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Showing Original Post only (View all)Bombshell and generally unnoticed note filed by Fed attorney re: Cohen today [View all]
This wasn't the first warrant on Michael Cohen. Turns out that they have been reading his emails for some time.
They are making a broad assertion in a 22 page submission to the court that privilege isn't going to apply for most of what they were looking for and have taken from Cohen's office because
The Southern District of New York (SDNY) has an interesting counterargument: Cohen is barely a practicing lawyer, anywaywhich they claim to know because theyve been reading his emails.
This wasn't the first warrant.
https://qz.com/1252448/donald-trump-lawyer-michael-cohens-emails-have-been-under-scrutiny-by-the-us-government/
NLawyers for Michael Cohen, personal lawyer to Donald Trump, argued in a hearing today that a recent FBI raid on his offices swept up sensitive documents that should be protected by client-attorney privilege. The Southern District of New York (SDNY) has an interesting counterargument: Cohen is barely a practicing lawyer, anywaywhich they claim to know because theyve been reading his emails.
A 22-page opposition document filed by the US attorney to counter Cohens request for a temporary restraining order on seized files (pdf) reveals that the Southern District has been privy to Cohens email for a while now, having obtained a previously undisclosed search warrant. According to the documents, Cohen has exceedingly few clients and a low volume of potentially privileged communications (p.1) and performs little to no legal work (p.4).
The US attorney also questioned the Cohen teams grasp of the law in his own defense, noting that: Not only is Cohens reliance on the [United States Attorney Manual] USAM misplaced, but he invokes the wrong section, which applies to attorneys who are not suspects of a criminal investigation (p.13).
The governments argument emphasizes that information seized from Cohens work or home were taken as part of an investigation seeking evidence of crimes, many of which have nothing to do with his work as attorney, but rather relate to Cohens own business dealings (p.4).
Stunning.
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Bombshell and generally unnoticed note filed by Fed attorney re: Cohen today [View all]
grantcart
Apr 2018
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This all supports the idea that it was Michael Flynn's plea that gave information
pnwmom
Apr 2018
#11
a tactical decision by Mueller to turn this aspect over to the SDNY office as now its firmly inside
beachbum bob
Apr 2018
#14
Mueller tree is propagating. Pointless to try cut it down now. He probably has a dead-hand switch
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 2018
#23
Trump knows he's dirty, he knows Trump's dirty, we know tRump's dirty, Mueller knows both are dirty.
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 2018
#22
Brilliant, just wonderful. Some good is going to come out of this cluster*. Thanks, grantcart.
Hekate
Apr 2018
#13
On Chris Hayes: Cohen is a fixer, not an attorney, and there is no client/fixer privilege.
Amaryllis
Apr 2018
#24
maybe cohen's learning law like i used to do the day before exams, where i tried to
certainot
Apr 2018
#34