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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Tue Jun 26, 2018, 08:18 AM Jun 2018

Michael Cohen's lawyers seek to withhold 12,000 files from prosecutors

Source: NBC News

A former judge will decide whether Cohen's legal team can shield the documents, which they say are protected by attorney-client and work product privilege.

by Tom Winter and Tim Stelloh / Jun.25.2018 / 9:37 PM ET

Attorneys for Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former lawyer, said Monday that they had completed a review of 4 million files seized during an April FBI raid and want to withhold more than 12,000 of them from federal prosecutors.

The disputed files are protected by attorney-client or work product privileges, the lawyers said in a court filing.

The FBI, working with federal prosecutors in New York and in coordination with special counsel Robert Mueller, executed the April 9 raid searching for information about a $130,000 payment Cohen made to porn star Stormy Daniels shortly before the 2016 presidential election.

U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood had set a June 15 deadline to complete the review, but federal prosecutors said last month that they hadn't yet been able to access two Blackberries or to reconstruct the contents of a shredder that was seized during the raid.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/michael-cohen-s-lawyers-seek-withhold-12-000-files-prosecutors-n886501

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Michael Cohen's lawyers seek to withhold 12,000 files from prosecutors (Original Post) DonViejo Jun 2018 OP

That will go over as well NewJeffCT Jun 2018 #1

republicans have so much evil shit they are hiding Achilleaze Jun 2018 #2

The Republican Party is the party of gangsters. It is a massive criminal enterprise. olegramps Jun 2018 #3

Nice of them to point out which 12,000 files are the most damaging. lagomorph777 Jun 2018 #4

Something tells me Mueller already knew anyway FakeNoose Jun 2018 #5

Dear Michael Cohen................... turbinetree Jun 2018 #6

NewJeffCT

(56,829 posts)

1. That will go over as well

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Jun 26, 2018, 08:39 AM

Jun 2018

as his request to withhold other documents went.

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)

2. republicans have so much evil shit they are hiding

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Jun 26, 2018, 08:51 AM

Jun 2018

this assclown cohen was co-chair of the whole freaking republican party Monster MoneyBuck Machine.

So much shameful republican anti-American shit has gone down, is going down...

republican traitors deserves justice: charge, prosecute, convict, and then LOCK THE REPUBLICAN TRAITORS UP.

America deserves better.

olegramps

(8,200 posts)

3. The Republican Party is the party of gangsters. It is a massive criminal enterprise.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Jun 26, 2018, 10:04 AM

Jun 2018

The goal of every Republican congressman is self enrichment. Unfortunately some Democrats have followed their lead and must be challenged. These people who are being prosecuted would have never been exposed except for their getting involved with Trump and being subject to investigation. It makes one wonder just how many more have enriched themselves by betraying our nation. It is truly ironic they were stupid enough to step into the limelight and facing years in prison. The cost of representation is going put a lot of that blood money in the treasury when their slimy lawyers have to cough up their taxes.

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)

4. Nice of them to point out which 12,000 files are the most damaging.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Jun 26, 2018, 10:06 AM

Jun 2018

Now hand them over.

FakeNoose

(32,748 posts)

5. Something tells me Mueller already knew anyway

Reply to lagomorph777 (Reply #4)

Tue Jun 26, 2018, 10:14 AM

Jun 2018

You know these prosecutors are working together, and one hand feeds the other.
Taking a page from the RNC playbook.

turbinetree

(24,720 posts)

6. Dear Michael Cohen...................

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Jun 26, 2018, 12:11 PM

Jun 2018

your fucked.........................especially when it came to the shredder.....................the rule of law doesn't like that to much, when trying to shred information, that wasn't suppose to be "shredded"..............dumb fucker........ .........

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