FBI raids Michael Cohen's office

[onekidanddone]

1 minute ago, Howl said:

Cohen's wife is from Ukraine, as is Cohen's brother's wife.

Mail order? Green card wedding?

[AmazonGrace]

I'm not having an affair with a porn star, I'm not having an affair with a porn star..., 

 

[allthegoodnamesrgone]

Its as if State tv Fox & Trump are being bankrolled by the same country. 

[Cartmann99]

16 minutes ago, AmazonGrace said:

I'm not having an affair with a porn star, I'm not having an affair with a porn star..., 

 

To be on the safe side, Mrs. Hannity's friends and family should be strongly encouraging her to go and see her doctor. 

Edited to add: I would say that regardless of the professions of the people involved. If you are having unprotected sex in a non-monogamous relationship, you are playing Russian roulette with your health.

Edited April 16, 2018 by Cartmann99
Clarity

[fraurosena]

37 minutes ago, Cartmann99 said:

you are playing Russian roulette with your health

I see what you did there! 

 

Megerian has a good point there about Hannity using his position at Faux to attack the criminal investigation into his own lawyer.

 

Edited April 16, 2018 by fraurosena
just had to add that Scooby cartoon

[fraurosena]

Hannity's statement:

The best about it is summed up by Seth Abramson:

Sweet Rufus, these people are so dumb! 

[GreyhoundFan]

Guess who else apparently enlisted Cohen? Fredo/Udvay: "Donald Trump Jr.’s Alleged Affair with Aubrey O’Day Was Also Reportedly Buried by Michael Cohen"

Spoiler

The tendrils of Micheal Cohen’s news cycle have finally touched Donald Trump Jr., though not in the way one might expect based on the last few weeks of headlines. The personal lawyer to Donald Trump, whose office and hotel room were dramatically raided by the F.B.I. last week, reportedly worked closely with the owners of The National Enquirer to hide stories about the alleged affairs of the future president.

But around 2013, when Us Weekly thought they had a credible source to report on Donny’s affair with Aubrey O’Day, a Danity Kane alum who met the young Trump while appearing on Celebrity Apprentice, all Cohen had to do was yell a lot. According to The Wall Street Journal’s source, Cohen—the Luca Brasi to Don Sr.’s Don Corleone and Don Jr.’s Fredo—called Us Weekly to threaten legal action, likely after staffers called Trump Jr.’s representation for comment.

Legal threats against unflattering stories are not unusual in the publishing universe, especially when it comes to the famously litigious tabloid subject Donald Trump. But the anonymous Us Weekly staffer told the paper Cohen was more ridiculous than most lawyers trying to bury a story about one of their clients. He was “one of these New York characters” swearing at the writers and acting “totally over-the-top threatening.” They put him on speakerphone and occasionally muted when the hollering became too much.

Because Trump Sr. was a friend of the magazine, and because editors deemed a legal battle not worth it, they dropped the story, per the W.S.J.’s source. Wenner Media owned the magazine at that time. (Vanity Fair has reached out for comment.) American Media Inc., the owner of The National Enquirer, bought Us Weekly in 2017.

 

[hoipolloi]

Not a good sign for Team Cohen!

 

[fraurosena]

Darn, the judge might appoint a special master.

 

[hoipolloi]

2 minutes ago, fraurosena said:

Darn, the judge might appoint a special master.

If so, can the judge stipulate a timeframe within which the review must be completed?

 

[fraurosena]

9 minutes ago, hoipolloi said:

If so, can the judge stipulate a timeframe within which the review must be completed?

 

I’m not sure. I’d have to reread that filing which mentions the case where the Special Master took over a year to compile his report. Sooo... I’m off to do some digging. 

[formergothardite]

So if Cohen lied about Hannity being a client, what is the punishment for that? Also, if he has to prove he didn't lie, won't it come out exactly what he was doing for Hannity?

[onekidanddone]

1 hour ago, fraurosena said:

Darn, the judge might appoint a special master.

Special "Master", pee pee tape, Donald Trump. Think about those all in the same sentence.

[IrishCarrie]

Surely there's no way Michael Cohen lied about Hannity being his client? Cohen knows what they've taken from his office so he knows what they have on him and he's not going to tell pointless fibs and get himself into even deeper doodoo.

I think Hannity has to be the one that's lying. I'm guessing it was a reflexive lie - defensively out his mouth before he thought it through. 

And that makes him an idiot. If he'd stopped to think for five seconds he'd know that Cohen gave him up because Cohen knows the proof/paperwork was there anyway... 

[AmazonGrace]

Hannity seems to be in a bind because his best interests are incompatible.

On one hand it's  in his best interests both to downplay the relationship so people won't complain that he ranted about the Cohen raids live on air without disclosing that Cohen was his lawyer and he had a conflict of interest, and because Cohen is known as a fixer and he doesn't want people to speculate about whatever he had to fix. On the other hand it's in his interests to claim Cohen as his lawyer so he can claim lawyer-client privilege so whatever Cohen fixed for him stays fixed (and if they seized some evidence that Cohen and Hannity were into some criminal or possibly-technically-legal-but-yet-corrupt activity together they can't look at it.)

Edited April 17, 2018 by AmazonGrace

[fraurosena]

I hate to say this, but in this instance Cohen didn't lie about Hannity. His letter simply stated his client didn't wish to be named. It was Hannity who instructed him to keep his name a secret. However, the judge ruled that there was no basis for withholding the name so Cohen's counsel (after some argumentation) named Hannity.

Cohen has no stake in having his third clients' name known or not. To him it doesn't really matter who the client is. What he desperately wants to hide is damning information to himself. 

I agree with @AmazonGrace about Hannity's bind in this situation. He's damned if he does, and damned if he doesn't. A fact which makes me chortle. It couldn't have happened to a more deserving guy. 

 

Edited April 17, 2018 by fraurosena

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Hope he's right

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[Botkinetti]

8 hours ago, AmazonGrace said:

 

I would be more shocked if Cohen didn’t sing like a canary. He,more than most realizes that trump has no loyalty to anyone but himself.

 I understand the appeal of a presidential pardon but there is no guarantee that trump will give him one or that trump will even be president.

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