After FBI Raid, Squire Says It Severed Ties to Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen
Squire Patton Boggs said Monday that it no longer had a strategic alliance with embattled Michael Cohen, who had been working out of the firm's offices in New York.
April 09, 2018 at 06:04 PM
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Squire Patton Boggs said Monday that it had ended its formal working relationship with Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, following an FBI raid on Cohen's offices in New York.
“The firm's arrangement with Mr. Cohen reached its conclusion, mutually and in accordance with the terms of the agreement,” the firm said in a statement. “We have been in contact with federal authorities regarding their execution of a warrant relating to Mr. Cohen. These activities do not relate to the firm and we are in full cooperation.”
Cohen, a longtime personal lawyer to the president, formed a strategic alliance with Squire Patton in April 2017. Details of the business partnership between Cohen and Squire Patton were sparse, however, with the firm stating that Cohen would help “advance the interests” of the firm's clients and work with its notable lineup of lobbyists.
As recently as Feb. 15, the firm indicated to The National Law Journal that its strategic alliance with Cohen was still in place. As of Monday afternoon, the firm's press release about the partnership from last year was no longer visible on the firm's website. The firm did not answer questions about exactly when its alliance with Cohen finally ended, or about how it may have been affected by Monday's raid.
FBI officials on Monday reportedly swarmed Cohen's offices at Rockefeller Center in midtown Manhattan, as well as a hotel where Cohen was staying. Squire Patton is one of several law firms with offices at Rockefeller Center, and The New York Times identified Squire Patton's offices as the site of the raid.
Cohen joined the Trump Organization a decade before the 2016 election. He is now involved in multiple ongoing legal controversies, including the probe of Russian meddling into the presidential race and claims surrounding money that Cohen paid the porn star known as Stormy Daniels, allegedly to conceal a past sexual encounter with President Donald Trump.
Cohen's attorney, Stephen Ryan of McDermott Will & Emery, blasted Monday's raid, which he said was motivated by a referral from special counsel Robert Mueller.
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