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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsManafort's Lawyer Had to Get his Own Lawyer
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-manafort-lawyer/lawyer-to-ex-trump-campaign-aide-manafort-taps-ethics-adviser-idUSKCN1J22LJ?il=0Lawyer to ex-Trump campaign aide Manafort taps ethics adviser
WASHINGTON/MORRISTOWN, N.J. (Reuters) - A lawyer involved in several real estate deals that U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigating in his criminal case against President Donald Trumps former campaign manager Paul Manafort has hired his own ethics adviser.
Marc Garfinkle, a New Jersey ethics attorney, told Reuters that he has been retained by Bruce Baldinger, a longtime lawyer for Manafort also based in New Jersey, as a legal consultant to advise him about attorney confidentiality and privilege issues that may arise in the case. He did not elaborate on the details. Baldinger declined to comment, as did Jason Maloni, a spokesman for Manafort.
Prosecutors have alleged that two of Manaforts New York companies were part of a scheme to take tens of millions of dollars earned overseas and launder it in the United States, including through real estate investments.
Baldinger signed biennial statements as the authorized person for those companies, attesting to the address at which the companies could be served with any court papers received by New York State authorities, according to copies reviewed by Reuters. The signed statements are necessary to keep the companies in good standing.
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Manafort's Lawyer Had to Get his Own Lawyer (Original Post)
fleur-de-lisa
Jun 2018
OP
fleur-de-lisa
(14,632 posts)1. MAGA!
Making Attorneys Get Attorneys!
marble falls
(58,406 posts)2. If Manaford had only consulted with an expert in ethics 15 years ago.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)4. Matryoshka dolls
Rump ---> Manafort ---> Manafort's lawyer ---> Manafort's lawyer's lawyer.
At the bottom of the nesting dolls there is a dog turd. I just know it!
The Velveteen Ocelot
(116,418 posts)5. Trump is the innermost of the nesting dolls,
and he IS the dog turd.