Cocktails & Popcorn: Stormy's Meeting With NY US Attorney's Office Canceled Due To Leaks

"You do know Pretty Preet was running the investigation before Juicy Joon took it over?"
"Oh yeah, you might want to pour me a bit more wine and get more popcorn."

Stormy was supposed to meet with the U.S. Attorney's Office, "Juicy" Joon Kim in Manhattan.

It was canceled because the U.S. Attorney's Office said the meeting details were leaked.

Oh, the dramatic climax!

Whenever shall you arrive?

Have I reminded you today that Perkins Coie Sucks?

#perkinscoiesucks

Stormy Daniels to meet with prosecutors in Cohen probe

Stormy Daniels to meet with prosecutors in Cohen probe Porn actress Stormy Daniels, who has said she had an affair with President Donald Trump and was paid $130,000 as part of a confidentiality agreement days before the 2016 presidential election, will meet with federal prosecutors in New York on Monday as part of their investigation into the president's former longtime personal attorney, according to a person familiar with the matter.

 Monday's interview with prosecutors from the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan is in preparation for a possible grand jury appearance as they work to assemble a case against Trump's longtime personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, the person said. If prosecutors bring a case to a grand jury, they could call witnesses to testify under oath and the grand jury would decide whether to bring criminal charges with a written indictment. Unlike a trial jury, a grand jury does not determine guilt or innocence and a federal grand jury hears evidence presented by federal prosecutors.

 Daniels and her attorney, Michael Avenatti, have also turned over documents in response to a subpoena from federal prosecutors about the $130,000 that Daniels was paid, the person familiar with the matter said. They weren't authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

 Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, has said she had sex with Trump in 2006 when he was married. Trump has denied any sexual relationship with Daniels. Daniels is suing to invalidate the confidentiality agreement that prevents her from discussing it.

She argues the nondisclosure agreement should be invalidated because Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, signed it, but the president did not.

 In April, FBI agents raided Cohen's home, office and hotel room as part of a probe into his business dealings and investigators were seeking records about the nondisclosure agreement that Daniels had signed, among other things.

 Cohen had said he paid Daniels himself, through a limited liability company known as Essential Consultants, LLC, and that "neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign was a party to the transaction with Ms. Clifford, and neither reimbursed me for the payment, either directly or indirectly." 

Pay very close attention to this statement.  It is going to be very important when learning about another reason why Perkins Coie Sucks.  They did the same exact thing to some one else.

 In May, Rudy Giuliani, one of Trump's attorneys, said the president had repaid Cohen for the $130,000 payment to Daniels, contradicting Trump's prior claims that he didn't know the source of the money.

 Earlier this month, Trump said he hadn't spoken with Cohen — his longtime fixer and a key power player in the Trump Organization — in "a long time" and that Cohen is "not my lawyer anymore."" Voting is beautiful, be beautiful ~ vote.©

Cocktails & Popcorn: Stormy Daniels Has All The Legal Geniuses Suing Each Other's Attorney Client Privileges Away

Go Stormy!

She is a legal dominatrix.

She has all these "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending) suing each other over ethical concerns regarding the besmirching of the honorable profession of being an officer of the court of law.

Something tells me the "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending) in the military "sex, drugs & dark weapons" scandals is going to be even messier.

Remember David Patreaus?

I do.

He has an email scandal and I bet there are some extremely naughty stuff in his attachments.

Oh, and before I forget, Perkins Coie Sucks.

Stormy Daniels Says Michael Cohen Told Melania Daniels Was a Liar

New lawsuit says the president's lawyer tried to do damage control about alleged affair face-to-face with the First Lady at Mar-a-Lago.

Stormy Daniels’ old attorney plotted with President Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, to get her on the Sean Hannity Show and deny her affair with the president, according to a new lawsuit filed Wednesday.

The porn actress is suing Keith Davidson, her former lawyer and peddler of Hollywood dirt and sex tapes, alleging he breached his fiduciary duty by secretly collaborating with Cohen and disclosing information about her legal strategy.

Earlier this year, Daniels became a household name after filing a lawsuit against Cohen and Trump to invalidate a “hush agreement” she signed weeks before the 2016 election. Cohen paid Daniels $130,000 in exchange for her silence on her alleged 2006 romp with Trump, then a real-estate mogul and reality TV star.

Daniels’ legal filings reveal how Davidson, the counselor who inked her non-disclosure agreement, supposedly enjoyed a chummy relationship with Cohen behind the scenes.

Another allegation in the lawsuit: Cohen held a meeting with First Lady Melania Trump at Mar-a-Lago in March to discredit Daniels.

Davidson’s spokesman called the lawsuit “outrageously frivolous” and said it was an attempt by Daniels’ attorney, Michael Avenatti, to distract from negative press about his former law firm, which was slapped with a $10-million bankruptcy settlement.

“That said, Attorney Davidson is very happy that [Avenatti] has filed this lawsuit because [Davidson] strongly believes that the filing constitutes a full and complete waiver of the attorney-client privilege,” said the spokesman, Dave Wedge, in a statement to The Daily Beast.

Wedge appeared to make lemonade out of legal lemons.

“Thankfully, the truth can now finally come out to rebut the false narrative about Attorney Davidson that Mr. Avenatti has been pushing in his more than 175 television appearances and countless other media interviews,” Wedge continued. “Attorney Davidson believes that the American people deserve to know the entire truth—and they soon will. This lawsuit has made that happen.”

Keith Davidson should have been charged after his arrest for extortion not long ago. He is a disgrace to the profession. Watch him now try and distract away from his own unethical conduct. Ms. Daniels deserved better. https://t.co/wd6rfnFCuQ via @thedailybeast

— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) June 6, 2018

For his part, Avenatti said that text messages discussing a potential Hannity interview only bolster his client’s claim of a cover-up.

“These text messages show that the prior denials by Mr. Trump and Mr. Cohen relating to what Mr. Trump knew and about the honesty of my client were absolute lies,” Avenatti said in a statement. “There was a significant cover-up here as part of an attempt to deceive the American people and Mrs. Trump and we intend on getting to the bottom of it.”

