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Feds: Michael Cohen is barely even a lawyer
NY Post ^ | 4/13/2019 | Ruth Brown

Posted on 04/14/2018 2:14:27 AM PDT by T-Bird45

Michael Cohen is a fraud of a lawyer who works exclusively for President Trump, federal prosecutors charged Friday. “Cohen has told at least one witness that he has only [one] client — President Trump,” the lawyers wrote in court documents, challenging Cohen’s claims that records seized in raids on his home and office Monday should be protected by attorney-client privilege. And he’s barely doing any “legal work” for Trump, either, they claim. “[Reviews of the records] indicate that Cohen is in fact performing little to no legal work, and that zero ­e-mails were exchanged with President Trump,” according to the brief, filed in Manhattan federal court.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; US: New York
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
It looks as if Mike Cohen was in Italy during July 2016. I have never flown from Rome to Prague. But I have flown from Prague to Rome, and my passport was not stamped either when I left Czechia or when I arrived in Rome.

So it seems to me that his passport neither proves nor disproves anything about a Prague trip.

On the other hand,

"Vee haf ozer vays of findig out zese tings. Zo you may as vell zubmidt zu unser interogation bevore it's zu late."

121 posted on 04/14/2018 9:50:51 AM PDT by Hawthorn
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To: T-Bird45

Unlike the Clinton’s and the Obama’s he has not been disbarred.


122 posted on 04/14/2018 10:11:56 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: ReaganGeneration2

The Playboy Bunny Love Judge - is it relative? Is anything
relative anymore?

“U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood, dubbed by tabloids as the “Love Judge” for her alleged affair with a married millionaire, has filed for divorce on grounds her husband withheld sex from her for at least a year.”
https://www.deseretnews.com/article/490982/LOVE-JUDGE-SEEKS-DIVORCE-FROM-HUSBAND.html

“in the mid-1960s, a then cash-strapped Wood trained five days to be a bunny at a London Playboy Club while studying at LSE. As brief as it was, her stint at the club became a point of discussion after President Bill Clinton nominated Wood as his Attorney General in 1993. But it was her employment of an illegal immigrant that ultimately derailed her nomination for the Justice Department post.”
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2075632_2075634_2075855,00.html


123 posted on 04/14/2018 10:15:03 AM PDT by Rock N Jones (1935)
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To: T-Bird45

So he’s in-house counsel. I’ve worked for some of those. Since when does that negate attorney-client privilege?


124 posted on 04/14/2018 10:17:42 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: T-Bird45

Didn’t they leak info about some bigwig GOP donor that he worked for and negotiated hush money to a pregnant Playboy bunny or some such??? So there’s at least one more client who had their attorney-client privileged compromised!!!


126 posted on 04/14/2018 10:27:50 AM PDT by LTC.Ret
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To: T-Bird45

So if a lawyer works for a corporation, or for that matter the government, does that also make them “barely lawyers,” since THEY only have one client, their employer.

Mark


127 posted on 04/14/2018 10:29:14 AM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: Hawthorn

Given that when she did so it was legal, and that unlike Baird she paid taxes for her employee, that was weatherable and didn’t collapse her nomination. What caused her nomination to fail was the Clintons leaking out rumors of table-dancing and such once it became clear she wasn’t a radical, then withdrawing the nomination under cover of the smears.


128 posted on 04/14/2018 10:34:29 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: bitt

Don’t Q already know? ;-)


129 posted on 04/14/2018 10:42:52 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: T-Bird45
Interesting story, even more interesting timing. I have been assured by an attorney friend that raiding any attorney's office is a huge red flag no matter what their political alignment is or their client list reads. That's what "barely a lawyer" is supposed to excuse, although it's awfully weak sauce and I don't see anyone dipping into it.

Clearly Mueller was trying to provoke Trump into firing him with this activity, which is the reason he was immediately and publicly linked with it. The hazard in that is offending more people than Trump, which appears to be the case here. The media is selling this load of tripe but nobody is buying.

130 posted on 04/14/2018 10:57:39 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: T-Bird45

How is it relevant to anything whether or not he has other clients?


131 posted on 04/14/2018 12:17:21 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: MarkL
"So if a lawyer works for a corporation, or for that matter the government, does that also make them “barely lawyers,” since THEY only have one client, their employer."

A doctor who works for a hospital is "barely a doctor"?

132 posted on 04/14/2018 12:37:15 PM PDT by Sooth2222 (Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.")
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To: T-Bird45
Michael Cohen is a fraud of a lawyer who works exclusively for President Trump, federal prosecutors charged Friday.

Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III is a POS.

133 posted on 04/14/2018 1:05:24 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: Doofer

Surprise, surprise. He didn’t pick the biggest loser - YOU!


134 posted on 04/14/2018 1:26:09 PM PDT by Brown Deer (America First!)
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To: All

He is as much a lawyer as Kim Kardashian’s father who used that status to get off testifying against OJ...:^)


135 posted on 04/14/2018 1:44:48 PM PDT by az_gila
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To: T-Bird45

Not a real lawyer, yet they saw fit to leak info on one of his other clients the other day.


136 posted on 04/14/2018 1:55:12 PM PDT by Styria
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To: T-Bird45

So you only have client-attorney privilege if the state says you’re an attorney.
Then they can deny that anyone is an attorney or a client, destroying said client-attorney privilege.


137 posted on 04/14/2018 2:00:37 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: T-Bird45
Michael Cohen is a fraud of a lawyer who works exclusively for President Trump, federal prosecutors charged Friday.

Did he graduate from law school? Did he pass the bar? Does he have a license to practice law in New York? Then he isn't a "fraud"! It's nobody's business to whom or for what purpose Cohen earns his living as a lawyer. They had no business raiding his offices and home to sift for incriminating evidence on Trump or anyone else. Hilliary's attorneys didn't experience the same treatment and Justice had actual CRIMINAL charges to investigate.

138 posted on 04/14/2018 2:11:56 PM PDT by boatbums (The Law is a storm which wrecks your hopes of self-salvation, but washes you upon the Rock of Ages.)
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To: WMarshal

139 posted on 04/14/2018 2:39:26 PM PDT by boatbums (The Law is a storm which wrecks your hopes of self-salvation, but washes you upon the Rock of Ages.)
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To: blackdog
Jon Podesta is a lawyer...
Oh Wait, you said SMART!
140 posted on 04/14/2018 2:59:29 PM PDT by cq (The Obama Administration - For Leavenworth!)
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