Canadian mistaken for Trump's lawyer in Stormy Daniels dossier

[Brian mike]

funny or not

A Canadian man with the same name as U.S. President Donald Trump’s private lawyer says he’s been mistakenly swept up in the high-profile legal battle between adult film actress Stormy Daniels and the president.

Daniels’ lawyer, Michael Avenatti, released a seven-page trove of private banking records on Tuesday. He claimed the documents proved that Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, was selling access to the president, pitching himself to companies like AT&T, Novartis and a company linked to a Russian billionaire.

In total, Cohen raked in $4.4 million, Avenatti claims.

Avenatti says that money was transferred into the same bank account Cohen used to pay Daniels $130,000 in hush money over an alleged affair with Trump in 2006. Trump has denied the relationship.

Among the dossier files is a Canadian connection. One document alleges that "Mr. Cohen received a wire transfer in the amount of $4,250.00 from Actuarial Partners Consulting SDN BHD to an account in Toronto at Toronto Dominion Bank."

But the Malaysia-based company says it’s "a case of mistaken identity" involving a former Canadian consultant also named Michael Cohen.

In an interview with CTV’s Richard Madan, the Ottawa-based Cohen addressed the puzzling incident.

"Obviously there was a mistake here,” Cohen told CTV News from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, where he is on assignment. “But having woken up in the morning and having this email, it was a bit of a shock.”

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/canadia...sier-1.3923165

[Rochard]

This is sheer brilliance really.

There are already people claiming they obtained this information illegally, saying Avenatti got the information from the investigation or from the banks. Clearly this is not the case. If they were looking at information from the banks or the investigation, it wouldn't have information about other people. I think someone just carefully researched this with public information.

[dyna mo]

Originally Posted by Rochard

This is sheer brilliance really.

There are already people claiming they obtained this information illegally, saying Avenatti got the information from the investigation or from the banks. Clearly this is not the case. If they were looking at information from the banks or the investigation, it wouldn't have information about other people. I think someone just carefully researched this with public information.

It certainly wasn't carefully researched if there is more than one Cohen's data included.

It's sloppy research in fact.