LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Michael Cohen’s shell company, Essential Consultants, filed a status report Friday [9-7-18] evening agreeing to tear up the original 2016 agreement with adult film star Stormy Daniels, in which Cohen arranged to pay her $130,000 to stay silent about her alleged affair with President Donald Trump. This so-called ‘hush agreement’ has […]
Category: Michael Cohen
8/30/2018
2016 ELECTION/MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Federal investigators have provided ample evidence that President Trump was involved in deals to pay two women to keep them from speaking publicly before the 2016 election about affairs that they said they had with him. But it turns out that Mr. Trump wanted to go even further. He and […]
8/29/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Michael Cohen’s stunning guilty plea last week ended months of speculation about the fate of President Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer. And now, as Cohen waits for his sentencing hearing set for December, a source familiar with his thinking says ‘resignation’ would be a fitting word to describe the 52-year-old’s mindset — […]
8/29/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A second Trump Organization employee discussed a potential immunity deal with the federal prosecutors who charged Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, according to people familiar with the matter. That employee ultimately did not receive immunity after prosecutors in the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New […]
8/29/2018
MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump took aim Wednesday [8-29-18] at CNN over information it reported last month that relied on anonymous sources, slamming all outlets that rely on such sources and labeling reports based on them ‘fiction made up by the Fake News reporters.’ Trump made specific reference to a CNN story […]
8/28/2018
JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions punched back hard at President Donald Trump ‘s latest sneering criticism Thursday [8-23-18] as their long-running rift exploded into a public smackdown. Trump, concerned by the legal downfall of two former advisers, accused Sessions of failing to take control of the Justice Department , […]
8/25/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/NEW YORK/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A week that began with bad news closed with worse news for President Donald Trump. According to the New York Times, the Manhattan district attorney’s office is currently investigating the Trump Organization. In particular, they are examining the source of the payment to porn star Stormy Daniels, and […]
8/25/2018
LEGAL/MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Michaels Cohen’s attorney clarified the record, saying his client does not know if President Trump knew about the Trump Tower meeting (out of which came nothing!). The answer is that I did NOT know about the meeting. Just another phony story by the Fake News Media!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 25, […]
8/24/2018
GOP/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Republican finance leaders have been flaming out amid scandals, but donors, frankly, don’t give a damn. Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former lawyer and a former Republican National Committee deputy finance chairman, is just the latest such figure to be felled after he copped this week to eight felony charges. […]
8/24/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Federal prosecutors have granted immunity to Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg in a probe involving President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday [8-24-18]. Weisselberg was called to testify before a federal grand jury earlier this year, the Journal said. Cohen, who arranged […]
8/23/2018
MICHAEL COHEN/NEW YORK/TRUMP BUSINESS/WOMEN: “The Manhattan district attorney’s office in New York City may push for criminal charges against the Trump Organization and two senior officials at the company over hush money that former Trump attorney Michael Cohen paid to an adult-film actress, according to a report. Investigators led by District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance […]
8/23/2018
JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/MICHAEL COHEN/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump blamed the Justice Department on Thursday [8-23-18] for the investigations surrounding him, criticized the deal struck with his former lawyer Michael D. Cohen and lashed out at Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who countered with a rare public rebuke of the president. Mr. Trump also praised Paul […]
8/23/2018
LEGAL/MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “The chief executive of the publisher of the National Enquirer was granted immunity by prosecutors investigating payments arranged by U.S. President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, to silence two women who said they had sex with Trump, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday [8-22-18]. Another AMI executive, […]
8/22/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump asserted Wednesday [8-22-18] that former attorney Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to violations of campaign law which aren’t crimes. ‘Michael Cohen plead guilty to two counts of campaign finance violations that are not a crime,’ Mr. Trump tweeted. ‘President Obama had a big campaign finance violation and it was easily […]
