Friday, April 27, 2018

Feds seized as many as 16 cell phones from Donald Trump's lawyer, who once bragged that he was part of the Russian mob.

Courtesy of The New York Post:  

Manhattan federal prosecutors seized as many as 16 cell phones when the FBI raided the home, office and hotel room of President Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen. 

Prosecutor Thomas McKay made the ​astonishing revelation wh​ile telling a judge ​Thursday ​that the feds are on track to hand over seized​ ​materials to Cohen’s lawyers by May 11. 

In explaining the process, McKay said the feds have already turned over the contents of four phones and one iPad. 

McKay said the feds will turn over the “remainder of the phones seized” on Friday — before adding that they have “about a dozen” left. 

Among the devices seized are two BlackBerrys, suggesting Cohen has been holding on to his electronics for many, many years. 

The startling revelation promptly attracted the attention of porn star Stormy Daniels’ lawyer, who called Cohen’s phone hoarding “BIGLY bad.”

"Bigly bad" indeed. Because you KNOW that stored on those phones is information which will incriminate Donald Trump. Bigly!

Can you even imagine needing that many phones?

What could be the possible reason?

Wait, this next story might clear that up.

Courtesy of Business Insider:  

Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's embattled personal lawyer, once bragged that he was part of the Russian mob, The Wall Street Journal reported.

According to The Journal, Cohen once told someone at a former friend's wedding that he belonged to the Russian mob.

Now the Business Insider article also contains a quote from a friend of Cohen's who doubts the veracity of this story, which brings me to this Rolling Stone's article:  

Cohen joined the Trump Organization in 2006, and eventually became Trump's personal lawyer, a role once occupied by Roy Cohn, Senator Joseph McCarthy's heavy-lidded hatchet man during the Red Scare who advised Trump in the 1980s. Michael Cohen's bare-knuckled tactics earned him the nickname of "Tom," a reference to Tom Hagen, the consigliore to Mafia Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather. He grew up on Long Island, the son of a physician who survived the Holocaust in Poland, and like Tom Hagen spent a childhood around organized crime, specifically the Russian Mafiya. Cohen's uncle, Morton Levine, was a wealthy Brooklyn doctor who owned the El Caribe Country Club, a Brooklyn catering hall and event space that was a well-known hangout for Russian gangsters. Cohen and his siblings all had ownership stakes in the club, which rented for years to the first Mafiya boss of Brighton Beach, Evsei Agron, along with his successors, Marat Balagula and Boris Nayfeld. (Cohen's uncle said his nephew gave up his stake in the club after Trump's election.)

So to be clear, the Feds found more than a dozen phones in Cohen's possession, who clearly has ties to the Russian mob, and whose only real client is Donald Trump. a man who is under investigation for Russian collusion during the election. 

Does anybody else see pieces falling onto place here?

40 comments:

  1. Anonymous8:37 AM

    I'm a bit dubious of this mob story because the guy Cohen told that to believes Cohen was lying or exaggerating but, moreso, I see Cohen as a dumb mob wannabe kind of guy. He probably wishes he had Russian mob connections.

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  2. Anonymous8:38 AM

    Jesus died on the cross for their sins. So nothing happened. And all is fine.

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    1. Anonymous9:01 AM

      True, but the laws of the land must be followed and upheld. Trump, Cohen, and the rest of his followers will have the opportunity to study the Bible cover to cover in Club Fed and as new members of the 700 (years) Club.

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    2. Anonymous11:21 AM

      ^ hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha ;)

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    3. Render unto Caesar...

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    4. Anonymous12:52 PM

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiberius

      "The Gospels mention that during Tiberius' reign, Jesus of Nazareth preached and was executed under the authority of Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor of Judaea province. In the Bible, Tiberius is mentioned by name only once, in Luke 3:1"
      "In the whole twenty two years of Tiberius' reign, not more than fifty-two persons were accused of treason, of whom almost half escaped conviction, while the four innocent people to be condemned fell victims to the excessive zeal of the Senate, not to the Emperor's tyranny.

      While Tiberius was in Capri, rumours abounded as to what exactly he was doing there. Suetonius records the rumours of lurid tales of sexual perversity, including graphic depictions of child molestation, and cruelty, and most of all his paranoia."

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  3. Anonymous8:41 AM

    Their behaviorism is moblike. Cohen, Trump, and Putin.
    The mob crosses lines, has a list of vendettas, and somewhere in there they have this "loyalty" thing going on. It goes way back to the old country, this mentality. That's why Cohen says he will take a bullet for Trump.
    After one of his big bankruptcies Trump and Ivanka were walking down a street and laughing at how poor Trump was, and then of a sudden he was rich. Those kinds of things don't happen to bankrupt people. It happened to Trump. He was a rags to riches story because of his ability to lie, cheat and steal. He is the mob's poster boy.
    Now, as the story unfolds in this painstaking manner, we watch at the audacity of it all. But the mob is always bold and brazen. That's one of their survival techniques.
    Oh, note. A story on Politico about Sarah Huckabee. They beef her up as some kind of moral person. I personally didn't feel it, since she gets on television all the time quantifying the Liars every word. In the name of furthering Mike Huckabee's kingdom on earth of coarse.

