Special Master appointed in Cohen case is Barbara S. Jones

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Judge Wood says she will appoint a special master to assist with review of Cohen materials. As expected.

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Meet the special master in the Cohen case. Barbara Jones. (link: https://bracewell.com/people/barbara-s-jones) bracewell.com/people/barbara…

About Barbara

Barbara S. Jones, former judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, focuses her practice on corporate monitorships, compliance issues, internal investigations and arbitrations and mediations.

During her 16-year term in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Judge Jones presided over a diverse range of cases, including accounting and securities fraud, antitrust, fraud and corruption involving city contracts and federal loan programs, labor racketeering and terrorism. In May 2010, Judge Jones was appointed by the Chief Justice of the United States to serve on the seven-member Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation; she served on the panel until October 2012.

Prior to her U.S. District Judge nomination in 1995 by President Bill Clinton, she served as Chief Assistant to Robert M. Morgenthau, then-District Attorney of New York County. Previously, she was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York, where she served as the chief of the Organized Crime Strike Force Unit. Judge Jones has served as an adjunct assistant professor at Fordham Law School and New York University School of Law. Judge Jones also chaired the Response Systems to Adult Sexual Assault Crimes Panel, created by Congress in the National Defense Authorization Act for 2013, aimed at assessing the investigation, prosecution, and adjudication of sexual assaults in the military. The panel issued a report to Congress in June 2014 with 132 recommendations to the Department of Defense.

https://bracewell.com/people/barbara-s-jones

[Zoonart]

1. I think this is the money shot...

she was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York, where she served as the chief of the Organized Crime Strike Force Unit.

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2. I agree.

She seems qualified and she wasn't on either parties list which gives an air of unbiased choice to her.

[Zoonart]

3. Yep!

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4. Cohen is not a happy man today.

First Trump gives credence to the prosecutions claim that there's little privileged material this morning and now this.

[manor321]

5. Oddity

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"I don't think we shld be terribly concerned abt this. But Bracewell wasn't just Rudy's old firm. Until Trump's election it was Giuliani Bracewell. Basically Rudy's firm, certainly it's NY office. Giuliani is now the President's personal lawyer. Again, at least on optics, unwise."

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8. True.

Which will offset the optics of her being a Clinton appointee.

[CincyDem]

9. Interesting - didn't realize that when I posted below.

Still, I don't see Wood playing politics with this one and there's nothing about Jones (on the surface) that implies she's anything less than a prosecutor's prosecutor. Can't wait to see what folks say about her judicial record. Clinton appointed her in his first term for a reason. I'm still holding out hope.

[KPN]

6. K&R. This sounds like very good news.

[CincyDem]

7. Team Cohen can not be happy with this.

The request for defense (or Trump) to review the evidence before handing it over was ludicrous. But the Special Master request was never out of left field and there's lots of precedent for it. Might look like giving Cohen a win but with this choice, I think Wood is kind of saying "Be careful what you ask for".



I wonder who was on Cohen's list...Dershowitz, Nepolitano, Perrino, for sure but I can't think of a fourth ?

[WhiteTara]

10. She sounds like the right woman for the job.

Impartial but with the nose of criminal bloodhound. They won't be getting away with any shit.