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F.B.I. Raids Office of Trump’s Longtime Lawyer Michael Cohen

The F.B.I. on Monday raided the office of President Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, seizing records related to several topics including payments to a pornographic-film actress.Update: SEARCHED AND SEIZED: F.B.I. RAIDS MICHAEL COHEN’S NEW YORK HOTEL
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan obtained the search warrant after receiving a referral from the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, according to Mr. Cohen’s lawyer, who called the search “completely inappropriate and unnecessary.” The search does not appear to be directly related to Mr. Mueller’s investigation, but likely resulted from information he had uncovered and gave to prosecutors in New York.
“Today the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York executed a series of search warrants and seized the privileged communications between my client, Michael Cohen, and his clients,” said Stephen Ryan, his lawyer. “I have been advised by federal prosecutors that the New York action is, in part, a referral by the Office of Special Counsel, Robert Mueller.”
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The payments to Ms. Clifford are only one of many topics being investigated, according to a person briefed on the search. The F.B.I. also seized emails, tax documents and business records, the person said.
The seized records include communications between Mr. Trump and Mr. Cohen, which would likely require a special team of agents to review because conversations between lawyers and clients are protected from scrutiny in most instances.
Law enforcement agents spent several hours at the Loews Regency hotel on Monday morning as they executed a search warrant against the president’s personal lawyer. Cohen’s attorney said they were referred by Robert Mueller.

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Date: 2018-04-09 09:09 pm (UTC)Federal investigators on Monday searched the office, home and Manhattan hotel room of President Donald Trump’s longtime lawyer, Michael Cohen, seizing communications between the lawyer and his clients that cover topics including payments to the former porn actress known as Stormy Daniels, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The searches were executed at the direction of the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office, which has opened an investigation that is being coordinated with the office of special counsel Robert Mueller, this person said.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/fbi-raids-trump-lawyers-office-1523306297
What took them so long?
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Date: 2018-04-09 09:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-04-09 10:10 pm (UTC)К примеру, с давним знакомым Феликсом Сатером:
The business associate, Felix Sater, wrote a series of emails to Mr. Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, in which he boasted about his ties to Mr. Putin and predicted that building a Trump Tower in Moscow would be a political boon to Mr. Trump’s candidacy.
“Our boy can become president of the USA and we can engineer it,” Mr. Sater wrote in an email. “I will get all of Putins team to buy in on this, I will manage this process.”
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/us/politics/trump-tower-putin-felix-sater.html
Или с Дмитрием Песковым:
“Over the past few months I have been working with a company based in Russia regarding the development of a Trump Tower - Moscow project in Moscow City,” Cohen wrote Peskov, according to a person familiar with the email. “Without getting into lengthy specifics the communication between our two sides has stalled.”
“As this project is too important, I am hereby requesting your assistance. I respectfully request someone, preferably you, contact me so that I might discuss the specifics as well as arranging meetings with the appropriate individuals. I thank you in advance for your assistance and look forward to hearing from you soon,” Cohen wrote.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/top-trump-organization-executive-reached-out-to-putin-aide-for-help-on-business-deal/2017/08/28/095aebac-8c16-11e7-84c0-02cc069f2c37_story.html
В досье Стила рассказывается о встречe Коэна с Константином Косачевым, председателем Комитета Совета Федерации РФ по международным делам.
Pro-Putin leading Duma figure, KOSACHEV, reportedly involved as “plausibly deniable” facilitator and may have participated in the August meeting/s with COHEN.
The Kremlin insider went on to identify leading pro-PUTIN Duma figure, Konstantin KOSACHEV (Head of the Foreign Relations Committee) as an important figure in the TRUMP campaign-Kremlin liaison operation. KOSACHEV, also “plausibly deniable” being part of the Russian legislature rather than executive, had facilitated the contact in Prague and by implication, may have attended the meeting/s with COHEN there in August.
https://themoscowproject.org/dossier/
В минувшую пятницу Косачев попал под санкции.
Konstantin Kosachev is the Chairperson of the Council of the Federation Committee on Foreign Affairs. Kosachev is being designated pursuant to E.O. 13661 for being an official of the Government of the Russian Federation.
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm0338
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Date: 2018-04-09 10:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-04-09 10:24 pm (UTC)Напомните, за что посадили Аль Капоне?
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Date: 2018-04-09 10:31 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2018-04-09 11:02 pm (UTC)Вместо того, чтобы дрочить на НКВД, займитесь самообразованием. Как вам уже не один раз объясняли, вы не имеете ни малейшего понятия об американской системе правосудия https://yakov-a-jerkov.livejournal.com/1434566.html?thread=49210310#t49210310
В том случае, если подсудимый считает, что прокурор превысил полномочия или раздобыл доказательства преступления с нарушением закона, у него есть возможность обжаловать эти действия в судебном порядке. Пол Манафорт сейчас этим занимается, но пока что не особенно успешно.
Олег Дерипаска, покровитель Манафорта, тоже попал в пятницу под санкции.