In January, Davidson and Cohen tried to do damage control after In Touch magazine ran a steamy interview with Daniels on bedding Trump, according to the lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court and first reported by NBC News.

“Call me,” Cohen texted Davidson on Jan. 17, after learning of the scoop. The lawyers—who were supposed to be opposing counsel—“hatched a plan” to get Daniels on Fox News with Sean Hannity to decry the story’s accuracy, the complaint says.

Two hours later, at 2:32 p.m., Cohen messaged Davidson again. “I have her tentatively scheduled for Hannity tonight. Call me after your trial,” Cohen wrote. (Cohen, who’s facing a federal probe over his business dealings and the Daniels NDA, admitted last month that Hannity is one of three recent clients. Another is GOP donor Elliott Broidy.)

Cohen scheduled Daniels—born Stephanie Clifford—to appear on Hannity’s show “only after consultation with Mr. Trump,” the complaint says.

“She cannot don’t [sic] today. She is flying to LA tomorrow. I’m trying to get her to commit for tomorrow,” Davidson replied.

But Cohen, in a panic, sent a cascade of texts to persuade Daniels, “with the assistance of Mr. Hannity, to lie to the American public about her relationship with Mr. Trump via the Fox News broadcast,” her complaint states.

“Can you call me please,” Cohen wrote at 3:25 p.m. He followed up with “Please call me” about 20 minutes later. “Anything?” Cohen added.

“Still trying,” Davidson replied.

“This is no good,” Cohen wrote. “We need her as by doing tomorrow you just create another news cycle instead of putting an end to this one.”

“C’mon!” Cohen desperately texted at 5:01 p.m.

Yet around 5:30 p.m., Cohen changed his tune.

“Let’s forget tonight,” Cohen wrote. “They would rather tomorrow so they can promote the heck out of the show.” According to the lawsuit, “They” refers to Fox News and the Trump administration.

By 8 p.m., Cohen informed Davidson that the porn star’s appearance on Hannity was unnecessary.

“Keith, The wise men all believe the story is dying and don’t think it’s smart for her to do any interviews,” Cohen texted. “Let her do her thing but no interviews at all with anyone.” (In her lawsuit, Daniels says the “wise men” include Trump.)

Davidson agreed, answering, “100%”

“Thanks pal,” Cohen replied. “Just no interviews or statements unless through you.”

“Got it,” Davidson wrote.

These texts show Davidson was set to arrange a media appearance not for Daniels’ benefit but for the benefit of Trump, the lawsuit alleges.

“Indeed, once Mr. Cohen concluded that it was no longer in his own best interest, or those of his client… Mr. Cohen called off the appearance entirely and Mr. Davidson agreed without hesitation,” her lawsuit states.

Davidson wasn’t acting as Daniels’ lawyer; he instead was a “puppet” for Cohen and Trump, the lawsuit says.

In February, Davidson learned Daniels had a new attorney and was about to spill the beans on her affair with Trump, the complaint says. Davidson then allegedly tipped Cohen off about her plans. As a result, Cohen began an arbitration against Daniels on Feb. 27 and sought a temporary restraining order to silence her, the lawsuit alleges.

Davidson allegedly contacted Cohen again in March, alerting him that Daniels was preparing to file a lawsuit to void her “hush agreement.”

Cohen then made efforts to quickly meet with First Lady Melania Trump to “get out in front” of the bombshell suit, “and to convince her that [Daniels] was a liar and not to be trusted,” the complaint says.

The embattled Trump stalwart allegedly met with Melania Trump on March 2 at Mar-a-Lago but stuck with his own narrative. “Cohen did not disclose to Mrs. Trump that not only was [Daniels] far from being a liar, Mr. Cohen had begged her to appear on Mr. Hannity’s show weeks earlier,” the lawsuit says.

The complaint also alleges that Cohen recorded his conversations with Davidson, and that those discussions include sensitive information on Daniels.

Meanwhile, Davidson is accused of withholding Daniels’ entire client file from her and refusing to turn over text messages and correspondence with Cohen.

“Mr. Davidson’s failure to provide the information demanded has prejudiced Ms. Clifford in numerous ways including… hampering her ability to review documents and cooperate with government inquiries regarding Mr. Cohen, Mr. Trump and Mr. Davidson.”

Daniels is seeking damages and fees in excess of $100,000.

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Ohio Settles Stormy's Defamation Lawsuit - What Is Next?

Stormy is back and she is just getting started.

City to pay Stormy Daniels $450,000 over strip club arrest

Stormy

Columbus, Ohio – Ohio’s capital city has reached a $450,000 settlement with Stormy Daniels over the porn actress’ arrest at a strip club last year.

Her federal defamation lawsuit against several Columbus officers alleged officers conspired to retaliate against her over her claims that she had sex with Donald Trump before he became president.

In this Oct. 11, 2018, file photo, adult film actress Stormy Daniels arrives for the opening of the adult entertainment fair Venus in Berlin. Columbus, Ohio has reached a $450,000 settlement with Stormy Daniels over the porn actress’ arrest at a strip club last year.

City attorney’s office spokeswoman Meredith Tucker says the agreement was reached after mediation Friday with all parties agreeing the figure was fair “given the facts and circumstances involved.”

A message was left with an attorney for Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford.

Daniels was arrested on suspicion of inappropriately touching an undercover officer. Prosecutors later dropped charges.

An internal police review determined her arrest was improper but not planned in advance or politically motivated.

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Cocktails & Popcorn: Stormy! - Avenatti Rips Her Off - Prosecutors Look At 300 Years

Stormy!

She got him.

There is hope when it comes to holding the legal community to responsible when there is a breach of the public trust.

He broke Canon Law.

That is Ethics.

Michael Avenatti charged with defrauding Stormy Daniels

NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Avenatti, the attorney who rocketed to fame through his representation of porn star Stormy Daniels in her battles with President Donald Trump, was charged Wednesday with ripping her off.

