In the yearslong legal saga over his connection to the hush money payments from Donald Trump to adult film actress Stormy Daniels, Cohen’s lawyer filed a motion to end his supervised release early in a filing at the end of November.
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In it, Cohen’s lawyer, David M. Schwartz, cites three District Court decisions as a rationale for the move.
The problem? Those cases aren’t real.
“As far as the Court can tell, none of these cases exist,” U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman wrote in a Tuesday order, which asks Schwartz to provide evidence the cases exist by next Tuesday or face sanctions.
[This is some next-level meta phenomenon. What’s next, a perjury trial for the attorney representing the perjurer? — Ed]
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