Posted on 04/09/2018 5:18:27 PM PDT by ethom
Michael Cohen, the longtime attorney of President Trump, is under federal investigation for possible bank fraud, wire fraud and campaign finance violations, according to three people with knowledge of the case.
One person familiar with the probe said investigators have been gathering material on Cohen for weeks, including bank records.
Two of the potential crimes being investigated – bank fraud and wire fraud – suggest prosecutors have some reason to think Cohen may have misled bankers about why he was using particular funds or may have improperly used banks in the transfer of funds.
Among the records seized by investigators were “protected attorney client communications,” Ryan said.
One person familiar with the probe said investigators have been gathering material on Cohen for weeks, including his bank records.
Two of the potential crimes being investigated – bank fraud and wire fraud – suggest prosecutors have some reason to think Cohen may have misled bankers about why he was using particular funds or may have improperly used banks in the transfer of funds.
Cohen has acknowledged facilitating a $130,000 payment in October 2016 to Daniels, who claims she had a sexual relationship with Trump in 2006.
Cohen has said he used a home-equity line of credit to finance the payment to Daniels and said that neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign reimbursed him for the payment.
Banks don’t usually require much explanation from customers about how they use such credit lines. However, Cohen may have been asked to provide explanation for the large-dollar transfers he made when he moved the money to a shell company and then to a lawyer for Daniels.
The search requests for records related to the payment to Daniels cited investigators’ interest in possible violations of election law, according to one person familiar with the investigators’ work.
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When Sessions recused himself, and allowed Rosenstein to appoint Mueller, It turned the Justice Department into an agency to be used against Trump.
Federal prosecutors can always find a way to prosecute someone. They laugh and brag about it. Federal prosecutors have been used as a political tool of the left for more than a decade. They took out Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens on false charges. It was a close thing.
The left was worried Trump would use this tool against them, so Mueller conspired with Comey and Rosenstein to render it harmless to them, and to use it against President Trump.
I think Trump tolerated Sessions and his do nothing attitude UNTIL TODAY.
Heads will be rolling off the 4D chess table tomorrow.
Funny how all the Clinton associates got treated with kid gloves, eh? Notice the difference?
One of the last things an investigator does in an investigation is to try to interview the targets of the investigation after all the evidence has been collected and confront them with the evidence against them
By strange coincidence, today was the day Loretta Lynch was scheduled to be giving her sworn interview with the various IG investigations
The Mueller raid wiped the Lynch interview and whether or not Lynch took the 5th right off the news cycled
Roger Stone says Sessions is becoming senile
so fire him on medical reasons
See what they are doing? Everyone connected to Trump they are taking down and soon there will be no one left and Trump will stand alone.
Not just that but it seems many lawyers are also refusing to represent him.
Sessions will appoint a Blue Ribbon Panel soon to think about
investigating, possibly RAT crimes, maybe.
Violation of campaign finance laws? Hillary Clinton Violated campaign finance laws by taking over the finances of the DNC before ever being officially the party’s nominee. No raid on Perkins Coie, or did I miss something?
Filthy Stasi. I don’t want to hear about how the majority are good. This caps decades of spread legged whoring for that rotten, in the dark agency. Their silence condemns them all.
Mueller is off the reservation. I cannot figure out why Trey Gowdy says to let him d his job? What, specifically, is his job? Is it to find enough dirt to impeach President Trump?
We're not a nation of laws anymore, we're a nation of chosen individuals and everyone else.
Spermy Daniels, Russian spy...
No raid on Perkins Coie, or did I miss something?
Or Tony Podesta. The stinking rot from the beltway sewer today is nauseating.
how can Sessions sit in that Cabinet Room while his boss is getting screwed over like this....any respectable person would offer up his resignation on the spot.....
The Clinton Family GoFundUs Foundation.
Yes that’s true, they are going to strip Trump clean. WOW imagine what our fine government could do to us?
...Trump will stand alone...
We won’t let that happen.
This is to make sure no one dares work with/around/for Trump. Who in the hill is going to get these criminal sob’s ... there is so much deep state. . they all took part/participated/joined the devil! and that’s what it is... devil from the pits of hell. I’ve lived long enough to know the devil looses this in the end.. and the pits of hell is not a place anyone would want to go and spend eternity.
If one would believe prophecy, those who hit on God’s anointed, will go down instead.. when? when?.. how long will it take.. ‘cause we are pretty much fed up!!
One gets by with lying/stealing/corruption.. and others follow. it’s easier to be bad in today’s world than it is to be good and do what is right!
>>We’re not a nation of laws anymore, we’re a nation of chosen individuals and everyone else.
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True. We’ve been this way for decades, but it took God’s anointed, President Trump, for it to be exposed.
Now that we know it, what is to be done about it, that is where we are at, at this point.
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