Review of Cohen's records finds a fraction fall under attorney-client privilege

[Julian Englis]

Source: Politico

A former federal judge tasked with sifting through records seized from President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer is recommending federal prosecutors can see all but a fraction of the items.

In a two-page status report submitted Monday, court-appointed special master Barbara Jones said she found just 14 out of 639 items — containing 12,543 pages of “hard copy materials” taken from Michael Cohen’s home, office and hotel room — should be held back from federal prosecutors because of attorney-client privilege.

Separately, Jones ruled that 148 out of 291,770 total items on two phones and an iPad taken from Cohen by the FBI fell into privileged or partially privileged categories. Another seven items, Jones added, were deemed “Highly Personal.”

Jones’s report covers only a small part of the materials seized in April from Cohen, which includes more than a dozen mobile devices and 19 other digital-media devices. Todd Harrison, a lawyer for Cohen, told the court last week that his firm had received about 3.7 million files, with about 1.3 million already turned over to Jones for her review.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/04/michael-cohen-legal-records-623661

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Here's a link to a copy of the status report: https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000163-cd0b-d9d9-a767-dd9bce780001

The status report, among other things, states:

1.
Contents of Eight Boxes of Hard Copy Materials:
Out of 639 total items consisting of 12,543 pages, the Special Master agrees with the Plaintiff/or Intervenors and finds that 14 items are Privileged and/or Partially Privileged. The Special Master also finds that 3 items are not privileged.

2. Contents of Two Phones and an iPad:
Out of 291,770 total items, the Special Master agrees with the Plaintiff and/or Intervenors and finds that 148 items are Privileged and/or Partially Privileged and that 7 items are Highly Personal. The specific control numbers identifying the items determined to be Privileged, Partially Privileged, Highly Personal, and Not Privileged for these two productions will be provided to the Court, the Plaintiff, and Intervenors.

Oopsy!

[joshcryer]

1. Clinton had 30,490 emails. It took them from May to November 2016 to...

...narrow down the classified material. Of 30k emails 110 were classified.

In Cohen's case, the warrant was executed April 9, and this report was released June 4.

It's amazing how quickly government can do its job when it matters.

[BlueMTexpat]

3. I believe that it is more accurate to

say that those items in HRC's email collection that were "classified" were classified retroactively by other agencies.

But oh, what a fuss about nothing they were!

[lagomorph777]

6. Amazing productivity, but she's less than 10% done.

There's a ton o' gold in them thar hills of data.

[Backwoodsrider]

2. wonder what this means

The Special Master also finds that 3 items are not privileged.

interesting... I am not familiar with federal court lingo wonder why judge Jones said that. Maybe there are 3 items that might be used as evidence to prove Trump team was doing bad things so the 3 items are not considered 'privileged' because of that fact?

[Julian Englis]

5. After posting, this I'm also wondering

I am not certain if the headline is incorrect

[SergeStorms]

4. That's a far cry from the....

"thousands, if not millions" of documents Cohen's attorneys claimed were seized by the FBI. I think it's pretty clear that Cohen does not make his living being an attorney. He's a "fixer", and Trump mob bag-man.

This bunch of bozos lie with every breath they take.