harassment or a girlfriend.

please be my client.

I betcha.

it's that he produces a virtually endless fountain of legal work.

invoices? hours? donnie could cut him a check for a few million once a year.


there's plenty of criminality and scandal going on here, but donnie being virtually his only client is not one of them.

on the contrary, donnie seemingly having only one fixer, that's the real mystery.

Practicing lawyers have some of the wealthiest people in the world as their client, as well as large corporations. They still usu. have other clients. For one thing, as a practical matter, you'd be unemployed if you lost that one client. So it adds to the claim that he's not a practicing lawyer, although that can be rebutted, if he can show proof that he was acting as an attorney. I suspect the govt already knows Cohen doesn't have that proof.

It's like an accountant. Even if you're on a retainer, you keep records of your time, what you did, the expenses, etc., to show the client if asked, or to show the IRS, and for your own reference.

That doesn't have anything to do with him not practicing law.

He was obviously was involved in some non-disclosure contracts, that's practicing law right there. Granted, a non-lawyer could draft a contract as well, but a lawyer would presumably have additional expertise.

I really don't see this as something to make a fuss about.

Plenty of other incredibly outrageous things going on.

I'm not arguing about this. I'm saying what the govt has said in court: That Cohen is not an actual practicing attorney, if he doesn't spend a certain percentage of his time...practicing law. If he spends most of his time threatening people, traveling to foreign countries to meet with criminals, and other things...that's not practicing law.

It really does matter. As I said, it's rebuttable. Cohen can show he was really acting as a "lawyer" for Trump. But doing catch and kill duties with NDAs isn't going to rise to that level, I suspect. He'll have to show what attorneys normally show: bills, invoices, lists of expenses, notes on his duties, etc. Even if he was on a retainer.

Hannity is so full of shit