ETHICS/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/MICHAEL COHEN/WOMEN: “The lawyer handling the Stormy Daniels scandal for President Donald Trump’s corporate and personal representative, Michael Cohen, comes from the same small New York law firm that earned thousands of dollars from the Trump campaign at the end of last year.
Cohen’s use of a law firm connected to Trump’s campaign and his company further blurs the line that Cohen is trying to draw in arguing that his payments to Stormy have no involvement of the president. The law firm LaRocca Hornik Rosen Greenberg & Blaha has worked for the Trump campaign since fall 2016, and the Trump Organization for years. The law firm earned roughly $30,500 from Trump’s presidential campaign fund in October and November 2017.
That was a jump from the previous payment it received from the campaign in September 2017, when it took in about $2,400, according to Federal Election Commission records. A year earlier, in the weeks around the presidential election, the law firm received five total payments from the Trump campaign, totaling about $81,000.
LaRocca Hornik partner Larry Rosen told CNN in an email Friday that the firm’s late 2017 earnings from the Trump campaign were unrelated to Daniels ‘nor have we ever represented the Trump campaign in any way related to Ms. Clifford.’… He declined to say what the Trump campaign paid for the law firm to do last year. Rosen added that his firm is currently representing Cohen’s company Essential Consultants in arbitration over the hush agreement and the payment it used for Daniels.”
-Katelyn Polantz, “Law firm handling Stormy Daniels case for Cohen also did legal work with Trump campaign,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, Mar. 9, 2018 02:55pm