Just So We're Clear, Mueller Had Nothing to Do With Drafting the Cohen Warrant
by Matt Naham | 5:21 pm, April 27th, 2018
The U.S. Attorneys Office (USAO) in the Southern District of New York (SDNY) already put to rest in a footnote the idea that Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his office was involved in ghostwriting the search warrant executed on the hotel, office and home of longtime Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen.
Nonetheless, MSNBC host Ari Melber shared a screenshot of a footnote on Friday from an April 13 filing about this subject. The footnote is on page 3.
It says:
Although Cohen accurately states that the Special Counsels Office (SCO) referred this investigation to the USAO-SDNY, the investigation has proceeded independent from the SCOs investigation. Cohens speculation, see Br. at 10, that the SCO drafted the search warrants is unfounded. The date in the bottom corner of the attachments is the date that the USAO-SDNYs standard form search warrant rider was most recently updated for use by the office.
What the filing says is what has been said from the start, that Muellers office referred the case to the SDNY. What it also says is that Cohens speculation that the search warrants were drafted by the Special Counsels Office, i.e. Robert Mueller, is unfounded, as would be the suggestion Mueller was using the SDNY as a cover to get to Trump.
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