Michael Cohen's lawyer becomes latest r-slur to cite GPT hallucination as case law

There's always someone dumber...

Michael Cohen's troubles just keep coming.

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.

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.

That might be a hard task, given that, when contacted, the circuit court that the order says affirmed the cases found “no record of any of the three decisions,” wrote Furman, an appointee of President Barack Obama.

The cases, regardless of how and why they were cited, certainly amount to further headaches for the 57-year-old Cohen — who at one point earlier this year was considering a run for Congress in New York's 12th Congressional District, the historic Manhattan-based seat currently held by Rep. Jerry Nadler.

Schwartz did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the cases. Cohen hung up the phone when POLITICO called asking for comment.

The case at hand began in August 2018, when Cohen admitted in court that Trump had directed him to coordinate payments to two women in exchange for their staying silent about interactions with Trump during his first presidential campaign.