Sean Hannity Is Michael Cohen’s Mystery Client

By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer

After Judge Kimba Wood ordered president Trump’s personal attorney aka fix it man Michael Cohen, to turn over his list of clients last Friday, the court was rocked when Cohen’s attorney was forced to reveal a short list of his clients and one of those 3 of the short list was Fox News opinion show host, Sean Hannity.

According to Cohen, Hannity who was the mystery client, did not want his name revealed to the court. In an earlier court filing Monday morning, lawyers for Cohen refused to identify the recent client at first stating that one of three people Cohen represented between 2017 and 2018. The lawyers also refused to identify the names of other past clients however they quickly caved in and named, President Donald J. Trump, now former RNC deputy finance chairman Elliot Broidy and FOX News host, Sean Hannity.

Lawyers for Cohen who are attempting to block authorities from reviewing the business records seized by FBI agents back on April 9 and said last Friday that the unnamed client had told Cohen not to disclose his name and that they believe Cohen had a duty not to disclose his client’s identity.

Cohen’s also claimed that should the client’s name be publicly revealed, it is “likely to be embarrassing or detrimental to the client.”

The refusal sets up a showdown with prosecutors over the issue in a hearing scheduled for Monday afternoon in Manhattan federal court, where Judge Kimba Wood on Friday had asked Cohen’s lawyers to identify and number his clients.

Stormy Daniels, the porn star who has said she was paid $130,000 by Cohen on the eve of the 2016 presidential election to keep quiet about her having sex with Trump in 2006, was in the courtroom this morning for the hearing.

The New York Post reports:
“Information about that payout was among the files seized from Cohen. Daniels is suing Trump seeking to be released from the non-disclosure agreement she signed about him. Trump was married to first lady Melania Trump at the time of the alleged affair. Cohen’s lawyers are seeking to bar prosecutors from getting first crack at reviewing a large number of files seized from Cohen’s home, office, hotel room and more than a dozen electronic devices on April 9 by the FBI as part of an ongoing criminal investigation of him.”

So far the FBI has yet to charge Cohen with a crime but prosecutors working for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York reportedly are interested in the payoffs made to adult film star Stormy Daniels, Cohen’s taxicab investments, and other business-related matters that are now considered red flags by officials.