- President Donald Trump’s longtime lawyer Michael Cohen has reportedly hired a new attorney named Guy Petrillo.
- Petrillo used to be in charge of the criminal division in the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.
- That’s where Cohen is under criminal investigation.
- Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz told Business Insider this is “the kind of lawyer you would hire if you wanted to keep open the option of cooperation.”
Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s longtime attorney, has reportedly hired his own new lawyer in relation to the criminal investigation surrounding him, Vanity Fair reported Tuesday.
Guy Petrillo, Cohen’s new lawyer, is a partner at Petrillo Klein & Boxer. He served as the chief of the criminal division in the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York from 2008 through 2009, and was an assistant US attorney in the office from 1990 through 1997. He did not immediately return a request for comment from Business Insider.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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