Communications between Stormy Daniels and Trump attorney turned over to Manhattan DA

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It is my understanding that NY law restricts lawyers who interviewed for an engagement from being adverse to the client they interviewed. This will be fun to watch

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https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/21/politics/joe-tacopina-trump-lawyer-stormy-daniels/index.html

Communications between adult-film star Stormy Daniels and an attorney who is now representing former President Donald Trump have been turned over to the Manhattan district attorney’s office, Daniels’ lawyer told CNN.

The exchanges – said to date back to 2018, when Daniels was seeking representation – raise the possibility that the Trump attorney, Joe Tacopina, could be sidelined from his defense of the former president in a case pertaining to Trump’s alleged role in a scheme to pay hush money to Daniels.

Daniels’ communications with Tacopina and others at his firm include details relating to Daniels’ situation, according to her current attorney Clark Brewster, who believes the communications show a disclosure of confidential information from Daniels.

Tacopina denies that there is a conflict or that confidential information was shared with his office. He says he neither met nor spoke to Daniels.

CNN has not seen the records in question. But legal ethics experts CNN spoke with said they could lead to limits being placed on the role Tacopina can play at trial or even his disqualification. The impact that the disclosure will have on the case will depend on the circumstances and the substance of the communications, the ethics experts said.

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1. He's as dishonest as Trump is. Thanks so much for posting.

[Rhiannon12866]

3. That's just what I was going to say - his lawyers don't have any more scruples than TFG does!

Good Grief! No wonder his attorneys now need attorneys!

MAGA=Making Attorneys Get Attorneys

[Jarqui]

2. It's crazy that Tacopina is involved :

Listen to what he says in 2018:
(rough transcript by me ..starting around 3 minute mark)

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" ... once the microsscope is on you, everything is fair game and it's hard to argue 'oh you can't look at this or you can't look at that'. So yes, if there's an issue with that payment to Stormy Daniels being that it was made on behalf of the candidate, ok, and it was not declared, that's fair game, ... unfortunately, if that's the case. Quite frankly, Michael Cohen again has made statements that would give rise to suspicion for any prosecutor to say 'That doesn't make sense. That a lawyer took out a home equity loan with his own money, paid somebody that he didn't even know, on behalf of a client, who by the way, had the where with all and the money to afford $130,000 and by the way, didn't tell the client about the settlement agreement.' It's an illegal agreement. It's a fraud if that is in fact the case. ... if that is what happened, then we have a potential campaign finance issue. "

So Trump's lawyer says that.
Then Trump's DoJ convicts Cohen for that very crime and has him put in jail (for that and other financial/tax crimes)

Now, the GOP, Trump and Trump's lawyer whine about Trump being held to account for what his lawyer described above.

Now it has come out that this same lawyer, Tacopina, had an attorney client relationship with Stormy Daniels - so he appears to have a conflict of interest.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217748556

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4. Trump lawyer could be sidelined over communications with Stormy Daniels just handed to DA: CNN

This lawyer should be disqualified in this case

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https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-lawyer-stormy/

The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has received communications between Stormy Daniels and an attorney representing Donald Trump, CNN reports.

The communiques between the adult-film star and Joe Tacopina date back to 2018, when Daniels was seeking legal counsel, according to her current attorney, Clark Brewster, who indicated the exchanges show that his client disclosed confidential information.

The latest revelation comes as all indications are that Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg is nearing a decision on whether to indict Trump over alleged hush money payments to Daniels, and threatens to sideline the celebrity attorney from defending the former president, according to CNN......

According to CNN’s Kristen Holmes and Tierney Sneed: “It would ultimately be up to a judge to decide whether the communications amount to a conflict of interest that requires disqualification or some other limitation on the advocacy Tacopina can do on behalf of the former president, if a case is brought against Trump.”

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5. TFG is going to need another lawyer

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