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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Tue Jun 19, 2018, 05:10 PM Jun 2018

Michael Cohen Hires New Attorney To Represent Him In New York Probe

Source: Talking Points Memo

By Allegra Kirkland | June 19, 2018 4:43 pm

Michael Cohen has hired a veteran trial lawyer to represent him in the Southern District of New York’s criminal investigation into his financial dealings.

Both Vanity Fair and CNN reported Tuesday that President Trump’s longtime fixer has retained Guy Petrillo, former head of the criminal division for the U.S. Attorney’s office in Manhattan.

Cohen is currently deciding whether to cooperate with federal prosecutors investigating him for bank fraud, campaign finance violations, and other possible financial crimes. Petrillo did not immediately return TPM’s request for comment.

Reports surfaced last week that Cohen would part ways with his team at McDermott, Will and Emery for an attorney better acquainted with the office that is prosecuting him. A trio of McDermott lawyers lead by Stephen Ryan oversaw a privilege review of hundreds of thousands of documents seized from Cohen’s premises in April.

Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/michael-cohen-hires-guy-petrillo-lawyer-criminal-probe

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Michael Cohen Hires New Attorney To Represent Him In New York Probe (Original Post) DonViejo Jun 2018 OP

Is this a precursor to Cohen putting the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York Mr. Ected Jun 2018 #1

Speculation is Cohen's new attorney has been hired to make a deal... DonViejo Jun 2018 #3

If that's true then his plea for Trump to continue to pay the tab, has been answered. Mixed signals OnDoutside Jun 2018 #2

K & R--This story mentions that Cohen is considering rolling. n/t Julian Englis Jun 2018 #4

A quick immunity deal works in his favor Major Nikon Jun 2018 #5

It's so complicated--Cohen is also trying for a pardon, but.... Julian Englis Jun 2018 #6

Mr. Ected

(9,670 posts)

1. Is this a precursor to Cohen putting the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 06:24 PM

Jun 2018

On trial?

That seems to be the MO of all these ratfuckers. Get caught red-handed, have absolutely no exonerating evidence to disprove the allegations, make ad hominem attacks against the accuser.

It's a timeless ploy made all the more cloying by the obvious guilt of the defendant and the gravity of the crimes involved.

DonViejo

(60,536 posts)

3. Speculation is Cohen's new attorney has been hired to make a deal...

Reply to Mr. Ected (Reply #1)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 06:51 PM

Jun 2018

Cohen's new lawyer is there to make a deal.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210756821

OnDoutside

(19,960 posts)

2. If that's true then his plea for Trump to continue to pay the tab, has been answered. Mixed signals

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 06:48 PM

Jun 2018

with the word put out today that he is willing to cooperate.

Julian Englis

(2,309 posts)

4. K & R--This story mentions that Cohen is considering rolling. n/t

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 11:57 PM

Jun 2018

Major Nikon

(36,827 posts)

5. A quick immunity deal works in his favor

Reply to Julian Englis (Reply #4)

Wed Jun 20, 2018, 02:02 AM

Jun 2018

The longer he waits, the less useful he becomes.

I suspect his Qatar funded previous lawyer wasn't thrilled about his willingness to not eat a bullet for Trump, and this undoubtedly had a lot to do with why they parted ways.

Julian Englis

(2,309 posts)

6. It's so complicated--Cohen is also trying for a pardon, but....

Reply to Major Nikon (Reply #5)

Wed Jun 20, 2018, 02:10 AM

Jun 2018

There goes his Fifth Amendment for the feds. But he still faces any number of state charges for different matters--and in different states. (E.g., New York, for god knows what financial shenanigans; possible fraud in California for dealing with his dealings with Stormy Daniels & her lawyer.) And, of course, civil liability. Russian assassin liability. And possible prosecution by various European countries. Etc.

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