8/22/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Trump on Wednesday [8-22-18] slammed his former longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen for striking a plea deal with federal prosecutors admitting to campaign finance violations and implicating the president…At the same time, the president tweeted in support of ex-campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who was found guilty on eight tax and […]
8/22/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Michael Cohen walked into a courthouse in Manhattan on Tuesday [8-21-18] and told a federal judge under oath that he committed a felony and that his former client, President Donald Trump, directed him to do so. In that moment, Cohen upended a months-long strategy by Trump to undermine the investigation […]
8/22/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A former adviser to the Trump campaign issued a grim warning Wednesday [8-22-18] night to President Donald Trump and his supporters: The President could be months away from facing impeachment because of his former lawyer Michael Cohen…Cohen pleaded guilty to eight felony counts Tuesday that included tax fraud, false statements to a […]
8/22/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “For 16 or so hours after Tuesday’s [8-21-18] double-barreled bombshell news, President Trump couldn’t even publicly say Michael Cohen’s name. That was the first signal he had been wounded by his former fixer’s guilty plea. He said he felt badly for Paul Manafort, his former campaign manager who had […]
8/22/2018
CAMPAIGN FINANCE/MICHAEL COHEN/TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “The federal campaign finance and tax evasion case that is embroiling the White House began in the unlikeliest of places: the world of supermarket tabloids. It is populated by porn stars and Playboy models, shadowy ‘story brokers’ and the ultra rich and powerful, who can buy back their secrets on […]
8/22/2018
MICHAEL COHEN/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The trial of Paul Manafort was not about election conspiracy or presidential obstruction of justice. Michael D. Cohen pleaded guilty to crimes that had nothing to do with Russia’s campaign to sabotage the 2016 presidential race. Yet the deepening legal peril for both men could have significant implications for […]
8/22/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump on Wednesday [8-22-18] praised his just-convicted former campaign chairman for refusing to ‘break’ and cooperate with federal prosecutors investigating Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, expressing appreciation for the personal loyalty of a felon found guilty of defrauding the United States government. In a series of tweets the […]
8/22/2018
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/MICHAEL COHEN/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “White House press secretary Sarah Sanders maintained Wednesday [8-22-18] that President Donald Trump ‘did nothing wrong’ relating to the hush money payments made to women who claimed affairs with him during the 2016 campaign…Sanders declined to answer additional questions about what the President knew about the payments and […]
8/22/2018
GOP/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Twenty-four hours after one of the most damaging days for Donald Trump’s presidency, the Republican wall of support around him shows no signs of crumbling. Though some GOP senators expressed discomfort with the the plea deal reached by Trump lawyer Michael Cohen and the guilty verdict rendered on former Trump campaign […]
8/22/2018
CAMPAIGN FINANCE/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump on Wednesday [8-22-18] defended hush money payments made during the 2016 campaign to silence two women who claimed affairs with him, saying the payments did not violate campaign finance laws because they were not funded by his campaign. His attorney, Michael Cohen, pleaded guilty Tuesday […]
8/22/2018
DEMS/GOP/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Mounting legal problems confronting President Trump and the GOP are rattling the political map nationwide, forcing Democratic and Republican candidates alike to rethink election strategies just weeks before the midterm. And the debate around impeachment — or as many Democrats prefer to frame it, the ‘culture of Republican corruption’ in […]
8/22/2018
CAMPAIGN FINANCE/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday [8-22-18] he found out only after the fact about payments his then-lawyer Michael Cohen made to silence two women who said they had had affairs with Trump, adding that the money came from him and not his campaign..Cohen, in pleading guilty to eight […]
8/22/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “After 19 tumultuous months in office, President Trump is being squeezed by legal assaults on two fronts, each of which could imperil his White House tenure. How those cases intersect is at the heart of the high-stakes legal threat, and the answer may rely on one man — Michael […]
8/22/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “If anyone is looking for a good lawyer, I would strongly suggest that you don’t retain the services of Michael Cohen!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 22, 2018 7:44 am […]
