Sep 20, 2018 · David Schwartz Attorney Advocates for Trump Fixer Michael Cohen. by David Schwartz September 20, 2018. Facebook. Twitter. Pinterest. Google + Linkedin; Email; I had the opportunity to speak with Megyn Kelly to speak about Michael Cohen. We all have heard of Michael Cohen who is known as a “fixer” for President Donald Trump. Check out my ...
Mar 26, 2018 · But Cohen's lawyer David Schwartz says his client did nothing wrong. "Mr. Cohen paid the $130,000, but the reason is to protect business, protect reputation and to protect family," Schwartz said ...
Mar 29, 2018 · David Schwartz, the friend, lawyer, and spokesperson for Trump attorney Michael Cohen, has an interesting way of sticking up for his client. In a CNN interview, Schwartz talked about Cohen’s nondisclosure agreement that he made to keep Stormy Daniels from talking about an alleged affair between her and Donald Trump in exchange for $130,000. Schwartz insisted …
Mar 30, 2018 · So it goes with President Donald J. Trump, whose personal attorney, Michael Cohen, has his own legal counsel, David Schwartz. Cohen is the certified brain genius who yelled Fake News in response to...
Mar 29, 2018 · Fresh off a TV appearance on Monday that devolved into Schwartz and Daniels’s lawyer Michael Avenatti shouting “thug” at each other, Schwartz sat down with CNN’s Erin Burnett on Wednesday night to...
Cohen began practicing personal injury law in New York in 1992, working for Melvyn Estrin in Manhattan. As of 2003, Cohen was an attorney in private practice and CEO of MLA Cruises, Inc., and of the Atlantic Casino.
The total purchase price of the four buildings was $11 million and the total sales price was $32 million. Cohen sold the four properties at above their assessed values, in all-cash transactions, to LLCs owned by persons whose identities are not public. After this was reported by McClatchy DC in October 2017, Cohen said that all four properties were purchased by an American-owned "New York real estate family fund" that paid cash for the properties in order to obtain a tax deferred (Section 1031) exchange, but did not specifically identify the buyer.
On March 5, The Wall Street Journal cited anonymous sources recounting Cohen as saying he missed two deadlines to pay Daniels because Cohen "couldn't reach Mr. Trump in the hectic final days of the presidential campaign", and that after Trump's election, Cohen had complained that he had not been reimbursed for the payment. Cohen described this report as " fake news ".
Trump employed Cohen until May 2018, a year after the special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections began. The investigation led Cohen to plead guilty on August 21, 2018, to eight counts including campaign finance violations, tax fraud, and bank fraud. Cohen said he violated campaign finance laws at the direction of Trump and "for the principal purpose of influencing" the 2016 presidential election. In November 2018, Cohen entered a second guilty plea for lying to a Senate committee about efforts to build a Trump Tower in Moscow.
Cohen joined the Trump Organization in fall of 2006. Trump hired him in part because he was already an admirer of Trump, having read Trump's Art of the Deal twice. He had purchased several Trump properties and convinced his own parents and in-laws, as well as a business partner, to buy condominiums in Trump World Tower. Cohen aided Trump in his struggle with the condominium board at the Trump World Tower, which led Trump to obtain control of the board. Cohen became a close confidant to Trump, maintaining an office near Trump at Trump Tower.
On November 29, 2018, Cohen pleaded guilty to lying to the Senate Intelligence Committee and House Intelligence Committee in 2017 regarding the proposed Trump Tower Moscow deal that he spearheaded in 2015 and 2016. Cohen had told Congress that the deal ceased in January 2016 when it actually ended in June 2016, and that he had not received a response about the deal from the office of a senior Russian official when he actually had. Cohen said that he had given the false testimony in order to be consistent with Trump's "repeated disavowals of commercial and political ties between himself and Russia" and out of loyalty to Trump. Cohen received a two-month sentence, to be served concurrently with his three-year sentence for tax fraud, for the false testimony.
Cohen was paid $600,000 ($50,000 per month) over the year, which its CEO described as "a big mistake". Novartis was also approached by Cohen and was offered similar services.