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yakov_a_jerkovF.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 09:29 pm (UTC)lawyer's lawyer :)
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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 10:13 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 10:21 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2018-04-09 10:24 pm (UTC)Напомните, за что посадили Аль Капоне?
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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: 2018-04-09 11:21 pm (UTC)The comments by U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson came Wednesday at the first hearing in a civil case that Manafort filed in January to claim Mueller, who is investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election, overstepped his authority. Manafort was accused of money laundering and failing to report his lobbying in Ukraine.
Jackson told Manafort’s lawyer that his client’s case hinges on showing violations of federal regulations overseeing Mueller’s appointment, even though the law explicitly bars giving individuals the right to sue.
“What am I supposed to do about that? Ignore it?” the judge asked.
“Yes, of course,” said Manafort attorney Kevin Downing in federal court in Washington, as his client looked on.
Downing is suing under the Administrative Procedure Act, but the judge suggested he may not succeed.э
“Do you have a single legal case that suggests that being subject to criminal investigation is actionable under the APA?” Jackson asked Downing.
Downing said that he couldn’t cite any cases and that his was the first challenge of its type.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-04/manafort-judge-skeptical-of-suit-disputing-mueller-s-authority
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Date: 2018-04-09 11:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-04-09 11:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-04-09 11:25 pm (UTC)А теперь, специально для Вас, вишенка на торте: Судья который дал разрешение на обыск был назначен ЛИЧНО ТРАМПОМ, после частной беседы с судьей, вместо судьи-индийца (не помню имя и лень искать) которого Трамп очень боялся, т.к. у него очень много недвижимости в SDNY.
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Date: 2018-04-09 11:26 pm (UTC)