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  • Michael Cohen investigation

    Posted by btomba_77 on April 12, 2018 at 12:40 pm

    I guess this is now outside of Mueller’s purview. So Trump’s attorney needs a new thread of his own outside of Mueller or Stormy.
     
    This is the latest:
     
    Federal investigators have requested all communications between two top execs. at American Media Inc. which publishes the [i]National Enquirer[/i]  and Michael Cohen, [link=https://www.msnbc.com/katy-tur/watch/sources-feds-seeking-communications-between-trump-s-lawyer-and-tabloid-execs-1209443395619]NBC News[/link] reports.

    btomba_77 replied 1 year, 5 months ago 12 Members · 201 Replies
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  • 100574

    Member
    April 12, 2018 at 12:53 pm

    I wonder about the taxi cab stuff
    uber has taken bizness
    what did his Ukraine wife know about their taxi bizness
    can she be deported

    • 100574

      Member
      April 12, 2018 at 12:58 pm

      I could see Trump as a White Bulger type–ratting people out to the feds in the past–being the front for all kinds of things
      maybe MC and Trump have stuff on each other but will have to see if he loves family over Trump
      Donnie D who he had lunch with( what a way to ruin his brand) mentioned a leap out of a window–maybe they have a special trump tower window?????

  • btomba_77

    Member
    April 12, 2018 at 4:52 pm

    Breaking News: NYTimes reporting that the FBI seized multiple recordings of conversations between Cohen and a number of his and Trump’s associates.

    Speculation that the recordings include friends and adversaries alike. Questions about NY’s one/two-party consent recording laws.

    • henriqueabreu

      Member
      April 12, 2018 at 4:55 pm

      I can’t wait for the movie.

      • kaldridgewv2211

        Member
        April 12, 2018 at 5:15 pm

        Stormy lawyer out there saying Cohen will plead the fifth if the case goes forward. Lordy I hope theres tapes – Comey

        • 100574

          Member
          April 12, 2018 at 5:54 pm

          President Donald Trump had a relationship with a former housekeeper and fathered a child with her, a former Trump World Tower doorman claimed in a statement released Thursday afternoon.
          The doorman, Dino Sajudin, spoke out after reports published Thursday morning detailed his agreement with American Media Inc., the publisher of [i]The National Enquirer[/i] that included a $30,000 payment for the exclusive rights to the story.
          Today I awoke to learn that a confidential agreement that I had with AMI (The National Inquirer) with regard to a story about President Trump was leaked to the press, Sajudin statements to CNN read. “I can confirm that while working at Trump World Tower I was instructed not to criticize President Trumps former housekeeper due to a prior relationship she had with President Trump which produced a child.
          [b] [/b][i][/i][u][/u][strike][/strike]
          –deep stuff
          drip drip drip

          • 100574

            Member
            April 12, 2018 at 5:55 pm

            I am waiting for the ID of the guy who threatened Stormy

            • 100574

              Member
              April 12, 2018 at 5:57 pm

              we know from Stormy –no protection used–like Arnold is turning out to have been the perfect replacement for celebrity apprentice if the housekeeper stuff is true

              • 100574

                Member
                April 12, 2018 at 7:33 pm

                quote of the day–U can’t be a fixer while in the federal pen
                and definitely if U are disbarred

                • heenadevk1119_462

                  Member
                  April 12, 2018 at 7:52 pm

                  How about Dershowitz and Turley links for once? Both left leaning, reasonable thinkers that go entirely against your narrative. They know what’s going on is a witch hunt.

                  • 100574

                    Member
                    April 12, 2018 at 9:16 pm

                    Alan Dirtbag imho has nothing to say–his 15 minutes left when he defended OJ

                    Quote from Dr. ****er

                    How about Dershowitz and Turley links for once? Both left leaning, reasonable thinkers that go entirely against your narrative. They know what’s going on is a witch hunt.

  • kaldridgewv2211

    Member
    April 13, 2018 at 5:27 am

    Quote from Dr. ****er

    How about Dershowitz and Turley links for once? Both left leaning, reasonable thinkers that go entirely against your narrative. They know what’s going on is a witch hunt.

    Dershowitz is auditioning for a spot on team Trump.  He goes on TV and pretends like he doesn’t know the bar is set pretty high for authorization to raid Cohen.

    • btomba_77

      Member
      April 13, 2018 at 2:28 pm

      Absolute craziness with Cohen in court today.
       
      He is trying to supress the info.   Judge wants Cohen’s lawyer to provide a client list in order to help determine what is privileged…. they won’t provide it yet.
       
      Cohen tries to claim that Trump/Story Daniels -related material is privileged but government says that public statements by [i]both[/i] Trump and Cohen prove that it wasn’t an attorney-client action.
       
       
      [url=https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/13/michael-cohen-hearing-fbi-raid-522053]Cohen fights to supress seized info [/url]
       
       

  • btomba_77

    Member
    April 13, 2018 at 2:36 pm

    Previously reporting had that [i]maybe[/i] Cohen had recordings seized ….

