summer makes it seem like it's finally going to have to go. in five years of court battles, the legal team beat back u.s. efforts to bring him to trial in illinois. the tide appeared to turn in the summer when the justice department won a ruling in austria securing firtash's extradition. at that point as bloomberg reports tonight, firtash essentially hit the panic button in his case, or at least decided he was going to put plan b into action. up until that point, his highest profile u.s. lawyer had been a man named lanny davis, which might have made sense for a while for mr. firtash, but after mr. davis became publicly associated with michael cohen, president trump's one-time personal lawyer who famously turned against president trump, one lanny davis and michael cohen were an anti-trump force out there in the world, that no longer was a good look for mr. firtash's defense efforts. to mr. firtash after that ruling