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The Special Master has issued initial findings that virtually none of the files and docs seized from Michael Cohen are covered by attorney-client privelege. Prosecutors will not get virtually all of those to work with.
In a report to the court, Special Master Barbara Jones said Cohen's lawyers and Trump's lawyers had identified 17 items in an initial group of eight boxes that they believed to be privileged or partially privileged, out of 639 total. Of those 17, Jones agreed with them on 14 of them, and rejected the claim of privilege on the other three.
Among the contents of two phones and one iPad, Jones reports that Cohen's lawyers had flagged 156 items out of a total of more than 290,000 as either privileged, partially privileged, or highly personal. In this case, Jones agreed with the Trump Organization's and Cohen's attorneys.
Initial claims were that "large" numbers of the seized documents and files were privileged. It is now confirmed that only a tiny, tiny fraction of them are privileged. Everything else will be turned over to SDNY prosecutors. No matter how you slice it, this cannot be good news for Cohen or for any of his three clients.
In other news, Genius Giuliani has admitted to an obstruction of justice in that Trump himself dictated the memo concerning the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Russians, and then he and everyone else involved spent two years simply lying about that. Sometimes under oath.
The slime of this administration is never-ending. The name "Trump" will stand ahead of all others as a monumental stain on national prestige and honor for generations.