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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI have a question about Michael Cohen
If this has come up before I apologize, but wouldn't Cohen's and Trump's shenanigans come under lawyer/client priviledge?
madaboutharry
(40,199 posts)General shenanigans and lawbreaking, not so much.
Phoenix61
(16,999 posts)participating in criminal activity.
Me.
(35,454 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)What Trump doesn't understand about attorney-client privilege
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,656 posts)Much of the time he was doing things that aren't what lawyers normally do. Additionally, there's the crime-fraud exception, which removes from the privilege any communications in which the client is asking how to commit a crime or the lawyer is advising him how to do it, or participating in it. There was a fair amount of that going on as well.
Nitram
(22,776 posts)lettucebe
(2,336 posts)and since nothing tRump does is legal, I'd say it's fine
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)SpaceNeedle
(191 posts)The only penalty for breaching privilege is the loss of a law license.
edhopper
(33,543 posts)Cohen was NOT his attorney.
SeattleVet
(5,477 posts)they always fail to mention what he lied about, and who he was protecting with those lies.