Cocktails & Popcorn: Blackmail, Bribery, Porn, Perkins Coie & That "Attorney-Client Privilege" Conundrum

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Well, this elevates the legal arguments surrounding the continued viability of that good ol' "attorney-client privilege" conundrum.

I wonder if this eventful re-examination of the attorney client privilege doctrine covers domestics, you know, like, for instance, a spouse, of an elected official, decides to secretly record stuff, then puts it into a personal property protection action, granted by the courts during the pendency of another, sealed, judicial jurisdiction.

Now, that would most certainly be worthy of Cocktails & Popcorn!

I wonder how many skins Perkins Coie has on this game, or we could just pull FEC filings to come up with a round about idea on how they fund these operations.

Perkins Coie is running lots of special projects, right now, you know.

NYT: Cohen taped conversation with Trump on porn star

Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's longtime lawyer, secretly recorded a conversation between himself and the president in which they discussed payments to a former Playboy model who said she had an affair with Trump, according to a report Friday in The New York Times.

According to the report, the FBI seized the recording this year during a raid on Cohen's office three months ago as part of an investigation into his business dealings. The tape was recorded two months before the presidential election, according to the Times.

Cohen hasn't been charged with any crime. In recent weeks, he has made clear that protecting Trump, whom he once said he would "take a bullet" for, is no longer his first priority.

“My wife, my daughter and my son have my first loyalty and always will,” Cohen told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos in an off-camera interview that was reported on a July 2 episode of “Good Morning America.” “I put family and country first.”

Among other things, investigators are looking into a $130,000 payment he handled as part of a confidentiality agreement with porn star and exotic dancer Stormy Daniels, who says she had an affair with Trump in 2006. Trump denies that.

Cohen in the past has said that the payment was made on his own initiative, but has since indicated otherwise. 

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