Prosecutors submit redacted Cohen raid documents under seal, teeing up public release
Prosecutors submit redacted Cohen raid documents under seal, teeing up public release
BY MORGAN CHALFANT
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan have submitted redacted copies of search warrants connected to the federal raid on former Trump attorney Michael Cohen’s properties under seal, after a judge ordered the documents be partially released.
“The government respectfully submits, under seal, copies of the search warrant materials that were the subject of the Order,” U.S. attorney Robert Khuzami wrote in a letter to the federal judge overseeing Cohen’s case on Thursday.
The letter means that the release of the documents — including copies of search warrants, warrant applications and supporting affidavits and riders connected to the April 2018 FBI raid on Cohen’s home, office and hotel room — could be imminent.
In early February, U.S. District Judge William Pauley III ordered the partial release of the materials, after a group of media outlets had petitioned for their release.
“The public interest in the underlying subject matter of the Materials—which implicates the integrity of the 2016 presidential election — is substantial,” Pauley wrote in the 30-page opinion released Feb. 7.
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/432062-prosecutors-submit-redacted-cohen-raid-documents-under-seal-teeing
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