    [url=http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/383104-fbi-agents-seized-trump-lawyers-recordings-of-conversations-in-raid]FBI agents seized Trump lawyer’s recordings of conversations in raid[/url]

    FBI agents who raided the office, hotel room and home of [link=http://thehill.com/people/donald-trump]President Trump[/link]’s personal attorney this week seized recordings during the search, [link=http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-cohen-spoke-friday-feds-seized-recordings/story?id=54453746]ABC News reported Friday[/link].

    What’s contained in the recordings is unclear, but Michael Cohen was known to have occasionally taped his conversations with others and would play them back for colleagues.

    The revelation that the FBI obtained recordings during the raid comes a day after The Washington Post reported that some of [link=http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/382951-trump-advisers-fear-fbi-seized-trump-lawyers-recordings-of]Trump’s allies were worried that investigators may have seized recorded conversations[/link]between Trump and Cohen.

    Agents conducting the Monday-morning r

    [/QUOTE]

    • btomba_77

      Member
      April 13, 2018 at 2:40 pm

       
       
      [link=http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/383071-ny-prosecutors-blast-cohen-request-on-seized-evidence]http://thehill.com/policy…est-on-seized-evidence[/link]
       

      “Cohen now seeks the extraordinary remedy of preventing the United States Attorneys Office for the Southern District of New York … from reviewing lawfully obtained evidence of Cohens alleged criminal conduct,” the filing reads.
       
      “This request is unprecedented and is not supported by case law in this Circuit,” the filing continues.
       
      The information gathered Monday, the attorneys say, largely relates to Cohen’s own business dealings and not his communications with Trump.
       
      “The information gathered thus far in the investigation suggests that the overwhelming majority of evidence seized during the searches will not be privileged material, but rather will relate to Cohens business dealings,” the filing reads.

      • 100574

        Member
        April 13, 2018 at 4:20 pm

        Sources: Mueller has evidence Cohen was in Prague in 2016, confirming part of dossier[/h3] [b] [/b][i] [/i][u][/u][strike][/strike]
         

        • 100574

          Member
          April 13, 2018 at 9:57 pm

          if the Regency Hotel had any respect imho-they should ask Michael Cohen to leave–he and his soprano looking friends hanging out in front of the hotel is not a good look for the brand

          • 100574

            Member
            April 13, 2018 at 9:59 pm

            the Sopranos mobsters loitering outside

        • btomba_77

          Member
          April 14, 2018 at 5:15 am

          Quote from sentinel lymph node

          Sources: Mueller has evidence Cohen was in Prague in 2016, confirming part of dossier [b] [/b][i] [/i][u][/u][strike][/strike]

           
          [link=http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article208870264.html]McClatchy[/link] report:
           
          The Justice Department special counsel has evidence that Donald Trumps personal lawyer and confidant, Michael Cohen, secretly made a late-summer trip to Prague during the 2016 presidential campaign. 
           
          Confirmation of the trip would lend credence to a retired British spys report that Cohen strategized there with a powerful Kremlin figure about Russian meddling in the U.S. election.
           
          It would also be one of the most significant developments thus far in Special Counsel Robert Muellers investigation of whether the Trump campaign and the Kremlin worked together to help Trump win the White House. Undercutting Trumps repeated pronouncements that there is no evidence of collusion, it also could ratchet up the stakes if the president tries, as he has intimated he might for months, to order Muellers firing.
           

  • btomba_77

    Member
    April 14, 2018 at 5:49 am

    [link=https://www.aclu.org/blog/executive-branch/crime-fraud-exception-michael-cohen-case]ACLU statement on the Cohen raid[/link]

    [h1]The Crime-Fraud Exception in the Michael Cohen Case [/h1]

    On Tuesday morning, President Trump reacted to the news that the FBI searched the office of his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, by tweeting Attorneyclient privilege is dead! On Monday night, he called the search an attack on our country. Nothing could be further from the truth. While all the facts are not yet known publicly, all indications thus far are that the search was conducted pursuant to the rule of law, and with sign-offs from Trump appointees. 

    We dont say this lightly. The ACLU is the nations premier defender of privacy, and weve long maintained that the right of every American to speak freely to his or her attorney is essential to the legal system. These rights are protected by the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments, and we are second to none in defending them often for people with whom we fundamentally disagree.
    But we also believe in the rule of law as an essential foundation for civil liberties and civil rights. And perhaps the first principle of the rule of law is that no one not even the president, let alone his lawyer is above the law.  And no one, not even the president, can exploit the attorney-client privilege to engage in crime or fraud.

    We dont know all the reasons and circumstances for the FBI search of Cohens office and home. News reports suggest that the focus is on Cohens payments to two women, adult film star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal to suppress their stories of affairs with Donald Trump, and that these payments may have been illegal. But what is clear is that prosecutors had to overcome high hurdles to obtain the search warrant. That the warrant was issued is not a sign that the attorney-client privilege is dead. It is, on the contrary, a sign that the rule of law is alive.[/QUOTE]

    ^
     

  • btomba_77

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    April 14, 2018 at 3:29 pm

    From your lips to gods ears:

    [link=https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/michael-cohen-and-the-end-stage-of-the-trump-presidency]Adam Davidson[/link]: [b]Michael Cohen and the End Stages of the Trump Presidency[/b]

    This is the week we know, with increasing certainty, that we are entering the last phase of the Trump Presidency. This doesnt feel like a prophecy; it feels like a simple statement of the apparent truth. I know dozens of reporters and other investigators who have studied Donald Trump and his business and political ties. Some have been skeptical of the idea that President Trump himself knowingly colluded with Russian officials. It seems not at all Trumpian to participate in a complex plan with a long-term, uncertain payoff.

