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Calif. Law Firm Stands by Lawyer Arrested in Teen Sex Sting
Posted Jul 23, 2008, 08:44 am CDT
By Debra Cassens Weiss
A California law firm decided to hire a lawyer who was arrested last year but never charged in an FBI teen sex sting after conducting its own independent investigation.
The law firm, Kesluk & Silverstein in Los Angeles, says the work of employment and labor lawyer David A. Cohn has been exemplary. It plans to allow Cohn to continue to work there as his case unfolds now that he has been charged based on allegations that prompted the year-old arrest, the Daily Journal reports (sub. req.).
Cohn is accused of exchanging Internet chat messages with an FBI agent posing as a 13-year-old girl, the story says. He was arrested Tuesday and charged with attempted lewd acts on a child, although there are no allegations he tried to attend a personal meeting, according to the article.
The firm released a statement saying Cohn’s arrest a year ago was “old news” but his new arrest is a surprise. "We knew about the original arrest which happened at another firm, we initiated an independent investigation and we decided to hire him. His work here has been exemplary and we hope his name is cleared," the statement says.
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