Feds blow door off safe, issue subpoenas as probe into Giuliani associates escalates
Source: CNN
(CNN)Federal prosecutors in New York have subpoenaed the brother of one of the recently indicted associates of Rudy Giuliani, according to two people familiar with the matter, as they escalate their investigation in the campaign-finance case.
The subpoena to Steven Fruman is the latest indication of prosecutors' actions since the rushed arrest two weeks ago of his brother, Igor Fruman, and another defendant, Lev Parnas, at a Washington-area airport. Since then, investigators have doled out multiple subpoenas and conducted several property searches, in one case blowing the door off a safe to access the contents, sources tell CNN.
Federal prosecutors told a judge this week that they are sifting through data from more than 50 bank accounts. In addition, they've put a filter team in place as they examine communications obtained via search warrant and subpoena, sensitive to material that could be subject to attorney-client privilege because Giuliani, President Donald Trump's personal attorney, counted Parnas as a client. A filter team is a separate set of prosecutors who are assigned to examine evidence and set aside material that is privileged.
Since the October 9 arrests, federal agents visited the New York home of Steven Fruman and served him with a subpoena from Manhattan federal prosecutors, the people familiar with the matter said. Attorneys for Steven and Igor Fruman declined to comment. A spokesman for the Manhattan US Attorney's office also declined to comment.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/25/politics/fruman-parnas-giuliani-investigation/index.html
I thought the headline was hyperbole but it isn't. It's literally - blowing the door off a safe to get the contents!
And it looks like they are doing here like what they did with Cohen. Using a team to go through the documents for relevancy (almost similar to how they had a "Special Master" assigned to go through what documents were relevant in Cohen's case to remove any privilege stuff, before being handed over). I expect this is standard practice in any case.
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NOW we are getting into that "tangled web" category! 
that certainly many are tangled in one. 
it would probably be one of the biggest RICO cases ever!