    However, I am unaware of anybody who has taken a serious look at Trumps business who doesnt believe that there is a high likelihood of rampant criminality.

    Of course Trump is raging and furious and terrified. Prosecutors are now looking at his core. Cohen was the key intermediary between the Trump family and its partners around the world; he was chief consigliere and dealmaker throughout its period of expansion into global partnerships with sketchy oligarchs. He wasnt a slick politico who showed up for a few months. He knows everything, he recorded much of it, and now prosecutors will know it, too. It seems inevitable that much will be made public. We dont know when. We dont know the precise path the next few months will take. There will be resistance and denial and counterattacks. But it seems likely that, when we look back on this week, we will see it as a turning point. We are now in the end stages of the Trump Presidency.

    • yao.bw39_792

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      April 15, 2018 at 9:32 pm

      [link=https://www.lawfareblog.com/prosecuting-attorneys-alongside-clients-some-recent-examples]https://www.lawfareblog.c…s-some-recent-examples[/link]

    • tdetlie_105

      Member
      April 15, 2018 at 10:04 pm

      Quote from dergon

      However, I am unaware of anybody who has taken a serious look at Trumps business who doesnt believe that there is a high likelihood of [b]rampant criminality.[/b]

      Silly question, Trump’s shadiness in business as a private citizen could lead to his impeachment? 

      • 100574

        Member
        April 15, 2018 at 10:49 pm

        Comey was being kind with morally unfit–
        -U have a person on tape describing himself as a female B hitting on a married women/bragging about serial rape like behavior/4 failed casinos/stiffed contractor/-a serial pathologic liar/multiple baby mommas and possibly the next speaker(Mccarthy ) stating I think he gets paid by Putin( recorded on tape by a CIA agent)-the fellas in the hood would call him something stronger than just morally unfit
        Comey–has remained consistent–Trump has not-Comey has a qualified lawyer not in fear of not being paid and being thrown under the bus
        Yates/Comey/McCabe/Clapper= credible witnesses that don’t require an idiot fixer who is so sloppy that he can’t construct a proper non disclosure
        Comey’s biggest mistake was thinking he could contain Trump and the GOP would support him because of the Russia issue-he does not realize what I believe is multiple GOP are imbedded with Russia as the McCarthy tape proves–hopefully California will flip the house

        Quote from jd4540

        Quote from dergon

        However, I am unaware of anybody who has taken a serious look at Trumps business who doesnt believe that there is a high likelihood of [b]rampant criminality.[/b]

        Silly question, Trump’s shadiness in business as a private citizen could lead to his impeachment? 

  • btomba_77

    Member
    April 16, 2018 at 3:13 am

    [url=[link=https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/breaking-president-trump-moves-to-intervene-in-michael-cohen-fbi-raid-case/]https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile…fbi-raid-case/[/link] ]Trump asks to review material seized in Cohen raid; wants to stop taint team review[/url]

    “Attorneys for President Donald Trump have filed a letter with Federal Judge Kimba M. Wood in the Southern District of New York to intervene in the ongoing investigation of his personal attorney Michael Cohen. They are seeking to put an immediate stop to the review of documents seized by the FBI. Earlier this week, federal investigators raided the office and hotel room of Cohen, in an attempt to gather evidence about alleged bank fraud and possible campaign violations as it relates to his involvement in paying hush money to several women who say they had affairs with Trump.

    [link=https://www.scribd.com/document/376452375/Letter-from-Trump-s-Attorney-RE-COHEN-RAID]In the letter filed Sunday evening[/link], Trumps attorneys assert that he is the privilege-holder in the attorney relationship that is in jeopardy because of the FBI raid. As such, Trump objects to the use of so-called taint teams to assess whether documents violate his rights. Trump is asking the judge to put a stop to the DOJs review of any of the seized material immediately, and to allow him the opportunity to review the documents first.”

     

    Isn’t that exactly what a taint team is for? If they find that nothing is in there, nobody except the taint team sees it and they can’t be asked to disclose since they’re bound by the same Trump-Cohen privilege?

     If the lawyer is part of the criminal wrongdoing or it’s currently ongoing, the information is also not privileged, which is what the warrant presumably was for. And signed off by multiple republican appointees.
     

    Suspects in a criminal investigation don’t get to pick and choose what evidence can be investigated and used for a trial.

     
    I don’t think this is going to fly. A Hail Mary.

    • kayla.meyer_144

      Member
      April 16, 2018 at 6:15 am

      “Taint” team.
       
      Someone has a sense of humor. But they are looking a few millimeters too anterior…

      • btomba_77

        Member
        April 16, 2018 at 7:49 am

        Silly question, Trump’s shadiness in business as a private citizen could lead to his impeachment? 

