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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrumps Legacy Worse than Nixon! Trump's personal lawyer hires attorney & Broke Ethics Rules
President Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, has hired his own attorney as the special counsel investigation into Russian election interference progresses, NBC News reported Friday.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/338139-trumps-personal-lawyer-hires-attorney-report
Trump Lawyer Broke Ethics Rules By Telling White House Staff Not To Hire Attorneys, Complaint Claims
Campaign for Accountability, a government ethics group, filed the complaint with the District of Columbia Court of Appeals' Office of Disciplinary Counsel in response to a story in Sundays New York Times that said Marc Kasowitz, who has represented Trump for 15 years, told presidential aides they did not yet need to hire lawyers in response to special counsel Robert Muellers Russia investigation.
http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/trump-lawyer-broke-ethics-rules-telling-white-house-staff-not-hire-attorneys
What a legacy, Worse than Nixon!
Warpy
(111,250 posts)besides immediate family are all mob contacts. Expecting ethics from any of them is a useless pursuit.
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)lawyer Kasowitz going to have to hire a lawyer now??
Hello...Craigslist?!
NCjack
(10,279 posts)examine the benefits of a deal with the prosecutor. Be on the right side of history, be a good guy, and reduce your legal bill.
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)opposed to treasonous, eh? But where would these "little people" get the cash for a lawyer? Would a lot of them have to get a public defender?? There are only so many of those in any one city, right?
What a frickin disaster, every way possible, jack. OY
NCjack
(10,279 posts)lawyer when you make bad choices. That's where most folks learn that RW garbage, so only fair that they foot the bill.
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)thanks for your reply!! My parents are long gone ( ) so "putting the touch on the folks" never occurred to me!! Thanks!
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,784 posts)and did not care for it much.
Is there anything else wrong the Trump BADministration can further do at this point?
RKP5637
(67,104 posts)chance.
burrowowl
(17,639 posts)if this were a movie could you suspend your disbelief for this long.
Well the US has more lawyers than the whole world combined gotta keep them busy.
pnwmom
(108,977 posts)Cohen, DT's longtime personal attorney, has hired his own special counsel.
And Kasowitch -- who represented DT in the Trump University lawsuit and has been hired to come to the WH as his personal attorney there -- is the subject of the two legal complaints saying that he improperly gave legal advice to other WH employees.