Cohen, Davidson: Amid Trump's legal troubles, two lawyers names surface again and again

By Beth Reinhard, Emma Brown and Frances Stead Sellers April 26 at 8:25 PM

The two lawyers’ names keep surfacing in tandem, again and again, in the context of deals in which women were paid to keep quiet about their alleged affairs with powerful men.

Now, the relationship between Michael Cohen and Keith Davidson is drawing public scrutiny as federal authorities investigating Cohen examine payments made to women whose stories could have damaged Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. Davidson is cooperating with the probe and has provided investigators with “certain limited electronic information,” according to the lawyer’s spokesman.

Cohen, Trump’s longtime adviser, and Davidson, a Los Angeles lawyer, have crossed paths at least five times in the past two years. In the most recent instance, Cohen collected a fee said to be hundreds of thousands of dollars in a deal Davidson helped orchestrate.

New attorneys for Davidson’s former clients, Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, both of whom allege they had affairs with Trump years ago, say the relationship between Cohen and Davidson has seemed too cozy.

“This is supposed to be an adversarial process,” said Daniels’s attorney, Michael Avenatti. “These guys should not be in the same bedroom, let alone the same bed.”

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