Michael Cohen sues Trump Organization in New York Court

[fleur-de-lisa]

Shannon Pettypiece ✔ @spettypi (Bloomberg News) 11:43 AM - 7 Mar 2019

Going through Cohen lawsuit filing against Trump Org... it seems to be based around Cohen saying the company stopped paying his legal fees in June 2018, breaking a contract to reimburse him for litigation expenses.

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Link to Summons:

https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=UuHTQoiORsZEd6khgo3GWQ==

[Demobrat]

1. LOL

I wonder how many people Cohen threatened to stop them attempting to collect money they were owed?

[Gothmog]

6. This makes me smile

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[Pepsidog]

2. He should know better than most that Trump is a man of no substance. Totally devoid of

personal, intellectual or monetary substance. He is broke in more ways than I can count. Good luck collecting on any judgement.

[Gothmog]

4. Michael Cohen suing Trump Organization for not paying his legal fees

Remember that after the raid on his office, Cohen was incurring a ton of legal fees with regard to the review of the documents seized to determine if these documents were covered by the attorney client privilege. For a while, trump and the campaign were paying these fees

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trump stopped paying for this review and that was the start of Cohen getting upset with and breaking with trump.
This will be a fun lawsuit. Cohen appears to be entitled to indemnification which means trump needs to reimburse Cohen for his legal fees. https://www.axios.com/michael-cohen-sues-trump-organization-6abb22b4-9e1d-456b-aa4b-ffc47dddfbe0.html

Michael Cohen is suing the Trump Organization for "failure to meet its indemnification obligations" by not paying his legal fees.

Details: The lawsuit claims that around July 2017, the Trump Organization and Cohen entered into an agreement under which the company would pay for Cohen's representation and defense through "various matters," including congressional hearings and the Mueller investigation. The organization confirmed its commitment to the deal through at least May 2018, even after Cohen came under heightened investigative scrutiny. In June 2018, shortly after Cohen began telling friends he was willing to cooperate with Mueller, the suit alleges the organization ceased to pay his law firm's invoices "without notice or justification," causing the firm to withdraw its representation of Cohen.

Evidently Cohen paid or incurred $1.9 million in legal fees to have the seized documents reviewed and trump should be on the hook for that amount under the Trump Organization, LLC's duty of indemnification

[Gothmog]

5. MSNBC analyst says Trump Organization is contractually on the hook for Cohen's legal bills

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[Demobrat]

8. And their point is?

Sure, Cohen will get a judgement, but collecting is a whole other ballgame!

[lunatica]

7. May he win bigly!