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  4. Anonymous8:42 AM

    The Republicans investigated themselves to see if there was Russian collusion and found themselves innocent. Oh, my! How special is that?

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    1. Anonymous9:46 AM

      I detest most Republicans and their party. What an embarrassment for Americans that are a part of them, or were a member of their party!

      Can hardly wait for the elections in 2018 and 2020! Down they go - to include the asshole Paul Ryan! (Wisconsin) The guy that just fired the Catholic priest (Ryan is also Catholic!) because he didn't pray correctly (according to Ryan) in Congress.
      I truly believe Ryan needs to be taken down a notch or two.

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    2. Anonymous10:14 AM

      9:46 Who Prays to his bitch dog*GODdE$$>

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand

      'A Roman Catholic, Ryan is a member of
      St. John Vianney Catholic Church in Janesville.'

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    3. Anonymous10:38 AM

      https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/27/house-chaplain-fired-patrick-conroy-557494

      “NOW it’s Catholics versus Evangelicals,”
      “They want someone who is more Billy Graham.”"
      666pence^<THIS!

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  5. Anonymous8:47 AM

    Aren't Blackberries supposed to be more secure or securable than other phones, and isn't that the reason even President Obama was forced to use one at the beginning (at least) of his presidency?

    So if someone, like M. Cohen or his clients wanted a secret channel to someone else, the Blackberry might be preferred, not just the property of a hoarder who never throws out old tech.
    http://www.ibtimes.com/president-barack-obama-not-allowed-use-iphone-relies-blackberry-2016-2347945

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  6. Anonymous9:26 AM

    Cohen was probably a sucker for the russian mob - not a part of it
    the treasure trove that must me on those phones I am sure is priceless - since most of them are "older" they probably contain a ton of recorded communications and most of it not covered by client-lawyer privilege since Cohen is primarily a "business" guy who did just a "tiny, tiny, tiny" bit of legal work

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  7. Anonymous9:29 AM

    Cohen was VP of trump org,so he is use to working in a mob org.

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  8. Anonymous9:34 AM

    Lol. Maybe before going after such big fish, you should at least solve your failed Trig pursuit, which you have never provided definitive proof or answers to after 9 years. At least is is somewhat local.

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    1. Anonymous10:18 AM

      I would opt to leave that on the back burner. Truth will find its' way. But it's still on the back burner. I would hardly think of Cohen as the the big fish. Neither is Trump. There is a big fish but they will not be caught. Ever.

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    2. Anonymous10:55 AM

      Still contributing nothing. Way to go, lol troll!

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    3. Spoiler alert.

      9:34 is not really here to contribute anything.

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    4. Anonymous2:07 PM

      Just helping you keep the blog afloat Gryph. Someone has to keep it interesting. You're welcome in advance.

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    5. Anonymous2:53 PM

      1) This is the only place to get $arah news when something really happens cuz no one else gives even two shits; and,

      2) this blog is always interesting, and as the comments are always an important part of each post — it's easy to spot a Payme troll trying to keep the family in SOMEBODY's sphere.

      3) Only some of us believe that Todd is Trig's daddy, but NO ONE believes that $arah is Trig's birth mother.

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    6. Anonymous3:08 PM

      2:53:

      "1) This is the only place to get $arah news when something really happens cuz no one else gives even two shits;"

      Ruminate on that very thought for a while......A long while, then a little longer, until perhaps a little bell rings in your noggin, and you finally see the ridiculousness of the Palin obsessed.

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    7. Anonymous3:19 PM

      @2:53;-)

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    8. Anonymous6:51 PM

      Shit! Sarah was running for VP in 2008 and now everyone wants to forget that Granny Cray Cray could have been a cancer diagnosis or "accident" from being the POTUS in 2009.

      How convenient! Both forgetting there was a Lady Anus before tRUMP and the spongeblob square sponge pregnancy.


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    9. Anonymous2:30 PM

      6:52 PM - they WANT everyone to forget. Problem is, no one will and, if she ever attempts any kind of run again, back out it all comes!

      She KNOWS it, also too.

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  9. Shouldn’t come as a surprise but WOAH9:55 AM

    Hey Gryphen

    OT but check out these two links!

