Michael Cohen office raided by FBI

[radical right]

First, you are making up this "ethics violation" and second who says he paid the money of behalf of Trump rather than on his own behalf because he wanted Trump to become President?

If that was true, it would be a violation of FEC election law.

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

Multiple search warrants: home, office, electronics. I believe I heard they took his phone right out of his hot little hand.

All for an admitted ethics violation?

 

[Witchit]

This is interesting!

Mr. Cohen’s lawyer, Stephen Ryan, confirmed the raids. “Today, the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York executed a series of search warrants and seized the privileged communications between my client, Michael Cohen, and his clients,” Mr. Ryan said. “I have been advised by federal prosecutors that the New York action is, in part, a referral by the office of special counsel, Robert Mueller.”

Mr. Sessions appointed the United States attorney for the Southern District, Geoffrey S. Berman, only in January. Mr. Berman is a former law partner of Rudolph W. Giuliani, a former New York mayor and a supporter of Mr. Trump.

The payment to the pornographic film actress, Stephanie Clifford, who is known as Stormy Daniels, is only one of many topics being investigated, according to a person briefed on the search. The F.B.I. also seized emails, tax documents and business records, the person said. Agents raided space Mr. Cohen uses in the Rockefeller Center office of the law firm Squire Patton Boggs, as well as a room Mr. Cohen is staying in at the Loews Regency Hotel on Park Avenue while his apartment is under renovation, the person said.

F.B.I. Raids Office of Trump’s Longtime Lawyer Michael Cohen; Trump Calls It ‘Disgraceful’

Why does this keep happening?? Why do solid Republican appointees insist on following the law!? I just don't get it.

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

If that was true, it would be a violation of FEC election law.

Against Cohen, not Trump.

 

[Contumacious]

So the left has hung it's entire hope on a 12-year-old, one-night consensual fling.

And you don't know either? This is so strange. It's almost like half the board has a terminal case of willful ignorance.

Should I drop some bread crumbs so you guys can at least get headed in the right direction?

Edjewcate us.

FBI Raids Home, Office of Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen

I'll do big letters, just because it makes me happy.

At the very minimum, he seems to have committed a clear campaign-finance violation by making a payment to Stormy Daniels in October 2016 that was intended to help Trump’s campaign and that exceeded campaign-finance law.

The double standard is amazing:


Hillary Clinton was directly involved in what the New York Times has called “the biggest campaign finance fraud in the history of the United States.”

Yet the fucking US Atty never raided her offices

THE FBI AND DOJ are heavily politicized - NOTHING THE BASTARDS DO WILL BE VALID--- NOTHING


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[radical right]

Stupid question. If he used Trump's money then he paid her on behalf of Trump, but if he used his own money he paid her on his own behalf and there was no connection to Trump.

Except for the NDA with a porn star.

 

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Well thought out post. Clearly you spent a fair amount of time writing catch phrases on the chalk board after school. It really formed your writing style. Sadly, that is your best.

 

[Witchit]

Multiple search warrants: home, office, electronics. I believe I heard they took his phone right out of his hot little hand.

All for an admitted ethics violation?

Oh, I'm sure there's more. So much more. Completely independent of Trump, Cohen is a sleaze bucket of mammoth proportions in his own right. I'm quite sure he's in Very Deep Serious.

 

[Snouter]

Great commentary by our President!

 

[toomuchtime_]

First, you are making up this "ethics violation" and second who says he paid the money of behalf of Trump rather than on his own behalf because he wanted Trump to become President?

If that was true, it would be a violation of FEC election law.

Now you're making up more laws. Election laws apply only to contributions to campaigns. Every citizen is free to spend all of his money to support any candidate as long as he doesn't coordinate with the campaign. It's called free speech. You may have heard about it.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Every citizen is free to spend all of his money to support any candidate as long as he doesn't coordinate with the campaign.

That is simply not true. Like, not even close.

 

[radical right]

then why did Cohen LIE and say he took out a mortgage on his house to pay for it, if there was a large retainer in place that could have accommodated the $130k payment?

Then, why the need for the fucking warrant and FBI raid? He admitted an ethics violation.

Trump threw Michael Cohen under the bus. When asked about the $130,000 Trump said to talk to Michael Cohen about that.

So the FBI talked to Cohen about that, by executing a search warrant to find out where the $130,000 came from.

 

[Witchit]

So the left has hung it's entire hope on a 12-year-old, one-night consensual fling.

And you don't know either? This is so strange. It's almost like half the board has a terminal case of willful ignorance.

Should I drop some bread crumbs so you guys can at least get headed in the right direction?

Edjewcate us.

FBI Raids Home, Office of Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen

I'll do big letters, just because it makes me happy.

At the very minimum, he seems to have committed a clear campaign-finance violation by making a payment to Stormy Daniels in October 2016 that was intended to help Trump’s campaign and that exceeded campaign-finance law.

The double standard is amazing:


Hillary Clinton was directly involved in what the New York Times has called “the biggest campaign finance fraud in the history of the United States.”

Yet the fucking US Atty never raided her offices

THE FBI AND DOJ are heavily politicized - NOTHING THE BASTARDS DO WILL BE VALID--- NOTHING


.

OMFG. Roger Stone? I'm dying. Choking, dying.

Yeah, I know. One less Dimo_rat on board can only be a blessing.

Roger Fucking Stone. <cackle>

 

[toomuchtime_]

Stupid question. If he used Trump's money then he paid her on behalf of Trump, but if he used his own money he paid her on his own behalf and there was no connection to Trump.

Except for the NDA with a porn star.

Since he paid her with his own money there was no connection to Trump. That's why you had to make up nonsense about it being an ethics violation for Cohen not to tell Trump about it.

 

[Snouter]

Imagine for a second if the FBI actually tried to find Barry Obama's birth certificate!

 

[radical right]

If that was true, it would be a violation of FEC election law.

Against Cohen, not Trump.

Depends what Trump knew, and when he knew it. It's a violation to accept an illegal campaign contribution, especially for $130,000.

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

Except for the NDA with a porn star.

Which is not illegal for Trump to enter or pay.

 

[Witchit]

Imagine for a second if the FBI actually tried to find Barry Obama's birth certificate!

Have you been holding that one in all day?

 

[Care4all]

Like paying your lawyer, to pay your hit man. That way the cash can't be traced back to you. It's attorney client privilege.

That would be an action by the lawyer in furtherance of a crime. Totally different situation.

As I said, that's why Michael Cohen violated NY bar ethics rules which prohibits lawyers from paying his clients bills, unless the client is indigent.

It prohibits lawyers from financing costs of litigation on behalf of a client, but when a client pays a huge retainer and money is held in trust for payment of any and all future legal fees and expenses, to be used at the lawyer's discretion, there is no ethics violation. There is a potential breach of a fiduciary responsibility, but that is Trump's complaint to make. Not the FBI or federal government.

then why did Cohen LIE and say he took out a mortgage on his house to pay for it, if there was a large retainer in place that could have accommodated the $130k payment?

Stupid question. If he used Trump's money then he paid her on behalf of Trump, but if he used his own money he paid her on his own behalf and there was no connection to Trump.

trump, david dennison, was a part of the NDA....

 

[toomuchtime_]

Every citizen is free to spend all of his money to support any candidate as long as he doesn't coordinate with the campaign.

That is simply not true. Like, not even close.

It is absolutely true. There are no limitations on how much you can spend to support your candidate as long and it is not a contribution to the campaign and that you do not coordinate with the campaign.