         
        Impeachment is a purely political process.  An “impeachable offense” is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives says it is.
         
        And then the Senate gets to decide if the infraction warrants removal from office.
         
         
        ____
         
        Politically, … just my $0.02 …. if it’s nothing more than “Trump paid off women” and “Had some shady real estate dealings” it is unlikely to lead to removal from office.
         
        A lot of people around him would go down for their crimes (or get pardoned) but it wouldn’t take him down.
         
        I suppose if it was deluge of criminality… multiple potential felonies related to Trump’s business practices … maybe it could get him.
         
        But really in order for it to take him down there has to criminal activity that ties directly to Russian collaboration.

        • btomba_77

          Member
          April 16, 2018 at 8:04 am

          [url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/04/16/what-to-make-of-the-dramatic-court-fight-over-michael-cohens-documents/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.51b2d74c10d9]What to make of the dramatic fight over Michael Cohen’s documents[/url]

          Paul Rosenzweig, who served with the independent counsel that investigated President Bill Clinton in the 1990s, was skeptical that {Judge Kimba} Wood would give Cohens team the power to review its own documents.

          If the government had reason to think that was not a problem, they would have just subpoenaed him in the first place. Then Cohen would have been his own taint team, said Rosenzweig, who serves as a senior fellow at the center right think tank the R-Street Institute.
           
          Unless the judge thinks theres something really wonky going on with the governments investigation, she aint going to let Trumps lawyers be on the taint team.

          [/QUOTE]

        • yao.bw39_792

          Member
          April 16, 2018 at 8:05 am

          another tidbit
          [link=https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/16/michael-cohen-client-list-526288]https://www.politico.com/…hen-client-list-526288[/link]

          • 100574

            Member
            April 16, 2018 at 10:33 am

            we have to watch this judge if she rules in 45 way–Roy Cohn was famous about just let me control the judge

  • btomba_77

    Member
    April 16, 2018 at 12:03 pm

    [url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/michael-cohens-third-client-is-sean-hannity][b]Sean Hannity[/b] is one of Michael Cohen’s mystery clients[/url]
     
     

    AP[/h4]

    Michael Cohen represented Fox News host Sean Hannity, Cohen’s lawyers were forced to reveal in federal court on Monday. Cohen was present at a hearing where his attorneys are challenging the FBIs seizure of documents he claims are protected by attorney-client privilege. Cohens other two clients in recent years, he said, are President Donald Trump and Elliot Broidy, a Republican fundraiser. Cohen negotiated non-disclosure agreements with Trump and Broidy’s alleged mistresses.

     
     
    Let the Hannity-settlement-for-sexual-encounter digging begin.
     
     

    • kaldridgewv2211

      Member
      April 16, 2018 at 12:18 pm

      I think it calls into question his own journalistic integrity (if there is any) since this seems like a conflict of interest between him and Fox News.

      • btomba_77

        Member
        April 16, 2018 at 12:31 pm

        Quote from DICOM_Dan

        I think it calls into question his own journalistic integrity (if there is any) since this seems like a conflict of interest between him and Fox News.

        Get ready for one of those “already scheduled” vacations.

  • btomba_77

    Member
    April 16, 2018 at 1:47 pm

    Michael never represented me in any matter, I never retained him in the traditional sense as retaining a lawyer, I never received an invoice from Michael, I never paid legal fees to Michael. We definitely had attorney client privilege because I asked him for that but, you know, he never sent me a bill or an invoice or did I actually officially retain him.
     
    Sean Hannity, quoted by [link=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-wants-review-some-materials-seized-cohen-fbi-raid-n866226]NBC News[/link], later adding that he might have handed Michael Cohen 10 bucks.
     

    • kaldridgewv2211

      Member
      April 16, 2018 at 3:46 pm

      So this would mean that Cohen is lying to the court? One or the other is being misleading or untruthful.

      • 100574

        Member
        April 16, 2018 at 6:46 pm

        I wonder if Hannity did a FIXER consult on when he had the gun pointing incident with respect to Juan Williams–like yo dog I pointed a gun at a black male dem co-worker

  • 100574

    Member
    April 16, 2018 at 11:37 pm

    could Hannity be indicted???–I have noticed KimDotcom postings on his twitter page—it really makes You wonder about Trump’s vivid comment to HRC in the debate that the hacker could be some 400 pound person sitting on his bed
    Kim would have multiple reasons to want to get back at Obama/hack US elections imho–he has still not come here for trial–then I started reading old NZ Herald news clippings which is owned by who and I found this bizarre story( something is very not Kosher imho here)
    When Seth Rich’s Gmail account received an alert this week from Mega.com, attempting to start a new account on a website created by the New Zealand-based internet businessman and convicted hacker Kim Dotcom, his family knew that something was off.
    Over seven frenzied days, Dotcom had become a leading purveyor of the theory that Rich, a staffer at the Democratic National Committee who was shot dead near his home in Washington last summer, had supplied DNC documents to WikiLeaks and was killed as a result. Multiple security analysts and an FBI investigation have tied the release to hackers with ties to Russia. D.C. police have said repeatedly that they think Rich was slain in a random robbery attempt.
     