    Who is really running Sarah's social media?!

    https://www.salon.com/2018/04/26/as-diamond-and-silk-testify-before-congress-gops-victimization-complex-goes-off-the-rails/

    https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/publishers-are-switching-domain-names-to-try-and-stay-ahead

    "A little more than a year ago, Sarah Palin’s Facebook page began serving its more than 4 million fans a steady diet of links to news stories on Sarahpalin.com, the former governor’s very own conservative clickbait site.

    But in October a puzzling pattern emerged with the links shared on her page. The content was the same, and written by the same authors, but the domain wasn’t sarahpalin.com. That month saw the Palin news operation move to sarahpalinnews.com, according to data from analytics service SimilarWeb. Two months later the links shared on her Facebook page included sarahpalinblog.com and govsarahpalin.com. By January sarahpalinamerica.com and officialsarahpalin.com had arrived. February gave birth to the awkwardly named sarahpalin-blog.com.

    Same content, same writers, same big Facebook page driving nearly all the traffic — but constantly shifting domain names. Why?"

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    1. Anonymous6:24 PM

      Hiding in her hollers. ;)

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  10. Anonymous9:55 AM

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_mafia#Odessa_Mafia

    "In the United States the Odessa mafia is based in the Brighton Beach district of Brooklyn, New York."
    CRIMEa!

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  11. Anonymous10:03 AM

    'A Made man, also known as a Wiseguy, Made guy,
    Man of honor, or Mafioso (plural: Mafiosi), is someone who has been officially inducted, usually as a soldier into a
    Sicilian or American Mafia family.' aka donny dRUMPf
    Cohen is HIS/a FLUNKey.

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  12. Anonymous10:22 AM

    OuT?R~Story>
    "Rep. Patrick Meehan (R-PA), a member of the House Ethics Committee who has used taxpayer money to settle sexual harassment claims made against him, announced on Friday that he would be resigning immediately.

    Meehan said that, while he believed he would have been cleared of any wrongdoing, he wanted to resign so that he could avoid an Ethics Committee investigation into his conduct.

    “I also did not want to put my staff through the rigors of an Ethics Committee investigation and believed it was best for them to have a head start on new employment rather than being caught up in an inquiry,” he said. “And since I have chosen to resign, the inquiry will not become a burden to taxpayers and committee staff.”

    Meehan also said that he would reimburse taxpayers for $39,000 he paid out to a former staffer who had accused him of harassment.

    “I did not want to leave with any question of violating the trust of taxpayers,” Meehan said in explaining his decision to make the payment, which will be delivered within a month of his leaving office.

    In the wake of the harassment allegations, Meehan announced that he would not be running for another term, although he had initially said that he would stay on until the end of his term."

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  13. Anonymous10:48 AM

    I suspect he is up to nefarious doings every which way. Slimy character.

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  14. Who needs 16 phones?

    Three at the most: personal, work and for travel.

    Don't tell me this guy hoarded his old phones for security reasons. There are plenty of methods to safely wipe a phone and then recycle/dispose of it.

    Now, if he was keeping them for future extortion purposes, that is a whole other thing. And big oops there.

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    1. Anonymous2:35 PM

      Avanatti mentioned Cohen’s cell phones last night. I can’t recall the tech term he used that even Feds would find nothing on his phones. It makes sense why keep old phones if you removed all traces or nothing to find there.

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  15. Anonymous12:35 PM

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUkDALig0aI

    'Marvin Gaye.."What's Going On"...Motown 25..1983'

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    1. Anonymous3:02 PM

      Cyndi Lauper - What's Going On
      [Lyrics English - Español Subtitulado]
      'Published on Jan 14, 2018'

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QknSD3OiFZY

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  16. Anonymous12:57 PM

    What person in his/her right mind would ever hire an attorney who poses for photos like the one of Cohen? Does he try that pose when he's in front of a judge?
    Beaglemom

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  17. Anonymous2:08 PM

    Maybe he had 16 wives?

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  18. Anonymous2:37 PM

    FYI
    "Suburban Philadelphia congressman Pat Meehan (R-PA-07) resigned from Congress today, triggering a special election in his district with a date to be set by Gov. Tom Wolf, possibly within 60 days. Wolf may also decide to hold off until the general election in November.

    He already announced he wouldn't run for re-election, but says he's resigning now to save taxpayers the cost of an investigation. Uh huh.

    You remember Pat. He's the guy who was writing love letters to a staffer who wasn't at all interested in the old guy, causing taxpayers to cover a $39,000 settlement which he now insists he'll pay.

    Oh, and he claimed she invited his attentions."C&L

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  19. Anonymous10:15 PM

    Bristol maybe wants to buy the guns. One for each of her biological children that she gave birth to.

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    1. Anonymous10:26 PM

      Why? So they can accidently shoot her? Mommy wake up!?

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