Michael Cohen, Attorney-Client Privilege and the Crime-Fraud Exception

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13 pointschatmasta4 comments

Ouch - President Trump may have waived attorney-client privilege when he claimed he didn't know about the Stormy Daniels payments.

"If this is true, then it seems that Trump could not have had an attorney-client relationship with Cohen regarding the Daniels payment in the first instance—one hallmark of an attorney-client relationship is agreement as to its scope and the attorney’s obligation to keep the client advised as to all significant material matters"

Note: this article is from April 10th.

Yes. Can you clarify why you’ve called that out please?

Because the articles was 9 days old by the time it was posted. By the time the post was made, there were far more up-to-date articles about this topic.

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