 Federal prosecutors in New York City say Avenatti used a doctored document to divert about $300,000 that Daniels was supposed to get from a book deal, then used the money for personal and business expenses.

Only half of that money was paid back, prosecutors said.

 Daniels isn't named in the court filing, but the details of the case, including the date her book was released, make it clear that she is the client involved.

 Avenatti denied the allegations on Twitter.

 "No monies relating to Ms. Daniels were ever misappropriated or mishandled.

She received millions of dollars worth of legal services and we spent huge sums in expenses.

She directly paid only $100.00 for all that she received.

I look forward to a jury hearing the evidence," he wrote.

 Avenatti added in a later tweet that his agreement for representing Daniels "included a percentage of any book proceeds."

 The charges pile on top of previous allegations of legal misconduct by Avenatti, who represented Daniels when she sued to be released from a nondisclosure agreement involving an alleged tryst with Trump.

The president denies an affair took place.

 Avenatti was previously charged in New York with trying to extort up to $25 million from Nike by threatening to expose claims that the shoemaker paid off high school basketball players to steer them to Nike-sponsored colleges.

And in Los Angeles, he's facing a multicount federal indictment alleging that he stole millions of dollars from clients, didn't pay taxes, committed bank fraud and lied during bankruptcy proceedings.

 Avenatti has denied the allegations against him on both coasts, saying he expects to be exonerated.

The Los Angeles charges alone carry a potential penalty of more than 300 years in prison.

 "I look forward to a jury hearing all of the evidence and passing judgment on my conduct," Avenatti wrote in a text message to The Associated Press. Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, initially hired Avenatti to handle a lawsuit she filed last year in which she sought to invalidate the nondisclosure agreement she'd signed with Trump's then-lawyer Michael Cohen in exchange for $130,000.

 The money was supposed to buy her silence during Trump's run for president about an alleged affair between the two. In August, Cohen pleaded guilty to violating campaign finance laws in connection with the payment. In announcing the new charges Wednesday, prosecutors said that Avenatti sent a "fraudulent and unauthorized letter" to Daniels' literary agent, instructing the agent to send payments not to Daniels but to a bank account Avenatti controlled.

They said he used the stolen funds to pay employees of his law firm and pay for hotels, airfare, dry cleaning and his Ferrari. "Far from zealously representing his client, Avenatti, as alleged, instead engaged in outright deception and theft, victimizing rather than advocating for his client," Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman said in news release. Avenatti "blatantly lied" and stole to maintain his "extravagant lifestyle," Berman said.

 Daniels raised concerns with Avenatti about late payments around the time her book, "Full Disclosure," was published in October, according to the indictment.

 "When is the publisher going to cough up my money," she asked Avenatti in early December, according to the indictment.

 Avenatti responded that he was "working them and threatening litigation," prosecutors said, but he did not tell Daniels he had already received the money.

 Daniels began publicly raising concerns about Avenatti's conduct in November.

In a statement, she said Avenatti had launched a fundraising effort to raise money for her legal case without telling her.

She also said he had filed a defamation lawsuit against Trump, on her behalf, against her wishes.

 "For months I've asked Michael Avenatti to give me accounting information about the fund my supporters so generously donated to for my safety and legal defense. He has repeatedly ignored those requests," she said.

"Days ago I demanded again, repeatedly, that he tell me how the money was being spent and how much was left.

Instead of answering me, without my permission or even my knowledge Michael launched another crowdfunding campaign to raise money on my behalf.

I learned about it on Twitter."

 At the time, Avenatti responded that he was still Daniels' "biggest champion."

 He said that under his retention agreement, she had agreed to pay him just $100 for his services, and he was entitled to keep all the money he raised for her legal defense to defray what he said were substantial costs of her case.

 The defamation case initiated by Avenatti against Trump backfired, with a judge ordering her to pay the president's legal bills.

 When Avenatti was first charged with defrauding other clients and extorting Nike in March, Daniels said she was "saddened but not shocked."

 She added on Twitter that she had fired Avenatti a month earlier after "discovering that he had dealt with me extremely dishonestly."

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Cocktails & Popcorn: Stormy Is Exposing Trafficking Of Tiny Humans In Suing To Removing Attorney Client Privilege?

Is this a Detroit popcorn attorney
client privilege stripper?

Just remember, popcorn strippers come in all shapes and sizes.

#perkincoiesucks

First, Stormy was arrested.

Columbus Police Makes 3 Arrests at Adult Entertainment Club
As part of a long-term investigation into allegations of human trafficking,
prostitution, & other vice related violations, CPD arrested 3 individuals from Club Sirens at 6190 Cleveland Ave., early this morning, 7/12/18. pic.twitter.com/UJQzJ3iI6c

— Columbus Ohio Police (@ColumbusPolice) July 12, 2018

Then, this comes out.

STORMY DANIELS BUST PART OF LARGER HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND PROSTITUTION INVESTIGATION

 So, based upon all this, I am just going to put it out there that Whitewater is back and in full force.

Ohio Ex-Judge & School Board Member Tim Nolan Sentenced To Trafficking Tiny Humans

Learn more: BEVERLY TRAN: Ohio Ex-Judge & School Board Member Tim Nolan Sentenced To Trafficking Tiny Humans http://beverlytran.blogspot.com/2018/02/ohio-ex-judge-school-board-member-tim.html#ixzz5LAYNqnnw
Stop Medicaid Fraud in Child Welfare 

Ohio Child Welfare Fraud: Human Trafficking, A Pastor & $230 Million

Learn more: BEVERLY TRAN: Ohio Child Welfare Fraud: Human Trafficking, A Pastor & $230 Million http://beverlytran.blogspot.com/2017/07/ohio-child-welfare-fraud-human.html#ixzz5LAYUYday
Stop Medicaid Fraud in Child Welfare 

Ohio Local Police Launch Foster Care Fraud Investigation Of A Non-Profit

Learn more: BEVERLY TRAN: Ohio Local Police Launch Foster Care Fraud Investigation Of A Non-Profit http://beverlytran.blogspot.com/2016/11/ohio-local-police-launch-foster-care.html#ixzz5LAYdJqci
Stop Medicaid Fraud in Child Welfare 

What Do Whitewater, Ken Starr, Monica Lewinsky & Detroit Have In Common?