8/22/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “The White House pushed back forcefully on Wednesday [8-22-18] against suggestions that a plea deal struck by President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen implicated Trump in a crime…Cohen on Tuesday [8-21-18] pleaded guilty to eight criminal charges of tax evasion, bank fraud and campaign finance violations. He told a […]
8/22/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/PARDONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “U.S. President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen would not accept a presidential pardon, his attorney said on Wednesday [8-22-18], a day after Cohen pleaded guilty to eight criminal charges and said he acted at the direction of Trump. In a round of television interviews, Cohen’s attorney, Lanny Davis, said […]
8/21/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Michael Cohen’s lawyer on Tuesday [8-21-18] asked why President Donald Trump isn’t also facing criminal charges over the hush payments that his client pleaded guilty to executing. Lanny Davis — who is representing Cohen, Trump’s longtime personal lawyer — lashed out in a statement after Cohen struck a plea deal on […]
8/21/2018
DEMS/GOP/MICHAEL COHEN/PAUL MANFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Two courtroom decisions within minutes of each other, each with eight convictions, against President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer and campaign chairman engulfed Capitol Hill on Tuesday [8-21-18], where Republicans downplayed the connection of both cases to the White House while Democrats seized on the President’s potential role and […]
8/21/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Lanny Davis, the attorney representing President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen, said Tuesday [8-21-18] his client has information on Trump that would interest special counsel Robert Mueller in his investigation…Cohen pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court Tuesday to eight criminal counts and admitted he acted to keep […]
8/21/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In two courtrooms 200 miles apart on Tuesday [8-21-18], President Trump’s almost daily attempts to dismiss the criminal investigations that have engulfed his White House all but collapsed. Mr. Trump has long mocked the investigations as ‘rigged witch hunts,’ pursued by Democrats and abetted by a dishonest news media. […]
8/21/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s former lawyer, made the extraordinary admission in court on Tuesday [8-21-18] that Mr. Trump had directed him to arrange payments to two women during the 2016 campaign to keep them from speaking publicly about affairs they said they had with Mr. Trump. Mr. Cohen acknowledged […]
8/21/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court Tuesday [8-21-18] to eight criminal counts, admitting that ‘in coordination and at the direction of a candidate for federal office’ he acted to keep information that would have been harmful to the candidate and the campaign […]
8/21/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “An attorney for Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer who pleaded guilty in New York on Tuesday [8-21-18] to campaign finance violations and other charges, said Trump directed Cohen to commit a crime. ‘Today he stood up and testified under oath that Donald Trump directed him to commit […]
8/21/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Federal charges against former Trump attorney Michael Cohen contain no allegation of wrongdoing against President Donald Trump and demonstrate a “pattern of lies and dishonesty” by Cohen over a long period, a counsel for the president said on Tuesday [8-21-18]. Cohen pleaded guilty earlier on Tuesday to campaign finance violations […]
8/21/2018
2016 ELECTION/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “U.S. President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen testified on Tuesday [8-21-18] that Trump had directed him to commit a crime by arranging payments ahead of the 2016 presidential election to silence two women who said they had affairs with Trump. Cohen’s voice cracked several times as he pleaded […]
8/19/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Federal prosecutors are focused on over $20 million in loans obtained by U.S. President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen from taxi businesses owned by him and his family, the New York Times reported on Sunday [8-19-18]. The loans are part of an investigation into whether Cohen committed bank and tax […]
8/9/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A court-appointed official has finished reviewing which materials seized from U.S. President Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen can be used in a criminal investigation, according to a court filing on Thursday [8-9-18]. Lawyers for Cohen and Trump had said that some of the seized materials were protected by attorney-client privilege, […]
8/7/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/NEW YORK/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Federal prosecutors in New York are examining whether U.S. President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, committed tax fraud in relation to his taxi-medallion business, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. Cohen, who was Trump’s personal lawyer, has not been charged with any crime. The Federal Bureau […]
