The treatment of the news that Veselnitskaya worked w/RU govt to help her client is remarkable. Think abt comms a US lawyer repping a corporate client might have w/USG.
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You’re missing the part where she said she had no connection to Russian government. I’m not fever swamps on this Russia thing but this smacks you in the face
Again, I invite you to consider what a similarly situated lawyer in the US would say, in a country that at least pretends not to put nationalism ahead of justice.
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I honestly can't tell if you're joking at this point. Seriously, remember how a couple of weeks ago you kept saying "calling Michael Cohen a lawyer is a bit of an exaggeration"? It's not just that calling Veselnitskaya a lawyer personally may be a bit of a stretch; 1/2
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it's that there are essentially NO "similarly situated" lawyers, in the US sense of the word, in Russia at all. The way the system works, high profile cases are not decided in courts. So the "lawyers" there do different things for a living; and are indeed fixers, not lawyers. 2/2
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Um. First of all, she is treated as a lawyer in US courts. So you'll have to take it up with our legal system. Second of all, the claim that lawyer lobbyists here don't reach out to DOJ is the height of insanity.
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OK, I understand your point. And admittedly, I know next to nothing about the actual comms in question. You are most likely right about the media here being off on the whole thing. But I'm sticking to my point: a direct comparison like yours is a textbook "apples-to-oranges".
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I agree with you in principle. But disagree with you in gut feeling.
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