A federal judge rejected a request from President Donald Trump and from Michael Cohen, his personal lawyer, for a temporary restraining order to keep federal prosecutors from reading files seized in 'no-knock' FBI raids last week.
In New York today, a judge ordered Michael Cohen to reveal the name of a third client, someone who didn't want to be named. It's Sean Hannity.
Four days after FBI agents raided Michael Cohen and seized loads of potential evidence, President Donald Trump called his longtime personal lawyer just “to check in” and see how things were going, no big deal.
“Defense lawyers often caution witnesses and subjects to no talk during an ongoing investigation because it appears like they may be conspiring together,” says the New York Times' Michael Schmidt about the story.
If that's the case, attorney-client privilege doesn't apply.
According to all that is publicly known, Trump does not use email, personally. Others may read out the contents to him, or print out the messages. But he doesn't email.
Significant: In seeking the search warrants for Michael Cohen court docs say, the Government asserts concern "records could have been deleted" without the search of Michael Cohen's property.
— Shimon Prokupecz (@ShimonPro) April 13, 2018
FYI: they are therefore arguing attorney-client privilege does NOT apply. https://t.co/rO981OrAsw
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) April 13, 2018
Breaking: Court filing reveals prosecutors obtained “covert” search warrants on multiple email accounts of #MichaelCohen, showing “Cohen is in fact performing little to no legal work, and that zero emails were exchanged with President Trump."
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) April 13, 2018
Breaking: US Atty in NY argues #MichaelCohenRaid sought evidence of conduct “for which Cohen is under criminal investigation.” Court filing redacts what he is under investigation for. Filing responds to Cohen’s motion to restrain evidence collected.
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) April 13, 2018
Trump doesn't use email... https://t.co/HDJjWY4DfJ
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) April 13, 2018
Judge: “how did you get that understanding?”Cohens lawyer: “discussions among the defense team about the case”Judge: “who on the defense team said there were thousands?!?...How do you as an officer of the court have basis to tell me there are thousands of documents?”😬
— Amber Jamieson (@ambiej) April 13, 2018
Just another Friday afternoon: Cohen search was separate from Mueller probe, prosecutors say https://t.co/pzaw3VuGMw via @bpolitics
— Joe Schneider (@joe_in_nyc) April 13, 2018
The government response to Michael Cohen’s motion to block review of the material seized during the search of his office https://t.co/5StphsLBxC
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) April 13, 2018
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