FBI/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In the 15 months since Donald Trump shut him out of a White House job, Michael Cohen, the president’s personal lawyer, has made a show of publicly dining with a vocal Trump critic, the billionaire Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban. After lunch at Freds restaurant in New York in April 2017, a gossip item appeared. When they had breakfast at the Time Warner Center in November, paparazzi ‘somehow’ showed up, Mr. Cuban said. ‘I think he does it to piss off Trump when Trump is ignoring him.’ The president isn’t ignoring Mr. Cohen now. Federal prosecutors are investigating Mr. Cohen’s work for Mr. Trump, including his $130,000 pre-election payment to a former adult-film actress, as well as his taxi business and other personal dealings. Federal Bureau of Investigation agents raided his premises earlier this month. Looming over all of this is an investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller into whether associates of Mr. Trump, including Mr. Cohen, colluded with Russians to influence the 2016 presidential election. Mr. Cohen and the White House have denied any collusion.”
-Michael Rothfeld, Alexandra Berzon and Joe Palazzolo, “‘Boss, I Miss You So Much’: The Awkward Exile of Michael Cohen,” The Wall Street Journal online, April 26, 2018 2:30 pm