Stormy Daniels attorney releases new email where Michael Cohen admits he's speaking for Trump

[Miles Archer]

Stormy Daniels’ attorney releases new email where Michael Cohen admits he’s speaking for Donald Trump



https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/busted-stormy-daniels-attorney-releases-new-email-michael-cohen-admits-hes-speaking-donald-trump/

In a Friday evening interview with Anderson Cooper, Stormy Daniels’ attorney Michael Avenatti revealed a new chain of emails that create a paper-trail of the transfer for the $130,000 payoff. The email also has Cohen admitting that he was speaking on behalf of Trump.

Avenatti also noted that there was language in their exchange of emails that seems to refute the claim that Cohen was acting of his own accord and not on behalf of the Trump Organization or Trump himself.

He also refuted the idea that the arbitration was a valid legal standing to move forward. He explained the case was brought by an LLC and not by Trump. Avenatti also questioned whether Cohen is licensed to practice law in California, where the case moved forward. If Cohen is not barred in California, it is illegal to act as an attorney in the state.

“This is yet another e-mail that shows that throughout this negotiation period, this period during which his attorney, Cohn, was negotiating on the president’s behalf,” he explained. “He was routinely using his e-mail address at the Trump Organization and his e-mail signature block to identify that he was doing this on behalf of the Trump Organization. And if you look at the e-mail, the last e-mail in the string, it talks about how the office is closed for Yom Kippur. And, if I can set the stage, mid-October was around the time period that the payment was to be made. It ultimately was not made and the deal fell apart for a while.”

[Tatiana]

1. Is Cohen one of the dumbest lawyers ever, or what?

He had to have known there was a paper trail.

He also has to know that Stormy just wants a venue to put all this sordid information in the public domain (and possibly profit off of her encounters too).

[Miles Archer]

2. Daniels, via Rolling Stone:

"Don't get me wrong, I'm not an angel," says Daniels. "I'm capitalizing on this."

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/one-night-with-stormy-daniels-the-hero-america-needs-w517692

[Ilsa]

10. Can't blame her. She made a long term investment in

Screwing dumb donald, a disgusting job. It should pay off for her.

[Stonepounder]

4. I suspect that before Mueller, no one had looked very closely into this sort of thing,

so he didn't worry about the niceties of obeying bar regulations, or where he was admitted to the bar to practice. I guess he, like Trump, figured they were above the law.

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. Cohen was one of the first of Trump's lawyers to get his own lawyer.

And that was some time back. So he was smart enough to know he was in deep shit.

that's the problem for Trump. Over the years he has screwed over so many lawyers that now few will represent him.
He's reduced to scraping the barrel.

[cstanleytech]

3. Perhaps its time that the state bar association looks into this?

[kskiska]

5. He's a mob lawyer and a thug.

The only kind that will even work for Trump, and the kind Trump likes best.

[gratuitous]

6. Avenetti's bleeding this out very nicely

Each day is a new revelation, chumping Trump and his overmatched attorney Cohen at each turn.

As for admission to the California State Bar, I don't know that Cohen has to be licensed to practice to bring a case with ADR. I'm more than a little surprised, though, that ADR went forward with Cohen's ersatz complaint in the name of an LLC that wasn't party to the settlement agreement. I know that in Oregon and Washington, they're a bit more meticulous about the process.

[czarjak]

8. Says who, huh...

Counselor?

[poboy2]

9. Just saw her lawyer again on CNN (Spercon.)

Her lawyer Michael Avenatti is impressive. He's a shark.
He is a very effective advocate for his client.