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10th May 2018, 10:27 AM | #161 |
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The way I heard it is that since Cohen is so buddy-buddy with Trump,
and since Trump is not the usual politician who can be accessed in the usual way, then Cohen marketed himself as a person who, for a large fee of course, can provide anyone with Trump access. Accordingly, it will be very difficult for Trump to drain the swamp (or "sewer" as he once called it) when his own lawyer is working so hard to profit from the swamp. |
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10th May 2018, 12:29 PM | #168 |
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I had no idea he was with GT. Jesus Christ what a **** show for them! This is not the sort of publicity their clients want. Obviously they were banking on him being SoS, but damn what a bad miss.
A local firm actually changed their name to add Giuliani back when he was running for president. That went about as well. |
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10th May 2018, 12:50 PM | #172 |
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well he is both technically wrong, and the suggestion that a lawyer should not be candid with the court is not being "technically right" either, as I am sure you would agree.
Can you imagine walking into Kimba Woods courtroom and saying "Yes I am under a disciplinary investigation, but did not have to disclose it because it was an arm of the Supreme Court and not a state court." Oh mercy.... |
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To be fair that is just a slightly sarcastic rewording of what Giuliani was saying Cohen was doing for trump. And it seems the goal was to confess to a bunch of crimes before the serious ones came out. But seriously having a famous lawyer in their firm volunteer crimes his client and asspaite did on national television is probably not something that makes them happy.
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Looks like the left is starting to get sick of Avenatti and the porn “actress”
As Trumps numbers continue rise and the blue wave turns into a ripple. http://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary...chael-avenatti |
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To save everyone else the trouble, this is the only excerpt in the article that comes close to matching the headline:
I think somebody from the SDNY is leaking,” said Robert Barnes, a Las Vegas-based trial attorney who’s taken Avenatti to task on Twitter. “The degree to which Avenatti had details implicates them badly.” Barnes pointed out that Avenatti was reportedly spotted dining with former Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara in late March. He added that Cohen could potentially sue Avenatti for invasion of privacy by illegal disclosure of banking information. When can't anyone potentially sue anyone else over most anything??? YAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWN |
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Well, the wider point is what's important: Admit when you lack expertise, especially if an expert is actually available. Instead of throwing the whole conversation off into some insane side-debate about how disciplinary proceedings are conducted, we could be talking about actual issues regarding the Daniels case. |
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Your posts are getting more absurd by the moment. While the documents may not be able to be used by Avenatti in a court room, there don't seem to be any laws against Avenatti using them on television. Out of curiosity, were you so outraged about Hillary's or Leon Pannetta's emails being published on TV? I don't recall that.
What you are doing is whining about these people caught with their hand in the cookie jar. I can say fairly confidently that there will be little or no consequences for Avenatti. For Trump and Cohen? Too early to tell. |
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we are, I was talking about Avenatti's pro hac vice application and the letter I linked to yesterday. We were "sidetracked" with a specious assertion that I did not know what I was talking about, which I countered by citing to directly controlling authority.
I think it would allow things to progress if one were to admit one lacks expertise, particularly when confronted with citations to the actual experts, the California Supreme Court. |
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The person who has to be worried about an ethics investigation is Michael Cohen, who committed a rather blatant instance of conflict of interest by accepting money from clients who wanted information on Trump while at the same time continuing to act as Trump's attorney.
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I just saw on Rachel Maddow's show that the Korean Aerospace company said it paid Essential Consultants LLC to help with their internal accounting system And had no idea of the connection to President Trump.
AT&T didn't pay Essential Consultants LLC $200,000 as previously reported but $600,000 for get this 'his advice on regulatory reform at the FCC, corporate tax reform and antitrust enforcement.' Novartis paid him a hell of a lot more for his expertise on Healthcare policy matters. Yeah, right. Thanks Avenatti. |
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My analysis is absolutely 100% correct, oh well, I say so, the Cali Supreme Court says so and the State Bar of California says so, against the two of you. 3-2, that is an affirmance, feel free to write your dissent if you wish.
It is important because it directly relates to the action pending before Kimba Wood and Stormy's role in that action, if any. |
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What's the ABC story the email refers to? I don't know, I'm just saying what Avenatti said about Cohen's communication with Daniels' lawyer that Avenatti now has possession of.
If Cohen continued to send emails to Davidson, maybe he continued to forward them to Avenatti. |
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I don't know enough about McDougal's or Daniels' claims about Davidson failing to act in their best interests, or indeed McDougal's claim in court that Davidson was colluding with Cohen, but this email was dated 11th April.
It looks as though it was announced that Davidson was cooperating shortly afterwards, say April 19th. Potentially, Davidson had been colluding with Cohen, but then turned against him and decided that having civil legal cases tying him up would help. Again, this is pretty baseless speculation - I am really just thinking aloud what it might mean. |
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