FEDs Win Full Access to Cohen Records, Including Trump's
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Date: August 15, 2018 01:04PM
Federal investigators will have access to the records seized from President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, as they pursue a criminal investigation of the New York attorney, court records show.
A court-appointed special master who reviewed the material after Cohen argued some of the records should be withheld on grounds of attorney-client privilege or privacy recommended releasing all but a fraction of the emails, phone messages, computer drives and other records to prosecutors.
Federal investigators for the Southern District of New York seized the records in April when they executed search warrants at Cohen's New York City home, business office and hotel room. They sought the material as part of an investigation of the lawyer's business dealings, including payments made to buy the silence of two women who claimed they had sexual affairs with Trump.