Cohen ordered to disclose client list by Monday, Will Be Made Public

[RandySF]

NEW YORK — Lawyers for President Donald Trump and his longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen went to court Friday trying to stop federal prosecutors from getting at private material — but wound up with a judge ordering them to disclose Cohen’s client list in public.

U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood on Friday ordered attorneys for Cohen to hand over a list of Cohen’s law clients and proof of their relationship by 10 a.m. Monday, so she can decide whether materials seized from Cohen’s office by federal law enforcement agents last week should be protected by attorney-client privilege.

That list will be a public record, Wood said, because the identities of an attorney’s clients are not subject to attorney-client privilege unless the mere name itself would reveal the kind of advice sought or given.

Wood’s order raises the possibility of further embarrassing disclosures involving Cohen, who is already at the center of a legal dispute involving adult-film actress Stormy Daniels, who is suing the president to void a nondisclosure agreement negotiated by Cohen concerning a sexual encounter Daniels says she had with Trump in 2006.


https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/13/michael-cohen-hearing-fbi-raid-522053

[wishstar]

1. Monday should be a fun time for all, with Stormy and Avenatti expected to be in court

Judge Kimba Wood is letting it all hang out in public and allowing everyone to speak if they want, including Stormy.

[chillfactor]

2. and if I remember correctly....

Cohen has to be physically present in the court room.

[riversedge]

7. Yes, the judge was upset last Friday that Cohen was a no show. Said he must be present tomorrow

[cbreezen]

3. Wow.

Talk about a comeback for the judge at the center of Nannygate.

I'm waiting for an appeal on the requirement that the client list be released . I think Cohen is the lowest scum there is, but he might have a few clients who aren't as scuzzy as he is. That concerns me.

[mr_lebowski]

9. Judge Kimba already made accommodations for that actually ... they can be omitted for 'cause'

Anyway, the list is likely to look like this anyway, according to most who know him:

1) President Donald J. Trump

[Marie Marie]

10. You forgot David Dennison.

[TomSlick]

4. Whether the identities of an attorney's clients are subject to the attorney-client privilege

is a tricky area of the law. I hope the judge reviews the list in camera before making it part of the public record.

[NewJeffCT]

5. Donald J Trump

Ivanka Trump, Melania Trump, Don Trump Jr, Eric Trump, Barron Trump, Tiffany Trump, Jared Kushner... see, lots and lots of clients.

[jpak]

6. Cohen is sooooo screwn

[flibbitygiblets]

8. Cohen seems to be not very bright, and sounds like his office etc was loaded with smoking guns

It does feel like the end just began

[Mr.Bill]

14. The office was a jackpot

because they thought attorney-client privilege made it a safe haven for everything they needed to hide.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. If Trump had not run for Prez, he and Cohen and Jarvanka and Jr would be doing just fine.

Now their brand is in ruins and they face a trying and harrowing future.

Trumpanzees will try to tell you that tRump did it because he loves America and he is a strong guy able to take it and is working full time to save America despite all the false charges being made against him and his family.

We don't know all of the truth but we know enough of the truth to laugh at them.

Trump brought all of this on himself. He couldn't help himself. Year after year, decade after decade, he cut corners and scammed and shafted people because he got away with most of it.

No more.

[BigmanPigman]

13. He did it because of his enormous ego

and pure greed. I hope he, his crime family and his cult/base all suffer as they should.

[BobTheSubgenius]

12. I bet there are some elevated Blood Pressue levels.

There are some nervous New Yorkers on that list.

[Elwood P Dowd]

15. Wouldn't it be nice if Rudy Giuliani started showing up on records and tapes

with the Trump/NYC/Russian crime syndicate. He was so tied to Trump during the campaign, there has be some dirt on him.

[duforsure]

16. Cohen will lie,

Knowing he'll be pardoned, and trump will start attacking the judge with suggestions of corruption, or something , lol. They'll lose in court.