Learn more: BEVERLY TRAN: What Do Whitewater, Ken Starr, Monica Lewinsky & Detroit Have In Common? http://beverlytran.blogspot.com/2018/02/what-do-whitewater-ken-starr-monica.html#ixzz5LAT5RcIj
Stop Medicaid Fraud in Child Welfare 


Lanny Davis worked on Whitewater.

Then, Michael Cohen retains Lanny Davis to renounce his, well, I guess, pending stripping of "attorney client privilege" with Trump, just like Stormy is doing with Cohen.

Did @rudygiuliani really say on Sunday shows that @michaelcohen212 should cooperate with prosecutors and tell the truth? Seriously? Is that Trump and Giuliani definition of “truth”? Trump/Giuliani next to the word “truth” = oxymoron. Stay tuned. #thetruthmatters

— Lanny Davis (@LannyDavis) July 9, 2018

Stay tuned, chill that wine and pop that popcorn.

Stormy Daniels’s arrest, and the campaign to discredit her

Stormy Daniels has struck again — or rather, according to Ohio authorities, she “fondled.” The backward legislation that landed the adult-film actress in trouble has a lot in common with the conservative campaign to discredit her.

While performing her “Make America Horny Again” act on Wednesday night at a strip club in Columbus, Daniels was arrested on three counts of touching a patron (and, allegedly, undercover police officers) at a “sexually oriented business.” Ohio law, it turns out, prohibits “nude or seminude” employees from physical contact with customers who aren’t, uh, their immediate family members. The charges were dismissed on Thursday.

Daniels’s lawyer, Michael Avenatti, called his client’s arrest a “sting operation” and a “setup” that “reeks of desperation” from those worried about the adult-film actress’s lawsuit against President Trump and Michael Cohen over the hush agreement governing her alleged 2006 affair with the president.

It’s fair to say things look fishy. That the charges were so speedily dismissed suggests there wasn’t much merit to them in the first place. The Columbus Dispatch reported last year that the “no-touching” law was rarely enforced, and had not been cited even once in the county in its 10 years of existence. Plus, as Avenatti said, Daniels had performed her act all across the country without any trouble.

But whether Avenatti is on-point or simply paranoid, it’s worth looking at the motivations behind Ohio’s so-called Community Defense Actand how they dovetail with the Trump camp’s attacks against Daniels.

Daniels was arrested, in effect, for being a stripper — for doing what customers come to strip clubs to see strippers do, and what, in many cases, they pay extra for. The law, backed by conservative Christian advocates, essentially seeks to stop strippers from stripping the way they want to, and the language it uses to do so is telling: A performer not only faces a penalty for touching a patron, but also for allowing herself to be touched by a patron.

The rule plays on people’s moral disapprobation to cast the dancer as a crook even in consensual interactions that clearly have two parties involved. (Patrons aren’t allowed to touch dancers, either, but there’s no rule against them “allowing” themselves to be touched.) She becomes responsible for someone else’s actions as well as her own, essentially because, by stripping in the first place, she has put herself in a compromising position.

The Trump team has tried to play the same trick throughout the Daniels scandal. Even as they’ve denied the president’s liaison with the porn star, they have taken pains to attack Daniels for what she does — to diminish her credibility and to diminish her claim that she deserves protection at all.

“I don’t respect a porn star the way I respect a career woman, or a woman of substance, or a woman who has great respect for herself as a woman, and as a person,” Trump’s lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, saidlast month. He added, “Explain to me how she could be damaged. She has no reputation. If you’re going to sell your body for money, you just don’t have a reputation.”

Trump said Giuliani was “doing a very good job.”

No matter what happened, this argument goes, Daniels had it coming. It’s not so concerning to Trump’s defenders that he may have cheated on his wife four months after she gave birth to their first child together. Any fallout that harms him is Daniels’s fault, and any fallout that hurts her is her fault, too. The president is the president, after all. The porn star is a porn star.

This attitude — that a woman is responsible not only for what she does with her body, but for what a man does to it, too — is a variant of the “she-was-asking-for-it” argument so common among those who commit sexual assault. It took a while for society to stop accepting the defense so readily for any woman. But when it’s deployed against a stripper, or an adult-film actress, or someone else so many Americans still deem deviant, it’s easier to get away with. And perhaps it’s even easier for the president. After all, when you’re a star like he is, you can do anything.

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Cocktails & Popcorn: Michael Cohen Lies To Congress, Pleads Guilty To Russian Real Estate Fraud & Stormy Is Mad At Avenatti For Suing Trump Without Her Permission

My sincerest apologies for failing to remind my loyal readers that #perkinscoiesucks.

Stormy Daniels: Michael Avenatti Sued Trump For Defamation Against My Wishes

Michael Avenatti sued Donald Trump for defaming Stormy Daniels against her wishes, Daniels told The Daily Beast in a statement on Wednesday.

Avenatti also started a new fundraising site to raise money for her legal defense fund without telling her, Daniels said. She said she is not sure whether or not she will keep Avenatti on as her lawyer.

Here is her full statement, provided to The Daily Beast:

“For months I’ve asked Michael Avenatti to give me accounting information about the fund my supporters so generously donated to for my safety and legal defense. He has repeatedly ignored those requests. Days ago I demanded again, repeatedly, that he tell me how the money was being spent and how much was left. Instead of answering me, without my permission or even my knowledge Michael launched another crowdfunding campaign to raise money on my behalf. I learned about it on Twitter.

“I haven’t decided yet what to do about legal representation moving forward. Michael has been a great advocate in many ways. I’m tremendously grateful to him for aggressively representing me in my fight to regain my voice. But in other ways Michael has not treated me with the respect and deference an attorney should show to a client. He has spoken on my behalf without my approval. He filed a defamation case against Donald Trump against my wishes. He repeatedly refused to tell me how my legal defense fund was being spent. Now he has launched a new crowdfunding campaign using my face and name without my permission and attributing words to me that I never wrote or said. I’m deeply grateful to my supporters and they deserve to know their money is being spent responsibly. I don’t want to hurt Michael, but it’s time to set the record straight. The truth has always been my greatest ally.

