This crap was debunked months ago and now they report it again as if this is news. Shameless clickbait.
REPORT: Intelligence Community Believes It Was a Different Michael Cohen Who Visited Prague
Months ago? That article is from over a year ago!
The lying msm has to keep up the meme.
OOF: Court filing reveals Feds had ‘covert wiretaps’ on Michael Cohen’s email accounts
Posted at 7:08 pm on April 13, 2018 by Greg P.
In a court filing released on Friday, federal prosecutors revealed that they have already obtained search warrants for Michael Cohen’s emails and “covert wiretaps” have been in place for some time now:
Breaking: Court filing reveals prosecutors obtained “covert” search warrants on multiple email accounts of #MichaelCohen, showing “Cohen is in fact performing little to no legal work, and that zero emails were exchanged with President Trump.”
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) April 13, 2018
Feds also tell the court they’ve been secretly reading Cohen’s emails from multiple accounts for a while now. pic.twitter.com/xLHuH8uIbA
— Ari Melber (@AriMelber) April 13, 2018
From the filing (pages 12-13)
Fourth, the USAO-SDNY has specific reason to doubt that the seized materials will
include the volume and nature of attorney-client communications that Cohen claims. This is because the USAO-SDNY has already obtained search warrants – covert until this point – on multiple different email accounts maintained by Cohen, and has conducted a privilege review of the materials obtained pursuant to those warrants. The results of that review, as reported by the USAO’s Filter Team, indicate that Cohen is in fact performing little to no legal work, and that zero emails were exchanged with President Trump.
And if they have the emails, they may have phone calls as well:
NEW: Trump called Michael Cohen today to talk. Notable because:
-Cohen is now under criminal investigation
-Cohen is under (lawful) surveillance (if emails are searched, calls could be too)
-It’s dangerous for subjects to talk to each other in a probehttps://t.co/1PrgHASisH
— Ari Melber (@AriMelber) April 13, 2018
More from the filing…
Prosecutors argued that Cohen’s “lack of truthfulness” led to the FBI raid (couple this with the report above that they were already reading his emails):
DOJ says the criminal investigation of Cohen, the president’s attorney, is for offenses “which sound in fraud and evidence a lack of truthfulness.” (Which it says helps explain the decision to execute a warrant and not just ask for records.) pic.twitter.com/a3V82xS7jt
— Brad Heath (@bradheath) April 13, 2018
They’re also using Trump’s own words against him to argue there’s not attorney-client privilege because he said publicly that he didn’t know Cohen paid off Stormy Daniels:
DOJ uses President Trump’s comments that he didn’t know about the $130,000 payment to @StormyDaniels to argue that communications on the subject would not be privileged. pic.twitter.com/pgoJpchWui
— Brad Heath (@bradheath) April 13, 2018
The feds also argued Cohen is not “currently engaged in any significant practice of law”:
The Feds allege Michael Cohen doesn’t really practice law anymore, mostly does stuff for Trump, and that they have sensitive proof of it – thus redacted: pic.twitter.com/vyCHQf1y0Y
— Ari Melber (@AriMelber) April 13, 2018
Trump, however, is arguing that every email between Cohen and any Trump Organization employee is privileged:
President Trump’s private business has already notified DOJ that it considers “each and every” communication between Cohen and people working for the company to be privileged. pic.twitter.com/6gHLK0xccX
— Brad Heath (@bradheath) April 13, 2018
You mean to say there are ~two~ Michael Cohen’s in the world?
As for Mueller’s conduct in getting a local prosecutor to seize Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen’s records, that seems to be devolving into farce. The President has been allowed to intervene to protect his interests as Cohen’s client and Cohen has argued he cannot be compelled to testify in the former porn star’s case respecting breach of her nondisclosure agreement because of his Fifth Amendment privilege. Will the next step be Stormy Daniel’s lawyer seeking to intervene and quash the search and seizure warrant on Cohen as having been improperly entered?
And the prosecutorial leaks continue -- McClatchy suggesting there was a basis to go after Cohen because of a purported meeting he had in Prague, something long discredited.
Cohen’s response:
Michael Cohen Verified account @MichaelCohen212 8m8 minutes ago
Bad reporting, bad information and bad story by same reporter Peter Stone @McClatchyDC. No matter how many times or ways they write it, I have never been to Prague. I was in LA with my son. Proven!
But the press falls for this nonsense every time.
The next person who suggests the appointment of a special counsel under the now existing law where there is no court oversight ought to be committed. Twice now they’ve devolved into unconstitutional, partisan witch-hunts.
My suspicion is that the raid on Cohen's office is more related to his suit against GPS Fusion than it is against anything else. A correspondent shares my belief:
This is an old story that's been completely debunked. The claim that Cohen traveled to Prague was part of the Steele "dossier" that was put out by Fusion GPS = The Hillary Campaign. It turns out that there is more than one Michael Cohen in the world -- yes, imagine that! A different Michael Cohen went to Prague. And that's where things get interesting.
Have you ever tried to access the travel records of another person? Yeah, good luck with that, right? Well, then, how did Fusion GPS manage to do that? It turns out, via a FISA Court report, that the FBI employed "private contractors" who weren't cleared and gave them extensive access to government records. Yep. Fusion GPS was a "private contractor," meaning the FBI had given them access to just about everything in order to do oppo research for Hillary. Are you comfortable with that? Fusion GPS's big mistake in keeping this from coming out is that they didn't check to make sure they had the right Michael Cohen and went with the attempted smear.
So, what does Michael Cohen do? In very early January of this year he filed a defamation law suit against Fusion GPS! Uh oh! Imagine the stuff he's gonna be asking for in discovery! What happens next? Mueller's jackbooted FBI break down the doors to every place associated with Cohen, seize all his records, and start leaking accusations against him.
Does this sound like the whole Mueller operation is really just a coverup for Hillary and the Deep State? It does to me.