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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWow. So it now appears that Michael Cohen WAS little more than a bag man.
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Out of over 1.3 million items seized from Michael Cohens home and office, only 252 are potentially privileged, according to the Special Master. That means prosecutors were rightCohen was not practicing law much at all.
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NEW: Per Special Master in the #MichaelCohen case, only 252 items flagged as potentially privileged. Special Master has given SDNY prosecutors almost 300,000 items so far & will likely turn over another 1,000,000 today. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal-prosecutors-poised-to-get-more-than-1-million-files-seized-from-michael-cohens-phones/2018/05/29/ff407104-63b1-11e8-99d2-0d678ec08c2f_story.html
thbobby
(1,474 posts)is doing his best to destroy America, BUT THIS SHIT IS FUNNY!
Skraxx
(2,965 posts)LOL!
grantcart
(53,061 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,072 posts).
I'm sure that sooner or later, Trump would turn on Cohen, like he has with most others.
Cohen probably kept those tapes as an insurance policy against those he dealt with, just in case someone flipped.
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imanamerican63
(13,668 posts)lapfog_1
(29,166 posts)underpants
(182,273 posts)Cohen joined the Trump Organization in 2006, and eventually became Trump's personal lawyer, a role once occupied by Roy Cohn, Senator Joseph McCarthy's heavy-lidded hatchet man during the Red Scare who advised Trump in the 1980s. Michael Cohen's bare-knuckled tactics earned him the nickname of "Tom," a reference to Tom Hagen, the consigliore to Mafia Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather. He grew up on Long Island, the son of a physician who survived the Holocaust in Poland, and like Tom Hagen spent a childhood around organized crime, specifically the Russian Mafiya. Cohen's uncle, Morton Levine, was a wealthy Brooklyn doctor who owned the El Caribe Country Club, a Brooklyn catering hall and event space that was a well-known hangout for Russian gangsters. Cohen and his siblings all had ownership stakes in the club, which rented for years to the first Mafiya boss of Brighton Beach, Evsei Agron, along with his successors, Marat Balagula and Boris Nayfeld. (Cohen's uncle said his nephew gave up his stake in the club after Trump's election.)
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,481 posts)It is a matter of time when Michael Cohen is charged with State and Federal crimes.
Robert Mueller just got even more goods on Donald Trump via Michael Cohen.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Oh oh! Watch the Travel Agencies for certain people looking for Hot deals going to Belize.
malthaussen
(17,065 posts)... just because they aren't privileged does not mean they are incriminating.
-- Mal
lame54
(35,136 posts)Holy Shit
ffr
(22,645 posts)If ever the law needed to make examples of people who betrayed their nation, it is these folks and the ones on the airwaves (Sinclair, M$M media, etc) who still support grifters and vilify all those who uphold the law.
FakeNoose
(32,340 posts)It's a good start though.
After flogging they can go into the stocks for a while, and finish it off at the guillotine.
OMGWTF
(3,894 posts)Hulk
(6,699 posts)...and then tar and feather the seditious bastard, and run him through the streets and out of town on a rail.
That would be a good starting point.
procon
(15,805 posts)his loyalty with a seat at the master's table. He must have known what kind of man Trump was all along, yet he still thought he was going to get a place at the trough.
C Moon
(12,188 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Hey, idiot, there's a reason rich people HAVE f***ing Bag Men ... and that's their OTHER function in the rich mans world ... one that's often called: FALL GUY.
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)Does this not seem like a ridiculously huge number?
Did Mike live at the Library of Congress, or something?
ON EDIT: Never mind. They took document shreddings, which they have now reconstructed. Oh, Lordy.
Yavin4
(35,356 posts)Send Cohen to do this. Send Cohen to do that.
winstars
(4,213 posts)BobTheSubgenius
(11,535 posts)Good heavens! A MILLION items? There must be SOMETHING awful (for them) in there, don't you think?
And I don't believe that that gigantic number is because a lot of it is shredder output. It doesn't make sense that Special Master would turn over material that is presently unreadable.
Demovictory9
(32,320 posts)DeminPennswoods
(15,246 posts)or whatever else can be stored on a cell phone 1 "item". Fox ex, if you have a text conversation with each person doing 5 replies, that could count as 10 "items".