Oleg Deripaska is being designated pursuant to E.O. 13661 for having acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, a senior official of the Government of the Russian Federation, as well as pursuant to E.O. 13662 for operating in the energy sector of the Russian Federation economy. Deripaska has said that he does not separate himself from the Russian state. He has also acknowledged possessing a Russian diplomatic passport, and claims to have represented the Russian government in other countries. Deripaska has been investigated for money laundering, and has been accused of threatening the lives of business rivals, illegally wiretapping a government official, and taking part in extortion and racketeering. There are also allegations that Deripaska bribed a government official, ordered the murder of a businessman, and had links to a Russian organized crime group.
На сегодняшних торгах Дерипаска потерял из-за санкций около миллиарда долларов.
Встреча Дерипаски с Сергеем Приходько на яхте у берегов Норвегии в начале августа 2016, о которой стало известно благодаря расследованию Навального, произошла вскоре после встречи Манафорта в Нью-Йорке с Константином Килимником, который, по сведениям Мюллера и ФБР, был связан не только с Дерипаской, но и с российскими спецслужбами.
Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agents assisting the Special Counsel’s Office assess that Person A has ties to a Russian intelligence service and had such ties in 2016.
https://pacer-documents.s3.amazonaws.com/36/193647/04516494589.pdf
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Date: 2018-04-10 03:46 am (UTC)Как говорят сейчас все, для того, чтобы получить ордер на обыск адвоката, нужно jump through уйму hoops. Чтобы запрос на ордер на обыск адвоката был одобрен, он должен быть подкреплен очень серьезной информацией о вероятном преступлении.
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Date: 2018-04-10 11:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-04-10 11:44 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2018-04-10 03:31 pm (UTC)Ну, что за ерунда? Полиция проводила у Пупкина обыск по делу о расследовании банковских махинаций, а нашла у него отрезанную голову любовницы. Отрезанная голова, по вашей логике, должна быть проигнорирована, потому что тема совсем другая?
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Date: 2018-04-10 12:00 pm (UTC)Неясно, причём здесь пожар в Trump Tower.
Dennis Shields, a resident who said he lived on the 42nd floor, described the scene.
“You could smell the smoke and you could hear things falling like through the vents,” he said. “It just smelled like sulfur.”
He said there were no orders to evacuate but he received a text message from Mr. Trump’s lawyer, Michael D. Cohen.
Mr. Shields, who said he grew up with Mr. Cohen, continued: “He said, ‘Are you in the building?’ I said, ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘You better get out ASAP.’ That’s how I knew to get out, otherwise I’d still be in there.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/07/nyregion/trump-tower-fire.html
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Date: 2018-04-09 09:29 pm (UTC)lawyer's lawyer :)
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Date: 2018-04-09 10:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-04-09 10:19 pm (UTC)Но как же так?!1 Крукд же Хиллари! А обыски у адвоката Трампа! Путин введи!!
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Date: 2018-04-09 10:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-04-09 11:51 pm (UTC)Будем ждать следующую серию этого сериала.
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Date: 2018-04-10 11:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-04-10 06:07 pm (UTC)Вполне может быть. В этом случае следователи ФБР обязаны такую информацию проигнорировать и ею никак не пользоваться. Если они этого не сделают и таки нарушат закон и воспользуются этой информацией, то уже в суде адвокаты Коэна им покажут кузькину мать. Такое событие это реальный повод для закрытия дела, если даже выяснится что Коэн воровал и ел младенцев.
Но мне кажется что более релевантным к этой истории является то , что если адвокат и клиент вступают в сговор с целью нарушить закон, то "attorney-client privilege" перестаёт действовать. А зная то что мы сейчас знаем про fixer Коэна...
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Date: 2018-04-10 06:15 pm (UTC)Там даже, если верить Lawfare, гораздо более мягкий критерий - достаточно того, что услуги адвоката использовались с целью совершить преступление. Адвокату сознательно вступать в сговор необязательно.
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Date: 2018-04-10 04:14 am (UTC)https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/8b3cv2/trumps_lawyer_reminds_me_of_someone/
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Date: 2018-04-10 11:50 am (UTC)Его играл Scott Baio - один из немногих в Голливуде, кто поддержал Трампа и даже выступал по этому поводу на республиканском съезде.
“Hillary Clinton wants to be president for Hillary Clinton. Donald Trump wants to be president for all of us. So, of course, let’s make America great again. But let’s make America America again.”
http://www.macleans.ca/politics/washington/transcript-what-scott-baio-said-about-donald-trump/
Ныне ему самому понадобится адвокат.
"Yesterday Nicole Eggert and I met with two police detectives from the sexual assault unit at my law firm," Hollywood attorney Bloom told THR in a statement Wednesday. "Nicole answered all of their questions for over an hour and told her story of sexual abuse by Scott Baio when she was a minor. A witness, [Charles in Charge star] Alexander Polinsky, appeared as well and told the detectives about inappropriate touching he witnessed, as well as his own allegations of bullying by Scott Baio."
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/nicole-eggert-files-police-report-scott-baio-1082702