8/2/2018
LEGAL/LOBBYING/MICHAEL COHEN/NUCLEAR ENERGY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A major donor to President Trump agreed to pay $10 million to the president’s then-personal attorney if he successfully helped obtain funding for a nuclear-power project, including a $5 billion loan from the U.S. government, according to people familiar with the matter. The donor, Franklin L. Haney, gave the contract to […]
7/30/2018
MICHAEL COHEN/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In a day of confusing statements, President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani first startled observers with a public claim of a previously unknown meeting involving top Trump associates and Kremlin-linked Russians — then recanted the claim and said the meeting ‘never happened.’ During a nearly 45-minute interview on CNN […]
7/30/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, said Monday [7-30-18] that he’s not sure collusion with Russia would be considered a crime. But legal experts have repeatedly said that anyone found collaborating with Russia on the 2016 election could be charged with other crimes, such as conspiracy — and special […]
7/29/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “After a week of revelations that suggest Michael Cohen may have turned on Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, the President’s current lawyer, argued that Trump’s former attorney wasn’t credible and has ‘lied all his life.’ That’s a stark reversal from what Giuliani once said about Cohen, whom he described as truthful […]
7/29/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump’s allies sought to discredit his former attorney, Michael Cohen, after a week of escalating clashes that raised the question of how much Mr. Cohen may be prepared to divulge about his former boss. Rudy Giuliani, Mr. Trump’s lawyer, called Mr. Cohen a ‘pathological manipulator’ and ‘a liar’ […]
7/27/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A furious President Donald Trump and his allies are launching a campaign to undermine the credibility of Trump’s former personal lawyer and confidant, Michael Cohen, in response to Cohen’s dramatic public turn against his longtime patron. Trump, who has privately fumed about Cohen for days, trashed his former lawyer […]
7/27/2018
DONALD JR/MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump on Friday [7-27-18] said he had no prior knowledge of a June 2016 meeting his eldest son had with a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower, disputing an account that a person familiar with the matter says his former lawyer Michael Cohen is planning to tell the special […]
7/27/2018
2016 ELECTION/MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, claims that then-candidate Trump knew in advance about the June 2016 meeting in Trump Tower in which Russians were expected to offer his campaign dirt on Hillary Clinton, sources with knowledge tell CNN. Cohen is willing to make that assertion to […]
7/27/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A federal judge expressed skepticism on Friday [7-27-18] at a request for a gag order from the former personal lawyer for U.S. President Donald Trump against the lawyer for adult film actress Stormy Daniels, who is suing the president. At a hearing in Los Angeles, U.S. District Judge S. James Otero […]
7/27/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Michael Avenatti, the attorney representing porn actress Stormy Daniels in her lawsuits against President Donald Trump, now also represents three other women who claim to have had affairs with Trump who say they were paid to stay silent about. The Associated Press reported Thursday that Avenatti announced his new clients […]
7/26/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Allen Weisselberg, a longtime financial gatekeeper for President Donald Trump, has been subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury in the criminal probe of Mr. Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, according to people familiar with the investigation. Mr. Weisselberg is considered a witness in the investigation, the people said. It […]
7/26/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Allen Weisselberg, a longtime financial gatekeeper for President Donald Trump, has been subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury in the criminal probe of Mr. Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, according to people familiar with the investigation. Mr. Weisselberg is considered a witness in the investigation, the people said. It […]
7/26/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “About a month before Michael Cohen released his recording of a sensitive conversation he had with Donald Trump, the President’s longtime attorney and adviser was agonizing over the silent treatment he was getting from his former boss…Federal prosecutors were bearing down on him over his business dealings, some involving […]
7/25/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL CHOEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Lanny J. Davis’s client list, like his quintessentially Washington career as an all-purpose lawyer, lobbyist, crisis consultant and television-talker, is lengthy, international — and more than occasionally contradictory. Mr. Davis has represented Harvey Weinstein and Penn State, a Ukrainian oligarch with links to President Trump’s indicted former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, […]
