Our current president’s longtime personal lawyer, Michael “The Fixer” Cohen, will invoke his Fifth Amendment right in a lawsuit filed against the president by Stephanie Clifford, the adult-film star better known as Stormy Daniels.
“I will assert my 5th Amendment rights in connection with all proceedings in this case due to the ongoing criminal investigation by the F.B.I. and U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York,” Cohen cited the Manhattan investigation in his filing yesterday, saying that, if called as a witness in Ms. Clifford’s lawsuit.
Citing the Fifth Amendment in the Clifford case allows “The Fixer” to avoid being deposed and revealing sensitive information in the more important criminal investigation.
That investigation – which prosecutors say has been going on for months – became public in dramatic fashion on April 9th, when agents from the New York office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided ! Cohen’s office, apartment and a room at the Loews Regency Hotel he had been using.
Attorneys for Cohen suggested yesterday that they were already taking steps to “gird themselves for battle.”
In new court papers, they said that they were setting up “war rooms” to review the seized materials, testing and vetting “systems” to process them, and marshaling what seems to be a small legal army of “operations and technology personnel, paralegals, discovery experts, associates and senior reviewing partners.”
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