Cohen ordered to disclose client list by Monday

[DonViejo]

Trump's longtime personal attorney went to federal court to stop prosecutors from looking at materials seized in a recent FBI raid.

By LAURA NAHMIAS and JOSH GERSTEIN 04/13/2018 09:11 AM EDT Updated 04/13/2018 06:45 PM EDT

NEW YORK — Lawyers for President Donald Trump and his longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen went to court Friday trying to stop federal prosecutors from getting at private material — but wound up with a judge ordering them to disclose Cohen’s client list in public.

U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood on Friday ordered attorneys for Cohen to hand over a list of Cohen’s law clients and proof of their relationship by 10 a.m. Monday, so she can decide whether materials seized from Cohen’s office by federal law enforcement agents last week should be protected by attorney-client privilege.

That list will be a public record, Wood said, because the identities of an attorney’s clients are not subject to attorney-client privilege unless the mere name itself would reveal the kind of advice sought or given.

Wood’s order raises the possibility of further embarrassing disclosures involving Cohen, who is already at the center of a legal dispute involving adult-film actress Stormy Daniels, who is suing the president to void a nondisclosure agreement negotiated by Cohen concerning a sexual encounter Daniels says she had with Trump in 2006.

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[beachbum bob]

1. its not going to get easier for Cohen or trump

trump can't use "executive privileged" as he was not sworn as president for almost all the cohen/stormy stuff Cohen can't claim "attorney/client privileged" if Cohen was part of committing a crime.


payoffs, bribes, shakedowns, threats can all be criminal matters. Cohen needs a better lawyer than what he was to trump ASAP

[Gore1FL]

11. or easier for cruise missile targets as this information trickles out... nt

[Mustellus]

2. And any one just phoning in to further the conspiracy....

... isn't a client.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. How many clients used aliases?

Anonymous one-stop lawyering ... John Doe

NDA's silence people outside the purview of courts

This is what's running the world

[SunSeeker]

4. Judges hate being lied to. It's only going to get worse for him.

Sucks to be Cohen.

[BobTheSubgenius]

14. You're right.

Judges really do hate being lied to, and the "things getting worse" part could take the form of rulings on admissibility or procedure that were close calls going against himthem. Good judges are impartial, but they are also human.

[Happyhippychick]

5. Well that won't take him too long

Trump, David Dennison and John Baron.

All done.

[sandensea]

6. I suspect that they'll find a lot of guys called Louie the Bat and Mickey the Rat

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[Drahthaardogs]

15. How the hell did you manage to throw an Italian slur in here?

The Italian mafia stereotypes that get thrown around here are ridiculous.

Were the Playboy models in the mafia? Cohen is a Jewish surname last I checked.

What you just did is disgusting and a stereotype. This has nothing to do with the mafia yet you make fun of the way Italians in New Jersey talk.

[sandensea]

16. That was referring solely to the mafia - as you know very well.

Many of Cohen's past clients are rumored to be mafiosi. Most Italian-Americans - including yours truly - detest them as a living slur against anyone of Italian descent.

[Drahthaardogs]

17. But the current ones we are concerned about is Scotch -German

So tell me again why we need to throw around mafia reference

[sandensea]

18. Mafias come in all varieties, that's for sure.

Cohen is rumored to have cosa nostra figures among his past clientele - including some that did business with Cheeto.

It'll be interesting to see what other connections the raid produces, besides the ones currently in the news.

[Drahthaardogs]

20. No.

Mafia is Sciciliano, Ndrangheta is Calabrese, and Camorra is Napolitano.

If you have ever been in Southern Italy you would realize what this really is, and mean live there for awhile.

You don't even speak the language do you?

[sandensea]

22. Un po', ma non troppo.

Several of my great-great grandparents were from Piemonte. I'm not as familiar with the Mezzogiorno region as you are, unfortunately.

That said, rumors that Cohen - and above all, Cheeto - have had extensive dealings with the Cosa Nostra are fairly well known. It would be great if, besides uncovering campaign finance violations, money laundering, and Russia-connected wrongdoing, these Cohen raids also unearth some of that.

They say the dead tell no tales; I bet the same can't be said of these Cohen files.

