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NEW: Lawyers claiming ties to Rudy Giuliani approached Michael Cohen after FBI raids, urging him not to leave the joint defense agreement and offering to join his legal team and act as a conduit to Trump's lawyers if Cohen exited the agreement.
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NEW: Investigators have been probing whether the communications from the Rudy Giuliani-linked lawyers to Michael Cohen was intended to influence Cohen or to implicitly dangle a potential pardon from Trump in front of him, both of which are illegal.
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ICYMI on Apr 20, 2018 [right after Trump hired Rudy Giuliani on the heels of the Cohen raid], Trump's pal Alan Dershowitz: Trump likely hired Giuliani to send a lifeline to Cohen and encourage him to ‘stay strong’ ... “A very, very smart move.”
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NEW: Michael Cohen told SDNY prosecutors recently about pardon discussions that occurred just after the Apr 2017 raid with a lawyer who had offered to represent him, Robert Costello, a friend of Rudy Giuliani.
by @nytmike @benprotess @maggieNYT #Maddow nyti.ms/2TBCg9h
Michael Cohen described to SDNY prosecutors how Costello, who had offered to represent him, spoke with Giuliani. Prosecutors have obtained a cryptic email Costello sent Cohen assuring him that he'd raised "some issue of importance" with Giuliani.
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Per @gtconway3d: "Whatever conversations Giuliani or any of Trump’s personal lawyers had with anyone other than Trump about pardons are *not* privileged."
MORE: Under penalty of perjury, Michael Cohen told House Intel today that, in addition to Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, he discussed the subject of a pardon with Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow, who, under no penalty of perjury, flatly denied it.
by @karoun #Maddow wapo.st/2TxVdtj?tid=ss…
Michael Cohen has privately claimed that Trump representatives dangled the notion of a pardon. If they did so to gain assurances he would not to cooperate with prosecutors, it would raise questions about whether the intent was to obstruct justice.
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Agreed, @Delavegalaw. The Manhattan DA "has prepared an array of criminal charges against Paul Manafort he can file quickly if Trump pardons him," so it makes no sense for Trump to do so. Trump is dumb, but not that dumb. I think...
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Trump and Rudy Giuliani are getting their stories straight on the pardon dangle to Michael Cohen.
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One company named in the Russian telecoms bribery & money laundering scheme is Dutch-based VimpelCom [owned by Alfa Bank founder Mikhail Fridman], which paid $795M in 2016 in DOJ's largest ever FCPA case, overseen by Andrew Weissmann & @PreetBharara.
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