White House Lawyer Represented Arrested Saudi Billionaire Trump Called "Dopey"
Alwaleed bin Talal
WASHINGTON â President Donald Trumpâs Russia probe lawyer  Ty Cobb  previously represented  billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal   according to previously overlooked media reports and emails shared with HuffPost. The kingdom unexpectedly arrested  the prince  along with more than a dozen other prominent Saudis over the weekend in a move observers interpreted as a power play by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Trump has close ties to Saudi Arabia and Prince Mohammed   the Saudi crown prince  said to be behind the arrests  including Alwaleedâs. Several weeks ago  White House adviser and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner paid a secret visit to the kingdom and spent significant time with  Prince Mohammed   according to Politico and the Washington Post.
 The president  pushed the kingdom to use the New York Stock Exchange for the upcoming IPO of a portion of its national oil company  Aramco  in a tweet Saturday just hours before the crackdown.  He  also praised the kingdomâs policies in a call with Saudi King Salman  the crown princeâs father  the same day.
 Cobb  spent more than three decades working on white-collar cases before joining Trumpâs team.  He  resigned from  his  longtime firm  Hogan Lovells  in July. At the time  business news service ALM Media reported that  Cobb  had previously worked for members of the Saudi royal family  citing a Hogan Lovells page that now appears to have been taken down.
A 2012 Business Insider story by reporter Nicholas Carlson was more specific. The story said that  Cobb  had threatened to sue an American who had attempted a lawsuit against Alwaleed for allegedly threatening him with beheading and having him detained at gunpoint while he worked for the princeâs son.
Emails from Mark Mazo  another partner at Hogan Lovells  to Toronto-based businessman Alan Bender  who was representing a woman who claimed she had a secret marriage with Alwaleed  provide further evidence of  Cobb âs connection to the prince.
WASHINGTON â President Donald Trumpâs Russia probe lawyer  Ty Cobb  previously represented  billionaire Saudi Prince  [TGT]    according to previously overlooked media reports and emails shared with HuffPost. The kingdom unexpectedly arrested  the prince  along with more than a dozen other prominent Saudis over the weekend in a move observers interpreted as a power play by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Trump has close ties to Saudi Arabia and Prince Mohammed   the Saudi crown prince  said to be behind the arrests  including Alwaleedâs. Several weeks ago  White House adviser and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner paid a secret visit to the kingdom and spent significant time with  Prince Mohammed   according to Politico and the Washington Post.
 The president  pushed the kingdom to use the New York Stock Exchange for the upcoming IPO of a portion of its national oil company  Aramco  in a tweet Saturday just hours before the crackdown.  He  also praised the kingdomâs policies in a call with Saudi King Salman  the crown princeâs father  the same day.
 Cobb  spent more than three decades working on white-collar cases before joining Trumpâs team.  He  resigned from  his  longtime firm  Hogan Lovells  in July. At the time  business news service ALM Media reported that  Cobb  had previously worked for members of the Saudi royal family  citing a Hogan Lovells page that now appears to have been taken down.
A 2012 Business Insider story by reporter Nicholas Carlson was more specific. The story said that  Cobb  had threatened to sue an American who had attempted a lawsuit against Alwaleed for allegedly threatening him with beheading and having him detained at gunpoint while he worked for the princeâs son.
Emails from Mark Mazo  another partner at Hogan Lovells  to Toronto-based businessman Alan Bender  who was representing a woman who claimed she had a secret marriage with Alwaleed  provide further evidence of  Cobb âs connection to the prince.