[Pathwalker]

23. SCOTS! Scotch is a plaid and a drink. Calling Scots Scotch is a slur.

So, it's okay to slur the Scots???

[Drahthaardogs]

24. Fucking nonsense, but nice try

Not taking your bait

And on edit

Why do you feel compelled to make a mispelling on par with a stereotype slur, and try to dismiss it with pedantic bullshit?

[Pathwalker]

25. Nope. You are wrong. Go tell a Scotsman he's scotch,

and see the reception you get.

[Drahthaardogs]

27. When the largest lynching in America

Is against Scott's, I'll entertain your bullshit.

For the record, it was Scicilians and Teddy Roosevelt called it "a good thing"

The amount of stereotypes thrown at Italian Americans on DU is fucking ridiculous. To the point when Scaramucci was appointed a well known DUer made a post about appointing "goombas" a slang for Compari Southern Italian slang for friend and now a mafia slur.

So just stop with the stupid Scotch bullshit.

[Blue_true]

29. Sorry, but I feel you jumped the shark on this one.

Colorful names have nothing to do with a person's ethnic heritage. The names have more to do with the character of the person, especially criminal types or liars. My dad was a hard working man, but I remember as a kid, him recounting some of the colorful names that he had heard given to thugs, and I am southern born and have stopped in New Jersey only to change airplane seats.

[Drahthaardogs]

30. The response was edited. I jumped nothing

Eom.

[Blue_true]

34. I stand by what I posted. nt

[Drahthaardogs]

35. Well then, do tell, EXACTLY what

FUGEDDABOUTIT is supposed to refer to?

I'm all ears!

[Blue_true]

37. Neither the first poster that you went off on nor I used the term that you just used.

You have really spun this thing up into an ethnic issue that it never was.

As a boy I heard term like Jack the Rat, Jake the Snake, Brat the SlickCat, all were terms used to describe seedy characters. I grew up nowhere near New Jersey.

[Drahthaardogs]

40. The edit says...(and I quote)

The wiretaps contains plenty a 'Fuhgeddaboutit


You are wrong. It's a nasty jab at Italian Americans and a bunch of bullshit

[Kirk Lover]

7. Looks like Cohen was the fixer for the RNC.

[SHRED]

8. This is huge.

[Wounded Bear]

9. Gonna need more...

[Blue_true]

31. Watch the butter and salt levels.

Have a feeling you will be eating a lot of that over the next few months.

[itsrobert]

10. Wouldn't it be great that Devin Nunes was a client

Possibly using Cohen to payoff a woman or man he had sex with.

[IluvPitties]

12. That would be sweet!

[QED]

13. Or Ryan

I've often wondered if Trump doesn't have something on him. Can Ryan really be that squeaky clean? Did he get Russian money? Does he have a lady problem too?

[dalton99a]

19. He'll put Mother Teresa at the top of the list

[Vinca]

21. Oh, how times have changed. Remember when Kimba Wood was nominated to be Attorney General

and she was found to have "nanny" problems? Those were the days.

[Mike Nelson]

26. Monday?

...Monday morning? They don't like him very much, do they?

[C_U_L8R]

28. And how many conflicts?

Cohen seems the type to play both sides.

[splunge63]

32. Cohen's crimes on behalf of the buffoon will bring the buffoon down

much sooner than Russian collusion investigation will. Just to be clear, am not suggesting (in any way) that collusion and obstruction didn't occur (they clearly did) or that they're lesser crimes (they aren't). And, yes, am well aware that some of Cohen's crimes are collusion related. Mueller (and the SDNY AG and NY AG) have Cohen in a trick box. Which means they have the buffoon too. Delicious!

BTW, my first post on DU. Great info here and looking forward to adding to the conversation.

[uppityperson]

33. Welcome to du

[Eliot Rosewater]

36. Welcome! Kinda like tax fraud and Capone.

[Squinch]

38. First post! Welcome! Glad you are here.

[radical noodle]

42. The beauty of this is that

even if trump fires Mueller in some fashion the SDNY has the goods.

Welcome to DU!

[gopiscrap]

44. welcome to DU

[Honeycombe8]

41. I wonder if he has any other clients.

When would he have time? Unless he claims some are clients because he handled a matter between Trump and others.

[radical noodle]

43. Apparently not in any real sense

Cohen is owned by trump.