    [b] [/b][i] [/i]
    According to experts and Rich’s family, the emailed invitation from welcome  @mega.nz appeared to be an attempt to gain access to Rich’s email. Joel Rich, who maintains his late son’s Gmail account, did not click the link. Meanwhile, Dotcom was promising on Twitter to prove that the younger Rich had been in contact with WikiLeaks – and Fox News host Sean Hannity was telling his 2.37 million Twitter followers to be ready for a revelation.
    Hannity had invited Dotcom to appear on his show for what he said on Twitter would be a “#  Game Changer ” interview. The implication: that Dotcom would finally offer evidence of his claim that Rich had sent internal DNC documents to WikiLeaks before his death.
    [b] [/b][i] [/i] All that began to unravel Tuesday afternoon, when Fox News retracted a story that had claimed the same Rich-WikiLeaks connection, telling readers that the article was “not initially subjected to the high degree of editorial scrutiny we require for all our reporting.” Fox News did not respond to a request for comment, but Dotcom wrote on his website that he would not speak further about his allegations.
    The latest revelation – that a hacker from New Zealand may have been trying as recently as this week to hack into Rich’s email – offered fresh evidence that the conspiracy theory is false. Dotcom, it seemed, may have been willing to create a fake archive of emails from Rich to “prove” his role in the DNC hack.
    [b] [/b][i][/i][u][/u][strike][/strike]

     

    Quote from DICOM_Dan

    I think it calls into question his own journalistic integrity (if there is any) since this seems like a conflict of interest between him and Fox News.

    • kayla.meyer_144

      Member
      April 17, 2018 at 2:10 am

      Hannity + Cohen = Breaking Bad’s ‘Better Call Saul?’
       
      The comedy gets better and better. And who is more deserving of being the punch line than Hannity?
       

      I might have handed him 10 bucks [and said,] I definitely want your attorney-client privilege on this, Hannity [link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/04/16/the-gaping-hole-in-sean-hannitys-story-about-being-michael-cohens-client/?utm_term=.d19ed3cdbaee]told listeners[/link] Monday afternoon. Something like that.
       
      Online, the handed him 10 bucks line immediately launched comparisons to an infamous scene from AMCs smash hit, Breaking Bad.
       
      In a memorable exchange involving one of the shadiest lawyers in television history, attorney Saul Goodman, played by Bob Odenkirk, tells the shows meth-dealing main characters to put a dollar in my pocket to assure their conversations about criminal misdeeds remain protected.
       
      And if you are trying to steer clear of a scandal, its best if your legal thinking does not echo the Breaking Bad character, who later became the protagonist of the prequel, Better Call Saul.
       
      I love Breaking Bad as much as the next person, but I probably wouldnt take Sauls put a dollar in my pocket approach to attorney-client privilege, one Twitter [link=https://twitter.com/StephenOkey/status/985972347482996736]user said[/link].
       
      But both Breaking Bad and Hannitys conception of attorney-client privilege seem to rest on a faulty understanding of the legal concept. In a [link=http://digitalrepository.unm.edu/nmlr/vol45/iss2/5/]2015 article[/link] in the New Mexico Law Review, Armen Adzhemyan and Susan M. Marcella compared the popular shows presentation of the law with the reality of federal court, including what the pair called the myth of the dollar bill.
       
      Saul has a habit of grossly overstating the reach of the attorney-client privilege, the two authors wrote.
       
      The [link=https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x15nfmd]famous scene[/link] between Saul Goodman and Walter White and Jesse Pinkman appears in the eighth episode of the Breaking Bads second season titled [link=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1232255/]Better Call Saul.[/link] Hoping to intimidate one of the attorneys clients, White and Pinkman kidnap Goodman at gunpoint, bind his hands, and take him out into the desert.
       
      But in true sleazy lawyer fashion, Goodman flips the script, instead offering advice on the pairs criminal enterprise.
      First things first, youre gonna put a dollar in my pocket, both of you, Goodman tells them. You want attorney-client privilege, dont you? So that everything you say is strictly between us? I mean it, put a dollar in my pocket, make it official.
       
      Both stuff cash into the lawyers suit jacket.
       
      Youre now both officially represented by Saul Goodman and Associates, Goodman announces. Your secrets are safe with me under threat of disbarment.

       
       

      But at this point in the chaotic legal mess swirling around Cohen, Trump and now Hannity, another bit of dialogue from that Breaking Bad scene in the desert might be worth keeping in mind.
       
      The way I see it, someone is going to prison, Goodman tells his new clients. Its just a matter of who.

       

       
      [link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/04/17/sean-hannitys-idea-of-attorney-client-privilege-is-right-out-of-breaking-bad-its-also-wrong]https://www.washingtonpos…ing-bad-its-also-wrong[/link]
       
       

  • btomba_77

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    April 17, 2018 at 8:48 am

    [img]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Da7dJOUUwAAyOY_.jpg[/img]

    • kayla.meyer_144

      Member
      April 17, 2018 at 12:52 pm

      Anyone who believes Hannity has an intelligence crisis. It’s not all Faux’s fault, they are just giving the fools what they want to hear.
       
