The news that the FBI conducted a raid on Michael Cohen's office, home, and hotel hit the wires big time. What did they take? We get this snippet from Wapo:
FBI agents on Monday raided Cohen’s Manhattan office, home and hotel room as part of the investigation, seizing records about Cohen’s clients and personal finances. ... Investigators took Cohen’s computer, phone and personal financial records, including tax returns, as part of the search of his office at Rockefeller Center, that person said.
Perhaps Donald Trump is Mr. Cohen's only client. But if he has others, they must be shaking in their boots. Prosecutors will likely have access to confidential communications they had with Cohen. Prosecutors would try to avoid an appearance of impropriety. But if they see something they didn't know about another subject of an investigation, they couldn't look away. That's just common nature, and what we've seen in the last several years about the justice department, legal niceties aren't always followed. Furthermore, if they found something useful but it's inadmissible, they would try to obtain it some other way.
As the old saying goes, it's easier to apologize than to ask permission.
This episode will also deter any prospective Trump attorney.
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11:02 AM 4/10/2018
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