“My goal is the same as it has always been—to stand up for myself and take back my voice after being bullied and intimidated by President Trump and his minions. One way or another I’m going to continue in that fight, and I want everyone who has stood by me to know how profoundly grateful I am for their support.”

The Daily Beast shared this statement with Avenatti. He provided the following statement:

“I am and have always been Stormy’s biggest champion. I have personally sacrificed an enormous amount of money, time and energy toward assisting her because I believe in her. I have always been an open book with Stormy as to all aspects of her cases and she knows that. The retention agreement Stormy signed back in February provided that she would pay me $100.00 and that any and all other monies raised via a legal fund would go toward my legal fees and costs. Instead, the vast majority of the money raised has gone toward her security expenses and similar other expenses. The most recent campaign was simply a refresh of the prior campaign, designed to help defray some of Stormy’s expenses.”

Stephen Gillers, a New York University Law School professor and expert on legal ethics, said Avenatti could face serious problems if he sued Trump against Daniels’ wishes.

“If he filed the case with her name when it was clear that she told him not to, then he could be sued for that,” Gillers said. “He could be sued for malpractice. If true, she has a malpractice case against him. I emphasize if true. And if true, he would be subject to discipline but not as serious as disbarment.”

The current CrowdJustice site is one of just three fundraisers highlighted on CrowdJustice’s homepage as of Wednesday afternoon. An earlier CrowdJustice site raised more than $580,000 for Daniels’ legal defense and no longer accepts contributions.

When The Daily Beast contacted Avenatti on Tuesday and asked about Daniels’ two active Crowdjustice sites, the lawyer said, “We reset the page as the focus of the case changed from when we first launched the site.” The Daily Beast also asked on Tuesday for a breakdown of expenses. In response, Avenatti said via email, “The money has gone toward the areas identified on the page. For instance, Stormy's security detail has cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, especially due to the high level of death threats. The other out-of-pocket costs of the litigation are also extraordinary (and I'm not speaking of attorneys' fees). Trump and Cohen have spent millions in their defense].”

Avenatti claimed at the time that he hasn’t “received a dime in attorneys’ fees” from the crowdfunding effort. He said his firm has “spent well over a thousand hours of attorney time on the case at a value of over $1,500,000 (and no, we do not count interviews or media as attorney time).”

Avenatti’s legal work for Daniels hasn’t always succeeded. In the April defamation lawsuit against the president, Avenatti argued Trump hurt her by tweeting that she participated in a “total con job.”

But in November, a judge dismissed the suit and ordered Daniels to pay the president’s legal bills. Trump’s lawyers asked for almost $350,000 in legal fees; Daniels is now fighting to try to lower that bill.

Daniels and her lawyer have become household names since the revelation that Michael Cohen—then Trump’s personal attorney—paid her hush-money during the presidential campaign. Daniels says she had an affair with Trump years before he ran for office (a claim Trump denies), and accepted $130,000 from Cohen to stay quiet.

Cohen admitted in court in August that he made illegal payments during the campaign at Trump’s direction. He pleaded guilty to eight criminal counts and is awaiting sentencing.

Avenatti, meanwhile, has become a darling of the #Resistance, traveling to Iowa, raising money for Democratic candidates, and openly touting a potential 2020 presidential bid. But his White House dreams have faced major challenges; earlier this month, he was arrested under suspicion of domestic violence—allegations he roundly denies. And when he represented migrant children whom the Trump administration separated from their parents earlier this year, long-time immigration lawyers told The Observer he was “fantastically irresponsible.”

And as The Daily Beast reported in October, court records reveal that the lawyer and his companies owed millions to the IRS in unpaid taxes and judgments.

President Donald Trump’s former attorney lied to Congress about his role in pursuing a business deal in Russia for his old boss, covering up that discussions stretched into the 2016 presidential campaign and even reached the Kremlin.

Michael Cohen pleaded guilty in a Manhattan federal courtroom on Thursday to one count of making a false statement to Congress last year when he told lawmakers about his efforts to secure a deal to build a Trump Tower in Moscow. Cohen’s plea was part of a deal he struck with special counsel Robert Mueller’s office that included significant cooperation with the investigation into Trump’s ties to Russia during the presidential campaign.

In an August 2017 letter sent to the House and Senate intelligence committees, Cohen said plans for a Moscow tower had ended shortly before Trump competed in the Republican presidential primaries. “By the end of January 2016, I determined that the proposal was not feasible for a variety of business reasons and should not be pursued further,” Cohen wrote.

But prosecutors say Cohen continued to discuss the proposal throughout the primaries and into the general-election season with Trump’s former business partner, the real-estate developer and convicted felon Felix Sater.

Cohen also told the Senate Intelligence Committee he did not discuss the project extensively within the Trump Organization. In fact, Mueller’s office said, Cohen discussed the project with Trump more than three times and “briefed family members of” Trump about it.

Cohen told Congress that he “never agreed to make a trip to Russia” about the proposal, but emails with Sater show Cohen repeatedly agreeing to Sater’s proposal for a trip to Moscow to seal the deal.

“ASSUMING the trip does happen the question is before or after the convention,” Cohen wrote to Sater in May 2016, two months before the Republican National Convention, adding Trump might potentially go to Moscow and meet Russian President Vladimir Putin around that time.

House Intel Panel Hiring Money-Laundering Sleuths

Cohen also allegedly lied about his communications with Dmitry Peskov, a spokesperson and close adviser to Putin, about the project. Cohen’s letter to Congress said he did “not recall any response to my email, nor any other contacts by me with” Peskov after he emailed him in January 2016 looking for help with the real-estate development plans.

But prosecutors say Cohen followed up with Peskov’s assistant in a phone call and “requested assistance in moving the project forward, both in securing land to build the proposed tower and financing the construction.”

