(03-26-2018 12:50 PM)tanqtonic Wrote:  Threatening physical violence is at least a high misdemeanor, sometimes a felony. Period. Don't try to squeeze that into 'posturing'. The same action coupled with the 'or else settle' is felony extortion. Period.

One *could* posture in this manner, but that would be screwing the hell out of the client (and any career) if one does so.

If one wants a fast track to disbarment on the pronto highway, this would be a picture perfect way to do it. For multiples of ethical violations and bar violations.

To the latter, doesn't Cohen's admitted action of paying the NDA settlement out of his own pocket risk his disbarment? My understanding is that him paying Daniels for Trump would be a clear ethics violation and would be a fast-track to disbarment. So if, based on his own admissions, he is willing to do something that would result in him being disbarred, why would the risk of disbarment deter him from other actions (e.g. being involved in the threats to Daniels)? Now, the question (which I asked earlier), is why he would have said he did this, and not taken another route.

And, I get the point y'all are trying to make about not using the language in the email to the Newsweek journalist to indict Cohen for the accusation leveled by Daniel's. I was unaware of just how far some lawyers were willing to go when threatening people to do what they wanted, and that the threat of physical violence is such a red line that you wouldn't use threats like what Cohen made as evidence that someone was willing to go further.