Posted on 07/23/2018 1:09:10 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
There are at least 12 audio tapes the government seized from President Donald Trump's former longtime lawyer Michael Cohen, a Monday court filing revealed.
Special master Barbara Jones wrote in a court filing to US District Judge Kimba Wood on Monday that privilege claims were withdrawn over 12 audio tapes in review — an action that could've been taken by either Cohen, Trump, or the Trump Organization.
As special master, Jones is tasked with overseeing the document review for privilege designations in the ongoing Cohen investigation taking place in the Southern District of New York.
Because the parties released their privilege claims over the tapes, they've been turned over to federal investigators probing Cohen, she wrote. It is unclear who appears on the tapes.
The existence of one of those 12 tapes was revealed on Friday when The New York Times reported that Cohen recorded a conversation with Trump just two months ahead of the 2016 election in which they discussed payments to former Playboy model Karen McDougal. That recording was among several the FBI seized in April when it raided Cohen's properties. Reporting of the tape's contents seemed to contradict the Trump campaign's past denial of any knowledge of such payments to McDougal.
Cohen is the focus of a criminal investigation into whether he violated campaign-finance laws, committed bank fraud or wire fraud, engaged in illegal lobbying, or participated in other crimes. The FBI seized more than 4 million documents in the April raids.
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But I don't think it's going away.
None of it is going away, yet Trump’s approval keeps getting stronger. Imagine that.
Totally Kafkaesque.
“There were vast amounts, in fact hundreds of thousands of documents that were seized from Michael Cohen’s offices and home and hotel,” Klieman said. “Of these, the special master reviewed the hundreds of thousands and only a small percentage of them was considered privilege. We don’t even know if this conversation with then candidate Trump and Michael Cohen was in the privilege pile or the non-privilege pile.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/michael-cohen-secretly-taped-donald-trump-was-it-legal/
Legal? pssh. Who cares if this was legal? Who cares about so called attorney client privilege?
Mueller will stop at nothing to destroy Trump.
How many between Cohen and Stormy ,at least 12 ?
Did Trump know he was being taped? If not, the “evidence”
is probably inadmissible (if that matters).
But I presume Trump was savvy enough to avoid saying anything incriminating.
And we know how Judge Kimba Wood is going to rule, anyway, no matter what the law.
(MOO)
Pray for President Trump. He is trying to run the country as best as he can. Is he perfect? No. This is such a aham.
“privilege claims were withdrawn over 12 audio tapes in review — an action that could’ve been taken by either Cohen, Trump, or the Trump Organization.”
Can Cohen revoke attorney client privilege legally? Otherwise maybe Trump himself withdrew privilege.
What does this have to do with Russia collusion?
Please tell us. We would all like to know.
The privilege is the clients; It is not a privilege for the lawyer. The lawyer must raise it, but also must respect the decision of the client. Even if harmful to the lawyer.
Gwjack
I’ve read that NY is a “one party consent” state, meaning only one party on the recording need be aware. Because of this, Trump has always said that he always assumes that he’s being recorded. He’ll be fine. As always, he’s a very stable genius.
Every attorney is watching this with a jaundiced eye. Every client now needs to worry about being taped and those tapes getting out in public.
Then I can’t see how any of these recordings harm Trump.
“Is he perfect? No. This is such a aham.”
It is a sham. I’ve been racking my brain trying to think of another person who could stand in Trump’s shoes and carry on. None comes to mind.
He is truly a giant in our times.
That’s true about New York but attorney client privilege is still valid.
I heard on news that NY is a only one party has to know about the taping, usually one doing taping. Wrong to do that secret taping, but not illegal.
The issue being pushed by Mueller is that there was talk of payment to a model... not sure, their claims have been BS before, so do not know.
Agreed; Even without the AC privilege issue, there was probably nothing in them that was criminal in nature. Not saying there were discussions about the Stormy gal, or any other, but It is not reflective of any illegality. Any conversation about paying “nuisance” value to ward off a bad PR story is not illegal.
“I’d like to put a nice positive spin on this and dismiss this as irrelevant.
But I don’t think it’s going away.”
Agree. No use in spinning this. This is bad news. The kind of actions taken by desperate throw everything including the sink at the POTUS people.
They are all in, they stick together, and they exploit our side for being divided.
Vote the midterms like your life depends on it.
Who leaked this?
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