In open court today, a federal judge ordered Donald Trump's lawyer to reveal a 3rd "mystery" client apart from Trump and an RNC donor who Cohen helped facilitate a $1.3 million payoff to a former Playboy playmate who became pregnant during their affair.
It turns out that the mystery client is Fox News' Sean Hannity.
That would be the same Sean Hannity who has railed against the cases against Michael Cohen for months and NEVER disclosed he had a legal relationship with Cohen. That would not be illegal but seriously unethical.
Cohen says he attempted to keep Hannity's name private due to attorney/client privilege. But on his radio show today, Hannity says he was never an actual "client" of Cohen's, and never received or paid an invoice.
What comes up now is whether or not there IS an attorney/client relationship with Hannity? If not, then any conversations between the two men would not be covered by attorney/client privilege.
Also, Cohen's work for his other two clients was covering up possible sex scandals? What did he do for Hannity?
Lots of questions to be answered here. More info here.
One has to wonder: was Cohen a "fixer" for Hannity?
CNN's Jake Tapper had the best lead-in ever...
.@jaketapper: The judge forced Michael Cohen to admit in court he has a third client. And the third client is Sean Hannity.— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) April 16, 2018
Go home 2018, you’re drunk. https://t.co/7McUZSjki8 pic.twitter.com/rXkx91hxCI
Michael Cohen has never represented me in any matter. I never retained him, received an invoice, or paid legal fees. I have occasionally had brief discussions with him about legal questions about which I wanted his input and perspective.— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) April 16, 2018
I assumed those conversations were confidential, but to be absolutely clear they never involved any matter between me and a third-party.— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) April 16, 2018
Fox has serious questions to answer about why Hannity was allowed to rant on the Cohen raid without disclosing this. Did they not know?https://t.co/Ku3H3hdjGx— andrew kaczynski🤔 (@KFILE) April 16, 2018
Why doesn’t @FoxNews have a conflict of interest policy requiring Hannity to disclose his personal interest in the Cohen search when commenting on it? https://t.co/ydgpAcGDVo— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) April 16, 2018
The fact that Sean Hannity has been railing against the FBI's investigation of Michael Cohen without disclosing that Michael Cohen IS HIS LAWYER is wildly unethical, and also perfectly on-brand for a Fox News host https://t.co/5aJQt3Sqh7
— Lauren Duca (@laurenduca) April 16, 2018
Cohen's 3 clients:— Patrick S. Tomlinson (@stealthygeek) April 16, 2018
#1. Trump: Cohen negotiated a $130k payoff to Stormy.
#2. Broidy: Cohen a $1.6m payoff for a playmate to get an abortion.
#3. Hannity.
So the only question is who did @seanhannity fuck and pay off?
I'm sure Sean Hannity sought legal advice from Michael Cohen for something completely innocuous (eyes roll around in sockets like a slot machine and come up two cherries).— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) April 16, 2018
The closest Sean Hannity will ever get to a Pulitzer: pic.twitter.com/WjKHUpYflz— Kaivan Shroff (@KaivanShroff) April 16, 2018
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