Former President Donald Trump is having trouble nailing down a new lawyer to represent him ahead of his scheduled arraignment in Florida on Tuesday, and The Guardian's Hugo Lowell reports he may turn to one who has direct personal experience with the criminal justice system.
According to Lowell, Trump is spending his Monday meeting with prospective lawyers, and Lowell claims that Trump has already been turned down by attorney David Markus.
However, one of Lowell's sources also says that Trump is meeting with attorney "Ben Kuehne, who has previously been indicted."
Kuehne was indicted in 2008 on multiple charges, including one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, four counts of concealment money laundering, and one count of obstruction of justice.
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Specifically, the United States Department of Justice at the time alleged that Kuehne laundered drug money for the benefit of convicted cocaine Colombian trafficker Fabio Ochoa Vazquez to pay for his legal defense.
The DOJ would drop all charges against Kuehen when the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that any legal fees that paid for criminal defense legal representation were exempt from money laundering laws.
