LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s longtime personal fixer, will soon be parting from the lawyers who are representing him in a potentially damaging and wide-ranging federal investigation into his business dealings, according to two people familiar with the case. Mr. Cohen has not yet been approached by the prosecutors conducting the inquiry to seek his cooperation, according to two people briefed on the case. But as the investigation into him continues, and with his legal team in flux, the pressure on Mr. Cohen to cooperate may well intensify. Mr. Cohen’s current lawyers — a three-man team from the firm of McDermott Will & Emery — are expected to stay with him for the rest of the week as they struggle to complete a laborious review of a trove of documents and data files seized from their client in a series of extraordinary early-morning raids two months ago. But after that review is finished, Mr. Cohen will seek new legal counsel, the people familiar with his case said. They added that the issues concern the payment of legal bills to his lawyers and their relative lack of experience with the federal prosecutors’ office in New York that is leading the investigation.”
-Alan Feuer, William K. Rashbaum and Maggie Haberman, “Michael Cohen, Trump’s Fixer, Parting With Lawyers as Federal Investigation Continues,” The New York Times online, June 13, 2018