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| Michael Cohen Wins A Victory Over The Taint Team |
| 2018-04-27 |
| [RedState] When the home, residence, and office of Michael Cohen, who is President Trump’s personal lawyer, was raided by FBI working for the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, all of his personal and legal records, along with his personal electronic devices, were confiscated and opened to search. There may have been a law enforcement reason for this. But I doubt it. This investigation is being carried out as a proxy to Mueller’s investigation, it follows the same M.O. as the pre-dawn raid on Paul Manafort’s home, and seems calculated to intimidate, embarrass, and to gain access to records that would be off limits if the government tried to obtain them via subpoena. If you pay attention, we are already learning about Cohen’s activities via leaks that can only have one source. One of the strategies the investigators have been using is painting Cohen as a fake lawyer, as a guy with a law degree but who only has one actual client, and, therefore his legally protected records could easily be identified by a prosecution appointed "taint team." The taint here is not what you’d find at urbandictionary.com nor does it do what you might imagine such a team to do. The idea is that you get prosecutors who aren’t involved in the case (yeah, I laughed at that, too) and they examine the privileged documents and only let the REAL prosecutors see things that are relevant. I don’t know if newspaper reporters fall in category of people authorized to see stuff, but it is beginning to look that way. A New York federal judge says she is appointing a former Manhattan federal judge to help determine what materials seized in raids on the home and office of President Donald Trump’s private attorney are protected by attorney-client privilege. Judge Kimba Wood said Thursday at a hearing that Barbara Jones has the right amount of experience to handle the study of materials seized in the April 9 raids that targeted attorney Michael Cohen. Jones was a federal judge in New York for 17 years before leaving for private practice five years ago. Jones was nominated to the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York by President Bill Clinton on the recommendation of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. |
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