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and campaign finance violations. Oh My!
BumRushDaShow
(129,794 posts)FBI agents on Monday raided the Manhattan office of President Trumps private lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, seizing records about Cohens clients, including those related to a 2016 payment he made to adult-film star Stormy Daniels, who claims to have had a sexual encounter with Trump.
Among the documents seized were privileged communications between Cohen and his clients including those with Trump, according to a person familiar with the investigators work. Investigators took Cohens computer, phone and personal financial records as part of the search of his office at Rockefeller Center, the person said.
The raid was first reported by the New York Times.
The raid is related to an investigation referred by the special counsel Robert S. Mueller III to federal prosecutors in New York, according to Stephen Ryan, an attorney for Cohen.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/fbi-seizes-records-related-to-stormy-daniels-in-raid-of-trump-attorney-michael-cohens-office/2018/04/09/e3e43cf4-3c30-11e8-974f-aacd97698cef_story.html
malaise
(269,237 posts)The Con must be shitting bricks about now
BumRushDaShow
(129,794 posts)of notes from someone who was monitoring some speech he was giving and he was whining about "witch hunts" and "unfair".
The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)there must be taxes involved with this somehow.
BumRushDaShow
(129,794 posts)associated with Drumpf's AF1 denial of knowing anything about what Cohen did despite the fact that Drumpf's name was on the arbitration agreement (although unsigned).
There were some posts about some outlets associating a series of payments to Cohen from the Trump.org I believe, that totaled up to $129,999.71 or something like that.
The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)I hope that Stormy reported the $130,000.
Mr. "Says Who" is in deep shit. Couldn't happen to a more appropriate asshole.
Next up, Jared.
Gothmog
(145,751 posts)bluestarone
(17,100 posts)PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
dalton99a
(81,656 posts)Wednesdays
(17,455 posts)Not that I don't believe you, but if I want to pass it on, people will want me to back it up.
malaise
(269,237 posts)Wednesdays
(17,455 posts)Hassin Bin Sober
(26,349 posts)..... for almost exactly $130,000 dollars, they are fucked.
As always, the cover up is worse than the crime. If they structured payments to avoid reporting, that is money laundering(structuring) and wire fraud.
I knew it was bad when Cohen was so quick to jump on that grenade and claim Trump wasn't involved.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,794 posts)He is hugging himself and rocking.