7/25/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Just before Election Day, when The Wall Street Journal uncovered a secret deal by the National Enquirer to buy the silence of a former Playboy model who said she had an affair with Donald J. Trump, his campaign issued a flat denial. ‘We have no knowledge of any of this,’ Mr. […]
7/25/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “President Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, escalated his dispute with the president on Tuesday [7-24-18] by releasing a secret recording of a conversation in which Mr. Trump appears to have knowledge about hush money payments to a former Playboy model who said she had an affair with […]
7/25/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump said on Wednesday [7-25-18] that it is ‘so sad’ that his longtime personal attorney recorded their private conversations, suggesting that audio released Tuesday [7-24-18] has been doctored to exclude ‘positive things’ that he was ‘presumably’ saying…In an interview with POLITICO, Davis scoffed at the president’s suggestion about the […]
7/25/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump blasted his former attorney Michael Cohen on Wednesday [7-25-18], the morning after CNN aired the audio of a recording Cohen made of the two…In the audio aired first on CNN’s ‘Cuomo Prime Time,’ Trump and Cohen can be heard discussing how they would buy the rights to […]
7/25/2018
LEGAL/MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Michael Cohen and the publisher of the National Enquirer forged an alliance over the years, looking out for the interests of Donald Trump and each other. Now, federal investigators are examining those ties as part of a wide-ranging probe into Mr. Cohen’s personal business dealings and his self-described role as […]
7/25/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “On Tuesday [7-24-18] night at 9 sharp, any pretense that Michael Cohen might still be in President Donald Trump’s camp ended. That’s the moment when the previously secret recording of a 2016 conversation between Trump’s personal fixer and the then-presidential candidate aired on CNN’s ‘Cuomo Prime Time.’ The recording, in which […]
7/25/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “What kind of a lawyer would tape a client? So sad! Is this a first, never heard of it before? Why was the tape so abruptly terminated (cut) while I was presumably saying positive things? I hear there are other clients and many reporters that are taped – can this be […]
7/25/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday [7-25-18] expressed disbelief that his longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen would have taped conversations with him, a day after an audio recording of a conversation between the two men was aired on U.S. television. A lawyer for Cohen, Lanny Davis, released the recording of Trump […]
7/23/2018
IRAN/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TWITTER: “President Donald Trump is lashing out in all directions as the fallout from his summit with Vladimir Putin becomes ever more toxic, the Russia investigation grinds on with no end in sight, and his frustration boils over on a lack of progress on North Korea. The tensions reached a new […]
7/23/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Twelve audio recordings seized from U.S. President Donald Trump’s onetime personal attorney, Michael Cohen, were turned over to federal prosecutors on Friday [7-20-18], according to a filing in federal court in Manhattan on Monday [7-23-18]. They include a recording of a conversation between Cohen and Trump two months before the […]
7/22/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump’s lawyers have waived attorney-client privilege on his behalf regarding a secretly recorded conversation he had in September 2016 with his former longtime lawyer Michael Cohen in which they discussed payments to an ex-Playboy model who says she had an affair with the President, according to sources familiar with […]
7/20/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI//LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Trump’s longtime lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, secretly recorded a conversation with Mr. Trump two months before the presidential election in which they discussed payments to a former Playboy model who said she had an affair with Mr. Trump, according to lawyers and others familiar with the recording. The F.B.I. […]
7/20/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “MIchael Cohen taped a conversation in person with Donald Trump in which the two men discussed buying the rights to a former Playboy Playmate’s story that she had an affair with Mr. Trump more than a decade ago, according to people familiar with the matter. The conversation, between the then-GOP presidential […]
7/20/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “U.S. President Donald Trump’s longtime lawyer, Michael Cohen, secretly recorded a conversation with Trump before the 2016 presidential election in which they discussed payments to a former Playboy model who said she had an affair with Trump, the New York Times reported on Friday [7-20-18]. The newspaper, citing lawyers and […]
