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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLaw Firm That Partnered With Michael Cohen Says Shell Company Work Was A Side Hustle..
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WASHINGTON ― A major law firm that formed a strategic partnership with Donald Trumps personal lawyer Michael Cohen last year said the work that Cohen did on behalf of corporations that paid him through a shell company was separate from his business with the firm. Squire Patton Boggs, a global law firm with 47 offices in 20 countries, announced an arrangement with Cohen in April 2017 to advance the interests of its clients. The partnership, which lasted roughly a year, ended not long after the FBI seized material from Cohen last month.
<Snip>Although most of the payments came when Cohen had a partnership with Squire Patton Boggs, the firm said that was separate from the work he did with it.We have we never paid any money to Essential Consultants LLC and weve never performed work for any of the identified entities as a result of our past arrangement with Cohen, Squire Patton Boggs spokesman Angelo Kakolyris told HuffPost in an email.
Squire Patton Boggs agreed to pay Cohen a $500,000 annual alliance fee, according to court filings in connection with a dispute over government access to information he claimed was protected by attorney-client privilege. Over the past year, he had only three legal clients: Trump, Republican donor Elliott Broidy and Fox News host Sean Hannity. Federal prosecutors said that they had reason to believe Cohen had exceedingly few clients and a low volume of potentially privileged communications and that he introduced a sum total of five clients to the firm.
The Wall Street Journal identified one of those companies in an article Wednesday evening as U.S. Immigration Fund LLC, a company with close ties to Jared Kushners family business. The company helps wealthy foreign investors connect with American businesses and obtain permanent U.S. residency through a visa program available to those who can afford to invest at least $500,000.It was U.S. Immigration Fund that put together a presentation last year soliciting Chinese investors to get involved in towers the Kushner family company was planning to build in Jersey City, New Jersey. The presentation featured several officials in the Kushner family business, including Kushners sister, Nicole Meyer. The Wall Street Journal reported that federal prosecutors obtained video footage of Meyers presentation from her husband.
Lobbying reports indicate Squire Patton Boggs received $370,000 from U.S. Immigration Fund to lobby the Trump administration and Congress about the visa system for investors, the Wall Street Journal reported.Squire Patton Boggs declined to identify the other four clients that Cohen sent to the law firm.We cannot breach our clients confidence, but what I can say is that they were routine legal matters, Kakolyris told HuffPost following the WSJ story on Wednesday night.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/michael-cohen-squire-patton-boggs-trump_us_5af319a6e4b0aab8a78bad8e
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Law Firm That Partnered With Michael Cohen Says Shell Company Work Was A Side Hustle.. (Original Post)
HipChick
May 2018
OP
Yep... more will want to duck and hide and now disavow their association...
Civic Justice
May 2018
#2
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)1. relentless
HipChick
(25,485 posts)3. I would not want to be on the wrong side of Avenatti..
Civic Justice
(870 posts)2. Yep... more will want to duck and hide and now disavow their association...
That's the nature of the underbelly feeders in this society... They will say anything to try and escape their collusive entanglements.
C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)4. Thick as thieves
Mueller (and most of the thinking world) sees through their nonsense
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)5. "Stormy Daniels brought a chainsaw to a gun fight & Cohen brought a spork"
Quote I saw on twitter last night