IIRC, when the news of alleged hacking broke back when BBN revealed DMs between themselves and Aaron, our resident lawyer Sean spun up a stream where he was PISSED that Nick had possibly committed intrusion of confidential data. He went on this odd tangent where he speculated something like "if Nick read confidential emails between two people giving legal advice", he would be a "fucking snake".
To me, he was insinuating that he KNEW Nick had read the emails between himself and Aaron.
The insinuation was obvious because (at least at this point) Nick has yet to be convicted of invading someone's personal accounts to break another person's attorney client privilege. It's "It would be a real shame if..." language. When Sean did his conversation with Chud Logic, he mentioned he doesn't like Nick. Wonder why?
How did Nick know Sean and Elissa was assisting Aaron?
They wouldn't have told him. They likely wouldn't have told others who would've leaked it to him.
Illicitly accessing Aaron's confidential emails and discovering it himself is the logical conclusion.
When Sean says that any conversations you have with him are confidential, and that he will take any secrets you give him to the grave, I believe him.
So yes, not only would Sean not have told him (because it's none of Nick's business), I don't think Sean could even tell him without breaking A-C privilege. If there was ever a reason for an attorney like Sean to just admit outright he dislikes Nick, it'd be because he intruded on someone else's private conversations when the two people who would hypothetically be involved (Aaron and Sean) would have every reason not to reveal anything, "like a fucking snake." But he sounds really confident he knows something, but he shouldn't be, so he'd have to have done something to get access to those conversations. The only option at that stage is something illegal.
At this step I'm fairly sure Sean wasn't just consulting for Aaron, I think he's actively assisting law enforcement build a case against Nick for this, because this shit is that serious. Nick takes nothing seriously (except drug abuse and having sex with women who aren't his wife), but I bet Sean does. But I'm not going to ask him to confirm or deny my theory, because why would he tell me?
Elissa just replied to a comment on her clip of Aaron claiming Nick is being investigated by the FBI and said she has 100% confidence he had some level of access to Aaron's email. That looks extra bad.
The dumbest choice I think will happen (because Nick's that fucking stupid) is Nick's going to claim "I just guessed Aaron had private legal conversations with Sean, and had communicated with Elissa, it's not illegal to guess and be right." I don't believe they'll accept that argument because of tweets like the one above. And it'll all be because Nick won't stop being smug for 5 seconds and can't shut the fuck up.
If Nick is charged, it will be the death-knell to the vaguest concept he could ever practice law again. Breaking into confidential communication of another person, let alone the defendant of your wife's complaint, I can't imagine anything but lifelong disbarment.
Five states treat all disbarment as permanent: Ohio, Oregon, New Jersey, Kentucky, and Indiana. Eight states can allow the disciplinary committees to request permanent disbarment for egregious cases: California, Louisiana, Alabama, Arkansas,
Minnesota, Florida, Illinois, and West Virginia.
I don't think Nick will actually receive a recommendation for permanent disbarment (even though he deserves one), but I think it'll be treated as effectively permanent. The reason being I don't believe Nick would ever attempt to regain a law license if he lost it through disbarment even if he's in a jurisdiction where you can, which usually requires a minimum waiting period of five years.
He's too lazy and the shame would be too much for him to do it.