In a court appearance Thursday, Cohen explained his lies by saying he “made these statements” to Congress to be consistent with Trump’s “political messaging” and to be loyal to Trump.”

Just a few weeks after Cohen’s last discussions of the tower project in June 2016, Trump tweeted: “For the record, I have ZERO investments in Russia.”

It was also revealed Thursday that Cohen has entered into a cooperation agreement with Mueller’s office as part of his plea deal. ABC News reports that Cohen sat with members of the office for a combined 70 hours, fielding questions about possible contacts between Russia and the Trump campaign, Trump’s business dealings in Russia, as well as possible obstruction of justice by the president.

Cohen’s cooperation with the Mueller inquiry on potential Russian collusion is significant because it shows that Cohen has been spilling more information to the Mueller investigation than previously known.

In August, Cohen pleaded guilty to tax evasion and bank-fraud charges to Manhattan federal prosecutors as part of an illegal scheme to pay hush money to Trump’s alleged former mistresses, Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal.

Cohen is scheduled to be sentenced for those crimes on Dec. 12. In exchange for his guilty plea and cooperation with the special counsel’s office, Cohen may hope to receive a lighter sentence than he otherwise would.

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Cocktails & Popcorn: Stormy Is Back With A State Investigation In Tow

It seems that separation of federal and state jurisdiction of prosecutions has come up again because the State is picking up the investigation.

We also have a situation of probably stripping of the ole attorney client immunity privilege.

Go get 'em, Stormy!

The Trump Management Company

The Trump Organization

Fred C. Trump

FOIA Requests with the word "Trump"

Manhattan D.A. Subpoenas Trump Organization Over Stormy Daniels Hush Money

Stormy Daniels

Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the Manhattan district attorney, is reviving an investigation into payments made to two women during the 2016 campaign.

State prosecutors in Manhattan subpoenaed President Trump’s family business on Thursday, reviving an investigation into the company’s role in hush-money payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign, according to people briefed on the matter.

The subpoena, issued by the Manhattan district attorney’s office, demanded the Trump Organization provide documents related to money that had been used to buy the silence of Stormy Daniels, a pornographic film actress who said she had an affair with Mr. Trump.

The inquiry from the district attorney’s office, which is in early stages, is examining whether any senior executives at the company filed false business records about the hush money, which would be a state crime, the people said.

Marc L. Mukasey, an attorney for the Trump Organization, called the inquiry a “political hit job.”

“It’s just harassment of the president, his family and his business, using subpoenas as weapons. We will respond as appropriate,” Mr. Mukasey said.

The investigation will focus on a $130,000 payment Michael D. Cohen, the president’s lawyer and fixer at the time, gave Ms. Daniels. Mr. Cohen also helped arrange for a tabloid media company to pay the Playboy model Karen McDougal, a second woman who said she had had an affair with the president. The disclosure of the payments ignited a scandal that threatened to derail the Trump presidency.

The Manhattan district attorney’s office on Thursday separately subpoenaed the media company, American Media Inc., the publisher of the National Enquirer.

The subpoenas from Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the Manhattan district attorney, came only weeks after the Trump Organization had appeared to fend off federal scrutiny of the same payments.

The United States attorney’s office in Manhattan, which charged Mr. Cohen last year with campaign finance violations in the hush-money case, revealed in a court filing last month that prosecutors had “effectively concluded” their inquiry, signaling that it was unlikely they would file additional charges.

But state law makes it a crime to falsify business records, offering the Manhattan district attorney’s office another avenue.

The Trump Organization reimbursed Mr. Cohen for his payment to Ms. Daniels. State prosecutors are examining whether the company — and any of its senior executives — then falsely listed the reimbursement as a legal expense, the people briefed on the matter said.

Following the groundwork laid in the federal investigation, the district attorney’s office is expected to scrutinize the senior ranks of the company, although it is unclear whether the inquiry will reach the president. Mr. Trump has denied the affairs and any wrongdoing.

While Mr. Cohen has said he arranged the hush-money at the direction of Mr. Trump — and federal prosecutors have since repeated that accusation in court papers — less is publicly known about the president’s role. Mr. Cohen is currently serving a three-year prison sentence in Otisville, N.Y.

A spokesman for American Media Inc., the media company that was subpoenaed, did not respond to a request for comment. The company bought the rights to Ms. McDougal’s story of an affair with Mr. Trump and never ran the story. The company, whose leader was friends with Mr. Trump, cooperated with the federal investigation and received a nonprosecution agreement.

The district attorney’s office initially considered mounting the inquiry nearly a year ago, after Mr. Cohen pleaded guilty. Mr. Vance’s office paused at the request of the federal prosecutors.

Mr. Vance’s latest foray into the hush-money case could present a legal and political quandary.

Mr. Trump’s lawyers will try to portray Mr. Vance, a Democrat, as leading a partisan attack. Earlier this year, similar criticism was leveled by a lawyer for Paul J. Manafort, Mr. Trump’s former campaign chairman. After Mr. Manafort was convicted of federal crimes, Mr. Vance’s office charged him with state felonies in hopes he would still face prison if he received a presidential pardon.

Still, if Mr. Vance declined to bring charges in the hush-money case, the decision could fuel criticism that he has pulled punches with the Trump family. His office previously declined to charge two of Mr. Trump’s children, Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr., who were under criminal investigation in 2012 over allegations that they misled buyers interested in the Trump SoHo hotel-condominium project.

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What Do Marion Brown & Stormy Daniels Have In Common?

Q: What do Marion Brown and Stormy Daniels have in common?

A: #perkinscoiesucks

I wonder if Marion Brown is going to be the opening act.

I hear she is seeking employment.

Stormy Daniels returns: Detroit strip club books porn star for 2 shows

America's most talked-about porn star is coming back to Detroit. 

Stormy Daniels will perform two shows May 14 at the Penthouse Club Detroit at 20771 W. Eight Mile Road, according to the club's Facebook page. 

"Exclusively for the Penthouse #grand opening it's the Penthouse Pet of the century," the post reads. 

Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, skyrocketed to mainstream fame in recent months amid news reports of a 2006 one-night stand with President Donald Trump and a six-figure payout as part of a pre-election nondisclosure agreement that may have violated campaign finance laws.

Daniels performed last month at Truth Detroit gentlemen's club. 

No word yet on whether she plans to ever stop at another prominent Detroit strip club — Trumpps.

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$10 Million Reasons Why The Stormy Daniels Case Is Going To Get Juicier

I do believe that Avenatti will become a bit more aggressive in his legal advocacy.

Judge orders law firm of Stormy Daniels’ lawyer to pay $10M

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal judge in California ordered a law firm linked to Stormy Daniels’ attorney to pay $10 million on Tuesday to a lawyer who claimed that the firm had misstated its profits and that he was owed millions.

The judgment came after Jason Frank, who used to work at Eagan Avenatti, alleged that that the law firm failed to pay a $4.85 million settlement he had reached in December. He said in court papers that the settlement was personally guaranteed by Michael Avenatti, who has garnered national attention as the attorney for Daniels, the porn actress who is suing President Donald Trump following an alleged 2006 affair.

Frank had worked at Avenatti’s firm under an independent contractor agreement and was supposed to collect 25 percent of the firm’s annual profits, along with 20 percent of fees his clients paid, according to court documents. He resigned in May 2016 after alleging that the firm didn’t pay him millions of dollars that he was owed, misstated the firm’s profits and wouldn’t provide copies of tax returns and other financial documents.

After he resigned, Frank brought the case to a panel of arbitrators, who found that the firm “acted with malice, fraud, and oppression by hiding its revenue numbers,” according to a copy of the arbitration report included in court documents.

In December, Frank settled with Avenatti’s firm for a total of $4.85 million, which was supposed to include an initial $2 million payment and then a second payment for $2.85 million. The $2 million payment was supposed to be made by May 14, but Avenatti and his firm never paid, Frank said in court papers.

The settlement agreement included a clause that the firm couldn’t oppose a request for a $10 million judgment if the settlement payments weren’t made within three days of the due date. Frank did not immediately return a telephone message seeking comment on Tuesday.

The judgment is final and cannot be appealed, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Catherine Bauer said in her ruling.

Court records in the bankruptcy proceeding also show Avenatti had personally agreed to pay about $2.4 million in back taxes and penalties. During Tuesday’s hearing, an assistant U.S. attorney said Avenatti had not made a payment that was due last week for unpaid taxes as part of the agreement that was reached in January.

Thom Mrozek, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles, said lawyers from that office represent the government in bankruptcy court when there’s a debt to a government agency, like back taxes or unpaid student loans.

Avenatti told The Associated Press that he would not discuss “irrelevant nonsense” and wouldn’t answer specific questions about the case.

Court documents say Avenatti is the “managing member and majority equity holder” of Eagan Avenatti and “solely owns and controls” another firm, Avenatti & Associates, which represents Daniels.

Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, has said she had an affair with Trump in 2006 and has sued to invalidate the confidentiality agreement she signed days before the 2016 presidential election that prevents her discussing it. She’s also suing Trump and his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, alleging defamation.

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JUDICIARY: TOP JUDICIARY DEMS & CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATIC WOMEN’S WORKING GROUP DEMAND ANSWERS ABOUT TRUMP’S HUSH MONEY PAYOFFS TO STORMY DANIELS & OTHERS

Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY); Congressional Democratic Women’s Working Group Chair Lois Frankel (D-FL) and Vice Chair Brenda Lawrence (D-MI); Judiciary Subcommittee Ranking Members Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX),  Steve Cohen (D-TN), Henry C. “Hank” Johnson, Jr. (D-GA) and  David N. Cicilline (D-RI); as well as Judiciary Vice Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-MD), sent a letter to President Donald Trump’s lawyers raising legal concerns about payoffs to adult-film actress Stormy Daniels and others.

The concerns were heightened today after reports revealed that Trump’s private attorney, Michael Cohen, used a Trump Organization email account to arrange for a transfer of the $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels. As a result of these concerns, the Members posed a number of questions to Trump’s private attorneys, Michael Cohen and Marc Kasowitz, as well as David Pecker, the Chairman of American Media, Inc., which made a $150,000 payment to Karen McDougal, preventing her from publicly discussing her affair with Trump. 

The Members’ questions included: (i) whether Mr. Cohen was or expects to be reimbursed for the $130,000 hush money payment to Ms. Clifford, and when and whether Mr. Trump or the Trump Organization was informed of the payment as well as the restraining order Mr. Cohen recently obtained with respect to Ms. Clifford; (ii) when and whether Mr. Trump or the Trump Organization was informed of the $150,000 hush money payment by American Media, Inc. paid to Karen McDougal; and (iii) whether these individuals are aware of any other hush money payments, as well as the purpose and tax status of all of these payments.

In their letter, the Members wrote, “We write to you to follow up on a series of recent revelations concerning payments made to Stephanie Clifford, a former adult-film star known as Stormy Daniels; Karen McDougal, a former Playboy “Playmate of the Year”; and potentially others in an effort to avoid disclosures of their relationships with Donald Trump.  We can assure you we have no interest in Mr. Trump’s personal relationships in and of themselves. However, as the senior Democratic leadership of the House Judiciary Committee and leadership of the Democratic Women’s Working Group, we believe we have an obligation to inquire regarding such matters to the extent they raise questions relating to possible violations of law. These matters raise questions relating to potential violations of federal campaign finance and income tax laws, legal ethics and other laws; bear upon the credibility of Mr. Trump’s denials of past non-consensual sexual misconduct; and may pose risks of future efforts to extort or otherwise influence the President in his official capacity.”

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Perkins Coie Sucks Even More: Michael Avenatti & Stormy Daniels

Once upon a time, the Celestial Goddess of the Woodshed proclaimed onto the people of the land that Perkins Coie Sucks.

 She even generated a handy dandy tag: #perkinscoiesucks

Alas, it was soon discovered in the land of the dataverse, that Perkins Coie could suck even more than it currently sucks, henceforth, the Celestial Goddess of the Woodshed reissues her decree.

