[elhombrelibre]

Cohen may not be too bright, but Trump always says he hires the best. So there’s that claim to deal with as people consider their cognitive dissonance. That is, if those people cogitate.

[Lisbon1940]

Cogitating is hard.

[irishjuggler]

Cohen attended law school at Western Michigan, a bottom tier school that accepts practically everyone who applies and has a poor bar passage rate. Now, that's not to say that everyone who goes there is dumb. I'm sure that there are some bright people who attend a school like that out of convenience because they live in the Lansing area, are working a job in the area, are entering the legal field as a second career, etc. Cohen, on the other hand, is from Long Island. The primary reason for him to attend a law school like that is because he's not very bright. Ditto his undergrad school of American U. It's always had a reputation as destination for dumb rich kids.

Long before any of his troubles began, I was never impressed with Cohen. I used to cringe when he would come on the cable shows as a Trump surrogate. He always struck me as an obnoxious blowhard.

[Raycpa]

Each attorney has a different purpose.

[Krosan]

Google “Michael Cohen mob connections”. A lot of interesting stuff comes up.

[Krosan]

One other thing ... people rightfully doubt what is written in press now, so this is from a book published in 2000.

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From a modest office at the El Caribe Country Club, a catering hall and restaurant, the Leningrad- born Agron ran a vicious extortion ring that terrorized the Russian emigre community. “They were scared shitless of him,” FBI agent William Moschella has recalled. By 1980, his gang was bringing in tens of thousands of dollars a week. Agron’s victims ran the gamut from Russian doctors and lawyers to shopkeepers and grocery store owners on Brighton Beach Avenue. “What if they refused to pay?” chuckled a gang member in mock amusement. “We’d beat them in their store right in front of
everybody. But they paid. They knew what was coming if they didn’t pay. They knew they’d get murdered, if they don’t pay.”

Agron once threatened to kill a Russian emigre’s daughter on her wedding day if he didn’t pay $15,000. Going to the police would have simply guaranteed a late-night visit from one of Agron’s henchmen, like the Nayfeld brothers, or the forty-five-year-old Technicolor killer Emile Puzyretsky. “Puzyretsky had a great contempt for life. He killed his enemies with force, fury, and no mercy,” a Russian Militia colonel recalled.

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The Nayfeld brothers were just as savage. The steroid-enhanced thugs emigrated from Gomel, Russia, in the early 1970s. The black-bearded Benjamin, a former member of the Soviet Olympic weightlifting team, was a bear of a man with a twenty-two-inch neck. He once killed a Jewish youth in a Brighton Beach parking lot in front of dozens of witnesses by picking him up like a ragdoll with one hand and plunging a knife into his heart with the other. The teenager had allegedly insulted Benjamin’s girlfriend and reached for a weapon. After the murder, eighteen witnesses vouched for Benjamin’s version of events, insisting the stabbing was a justifiable homicide, and the case was dropped.

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So that’s the sort of business that was ran from the country club Michael’s uncle owned and where he himself owns a stake now. He is a mafia lawyer!