Guy Petrillo, Cohen's new lawyer, is a partner at Petrillo Klein & Boxer. He served as the chief of the criminal division
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Lynn Neils, a partner at Baker Botts and a former federal prosecutor with the Southern District of New York who knows Petrillo, told Business Insider that Petrillo knows the district "very well and will be independent."
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