posted 04-17-2018 12:25 PM                  

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Monday, April 16, 2018, 10:39 PM

Conservative mouthpiece Sean Hannity got an earful on his show Monday night from Harvard law Prof. Alan Dershowitz for hiding his relationship with Trump’s beleaguered lawyer, Michael Cohen.

Cohen, who was in Manhattan Federal Court in the afternoon, trying to prevent federal investigators from looking through 10 boxes of records seized from his apartment, hotel room and office last week, confessed to the court that the Republican TV talk show host was a client.

Previously, Cohen had only admitted to having two other clients.

The first and foremost President Trump, who allegedly used him to pay hush money to playmates and porn stars. The other client, Republican venture capitalist Elliot Broidy, who used him to pay $1.6 million to a Playboy playmate he impregnated.

Sean Hannity revealed as Michael Cohen's mystery third client

Speculation swirled all day about what kind of work Cohen did for Hannity.

The former O.J. Simpson lawyer scolded the TV pundit for creating the cloud of speculation by not disclosing his relationship with Cohen before.
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Attorney Michael Cohen emerges from Federal Court in Manhattan on Monday. (Todd Maisel/New York Daily News)

“First of all, Sean, I want to say that I really think that you should have disclosed your relationship with Cohen when you talked about him on this show,” Dershowitz said. “You could have said that you had asked him for advice or whatever. But I think it would have been much, much better had you disclosed that relationship.”
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Hannity bristled at the admonishment, dismissing the relationship as minimal.

“You are in a tough position,” Dershowitz continued. “You had to talk about Cohen and you didn't want the fact that you had spoken to him to be revealed.”

Hannity teased viewers about how he used Cohen’s legal services for the remainder of the show, finally providing an explanation in the last five minutes.

posted 04-17-2018 06:58 PM                  

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Originally posted by ed monahan:
, it is all hinging on your definition of "is".

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Actually, I think it hinges on the definition of "client".
I'm no legal expert in this matter but it's possible attorney-client privilege may exist, just based on the nature of the questions Hannity asked and the info provided by Cohen. this would make Hannity a "client' even though there was never a formal declaration of representation or a fee agreement.
But the bigger question is: So freakin' what?