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Trump lawyer's previously unnamed client is Sean Hannity | TheHill

posted onApril 17, 2018
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Article snippet: Michael Cohen’s previously unnamed third client is Fox News's Sean Hannity, a lawyer representing Cohen told a federal judge on Monday. Cohen, Monday in connection with FBI raids last week of his office, home and hotel room. His lawyer argued that Cohen’s legal team or a court-appointed attorney should be able to review the materials seized in the raids to determine whether certain documents are protected by attorney–client privilege. In weighing the merits of the case, Judge Kimba Wood ordered Cohen to provide information about his clients. He had already disclosed his work for Trump and GOP donor Elliott Broidy. At that point, Cohen’s lawyers revealed Hannity to be the mystery third client. “I understand he doesn’t want his name out there, but that isn’t the law,” Wood said, according to Bloomberg. Robert Balin, an attorney representing the press’ interests in the case, argued that there is “intense public interest” in the identities of Cohen’s clients, according to Bloomberg. Hannity downplayed his interactions with Cohen, asserting that he’d never formally represented him in legal proceedings. “I have occasionally had brief discussions with him about legal questions about which I wanted his input and perspective,” Hannity tweeted, adding that those conversations “dealt almost exclusively about real estate.” Hannity frequently defends Trump on his Fox News show, and he reportedly dined with the president at Mar-a-Lago recently. Trump is known to call Hannity a... Link to the full article to read more

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