Posted on 04/09/2018 1:24:44 PM PDT by gattaca
The FBI raided the offices of President Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen on Monday.
The raid came after federal prosecutors in New York City obtained a search warrant following a referral from special counsel Robert Mueller, Cohen's lawyer told the New York Times. Mueller is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, and related issues.
NBC News confirmed news of the raid.
The Times reported that FBI agents seized records relating to several issues, including a $130,000 payment Cohen has said he made to porn star Stormy Daniels.
Daniels has said that money was given to her in exchange for her agreement to keep quiet about an affair she had with Trump that began in 2006. The White House has denied that Trump had sex with Daniels, and Trump has said he was unaware of the deal Cohen made with her.
In addition to records related to Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, FBI agents also seized emails, tax documents and business records, according to the Times, which cited a person briefed on the search.
Cohen is an executive vice president and general counsel of the Trump Organization.
It was not immediately clear where the raid occurred. Vanity Fair reported that FBI agents on Monday visited a room at the Lowes Regency Hotel in Manhattan, where Cohen has been staying and executed the warrants.
Cohen's lawyer, Stephen Ryan, said, "Today the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York executed a series of search warrants and seized the privileged communications between my client, Michael Cohen, and his clients. I have been advised by federal prosecutors that the New York action is, in part, a referral by the Office of Special Counsel, Robert Mueller."
"The decision by the U.S. Attorney's Office in New York to conduct their investigation using search warrants is completely inappropriate and unnecessary," Ryan said.
"It resulted in the unnecessary seizure of protected attorney client communications between a lawyer and his clients. These government tactics are also wrong because Mr. Cohen has cooperated completely with all government entities, including providing thousands of non-privileged documents to the Congress and sitting for depositions under oath."
Trump's spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders told CNBC that the White House has no comment on the raid.
Spokesmen for the FBI's New York field office and for Mueller did not immediately respond to CNBC's requests for comment.
Shaddup you McCain RINO traitor.
Yet nothing on finding out what really happened on that tarmac between Clinton and Lynch..or about the Clinton Foundation
He and the evil media are trying to bate President Trump is to fire him.
You were anti-Trump the day he announced his run.
And you’re still butt hurt.
Bingo...
I think they are going to have a tough time with that. More likely, it was a lawyer who has made millions in billings on behalf of a client trying to help out the client. He might let the client know he did it at some point, but probably not immediately. It will be tough to turn that into a campaign contribution; more of a personal gift. Which, by the way, they may claim needed to be disclosed on the lawyer’s 1040 for gift tax purposes. Maybe there is a deductible expense that fits this category.
Mueller is an old man and looks every bit of it. He will be dead and gone before Cohen flips on Trump. Cohen is consigliere. They never flip!
This is part of the reason why nothing gets done in the District of Corruption.
Between the power of the unelected shadow government/deep state, IRS and the FBI — congress critters are terrified of this happening to them, and they are controlled to within an inch of their lives.
Elections truly don’t matter.
You sound like either a DACA illegal or just smoking something illegal.
Note any similarities in the above, which were posted within 6 minutes of each other?
The deep state is in full panic mode now, ans the Storm is here and they can only flail and crank up their propaganda partners to pump out irrelevant and unrelated nonsense.
He should of fired Sessions MONTHS AGO !!!!!
Isn’t it customary to subpoena files, NOT conduct a Gestapo raid fishing for wrong doing?
“He and the evil media are trying to bate President Trump is to fire him.”
That’s Mueller’s last hope, but Trump ain’t falling for it.
Really. Just dredging for anything, eh?
Elhombre is a poser and he makes it real obvious.
Rule-of-law conservatism trumps Trump. Being loyal to the truth will never hurt the conservative brand the way that following the mercurial POTUS off of the cliff will.
Yes.
Whatever, troll.
If we weren’t talking about Trump, do you think ANY judge would have signed this warrant request?
It’s not even a crime. If anything, Stephanie Clifford should be charged with extortion, since undoubtedly that’s what her attorney threatened: money or exposure.
Agreed—I think Sessions was a plant as well.
Perfect cover—from deep red AL, and conservative. He was a fallback insurance policy to the deep state if Trump would win. Well, Trump won. Deep state sets sessions off on the job he was meant to do. Tie Trump up with inaction, or take him out if possible. Seems like things are going according to plan.
Trump F’d up. He trusted the wrong people but to his credit who do you trust?
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