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shyt is coming full circle
he is a repeating what manafort's lawyers have been repeating from him.
this is complete bullshyt.
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Prosecutors Seek Emails Between Michael Cohen and Lawyer Who Sought Pardon for Him
Robert Costello said federal prosecutors in the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office requested the communications
By
Joe Palazzolo and
Rebecca Ballhaus
Updated March 13, 2019 5:26 p.m. ET
Robert Costello said federal prosecutors in the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office last week requested his communications with Mr. Cohen, a former lawyer for President Trump. The prosecutors also provided Mr. Costello with a waiver that Mr. Cohen had signed, allowing Mr. Costello to disclose his conversations with the attorney.
Mr. Costello said in a Wall Street Journal interview that Mr. Cohen last spring had instructed him to ask Rudy Giuliani, who had recently joined Mr. Trump’s legal team, about the possibility of a presidential pardon. Mr. Giuliani told Mr. Costello that he wasn’t entertaining any talk of a pardon at that point, Mr. Costello said.
Mr. Giuliani confirmed Mr. Costello’s account, and said he couldn’t remember whether he advised Mr. Costello—as he said he did to other lawyers who inquired about pardons—that Mr. Trump maintained the right to grant pardons in the future.
New York prosecutors’ interest in the communications between Messrs. Costello and Cohen comes after the Journal reported last week that Mr. Cohen last spring directed his attorney, Stephen Ryan, to ask the president’s lawyers about the possibility of a pardon. That directive contradicted Mr. Cohen’s assertion in testimony before the House Oversight Committee that he had never asked for a pardon from the president.
Lanny Davis, a lawyer for Mr. Cohen, declined to comment on the emails with Mr. Costello, which he said had been provided to the House Intelligence Committee. Mr. Cohen met with the panel twice behind closed doors in recent weeks. Referring to the emails, whose contents were first reported by CNN, Mr. Davis said, “As a general matter from my own past experience, it is impossible to deny or try to spin your way out of what documents say.”
—Rebecca Davis O’Brien contributed to this article.
Write to Joe Palazzolo at joe.palazzolo@wsj.com and Rebecca Ballhaus at Rebecca.Ballhaus@wsj.com
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