FBI/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s embattled former personal lawyer Michael Cohen, who has dropped hints that he may cooperate with federal prosecutors investigating his former boss, has hired an attorney and PR man who led former President Bill Clinton’s public defense against multiple scandals in the 1990s. Lanny Davis, who spent countless hours defending Clinton including during his impeachment for an affair with a White House intern, said on Thursday [7-5-18] he’s now representing Cohen in the tightening federal probe…Davis will be working alongside Guy Petrillo, a New York-based lawyer hired last month to replace Stephen Ryan and Todd Harrison. Both men have been representing Cohen as he deals with the fallout from the FBI raid in early April of his office and residences. Cohen is under investigation by the U.S. Attorney’s office in Manhattan on a referral in part from special counsel Robert Mueller that includes potential fraud charges tied to his role arranging a $130,000 payment before the 2016 election to the adult-film actress Stormy Daniels in exchange for her silence about an alleged sexual affair a decade earlier with Trump.”
–Darren Samuelsohn, “Michael Cohen hires Clinton scandal veteran Lanny Davis,” Politico, July 5, 2018 6:30 pm