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catbyte

(34,438 posts)
Wed May 30, 2018, 12:45 PM May 2018

Wow. So it now appears that Michael Cohen WAS little more than a bag man.



Out of over 1.3 million items seized from Michael Cohen’s home and office, only 252 are potentially privileged, according to the Special Master. That means prosecutors were right—Cohen was not practicing law much at all.



NEW: Per Special Master in the #MichaelCohen case, only 252 items flagged as potentially “privileged”. Special Master has given SDNY prosecutors almost 300,000 items so far & will likely turn over another 1,000,000 today. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal-prosecutors-poised-to-get-more-than-1-million-files-seized-from-michael-cohens-phones/2018/05/29/ff407104-63b1-11e8-99d2-0d678ec08c2f_story.html
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Wow. So it now appears that Michael Cohen WAS little more than a bag man. (Original Post) catbyte May 2018 OP
Sad to laugh when a racist idiot thbobby May 2018 #1
Dumbass Cohen Thought if He Shredded Stuff it Would Protect Him Skraxx May 2018 #2
Well he thought he was out smarting everyone by recording everything grantcart May 2018 #7
Cohen and Trump are alike. Cohen probably made the tape if and when Trump would betray him. TheBlackAdder May 2018 #27
"Hey Donnie, we're in "HUGE" trouble! imanamerican63 May 2018 #3
every good mobster needs one of these lapfog_1 May 2018 #4
You know his nickname was "Tom" in Russian Mafia circles underpants May 2018 #18
There is no cure for STUPID...... ProudMNDemocrat May 2018 #5
And now we know there are Tapes. Wellstone ruled May 2018 #6
Gently, my friends... malthaussen May 2018 #8
If 1% of them are... lame54 May 2018 #13
+1 uponit7771 May 2018 #21
Can we have a public flogging in the streets, parading traitors to America? ffr May 2018 #9
Flogging isn't permanent enough FakeNoose May 2018 #12
Sounds Good! Everyone read "A Tale of Two Cities" to get in the mood. OMGWTF May 2018 #19
Please start with vannity.. Hulk May 2018 #15
Cohen probably thought his good pal Trump would take care of him and reward procon May 2018 #10
It boggles the mind. C Moon May 2018 #11
Low-life Bag Men often make this mistake ... mr_lebowski May 2018 #14
Cohen still wont talk, the Russians go after family members first ... they're the animals uponit7771 May 2018 #22
1.3 million items? Dave Starsky May 2018 #16
Cohen is smaaart. He can do things. He's not stupid like everyone else says. Yavin4 May 2018 #17
lol uponit7771 May 2018 #24
You broke my heart Fredo... winstars May 2018 #25
That ratio is NOT working in either Bag Man or Douchebag's favour. BobTheSubgenius May 2018 #20
what kind of items. who has a million items? Demovictory9 May 2018 #23
Probably counting each text or call DeminPennswoods May 2018 #26

TheBlackAdder

(28,211 posts)
27. Cohen and Trump are alike. Cohen probably made the tape if and when Trump would betray him.
Thu May 31, 2018, 08:21 AM
May 2018

.

I'm sure that sooner or later, Trump would turn on Cohen, like he has with most others.

Cohen probably kept those tapes as an insurance policy against those he dealt with, just in case someone flipped.

.

underpants

(182,870 posts)
18. You know his nickname was "Tom" in Russian Mafia circles
Wed May 30, 2018, 02:52 PM
May 2018
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/michael-cohens-ties-to-russia-crime-and-trump-w518941

