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DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
Mon Apr 16, 2018, 09:26 AM Apr 2018

Cohen's emails reveal that he was a lawyer by name only.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/13/prosecutors-slam-trump-lawyer-cohens-hearing-request-in-fbi-raids.html

But the prosecutors say they have already conducted searches of Cohen's email accounts, "covert until this point," which they say "indicate that Cohen is in fact performing little to no legal work, and that zero emails were exchanged with President Trump."

This line of attack extends to a law firm from which Cohen received a $500,000 "strategic alliance fee" each year.

"Based upon conversations with a representative of the law firm," the attorneys said they found that:

" (1) Cohen did not have an email address associated with the firm; (2) Cohen did not have access to the firm's shared drives or document systems—and vice versa; (3) Cohen's documents were to be kept in a locked filing cabinet; and (4) Cohen did not have access to any of the firm's client files."

Counsel for the Trump Organization told the prosecutors that it considers "each and every communication by, between or amongst" Cohen, the organization and its employees to be protected by attorney-client privilege. The U.S. attorneys called that claim "inaccurate and/or overbroad."
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Cohen's emails reveal that he was a lawyer by name only. (Original Post) DetlefK Apr 2018 OP
Tom Hagen was a lawyer, too. Just like Cohen. marble falls Apr 2018 #1
Fake lawyer! Cirque du So-What Apr 2018 #2
That big well known firm paid him half a mil a year to do nothing???? dixiegrrrrl Apr 2018 #3
I hope so malaise Apr 2018 #4

Cirque du So-What

(25,941 posts)
2. Fake lawyer!
Mon Apr 16, 2018, 10:36 AM
Apr 2018

Did this scumbag even pass the bar? I recall reading that he went to the worst school in the country.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
3. That big well known firm paid him half a mil a year to do nothing????
Mon Apr 16, 2018, 10:42 AM
Apr 2018

Ohhhh....I see a subpoena in their future.
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