Cohen news: "Special master" review ends; Feds seek docs from Trump donor re: $10M Cohen deal
A retired judge has completed her review of materials seized by the FBI from Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney and fixer to President Donald Trump.
Barbara Jones was named as a "special master" by the judge overseeing the case to help the parties determine which materials are protected attorney-client communications and which ones constitute "highly personal items," such as family photographs, that aren’t relevant to the government’s investigation of Cohen.
She found about 7,600 items to be privileged or highly personal out of about 13,800 privilege claims made by lawyers for Cohen, Trump and The Trump Organization, a small fraction of the 4 million items seized by the FBI from Cohen’s home, office and hotel room April 9.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-09/retired-judge-concludes-review-of-documents-seized-from-cohen
Federal prosecutors have sought docs from Trump donor
Frank Haney about his biz dealings with Michael Cohen, WSJ reports.
Haney hired Cohen in April to help obtain funding for a
nuclear-power project that would've paid Cohen $10M if he was successful.
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Court filing tonight shows that the court-appointed Special
Master has concluded her review of the millions of documents
and files seized from Cohen in April.
5:06 PM - Aug 9, 2018
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