Cohen joined the Trump Organization in 2006, and eventually became Trump's personal lawyer, a role once occupied by Roy Cohn, Senator Joseph McCarthy's heavy-lidded hatchet man during the Red Scare who advised Trump in the 1980s. Michael Cohen's bare-knuckled tactics earned him the nickname of "Tom," a reference to Tom Hagen, the consigliore to Mafia Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather. He grew up on Long Island, the son of a physician who survived the Holocaust in Poland, and like Tom Hagen spent a childhood around organized crime, specifically the Russian Mafiya. Cohen's uncle, Morton Levine, was a wealthy Brooklyn doctor who owned the El Caribe Country Club, a Brooklyn catering hall and event space that was a well-known hangout for Russian gangsters. Cohen and his siblings all had ownership stakes in the club, which rented for years to the first Mafiya boss of Brighton Beach, Evsei Agron, along with his successors, Marat Balagula and Boris Nayfeld. (Cohen's uncle said his nephew gave up his stake in the club after Trump's election.)

ProudMNDemocrat

(16,786 posts)
5. There is no cure for STUPID......
Wed May 30, 2018, 12:51 PM
May 2018

It is a matter of time when Michael Cohen is charged with State and Federal crimes.

Robert Mueller just got even more goods on Donald Trump via Michael Cohen.
 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
6. And now we know there are Tapes.
Wed May 30, 2018, 01:16 PM
May 2018

Oh oh! Watch the Travel Agencies for certain people looking for Hot deals going to Belize.

malthaussen

(17,216 posts)
8. Gently, my friends...
Wed May 30, 2018, 01:42 PM
May 2018

... just because they aren't privileged does not mean they are incriminating.

-- Mal

ffr

(22,671 posts)
9. Can we have a public flogging in the streets, parading traitors to America?
Wed May 30, 2018, 01:47 PM
May 2018

If ever the law needed to make examples of people who betrayed their nation, it is these folks and the ones on the airwaves (Sinclair, M$M media, etc) who still support grifters and vilify all those who uphold the law.

FakeNoose

(32,726 posts)
12. Flogging isn't permanent enough
Wed May 30, 2018, 02:08 PM
May 2018

It's a good start though.

After flogging they can go into the stocks for a while, and finish it off at the guillotine.

 

Hulk

(6,699 posts)
15. Please start with vannity..
Wed May 30, 2018, 02:19 PM
May 2018

...and then tar and feather the seditious bastard, and run him through the streets and out of town on a rail.

That would be a good starting point.

procon

(15,805 posts)
10. Cohen probably thought his good pal Trump would take care of him and reward
Wed May 30, 2018, 01:53 PM
May 2018

his loyalty with a seat at the master's table. He must have known what kind of man Trump was all along, yet he still thought he was going to get a place at the trough.

 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
14. Low-life Bag Men often make this mistake ...
Wed May 30, 2018, 02:18 PM
May 2018

Hey, idiot, there's a reason rich people HAVE f***ing Bag Men ... and that's their OTHER function in the rich mans world ... one that's often called: FALL GUY.

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
16. 1.3 million items?
Wed May 30, 2018, 02:23 PM
May 2018

Does this not seem like a ridiculously huge number?

Did Mike live at the Library of Congress, or something?

ON EDIT: Never mind. They took document shreddings, which they have now reconstructed. Oh, Lordy.

Yavin4

(35,445 posts)
17. Cohen is smaaart. He can do things. He's not stupid like everyone else says.
Wed May 30, 2018, 02:27 PM
May 2018

Send Cohen to do this. Send Cohen to do that.

BobTheSubgenius

(11,564 posts)
20. That ratio is NOT working in either Bag Man or Douchebag's favour.
Wed May 30, 2018, 10:54 PM
May 2018

Good heavens! A MILLION items? There must be SOMETHING awful (for them) in there, don't you think?

And I don't believe that that gigantic number is because a lot of it is shredder output. It doesn't make sense that Special Master would turn over material that is presently unreadable.

DeminPennswoods

(15,290 posts)
26. Probably counting each text or call
Thu May 31, 2018, 06:10 AM
May 2018

or whatever else can be stored on a cell phone 1 "item". Fox ex, if you have a text conversation with each person doing 5 replies, that could count as 10 "items".

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