      They’re all victims of Liberal conspiracies taking everything away from white people & giving it to the lazy mooching non-whites.
       
       

    • btomba_77

      Member
      April 26, 2018 at 8:47 am

      Trump was unaware of the payment to Daniels. But Cohen represented him regarding Daniels. And he knows that the payment which he knew nothing about did not come from campaign sources.
       
       
      It’s all so clear now.

      • kaldridgewv2211

        Member
        April 26, 2018 at 8:58 am

        Quote from dergon

        Trump was unaware of the payment to Daniels. But Cohen represented him regarding Daniels. And he knows that the payment which he knew nothing about did not come from campaign sources.

        It’s all so clear now.

        There’s a quote out now from Fox News I believe where Trump just outright says that Cohen represented him in the Stormy stuff.
         
        Michael would represent me, and represent me on some things, Trump said. He represents me like with this crazy Stormy Daniels deal, he represented me.
         
        [link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/04/26/did-trump-just-make-a-hugely-damning-admission-in-the-stormy-daniels-case/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.01f4ec19a56b]https://www.washingtonpos…utm_term=.01f4ec19a56b[/link]

        • btomba_77

          Member
          April 26, 2018 at 9:03 am

          It’s like the end of A Few Good Men.

          He goes on Fox&Friends and says, YOU’RE DAMN RIGHT I ORDERED THE CODE RED!

    • btomba_77

      Member
      June 15, 2018 at 9:03 am

      [b]Cohen sending ‘flip’ signals[/b]
       
      Michael Cohen has indicated to family and friends he is willing to cooperate with federal investigators to alleviate the pressure on himself and his family, CNN reports.
       
      Cohen has expressed anger with the treatment he has gotten from the President, who has minimized his relationship with Cohen, and comments from the Presidents lawyer Rudy Giuliani The treatment has left him feeling isolated and more open to cooperating.
       
      Asked by reporters Friday if he was worried about Cohen cooperating, Trump said: I did nothing wrong, nothing wrong.
       

    • btomba_77

      Member
      August 21, 2018 at 1:14 pm

      CNN says prosecutors want him sentenced to 50 months. Cohen wants 3 years prison time.

      • btomba_77

        Member
        August 21, 2018 at 1:33 pm

        Cohen is going to plead guilty on eight counts.

        Counts 1-5. Tax evasion 2012-2016
        Count 6 false statement to financial institution Feb 2015-April 2016
        Count 7 willful cause of unlawful corporate contribution June 2016-Oct. 2016
        Count 8 excessive campaign contribution on Oct. 27, 2016

    • btomba_77

      Member
      March 6, 2019 at 10:11 am

      [h1]GOP Lawmaker Explains Trump Hush Money Payments: “He loves his family”[/h1]

      Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) told [link=https://www.mediaite.com/tv/republican-rep-mike-rounds-trump-paid-off-stormy-daniels-while-in-office-because-the-president-loves-his-family/]CNN[/link] that President Trump made hush money payoffs to adult film star Stormy Daniels because this president loves his family.

      He added: I think it has as much to do with trying not to have public discussions about something that is, for him, a private matter that he didnt want to have discussed with his family.
       

      • btomba_77

        Member
        March 6, 2019 at 10:54 am

        It’s the same reason he f*cked that porn star without wearing a condom when his wife was home with his newborn child. ..
         
        He loves his family.

        • kayla.meyer_144

          Member
          March 6, 2019 at 10:59 am

          “His only crime was that he loved her too much!”
           
          Wait, that was OJ who said that.

        • yao.bw39_792

          Member
          March 6, 2019 at 1:50 pm

          Quote from dergon

          It’s the same reason he f*cked that porn star without wearing a condom when his wife was home with his newborn child. ..

          He loves his family.

          He loves his daughter too.  He told the two women we know he paid off that they reminded him of his daughter.

          • Unknown Member

            Deleted User
            March 6, 2019 at 3:12 pm

            Bill loves Hillary.
            Willie Brown loved Blanche Brown when he was f*cking around with Kamala Harris.
            Trumps womanizing is some shocking revelation?
            What is your point?
            Guys F around?  Yeah we know. Plenty of Dems and Repubs.
            Prove it was an illegal campaign finance violation.  
            Let’s treat it like hundreds of campaign finance violations with a slap on the wrist. Ex: President Barack Obamas 2008 campaign was fined $375,000 by the Federal Election Commission for campaign reporting violations one of the largest fees ever levied against a presidential campaign.
             

            • kayla.meyer_144

              Member
              March 7, 2019 at 6:14 am

              As you may recall, Republicans impeached Bill for loving around with Monica. 
               
              That’s a HUGE point. TREMENDOUS!

              • Unknown Member

                Deleted User
                March 7, 2019 at 8:09 am

                Incorrect. He was impeached for lying under
                oath. That was a terrible mistake by the republicans.

                • kayla.meyer_144

                  Member
                  March 7, 2019 at 8:22 am

                  Lying about…???

                • kayla.meyer_144

                  Member
                  March 7, 2019 at 8:25 am

                  Lying about…?

                  As for mistake by Republicans, they set the stage. This is now precident for grounds.

