by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
Stormy Daniels, once a struggling porn actress, is now enjoying a tsunami of public attention that many in the film industry - at any level - would kill for. She is in a mud-slinging fest with the President of the United States and his personal attorney, and she is winning.
Miss Daniels is claiming that she had a sexual affair with alleged billionaire Donald Trump in 2006 shortly after Trump's third wife, Melania, gave birth to his youngest son. She has recently been revealing lurid details of that affair, including one particularly kinky liaison in which she supposedly spanked Trump with a rolled up copy of the Wall Street Journal.
Donald Trump is denying the illicit affair with Stormy Daniels, but, even so, his personal lawyer and "fixer," Michael Coehn, paid the porn star $130,000 in 2016 to remain silent on the matter. Coehn admits making the payment, but says he did it with his own funds and without Trump's knowledge, and Trump has denied the affair as well as having any knowledge of the payment made by Coehn.
Now that payment to Miss Daniels is being viewed by investigators as a possible unreported campaign contribution, and/or an unreported use of campaign funds. Stormy Daniels is also claiming that a man she did not know threatened her to remain silent about her affair with Trump. She is in court suing to be released from the non-disclosure agreement which she claims she felt coerced into signing.
Stormy Daniels and her attorney have released a sketch of the man whom she says threatened her into keeping quiet, and they are offering a reward of $100,000 to the first person to identify the individual. Trump, who is seldom able to exhibit self-restraint, has called the reward offer a "scam."
Yesterday Stormy Daniels upped the ante yet again and announced that if she wins her court case against Trump, she would donate the $130,000 payment received from Michael Coehn to Planned Parenthood, and that she would make the gift in the names of Donald Trump and Michael Coehn!
Planned Parenthood, which has provided basic health care to women for generations, will undoubtedly appreciate Miss Daniel's generosity, even if the cash was once stuffed into Michael Coehn's pocket. Here's hoping they use it to open a clinic in the names of Trump and Coehn, or spend it on research to eradicate a few particularly nasty sexually transmitted diseases. Either of those uses would be fitting and satisfying.
Citizen Journalist
Stormy Daniels, once a struggling porn actress, is now enjoying a tsunami of public attention that many in the film industry - at any level - would kill for. She is in a mud-slinging fest with the President of the United States and his personal attorney, and she is winning.
Miss Daniels is claiming that she had a sexual affair with alleged billionaire Donald Trump in 2006 shortly after Trump's third wife, Melania, gave birth to his youngest son. She has recently been revealing lurid details of that affair, including one particularly kinky liaison in which she supposedly spanked Trump with a rolled up copy of the Wall Street Journal.
Donald Trump is denying the illicit affair with Stormy Daniels, but, even so, his personal lawyer and "fixer," Michael Coehn, paid the porn star $130,000 in 2016 to remain silent on the matter. Coehn admits making the payment, but says he did it with his own funds and without Trump's knowledge, and Trump has denied the affair as well as having any knowledge of the payment made by Coehn.
Now that payment to Miss Daniels is being viewed by investigators as a possible unreported campaign contribution, and/or an unreported use of campaign funds. Stormy Daniels is also claiming that a man she did not know threatened her to remain silent about her affair with Trump. She is in court suing to be released from the non-disclosure agreement which she claims she felt coerced into signing.
Stormy Daniels and her attorney have released a sketch of the man whom she says threatened her into keeping quiet, and they are offering a reward of $100,000 to the first person to identify the individual. Trump, who is seldom able to exhibit self-restraint, has called the reward offer a "scam."
Yesterday Stormy Daniels upped the ante yet again and announced that if she wins her court case against Trump, she would donate the $130,000 payment received from Michael Coehn to Planned Parenthood, and that she would make the gift in the names of Donald Trump and Michael Coehn!
Planned Parenthood, which has provided basic health care to women for generations, will undoubtedly appreciate Miss Daniel's generosity, even if the cash was once stuffed into Michael Coehn's pocket. Here's hoping they use it to open a clinic in the names of Trump and Coehn, or spend it on research to eradicate a few particularly nasty sexually transmitted diseases. Either of those uses would be fitting and satisfying.
2 comments:
While there may be other more contentious rules with which Michael Cohen should have strictly complied, Rule 1.8 (3)(e) of the New York Rules of Professional Conduct jumps out. Cohen claims to have personally spent his own money, all $130,000 of it, to fix, payoff, or otherwise silence Stormy Daniels. The Donald was apparently not aware of these shenanigans. But lawyers aren't allowed to do that. The rules says that
"While representing a client in connection with contemplated or pending
litigation, a lawyer shall not advance or guarantee financial assistance to the client, except
that:
(1) a lawyer may advance court costs and expenses of litigation, the
repayment of which may be contingent on the outcome of the matter;
(2) a lawyer representing an indigent or pro bono client may pay court
costs and expenses of litigation on behalf of the client; and
(3) a lawyer, in an action in which an attorney’s fee is payable in whole or
in part as a percentage of the recovery in the action, may pay on the lawyer’s own
account court costs and expenses of litigation. In such case, the fee paid to the
lawyer from the proceeds of the action may include an amount equal to such costs
and expenses incurred."
The exceptions don't apply to the facts at hand. Mr. Cohen appears to have violated the ethical canons of his profession.
See, https://www.nysba.org/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=50671
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