Breaking! Cohen being investigated for possible Bank Fraud and Wire Fraud

[malaise]

and campaign finance violations. Oh My!

[BumRushDaShow]

1. Link

Trump attorney Cohen is being investigated for possible bank fraud, campaign finance violations, according to a person familiar with the case

FBI agents on Monday raided the Manhattan office of President Trump’s private lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, seizing records about Cohen’s clients, including those related to a 2016 payment he made to adult-film star Stormy Daniels, who claims to have had a sexual encounter with Trump.

Among the documents seized were privileged communications between Cohen and his clients — including those with Trump, according to a person familiar with the investigators’ work. Investigators took Cohen’s computer, phone and personal financial records as part of the search of his office at Rockefeller Center, the person said.

The raid was first reported by the New York Times.

The raid is related to an investigation referred by the special counsel Robert S. Mueller III to federal prosecutors in New York, according to Stephen Ryan, an attorney for Cohen.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/fbi-seizes-records-related-to-stormy-daniels-in-raid-of-trump-attorney-michael-cohens-office/2018/04/09/e3e43cf4-3c30-11e8-974f-aacd97698cef_story.html

[malaise]

3. Thanks

The Con must be shitting bricks about now

[BumRushDaShow]

11. Ari Melber just read a transcript

of notes from someone who was monitoring some speech he was giving and he was whining about "witch hunts" and "unfair".

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. I wonder if he is in trouble for paying Stormy and not reporting it to the IRS via 1099

there must be taxes involved with this somehow.

[BumRushDaShow]

14. The timing seems to be

associated with Drumpf's AF1 denial of knowing anything about what Cohen did despite the fact that Drumpf's name was on the arbitration agreement (although unsigned).

There were some posts about some outlets associating a series of payments to Cohen from the Trump.org I believe, that totaled up to $129,999.71 or something like that.

[The_Casual_Observer]

17. Yes I saw that, the treasury dept doesn't like these kind of money laundering transactions one bit.

I hope that Stormy reported the $130,000.

[PJMcK]

2. Yippee!

Mr. "Says Who" is in deep shit. Couldn't happen to a more appropriate asshole.

Next up, Jared.

[Gothmog]

4. From my twitter feed

Link to tweet

[bluestarone]

6. i'm hoping Rump is involved DEEPLY!!!!!

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dalton99a]

7. About damn time.

[Wednesdays]

8. Source?

Not that I don't believe you, but if I want to pass it on, people will want me to back it up.

[malaise]

12. Washington Post n/t

[Wednesdays]

13. Thanks! eom

[Hassin Bin Sober]

9. Yeah, if that story is true that came out the other day about the Trump campaign cutting checks...

..... for almost exactly $130,000 dollars, they are fucked.

As always, the cover up is worse than the crime. If they structured payments to avoid reporting, that is money laundering(structuring) and wire fraud.

I knew it was bad when Cohen was so quick to jump on that grenade and claim Trump wasn't involved.

[HipChick]

10. Trump was alerted "very soon after the door was kicked in"

[BumRushDaShow]

15. MSNBC is playing Drumpf's remarks

He is hugging himself and rocking.

[dixiegrrrrl]

19. Oh, I see now. He didn't mean "so much winning" He meant "whining". n/t

[BumRushDaShow]

20. Basically. It was a mispelling of the word.

[spanone]

16. I wonder who that will lead to????

[Gothmog]

18. From Prof. Tribe

Link to tweet