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ZMythos posted...

The Admiral posted...

What would be the perjury grounds? Hannity said on the radio that he did the old "here's $10, can I ask you a question as a client" routine. That's enough to justify Cohen's claims.

"I've known Michael a long, long time. Let me be very clear to the media. Michael never represented me in any matter. I never retained him in the traditional sense as retaining a lawyer. I never received an invoice from Michael. I never paid legal fees to Michael," Hannity said.

So he's not a client.

But:

"But I have occasionally had brief discussions with him about legal questions about which I wanted his input and perspective," he added. "And I assume that those conversations were attorney-client confidential."

He assumed he was a client.

There's a lot of mud in the water.

Depends on how you want to look at it, honestly. It doesn't seem like there was ever a written engagement or that Hannity ever paid retainers, but he did do the "here's $10 so we can talk under client-privilege" routine. It's kind of a matter of semantics, but I don't really see how it's relevant to anything. I do agree Cohen is probably overstating his prominence as a lawyer a bit, but that's not enough for perjury.
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- The Admiral