Russian oligarch-linked firm that paid Cohen was also represented by Trump lawyer Marc Kasowitz

[Miles Archer]

Russian oligarch-linked firm that paid Michael Cohen was also represented by Trump lawyer Marc Kasowitz



https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/russian-oligarch-linked-firm-paid-michael-cohen-also-represented-trump-lawyer-marc-kasowitz/

Now there’s a new wrinkle: Another longtime Trump personal lawyer, Marc Kasowitz, also represented Columbus Nova in recent years in a commercial case. A spokesman for Kasowitz said the case settled in early 2017.

As ProPublica reported last year, Cohen spent a short period in February 2017 working at the offices of Kasowitz Benson Torres in midtown Manhattan, alarming several lawyers at the firm who worried about the brash attorney’s reputation. That was at the beginning of the period, between January and August 2017, when Columbus Nova made its payments to Cohen.

Cohen told ProPublica last year that he used Kasowitz’s offices “because we were working on several matters together after the inauguration.” Both he and Kasowitz have declined to specify what they collaborated on.

A Columbus Nova spokesman said that the investment firm was not introduced to Cohen by Kasowitz. The spokesman said Kasowitz worked on only one commercial matter for Columbus Nova and that it was a coincidence that the firm had used two lawyers who also represent Trump.

[C_U_L8R]

1. Wonder how many slush funds Kaz is sitting on?

He might very well make Cohen look like an amateur.

[Frustratedlady]

2. I thought his main area of responsibility was divorce cases...

I'll bet he's up to the tip of his nose in the same type of coercion as Cohen.