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Though his name was redacted, Costello figured in former special counsel Robert Mueller’s report as the attorney who told Michael Cohen that he had “friends in high places” after the FBI raided his home in 2018. Costello, whom Mueller described as a “backchannel” to Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani, told a reporter that by “friends in high places,” he meant Trump.

Costello’s latest motion that his attorney-client relationship with Bannon has been similarly longstanding, writing that he’s represented Bannon “on a number of different matters for the past three years.”