emptywheel

TY.

Anytime. Also, interesting bit from the unsealed portion that took place at sidebar: AUSA: "It's that this is a fast-moving investigation. We are devoting a large amount of resources to the whole case but, in particular, to our filter team to get this review done very quickly."

I am gobsmacked that he allegedly arranged a payoff for someone and used the same fake names for the female and male as in the Stormy Daniels case. What is Cohen's alleged connection to that other lawyer (KD)? How did that other lawyer get involved to begin with?

Not sure if you saw @Popehat's comments on this yesterday, but it sure seems like these two had an extortion racket going.

I had missed Ken's comments.. will go find them... thanks.

Me too. Need to check it out

OK, so this sounds sleazy as shit, but I'm not sure I understand what crime Cohen would be committing if he discloses to the male that he was contacted by KD because they have had dealings like this previously...?

It's not outside the realm of possibility that Cohen and KD have a line on who's fucking sex workers (broadly defined), have a pre-set hush agreement (on a sliding scale based on whether a child was conceived), but that Cohen tapes the arrangements to have kompromat on hushee.