As a private attorney and former prosecutor, I have never been in the position of soliciting this kind of potentially incriminating information from a lawyer about a client. Then again, I've never secretly recorded a conversation with a client either. The ethical rules requiring attorneys to keep client communications confidential have been turned upside down in this case.
However, being disbarred is the least of Mr. Cohen's concerns. Today, he pled guilty to several federal charges and was sentenced to three years in a medium-security prison. We also learned that Cohen "provided relevant and useful information concerning his contacts with persons connected to the White House during the 2017-2018 time period." "Relevant and useful" in prosecutor parlance means that Mr. Cohen provided credible information regarding criminal conduct by others. We will have to stay tuned for the "who" and the "what" being referred to.
