Hannity is Cohen's Third Client!?!?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/business/media/sean-hannity-michael-cohen-client.html
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Wish there was video of the courtroom when that was announced...I'd love to hear the collective gasp from virtually everyone in the room lol
shareAnd Hannity is trying to deny it! He's saying he 'may have had a legal question or two' for Cohen, but never his client.
Now for the record, Cohen has paid off mistresses for his other two clients - so what did Hannity need him for????? I say he had a mistress, too!
Just tuned in to the opening of Hannity and sure enough, he 'brushed it off' as it was nothing - and then turned to more 'serious business' about Syria.
Imagine if this was about Hillary Clinton being a 'surprise' client of a corrupt lawyer??????????????????
Give him a break, he was awarded the Pulitzer today for coverage of contacts between Russian officials and President Donald Trump’s teams.
Just kidding, that was awarded jointly to the staff of The Washington Post and the staff of The New York Times for that coverage. Trump's top two print targets that he claims are "fake news". So I guess the people on the committee to award the Pulitzer Prize are also in on the conspiracy against Trump.
"So I guess the people on the committee to award the Pulitzer Prize are also in on the conspiracy against Trump."
Correct.
& in the end this will be a one time blitz on attorney/client privilege. Just this once, then we'll go back to it being reverent and mandatory. Like when just one time, just once they dragged Sterling out and lynched him in the street after stapling a $2 billion bank draft to his forehead after wiring his home and catching him saying the 'n' word in it---Just that once though,,,NBA/Silver won't ever do that again. "We promise."
share"in the end this will be a one time blitz on attorney/client privilege."
Not necessarily. You should familiarize yourself with attorney / client privileges before you make such a wreckless comment.
As for Hannity - he said he was never a client of Cohen's, so there's no attorney/client privileges there. Just recorded phone messages and memos of their 'casual conversations about legal advice', but Hannity swears up and down he was never ever a client of Cohen's.
As for T-rump, he insists there's no collusion between his campaign and Russia: so whatever Cohen did in Russia was unknown to T-rump and therefore no attorney/client privileges.
And as for Stormy - again, no attorney/client privileges because T-rump had no idea about those payments.
So all in all, nothing was violated.
You people really need to read up on what attorney/client privilege actually is instead of going off of Trump's tweets.
As a client, you do not have the privilege of keeping your lawyer a secret from the law.
If you don't want people to know you are associated with a particular lawyer, pick a different lawyer.
Also, you can't have it both ways. You don't get to have attorney/client privilege with someone who is not officially your attorney.
Exactly. But if T-rump tweets differently then it’s Gispel to right wingers.
shareAttorney-client privilege doesn't cover criminal investigations, or else every criminal in the world would just have their lawyer do their dirty dealings and it would be "protected."
Seriously, think about that for a second. Literally a second. The privilege is NOT absolute and the law can suspend that privilege when a crime is suspected.
Just like how your right to liberty is not absolute and can be suspended if you are suspected of a crime.
Just like how the right to bear arms is not absolute and can be suspended permanently, for life, just because you stole over $1000 (a felony).
"Seriously, think about that for a second. Literally a second. The privilege is NOT absolute and the law can suspend that privilege when a crime is suspected.
Just like how your right to liberty is not absolute and can be suspended if you are suspected of a crime."
Wrong on all counts. Mere suspicion of a crime is not enough to invalidate attorney-client privilege. The government needs solid evidence of a crime before they can do that. The same is true for other liberties as well. You can't put someone in prison simply because they're suspected of a crime.
Cohen is beyond suspicion. For the FBI to raid his properties he is beyond the suspicion stage.
shareWrong on all counts. Mere suspicion of a crime is not enough to invalidate attorney-client privilege. The government needs solid evidence of a crime before they can do that.Wrong. A third-party team goes over all the evidence and determines what is related to the prosecution's case and what is not. From there, they hand over case-sensitive material to the prosecutors, and everything else is returned. The prosecutors themselves do not get to decide which data they get. The team that combs through it is called a taint team, and consists of various agents and lawyers who are neither on Trump's nor the prosecution's side. As long as it is relevant to the prosecution's case, they can pass on any attorney-client sensitive material.
All this talk about the prosecution over-stepping their reach is silly because the only way the prosecution can win is if they play it by the book. If the prosecution got their hands on unrelated attorney-client material, it would basically be a dream come true for team Trump. His legal team would be all over it, and the case could get thrown out. share
Boy that took a long time to be made public. But of course they’re hiding all the Russian collusion evidence til later. Lmao!!!!!!!!
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Why in the world would Hannity defend Cohen on his show - even have him as a guest over and over again - and never ever reveal he was a client of Cohen's? Or at least, "asked Cohen some legal questions at one time, but never hired him as an attorney'? Or why didn't Cohen come clean on Hannity's show, and reveal he had him listed as a client?
Why so secretive?