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Thu Apr 12, 2018, 06:38 PM Apr 2018

Preet Bharara: 'The likelihood that Michael Cohen is going to be charged is high' [View all]

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Preet Bharara: 'The likelihood that Michael Cohen is going to be charged is high'

https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/10/politics/preet-bharara-cnntv/



Updated 11:45 AM ET, Thu April 12, 2018


Washington (CNN).............................

Cohen, who is President Donald Trump's personal attorney, had his home and office raided by the FBI on Monday.

"If I were still the United States attorney, no matter who the president was, and I was being asked to personally approve, as someone had to have been in the Southern District of New York, a search of someone's home and office who was counsel to the president -- I would want a lot more than the bare minimum proof of probable cause," Bharara, a CNN senior legal analyst who's a former US attorney, said on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360" Tuesday night.

"So I predict, as we saw with Paul Manafort, that if they decided they had enough evidence to engage in a very aggressive, a very aggressive move, that the likelihood that Michael Cohen is going to be charged is high," Bharara added. ................................

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