#perkinscoiesucks

 Perkins Coie pays Michael Avenatti to represent Stormy Daniels in her quest for...well...I have really not figured out her harms yet, but I am sure something will come up from the "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending) like not being to get a job or make money, against an elected official about coming up with a way to enter a fake NDA into the court to proceed through a falsely advised legal machination of judgment, to prosecute for some sex drama, that the elected official has previously entered into the public record a denial.

Wow, those transposable models just keep popping up because this sounds like a legal cover narrative to justify using more sex drama stuff to get a FISA.  Must be the Vernal Equinox.

This sounds so much like a Child Protective Services child abuse proceeding and another reason why that "attorney-client privilege" thing needs to be stripped!

Stormy Daniels’ Lawyer Accused of Shady Business Practices

"Legal Genius" (trademark pending) Michael Avenatti

Michael Avenatti became famous for representing Stormy Daniels in her lawsuit against President Donald Trump, but as it turns out, that development comes at a rocky time in his business life. Over the past few years, this attorney has been dealing with court battles and accusations surrounding his investment in the coffee chain Tully’s, according to a report from The Seattle Times. His ownership firm Global Baristas US, LLC, purchased the company five years ago for $9.15 million at a bankruptcy auction.

Problems started from the beginning. Avenatti was in business with Patrick Demspey (that’s right, he of Grey’s Anatomy and 1980s movie fame), but the actor sued, saying the lawyer falsely claimed that Global Baristas fully financed the Tully’s operation. According to Dempsey, Avenatti actually took out a $2 million loan at a high 15 percent interest rate, and used the newly purchased coffee chain as security. Avenatti denied allegations, and that complaint was settled out of court.

End of that story, but problems have continued to the current day. Tully’s has been clashing with local shopping mall Bellevue Square. After Bellevue owner Kemper Development didn’t renew leases for two Tully’s locations, Global Baristas pulled out of a third in spite of being in the middle of a 10-year lease and a remodel. Cue lawsuit by Bellevue. They won after a judge granted a default judgment, sanctioning Global Baristas, and ordering it to pay fines and plaintiff legal fees.

Last month, Bellevue attorney David Nold filed a complaint to the California State Bar Association, claiming Avenatti took $6 million withheld from Tully’s employee paychecks, even though that cash was meant for paying federal and states taxes. Avenatti also committed fraud by moving $100,000 from Tully’s to pay for his law firm’s bankruptcy, Nold claimed. The U.S. Attorney in Seattle was cc’d in the complaint. The California State Bar declined to tell the Times if they were investigating.
Avenatti denied allegations to the outlet, and attacked Nold as an attorney.

“Mr. Nold is widely known as an unethical ‘hack’ of a lawyer who routinely files baseless complaints,” he wrote in an email. “He is a disgrace to the legal profession and is consumed by jealousy of other attorneys so he makes baseless allegations. His most recent conduct is yet more of the same — I hope he gets the help he needs.” The outlet said it found evidence of no disciplinary or ethical problems by Nold in Washington State Bar records.

Since the 2013 purchase, Avenatti’s investment firm has reportedly been named in over 50 lawsuits nationwide, including one by Keurig Green Mountain, which owns the Tully’s name, and claims Global Baristas hadn’t paid licensing fees of $500,000. Federal records obtained by Law&Crime show that litigation is ongoing. The final few Tully’s locations shut down in March, during what a spokeswoman described as a “rebranding process,” according to the Times.
Avenatti did not answer questions about Tully’s.

“You will have to ask your questions to the new ownership group who long ago took on responsibility for various tax liabilities etc.,” he wrote. The outlet said he declined to name the owners, and explain when he divested.


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Cocktails & Popcorn: The Kavanaugh Porn Is Coming

The porno is coming!

 The porno is coming!

Wait!

Then this happened.

Stormy’s Lawyer Has Accounts Frozen By Judge

But, this is much more interesting because we may be looking at the first reveal of foster care and adoption.

Yes.....you must have cocktails and popcorn on hand once we get to Detroit.

Hmmmmmmmmmm................yeeeeeeeeesssssss............Detroit.................

Read the full sworn statement from Julie Swetnick, the third woman to accuse Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct

• Accuser Julie Swetnick, in a sworn declaration tweeted out by her lawyer Michael Avenatti, alleges that Kavanaugh and others while in high school spiked the drinks of girls at parties to make it easier for them to be gang raped.
• "I witnessed Brett Kavanaugh consistently engage in excessive drinking and inappropriate contact of a sexual nature with women during the early 1980s," Swetnick says in her statement, which she signed under penalty of perjury.
• Kavanaugh has said he categorically denies ever sexually assaulting anyone. His lawyer and the White House did not immediately respond to CNBC's requests for comment on Swetnick's claims.

A third woman stepped forward Wednesday to accuse Supreme Court hopeful Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct.

Accuser Julie Swetnick, in a sworn declaration tweeted out by her lawyer Michael Avenatti — who is also representing porn star Stormy Daniels in her lawsuit against President Donald Trump — alleged that Kavanaugh and others, while in high school, spiked the drinks of girls at parties to make it easier for them to be gang raped.

"I witnessed Brett Kavanaugh consistently engage in excessive drinking and inappropriate contact of a sexual nature with women during the early 1980s," Swetnick says in her statement, which she signed under penalty of perjury.

Michael Avenatti, attorney for Stephanie Clifford, also known as adult film actress Stormy Daniels, speaks to reporters as he leaves the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California on September 24, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. Avenatti claims to have information pertaining to allegations concerning Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

The three-page declaration was sent to the counsel for the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is set to hear testimony from Kavanaugh and another woman, Christine Blasey Ford, as early as tomorrow. A spokesman for committee Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley said the committee is currently reviewing the document.

Kavanaugh has said he categorically denies ever sexually assaulting anyone.

On Wednesday, Kavanaugh responded to the latest accusations in a statement released by the White House: "This is ridiculous and from the Twilight Zone. I don't know who this is and this never happened."

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