NEW: Special master Barbara Jones charged $338,421 in legal fees on Michael Cohen’s privilege review.
Neither side objected to the expenses, split equally between the government on one side and Cohen, Trump and Trump Org on the other.
Neither side objected to the expenses, split equally between the government on one side and Cohen, Trump and Trump Org on the other.
Note: Press reports have cited Cohen’s mounting legal fees as a factor in his potential cooperation with the government. m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5b…
Another reminder: Cohen himself caused these fees by pushing to take the privilege review out of the hands of the government’s taint team.
Judge Wood found the fees “regular and reasonable,” per her notation in the paragraph toward the bottom right below her signature.
Judge Wood found the fees “regular and reasonable,” per her notation in the paragraph toward the bottom right below her signature.
The actually invoice spans roughly 10 pages of billable hours.