                  • Unknown Member

                    Deleted User
                    March 7, 2019 at 11:33 am

                    Quote from Frumious

                    Lying about…?

                    As for mistake by Republicans, they set the stage. This is now precident for grounds.

                    Fair enough.  Can’t argue with that.  We will learn to live with broken government.

            • kaldridgewv2211

              Member
              March 7, 2019 at 9:17 am

              Quote from IR_CONSULT

              Trumps womanizing is some shocking revelation?
              What is your point?

              With Trump it’s way out in the open, it’s with high profile people, it has high dollar payouts, and implicates him in campaign finance violations.  So it’s more over the top than an average affair.

              • Unknown Member

                Deleted User
                March 7, 2019 at 11:35 am

                Quote from DICOM_Dan

                Quote from IR_CONSULT

                Trumps womanizing is some shocking revelation?
                What is your point?

                With Trump it’s way out in the open, it’s with high profile people, it has high dollar payouts, and implicates him in campaign finance violations.  So it’s more over the top than an average affair.

                 
                Pure nonsense…

              • katiemckee84_223

                Member
                March 7, 2019 at 8:28 pm

                Quote from DICOM_Dan

                Quote from IR_CONSULT

                Trumps womanizing is some shocking revelation?
                What is your point?

                With [strike]Trump[/strike] John Edwards it’s way out in the open, it’s with high profile people, it has high dollar payouts, and implicates him in campaign finance violations.  So it’s more over the top than an average affair.

                 
                And Edwards was found not guilty. Another nail in the coffin to your fake news stories, which are all nothing burgers.
                 
                You guys don’t have any clue how stupid the stuff you are saying is, this kind of stuff was decided decades ago, it’s amazing I can predict everything that’s going to happen and not, so I wonder who has a better handle on reality.
                 
                Trump wins, you lose — again. With opponents like you retards, it’s not even hard.

                • Unknown Member

                  Deleted User
                  March 7, 2019 at 11:42 pm

                  And let’s not forget about the secret hush fund
                  us taxpayers give to payoff congressmen sexual harassment
                  cases. Congressmen maintain anonymity. Amount of payoff is
                  not disclosed. Yeah, that’s somehow less than the average affair?
                  So in DICCOMS world if you minimize your dollar payoff and f around with an unknown low profile woman you are somehow
                  morally superior. You know like Marilyn Monroe..

                  • kaldridgewv2211

                    Member
                    March 8, 2019 at 11:20 am

                    Not really, Trump is just really high profile.  I don’t think congress people should get be getting a wooden nickel from the tax payers to settle allegations and there should probably be a mechanism to dismiss them from congress depending on the offense.  It should also be made very public.  I would’ve never heard of someone like Roy Moore until it became news.  Donald Trump is well known and I guess Stormy is too.

                    • katiemckee84_223

                      Member
                      March 8, 2019 at 11:35 am

                      You apparently know nothing about John Edwards either. Very convenient since it destroys any silly thing you say regarding the president, who apparently has no rights as a citizen either. Come on man, this is all getting so old and tiresome. You guys have nothing.
                       
                      But leftists are the original rebels, like their leader, the original unrepentant one.

                    • kaldridgewv2211

                      Member
                      March 8, 2019 at 1:17 pm

                      Wouldn’t have known John Edwards had he not been in the run for VP or POTUS.  Also he banged Rachel Hunter.  Was she famous for anything other being the mistress?

  • btomba_77

    Member
    April 19, 2018 at 9:20 am

    [b]Cohen drops his defamation suit against Buzzfeed over Steele Dossier [/b]
     

    Embattled attorney Michael Cohen has dropped a pair of much-touted libel suits against BuzzFeed and the private investigation firm Fusion GPS over publication of the so-called dossier detailing alleged ties between President Trump and Russia, [link=https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/19/michael-cohen-drops-buzzfeed-fusion-lawsuit-537327]Politico[/link] reports.
     
     
    Cohen abandoned the suits late Wednesday as he continues to fight to recover documents and electronic files seized from his home, office and hotel room last week by federal authorities as part of what appears to be a broad criminal investigation into his conduct.

     
    Guess he knows the cat is out of the bag now and a lot of it is actually true. [b]
    [/b]

    • kaldridgewv2211

      Member
      April 25, 2018 at 6:30 pm

      Cohen said to plan on pleading the 5th in the Stormy lawsuit.

      Which reminds me of Chappelle law and order. I plead the fifth.

      [link=https://youtu.be/ERm_WNxGs1U]https://youtu.be/ERm_WNxGs1U[/link]

      • 100574

        Member
        April 26, 2018 at 12:17 am

        remember the OJ case was lost because the lead police officer plead the fifth–people threw shade on the OJ jury but U just can’t dismiss that plea

        Quote from DICOM_Dan

        Cohen said to plan on eating the 5th in the Stormy lawsuit.

        Which reminds me of Chappelle law and order. I plead the fifth.

        [link=https://youtu.be/ERm_WNxGs1U]https://youtu.be/ERm_WNxGs1U[/link]

        • kayla.meyer_144

          Member
          April 26, 2018 at 2:57 am

          If you count all the guilty and the incompetent and the innocent and competent around Trump, so far the guilty and incompetent have the most seats. And in the center is Trump, the only real innocent competent person in the room?
           