7/9/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Michael Cohen, the President’s former fixer and ultimate loyalist, is sending a clear signal to President Donald Trump and his attorney, Rudy Giuliani, that ‘the truth is not you(r) or your client’s friend,’ according to sources with knowledge of Cohen’s thinking. Two sources familiar with Cohen’s thinking say he […]
7/8/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s attorney, Rudy Giuliani, said Sunday [7-8-18] that he isn’t concerned about Michael Cohen potentially cooperating with federal prosecutors…Giuliani also said that if Cohen tells the truth, ‘we’re home free.’ The comments follow an interview Cohen had with ABC News last week in which he suggested […]
7/5/2018
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 […]
7/2/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s longtime personal fixer, sat down with ‘Good Morning America’ for his first interview since federal agents raided his office in April, he said it was a step toward reaching his ultimate goal of ‘resolution.’ But as revealing as it was, the interview that aired […]
6/20/2018
LEGAL/MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Federal authorities have subpoenaed the publisher of the National Enquirer for records related to its $150,000 payment to a former Playboy model for the rights to her story alleging an affair with Donald Trump, according to people familiar with the matter. The subpoena from Manhattan federal prosecutors requesting information from the publisher, […]
6/20/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former longtime lawyer, resigned from his post as national deputy finance chairman at the Republican National Committee Wednesday [6-20-18], according to an RNC official, saying the investigations into his contacts with Russia and his business dealings were proving too great a distraction. In a letter […]
6/20/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A federal judge in Los Angeles has rejected a request by the adult film actress Stormy Daniels to restart her lawsuit there against U.S. President Donald Trump and his longtime lawyer Michael Cohen. In an order dated Tuesday [6-19-18], U.S. District Judge James Otero said the amount of media attention in […]
6/19/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Michael Cohen took aggressive steps to collect on a multimillion-dollar debt in October 2016, at the time he was seeking to come up with $130,000 to pay a former adult-film star for agreeing to keep quiet about an alleged sexual encounter with Donald Trump. The debt stemmed from a loan to […]
6/15/2018
CALIFORNIA/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Calling for an end to the ‘media circus’ that has engulfed his numerous legal cases, Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s longtime personal fixer, has asked a judge in California to keep his adversary, the lawyer Michael Avenatti, from speaking about him in the news media. In a motion filed on Thursday […]
6/15/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen has indicated to family and friends he is willing to cooperate with federal investigators to alleviate the pressure on himself and his family, according to a source familiar with the matter. Cohen has expressed anger with the treatment he has gotten from the […]
6/14/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Rudy Giuliani insisted Wednesday [6-13-18] evening that Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, would not flip on his ex-boss by cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe. ‘I checked into this last night. It’s not so,’ Giuliani told Laura Ingraham of Fox News. The former New York […]
6/13/2018
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 […]
6/8/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal judge said U.S. President Donald Trump should publicly file his objections to findings of a court-appointed special master reviewing documents seized in a probe of the business dealings of his longtime personal lawyer, Michael Cohen. In an order issued on Friday [6-8-18], U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood in […]
6/6/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “The adult-film actress Stormy Daniels on Wednesday [6-6-18] accused her former attorney Keith Davidson of colluding with President Donald Trump’s onetime lawyer and fixer, calling Davidson a ‘puppet’ for Trump who ‘hatched a plan’ to put a lid on reports of his infidelities. Daniels made the complaint in a lawsuit […]
6/6/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Adult film actress Stormy Daniels on Wednesday [6-6-18] launched a new lawsuit against her former attorney, Keith Davidson, as well as President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, saying the two men ‘colluded’ and ‘acted in concert’ to ‘manipulate’ Daniels and to benefit Trump. The lawsuit, filed in the Superior Court […]
5/31/2018
LEGAL/MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump said on Thursday [5-31-18] that he planned to issue a pardon to Dinesh D’Souza, a conservative author, commentator and filmmaker, and was strongly considering commuting the sentence of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich of Illinois, a Democrat. Flexing his clemency power as he and his team face multiple criminal […]
5/30/2018
