{"id":1007514,"date":"2021-11-13T13:43:37","date_gmt":"2021-11-13T18:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1007514"},"modified":"2021-11-13T13:43:39","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T18:43:39","slug":"judge-rules-trump-company-will-not-have-to-pay-michael-cohens-legal-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-rules-trump-company-will-not-have-to-pay-michael-cohens-legal-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Rules Trump Company Will Not Have to Pay Michael Cohen&#039;s Legal Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjudge-rules-trump-company-will-not-have-to-pay-michael-cohens-legal-bills%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1007514&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1020911964-e1636827503782-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Former President Donald Trump\u2019s company will not have to pay legal bills incurred by his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, who went to prison after pleading guilty to tax and additional crimes.<\/p>\n<p>A judge in New York made the ruling on Friday, the Associated Press (AP) <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/donald-trump-business-trump-investigations-crime-criminal-investigations-056d90eafb74936fc302fd2cc279ddb8\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-61 Component-p-0-2-52\">\u201cJudge Joel M. Cohen threw out Cohen\u2019s breach of contract lawsuit against the Trump Organization, rejecting his claims that the company had promised to cover his legal bills and finding that fees he racked up as a result of the criminal investigation into his conduct weren\u2019t the company\u2019s responsibility,\u201d the outlet said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-61 Component-p-0-2-52\">Michael Cohen stated in the lawsuit that was filed in March 2019 the Trump Organization owed him approximately $1.9 million for the cost regarding his defense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-61 Component-p-0-2-52\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/ww2.nycourts.gov\/courts\/comdiv\/ny\/newyork_bio_Cohen.shtml\">judge<\/a> said in his ruling after the lawsuit was filed, the company did pay some of the bills.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-61 Component-p-0-2-52\">\u201cIn a nutshell, Mr. Cohen\u2019s legal fees arise out of his (sometimes unlawful) service to Mr. Trump personally, to Mr. Trump\u2019s campaign, and to the Trump Foundation, but not out of his service to the business of the Trump Organization, which is the only defendant in this case,\u201d the judge stated in the decision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-61 Component-p-0-2-52\">The AP report noted that Michael Cohen and the judge were not related.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-61 Component-p-0-2-52\">In a statement, a Trump Organization spokesperson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/11\/12\/politics\/trump-lawsuits-michael-cohen-summer-zervos\/index.html\">explained<\/a> that&nbsp;\u201cToday\u2019s incredible victory for the Trump Organization puts an end to the frivolous litigation by convicted felon Michael Cohen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-61 Component-p-0-2-52\">The spokesperson continued:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"12\">\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-61 Component-p-0-2-52\">While the Southern District of New York already found that Mr. Cohen engaged in a \u2018smorgasbord of fraudulent conduct\u2026motivated by personal greed and ambition,\u2019 Mr. Cohen attempted to invent a basis for requiring the Trump Organization to pay his legal fees for personal criminal conduct (including perjury). Mr. Cohen\u2019s attempts at self-enrichment, however, once again failed. Having won this case, we now look forward to seeking monetary damages against Mr. Cohen for all of his despicable conduct.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-61 Component-p-0-2-52\">In December 2018, a federal judge in New York <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2018\/12\/12\/michael-cohen-sentenced-jail\/\">sentenced<\/a> Cohen to three years in prison for crimes including tax evasion, making hush-money payments, and lying to Congress about previous business dealings in Russia, Breitbart News reported at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump\u2019s company will not have to pay legal bills incurred by his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, who went to prison after pleading guilty to tax and additional &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}