CHECK YOUR PRIVILEGE. Judge Hands Defeat to Trump and Cohen Over FBI Raid: 'You've Miscited the Law'

The president and his fixer tried to stop the feds from getting their hands on ‘privileged’ information. They failed.

OLIVIA MESSER
KATE BRIQUELET
04.16.18 5:27 PM ET

President Donald Trump and his longtime attorney Michael Cohen both lost a court challenge related to the FBI’s seizure of Cohen’s documents they both claim are protected by attorney-client privilege.

Cohen had asked a federal judge for a temporary restraining order to stop federal prosecutors in Manhattan from viewing the information seized by the FBI until an independent third party, called a “special master,” be allowed to sort out what is protected by attorney-client privilege.

Similarly, Trump’s own legal representation in this case, Joanna Hendon, filed a letter on Sunday night asking the judge to give Cohen’s team first-access to the material.

U.S. District Court Judge Kimba Wood denied the requests and ruled that prosecutors will get first access to the information, followed by Cohen’s defense team ten days later. Wood noted that she has not yet decided whether she will appoint a special master in the case at all.

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