COURTS/MICHAEL COHEN/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A New York judge set a June 15 deadline Wednesday [5-30-18] for lawyers for President Donald Trump and his personal lawyer to make attorney-client privilege claims over data seized in April raids, saying it was important not to delay the criminal investigation. U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood said a […]
5/30/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A lawyer for U.S. President Donald Trump’s longtime personal attorney, Michael Cohen, on Wednesday [5-30-18] accused adult film actress Stormy Daniels’ lawyer of leaking Cohen’s bank records to the press, calling it a ‘drive-by shooting of my client’s rights.’ The comments by Cohen lawyer Stephen Ryan regarding Daniels’ lawyer, […]
5/30/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “A lawyer for U.S. President Donald Trump’s longtime personal attorney, Michael Cohen, on Wednesday [5-30-18] accused adult film actress Stormy Daniels’ lawyer of leaking Cohen’s bank records to the press, calling it a ‘drive-by shooting of my client’s rights.’ The comments by Cohen lawyer Stephen Ryan regarding Daniels’ lawyer, Michael Avenatti, […]
5/29/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “hen it comes to President Trump’s legal health and welfare, few recent events have borne as much potential risk as the extraordinary raids that federal agents conducted last month on Michael D. Cohen, his longtime lawyer and fixer. Seizing boxes of documents and about a dozen cellphones, iPads and computers, […]
5/25/2018
MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Eleven days before the presidential inauguration last year, a billionaire Russian businessman with ties to the Kremlin visited Trump Tower in Manhattan to meet with Donald J. Trump’s personal lawyer and fixer, Michael D. Cohen, according to video footage and another person who attended the meeting. In Mr. Cohen’s office on […]
5/25/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A Russian oligarch who was questioned by special counsel Robert Mueller and recently sanctioned by the US visited President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen in Trump Tower during the presidential transition in January 2017, according to video reviewed by CNN and a person familiar with the matter. The January 9, […]
5/25/2018
MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A Russian oligarch with links to the Kremlin met Donald Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen at the Trump Tower in New York City less than two weeks before Trump’s inauguration as president, a source familiar with the meeting said on Friday [5-25-18]. During a discussion in Cohen’s office, located on the skyscraper’s 26th […]
5/24/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Stormy Daniels’ lawyer has renewed efforts to depose President Donald Trump in the porn actress’ legal fight to invalidate a confidentiality agreement she signed days before the 2016 presidential election, according to court documents filed Thursday [5-24-18]. Attorney Michael Avenatti argues that U.S. District Judge S. James Otero should reconsider […]
5/24/2018
LAWSUIT/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Michael Avenatti, the lawyer representing Stormy Daniels, filed new paperwork in federal court on Thursday [5-24-18] asking a judge to allow Daniels’ lawsuit against President Donald Trump to move forward — the latest move in Avenatti’s legal campaign to depose the President. Avenatti’s request comes several weeks after a California judge […]
5/24/2018
MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/ROGER STONE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump worries that his lawyer, Michael Cohen, might cut a plea deal and turn against him. But an even greater threat may be creeping up on Trump: Roger Stone. Although Cohen is considered the keeper of Trump’s most private secrets, Stone has known the president for much […]
5/23/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UKRAINE: “U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, received a secret payment of at least $400,000 to arrange talks between Trump and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko last year, the British Broadcasting Corp reported on Wednesday [5-23-18]. The payment was arranged by intermediaries acting for Poroshenko who wanted to open a back […]
5/23/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A New York federal judge has postponed to next week a hearing in the case brought by President Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen to limit prosecutors’ review of documents seized from his home and office. The hearing, which had been scheduled to take place Thursday [5-24-18], is expected to […]
5/22/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A New York taxi kingpin and business partner of President Donald Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen has agreed to cooperate with the government, The New York Times reported Tuesday [5-22-18]. The Times said the agreement for Evegny ‘Gene’ Freidman would allow him to avoid jail time and would have him work with […]
5/22/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A significant business partner of Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s personal lawyer, has quietly agreed to cooperate with the government as a potential witness, a development that could be used as leverage to pressure Mr. Cohen to work with the special counsel examining Russian interference in the 2016 presidential […]