'Completely False': Michael Avenatti Pushes Back at Accusations That He's Holding Up Cohen Probe
by Ronn Blitzer | 8:39 am, May 29th, 2018
A new report includes a claim that Michael Avenatti, attorney for Stormy Daniels, is making things difficult for prosecutors to get information on President Donald Trump‘s lawyer Michael Cohen. Federal authorities are investigating Cohen for potential offenses, and believed to be among them are possible campaign finance violations related to a hush agreement Daniels and Cohen made regarding an affair she claims to have had with Trump. Avenatti insists that he is not getting in the way at all.
According to The Wall Street Journal, sources say that investigators are trying to get information related to the agreement Daniels signed prior to the 2016 election, which includes speaking with Keith Davidson, the attorney who negotiated the agreement on Daniels’ behalf. Sources told the newspaper that so far, Avenatti is not agreeing to waive Daniels’ attorney-client privilege regarding her communications with Davidson, and event sent Davidson a letter in April demanding that he not disclose any information regarding his discussions with the adult film star.
Avenatti is also said to have delayed Daniels’ former manager Gina Rodriguez (who helped her arrange the agreement) from turning over records of her communications with Daniels until after Avenatti has a change to look them over.
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In a previous tweet, Avenatti said that any delay was due to “the refusal of people to promptly turn over docs for our review.”
“We have already started producing documents to the government so any suggestion we are not cooperating is meritless,” he told WSJ. Regarding Rodriguez, he said, “We never told her not to provide documents to the government nor did we tell her not to cooperate.”
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