           

      • kayla.meyer_144

        Member
        April 26, 2018 at 2:59 am

        BTW, great Chappelle segment and very appropriate.

  • btomba_77

    Member
    April 26, 2018 at 8:02 am

    [link=https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4447558/Cohen-USAO-20180426.pdf]https://assets.documentcl…ohen-USAO-20180426.pdf[/link]
     
     
    Trump’s public comments come back to haunt him again.  Check out this footnote today as the government argues to keep the taint team intact:
     
    [blockquote] 3 As the Court is aware, after originally stating that the Government seized thousands, if not millions, of pages of privileged documents, Cohen subsequently identified three current clients. Of those three clients, one, Sean Hannity, has since said that Michael Cohen has never represented me in any matter. I never retained him, received an invoice, or paid legal fees. Another,[b] President Trump, reportedly said on cable television this morning that Cohen performs a tiny, tiny little fraction of his overall legal work.[/b] These statements by two of Cohens three identified clients suggest that the seized materials are unlikely to contain voluminous privileged documents, further supporting the importance of efficiency here.
    [/blockquote]

  • 100574

    Member
    April 26, 2018 at 5:17 pm

    it is sooooooo pathetic when u have a President going on Fox to whine–while Comey increases his cred by last night doing a town hall taking questions and never deviating from his original story
    Boxer was right Fox and Friends should say we are Trump’s therapy sessions where he can call and whine

    Quote from dergon

    It’s like the end of A Few Good Men.

    He goes on Fox&Friends and says, YOU’RE DAMN RIGHT I ORDERED THE CODE RED!

    • 100574

      Member
      May 2, 2018 at 7:13 pm

      Rudy just said on Hannity that Cohen  was repaid the 130,000–so after the Enquirer does a hit job now 45 comes crawling back to Cohen with don’t flip –here is your money-but Cohen imho is like I was RAIDED Donald!–we are going DOWN!!!!!!!!!!

      • kaldridgewv2211

        Member
        May 2, 2018 at 7:24 pm

        Yeah. I just saw a clip. Rudy’s gonna end this real quick. What an idiot.

        • yao.bw39_792

          Member
          May 2, 2018 at 8:04 pm

          He also said he did it through a series of payments.
          So maybe we have the financial crime of structuring as well.

          • 100574

            Member
            May 2, 2018 at 9:07 pm

            so will Rudy be fired Friday—
            Rudy has lost it–he needs to tend to his divorce and bow out
            Trump on Air Force One lied

          • 100574

            Member
            May 2, 2018 at 9:07 pm

            amen

            Quote from Nice Guy

            He also said he did it through a series of payments.
            So maybe we have the financial crime of structuring as well.

  • btomba_77

    Member
    May 3, 2018 at 10:17 am

    [b]Feds had a wiretap on Cohen[/b]

    Federal investigators have wiretapped the phone lines of Michael Cohen, the longtime personal lawyer for President Trump who is under investigation for a payment he made to an adult film star who alleged she had an affair with Trump, [link=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/feds-tapped-trump-lawyer-michael-cohen-s-phones-n871011]NBC News[/link] reports.

    It is not clear how long the wiretap has been authorized, but it was in place in the weeks leading up to the raids on Cohens offices, hotel room, and home in early April At least one phone call between a phone line associated with Cohen and the White House was intercepted.

    Two sources close to Trumps newest attorney, Rudolph Giuliani, say he learned that days after the raid the president had made a call to Cohen, and told Trump never to call again out of concern the call was being recorded by prosecutors.

    • ruszja

      Member
      May 3, 2018 at 1:20 pm

      Quote from dergon

      [b]Feds had a wiretap on Cohen[/b]

      Federal investigators have wiretapped the phone lines of Michael Cohen, the longtime personal lawyer for President Trump who is under investigation for a payment he made to an adult film star who alleged she had an affair with Trump, [link=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/feds-tapped-trump-lawyer-michael-cohen-s-phones-n871011]NBC News[/link] reports.

      It is not clear how long the wiretap has been authorized, but it was in place in the weeks leading up to the raids on Cohens offices, hotel room, and home in early April At least one phone call between a phone line associated with Cohen and the White House was intercepted.

      Two sources close to Trumps newest attorney, Rudolph Giuliani, say he learned that days after the raid the president had made a call to Cohen, and told Trump never to call again out of concern the call was being recorded by prosecutors.

       
      It’s only a ‘bribe’ if you pay a public or company official who owes a duty to his employer not to receive any money. Paying off a stripper is not a bribe.

      • 100574

        Member
        May 3, 2018 at 1:37 pm

        it is about to get CRAZY folks–hot of the press
         
        (CN) Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Thursday filed a request for 70 blank subpoenas in the Virginia court presiding over one of two criminal proceedings involving former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.[b] [/b][i][/i][u][/u][strike][/strike]

        • yao.bw39_792

          Member
          May 3, 2018 at 3:02 pm

          Maybe they are for all the Republicans that are doing their best to obstruct justice.

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