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.
DC is not even part of the United States.
Trump should have cleaned house on Day One, starting with the DOJ. But now the fire is burning out of control. The Deep State will not relent.
Speaking of Mueller, look at this fiasco.
Fire Jeff Sessions right now!
They can’t even decide whether the FBI went to an office or a motel room.
I blame Sessions for all of it. The recusal never should have happened. Now they’ll just leak details about the arrangement with Stormy Daniels whether any crime was committed or not specifically to damage the president politically. Hint: One wasn’t.
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DC is not even part of the United States.
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But it controls every facet of our lives and does whatever it wants to do. Laws are for the little people.
Mueller has officially overstepped the bounds of his investigation as needs to be fired immediately for insubordination, abuse of office and possibly treason.
Sessions thinks he’s still in the Senate and probably on Easter Vacation
Cavuto And Napolitano are absolute PIGS!!!!!!!
They are on air salivating over this!!!!
PRAY!
This is beyond outrageous. I thought lawyer-client relationship is sacrosanct. A lawyer doesn’t even have to tell law enforcement if a client confesses to the lawyer that he committed murder. So what right does the FBI have to do such a raid?
you’re assuming Cohen kept damaging Trump records in the office they raided...something tells me is there’s and there, there tey won’t find it in the office they raided...
I agree. It is a bit late in the game to “hope” for a hail Mary. Such a shame. Oh well, good bye America.
and to your point hillary defended a child rapist she knew was guilty...
Mueller is phishing...
Yes, and what in the world Mueller is doing investigating it. They're desperate to get Trump to fire Mueller because Mueller doesn't have anything and leveraging an obstruction of justice charge is their only option. This is beyond abusive - if Mueller were to walk up to Trump and punch him in the nose the media would be screaming obstruction if Trump punched him back.
Sessions thinks he’s still in the Senate and probably on Easter Vacation
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No, Sessions is busy at work doing the job he was put in place to do: defending the Deep State and undermining Trump. He was a plant from the very beginning.
This is why I DESPISE FCKING SESSIONS!!!
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