Adjunct Professor Joel Cohen wrote an op-ed in Law & Crime about attorney Michael Avenatti, who is waging a campaign against President Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen.
Michael Avenatti is quickly becoming the most famous lawyer in America today – or at least second to Michael Cohen. He began as Stormy Daniels’ lawyer for the limited purpose of trying to get her released from a non-disclosure agreement (“NDA”) with President Donald Trump (or his surrogate counterparty to Daniels), and has since become a daily TV campaign against the President and his “personal” lawyer, Cohen.
But Avenatti has done something extraordinary. He came into possession of actual records relating to Michael Cohen that disclose significant fees from Corporate America and others, or at least a summary report about them. While, to date, we don’t know the source of this information, it now seems likely that Avenatti received the records from someone not entitled to see them, or at least not entitled to disclose them.