NEW: F.B.I. Raids Office of Trumps Longtime Lawyer Michael Cohen

[Yonnie3]

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ETA: LBN post https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142033224

has excerpt and direct link to NYT article.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/09/us/politics/fbi-raids-office-of-trumps-longtime-lawyer-michael-cohen.html

[grantcart]

1. wow, looks like this week is going to be one to remember

Last week was kind of a sleeper.

[wishstar]

11. Last week was spring break/Easter vacation- calm before the storms

[spanone]

2. K&R...

[RandySF]

3. What time is it?

?1500469047

[grantcart]

19. Its not the beginning of the end, but it is the end of the beginning.

[BigmanPigman]

4. YES!

[kentuck]

5. WOW!

This is BIG !

[Wwcd]

6. Mueller gathered the info, & gave it to U.S. Attorneys Office for the Southern District of New York

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/04/09/us/politics/fbi-raids-office-of-trumps-longtime-lawyer-michael-cohen.html

The F.B.I. on Monday raided the office of President Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, seizing records related to several topics including payments to a pornographic-film actress.

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan obtained the search warrant after receiving a referral from the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, according to Mr. Cohen’s lawyer, who called the search “completely inappropriate and unnecessary.” The search does not appear to be directly related to Mr. Mueller’s investigation, but likely resulted from information he had uncovered and gave to prosecutors in New York.

“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,” said Stephen Ryan, his lawyer. “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.”

Mr. Cohen plays a role in aspects of the special counsel’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. He also recently said he paid $130,000 to a pornographic-film actress, Stephanie Clifford, who said she had an affair with Mr. Trump.


(Clifford aka Stormy Daniels)

[brewens]

7. A FB friend recently posted a pro law enforcement meme. I'll post a link to this saying me too.

I'll wait until it's up with the whole story somewhere. Of course he won't be liking this law enforcement!

[AZ8theist]

8. tick, tock....tick tock.....nt

[kentuck]

9. Does that mean Trump cannot pardon him??

Mueller is on top of this.

[Yonnie3]

16. Federal crimes can be pardoned by 45

"Federal prosecutors in Manhattan obtained the search warrant ..." so it would be a Federal crime. There may be evidence of NY State crimes turned up for later use by the state.

[Clarity2]

28. But it says

“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,” said Stephen Ryan, his lawyer. “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.”

Referred by mueller to southern district NY means state, not federal.

[Yonnie3]

30. US Attorney is Federal. nt

[fleur-de-lisa]

23. A lot of lawyers seem to think President *Shithole cannot pardon co-conspirators

on federal crimes.

[Yonnie3]

27. There would be a fight if he tried. n/t

[sunonmars]

10. The tweets on this from dumbo are going to be epic.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

12. At the risk of repeating myself.....

[Gothmog]

13. From my twitter feed

Link to tweet

[Clarity2]

29. So does this mean trump uses email?

Or are they hand written notes between the two of them. They could be damning (fingers crossed)

[Tommy_Carcetti]

14. Says who? nt

[AZ8theist]

15. SAYS WHO???

SAYS WHO???

To the "SAYS WHO??" guy.......the judge who is going to put you away for (hopefully) many, many, many years...

THAT'S WHO "SAYS WHO"!!!!!! you fucking worm...

[AZ8theist]

17. Tommy, you beat me to it!!!

[The_jackalope]

18. Tis is enormous! It's happening!

[Gothmog]

20. The FBI raided Cohen's hotel also

Link to tweet

[sunonmars]

22. This guy is screwed, if you can squeeze the lawyer, Trump is done.

and it was carried out by South NY prosecutors office.

[sunonmars]

21. court-authorized search warrants

Federal agents carrying court-authorized search warrants have seized documents from President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen.

That’s according to a statement from Cohen’s attorney, Stephen Ryan. He says the search warrants were executed by the office of the U.S. Attorney for Southern District of New York but they are “in part” related to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.

https://apnews.com/a256631aa1a242e2a7b705e2b6a5b989

[gratuitous]

24. Of all the headlines you DON'T want to see

"FBI raids your lawyer's office" has to be really high on any list. And, since by the Special Counsel's office and the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York are involved, it makes it really hard to contain any information that might be gleaned by either office.

[Gothmog]

25. Statement from Michael Cohen's attorney

Link to tweet

[Stuart G]

26. k and r...nt

[Gothmog]

31. It is not Mueller but the US Attorney for SD NY doing the searches

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[bucolic_frolic]

32. Wonder what's been going on in all those hotels all these years

????

Maybe this is bigger than one thinks

[Gothmog]

33. From Prof. Tribe

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