted ALL ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION between Trump and high-level officials for over a year before he became President and got squat.
He is the most vetted leader in history.
Trump is clean as a whistle.
Really scary if Trump had something to hide, however, they intercepted ALL ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION between Trump and high-level officials for over a year before he became President and got squat.
He is the most vetted leader in history.
Trump is clean as a whistle.
They must have caught him in bed with a dead underage girl, or a live boy ... My guess is the latter.
I just think its cute that they give George Stephanapoulis a by-line, like he’s a real life journalist.
Yeah, it's probably impossible to find a lawyer in NY.
“Likely to” and “sources say” means they are liars and they hope for the outcome they pose. What BS from LIB liars.
Perhaps he’ll yap about the Stormy payment??
Don’t see how else he hurts Trump.
Turned off Drudge long ago!
Snuffulufuaglos is dreaming it making that all up.
Huh? This makes even less sense than firing his lawyers in the middle of his trial. Unless they gave him immunity for anything and everything that he might have ever done since he turned 18. Plus anything that he might say or do in the future. And I've never heard of that kind of immunity.
I know he's a lawyer but so is Scooter Libby and a bunch of other lawyers (now in jail) who thought they could represent themselves.
I woke up this morning and thought, “What propaganda would the Leftist Media Complex and Deep-State have to Counter the Summit and tomorrow’s IG report”., it took me all of two minutes to find out. “May” Flip on a case that has nothing to do with Russia? Yeah, OK.
More proof, if any were needed, that Drudge is a lowlife, SLEAZEBALL.
Fake news.
The first day this creepy Clinton operative suddenly became a journalist was the day I knew journalism was over.
Oops, no. Stuff happens. 8>)
From ABC News. FAKE NEWS STORY!
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