Lawyers for President Donald Trump and his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, have told a federal judge in New York that they believe some of the documents and devices seized from Cohen during an FBI raid are protected by attorney-client privilege, and they want a chance to review the material before prosecutors get to examine them.
Prosecutors and the attorneys for Cohen and Trump appeared before U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood on Friday in Manhattan.
Cohen’s attorneys say they want a chance to review documents seized in the raid on Monday and specify items they believe aren’t relevant to the investigation.
An attorney for the president, Joanna Hendon, told the judge that Trump has “an acute interest in this matter.”
Oh yeah, I'll bet.
Here's more:
Federal prosecutors say in a court filing that the criminal probe that led them to raid the offices of Donald Trump’s personal lawyer this week is focused on his “personal business dealings.”
In the filing with a court in New York, prosecutors blacked out a section describing what crime they believe Trump attorney Michael Cohen has committed.
But they provided new details on the investigation, which they said has been going on for months.
They said agents had already searched multiple email accounts maintained by Cohen.
The filing said none of those emails was exchanged with Trump.
(Quick note, Trump does not use email.)
Ultimately the judge granted Trump's "right to intervene," a move that allows his attorneys to review the seized documents in order to protect Trump's rights, but demanded that Cohen show up for a hearing on Monday.
And she was not at all happy.
Part of the Fed's argument against the executive privilege claim is that Cohen is a fraud of a lawyer:Judge isn't denying motion now. But she isn't pleased.— erica orden (@eorden) April 13, 2018
"If you don't have the answers by 2 p.m. on Monday, I’m likely to discount the argument that there are thousands or more privileged documents," she tells Cohen's attorneys.
Michael Cohen is a fraud of a lawyer who works exclusively for President Trump, federal prosecutors charged Friday.
“Cohen has told at least one witness that he has only [one] client — President Trump,” the lawyers wrote in court documents, challenging Cohen’s claims that records seized in raids on his home and office Monday should be protected by attorney-client privilege.
And he’s barely doing any “legal work” for Trump, either, they claim.
“[Reviews of the records] indicate that Cohen is in fact performing little to no legal work, and that zero e-mails were exchanged with President Trump,” according to the brief, filed in Manhattan federal court.
In fact, the criminal investigation into Cohen isn’t about his work as a lawyer, “but rather relate[s] to Cohen’s own business dealings,” the feds argued.
According to Michael Avenatti there is a "very good chance" that some of the siezed documents pertain to his client, Stormy Daniels, and he suggests that she might just show up on Monday to observe the hearing.
Sure, why not?
After all it really isn't a party until the porn star shows up, right?
My sister is a fraud lawyer. She went to school and has a license but never has had any clients and just uses her degree to bully and intimate people she doesn't like. She's a crook like Cohen and always has been.
ReplyDeleteSounds like she should work for the goverment. Haha. ;)
DeleteWhere is her resume, she might fit in nicely with this administration.
Delete"The Sopranos"
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/985200901815140352
Bill Maher called it Operation Desert Stormy. He hit that spot on.
ReplyDeleteNow we watch for the next act. This true to life Game of Thrones is wearing on my soul.
Why or why was it in the cards to have an erratic and treasonous leader like Trump? We could be at peace if Trump had not existed so that Putin would not have found the door to undermine democracy.
Kimba Wood? Nominated for AG by President Clinton?
ReplyDeleteI am looking forward to seeing Cohen's client list.
ReplyDeleteTom Hagen (from "The Godfather") only had ONE client. He went to Hollywood to see Woltz, the studio boss, and "make him an offer he can't refuse". Will Cohen's "boss" receive a similar offer from the DOJ??
Deletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cohen_(lawyer)
ReplyDeleteHere's video of the president lying to the country about whether his attorney traveled to Prague in mid-2016, which he very well knew that he had, and indeed which, we will find, he did at Trump's direction. Per McClatchy, Mueller has evidence of the trip.
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/984953115978993664
ReplyDeleteIf the size of this 'protest' that dirtbag Cohen had (apparantly) organized is any reflection, there's not much a backing to speak of for him, or Trumplethinskin, anymore, and *that*, hopefully, is - ahem - shrinking 'like you-know-what in cold water'....
'Avenatti tweeted a picture of a small group of pro-Trump protesters in Florida and poked fun at the dismal turnout...The picture attached to the tweet showed four protesters.'
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/stormy-daniels-attorney-trolls-president-picture-pro-trump-protest-featuring-four-supporters/
They're screwed, lol.
ReplyDeleteGeorgiaPeach
I'LL be smiling ear to ear when he takes that perp walk, or just when he FUCKING DROPS DEAD!!! I will fire up the grill in celebration in either event.
DeleteWho were those men in the photo, seated with Cohen at an outdoor NYC restaurant, smoking cigars?
ReplyDeleteRussians, every one of them. Russians with whom Trump and Kushner have made deals.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210494103