DOJ: Michael Cohen 'under criminal investigation'
Source: CNN
Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's personal attorney, is "under criminal investigation," the Justice Department said Friday.
In response to Cohen's motion to restrain the evidence collected in Monday's raids of his home and office, the US attorney in New York asserted the raids were authorized by a federal judge to seek evidence of conduct "for which Cohen is under criminal investigation."
Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2018/04/13/politics/michael-cohen-hearing-fbi-raid/
It's official!
PJMcK
(22,031 posts)Ya hear that noise coming' up from behind?
Heh, heh.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Cohen may have occasionally served coffee to meetings in the WH, but Trump couldn't pick him out of a lineup!
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Botany
(70,490 posts)The NY Times editorial "The Law Is Coming, Mr. Trump"
Mr. Trump has spent his career in the company of developers and celebrities, and also of grifters, cons, sharks, goons and crooks. He cuts corners, he lies, he cheats, he brags about it, and for the most part, hes gotten away with it, protected by threats of litigation, hush money and his own bravado. Those methods may be proving to have their limits when they are applied from the Oval Office. Though Republican leaders in Congress still keep a cowardly silence, Mr. Trump now has real reason to be afraid. A raid on a lawyers office doesnt happen every day; it means that multiple government officials, and a federal judge, had reason to believe theyd find evidence of a crime there and that they didnt trust the lawyer not to destroy that evidence.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/10/opinion/trump-michael-cohen-raid.html
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)the sort of crap he's always gotten away with. With his pardon powers and with a Congress unwilling to jeopardize their chance to destroy the social safety net by holding him accountable for his crimes, I'm just so afraid he will go right on destroying the country for his own idiotic and egocentric reasons.
dalton99a
(81,451 posts)BootinUp
(47,141 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,994 posts)janx
(24,128 posts)to that request.
getagrip_already
(14,708 posts)almost all of it redacted when released to public. must be some meaty stuff in there.......
wasupaloopa
(4,516 posts)leftynyc
(26,060 posts)of laying down with flea bitten mongrels.
jpak
(41,757 posts)Lock Him UP!
Lock Him UP!
Lock Him UP!
duforsure
(11,885 posts)And they already had a lot to go after him with if a judge signed off on their raid. This will only get a lot worse fast for trump and cohen, especially as more gets exposed on them, which it will. They're scared the truth will get out on them now, and getting more desperate every day. Their court action will easily fail trying to halt everything.
Skittles
(153,150 posts)honest.abe
(8,677 posts)Lock him up!! and his clients.. especially the Orange One!
Freethinker65
(10,009 posts)Hekate
(90,645 posts)dchill
(38,472 posts)Jim__
(14,075 posts)Something tells me Mueller has a deal for him.
matt819
(10,749 posts)Let's see how Cohen feels now about that jump-off-a-building thing rather than rat on his capo.
Somehow I don't think he'll be charging at his multi-thousand dollar an hour rate as the newest jailhouse lawyer.
LudwigPastorius
(9,137 posts)Let him walk free if he thoroughly and honestly testifies in a court to Trump's crimes.
Johnny2X2X
(19,038 posts)Word is he was crying in court this morning.
These guys are total amateurs. They didnt cover their tracks at all.
calimary
(81,220 posts)Or maybe that should be PIRATE sector days.
Theyve never needed to cover their tracks before now. They never had to hassle with much of that stuff because in that world, bullying and blustering and threatening and cheating tactics and intimidation were merely the way they did business. That was all they ever needed. And they could force flimsy (but scary-sounding) non-disclosure agreements and bribery and hush money on perceived adversaries who didnt have deep pockets or experience fighting dirty or friends in high places or a sense of righteous defiance.
These trump goons and thugs and slippery wheeler-dealers never quite either realized or accepted that this is a Whole New Ballgame, either. Those old ways dont work very well anymore. Certainly not here! And there really is some actual accountability.
FakeNoose
(32,633 posts)He's between a rock and a hard place, and his own stupidity got him there.
neohippie
(1,142 posts)From what I have read, Trump's attorney has almost no clients and preforms little or no legal work. He also attended the lowest of all ABA accredited law schools
Cooley, is basically like a test prep school or law camp
http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2018/04/michael_cohen_trumps_attorney.html
Link to tweet
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4437270-Cohen-v-US-Govt-Opposition-to-TRO-Request.html
mobeau69
(11,141 posts)the the only key to it. He also uses his own email address.
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mobeau69
(11,141 posts)freethought
(2,457 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)We might need it sooner than we thought.
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)Isn't that a distinct possibility? Seems all these guys are wearing a Teflon suit with their co-conspirator in the Oval Office running interference for them.
Wednesdays
(17,342 posts)And therefore out of tRump's reach.
Grammy23
(5,810 posts)It wont stop tRumpolini from looking for ways to circumvent that little detail. He is used to getting his way no matter what it costs. He may have just met his match. I want to see him squirm and wiggle like a worm on a hot griddle as he tries (in vain) to figure a way out. Somebody go take his blood pressure NOW. I am betting it isnt so perfect these days.
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)Not a state case.
dameatball
(7,396 posts)That would affect the pardon power if convicted....correct?
mobeau69
(11,141 posts)SergeStorms
(19,193 posts)he should be! Maybe he can get Trump's coffee in prison, and give him free "illegal advice".
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Hahahahahahaa!
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)not the fake bravado that Cohen ties to exude. Ray Donovan is a tough guy with a heart,always looking out for vulnerable people who would be bullied by the likes of Cohen and Trump. Unlike the cowards Trump and Cohen, Ray would kick the ass the rich prick who thought because of money he was better than someone else. And Rays tough exterior betrays the fact that he was molested as a boy by a priest. Now I know Ray is a fictional character but he represents qualities that Cohen and Trump will never have because they are bullies and bullies are nothing but cowards.
SergeStorms
(19,193 posts)He'll be huddled in some corner, bawling like a newborn.
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)Sancho
(9,067 posts)Grammy23
(5,810 posts)Using attorney-client privilege. So no need for a First Class education. Just the JD behind his name. Dude should have studied a little harder or paid more attention while he was in class since if youre not doing lawyerly deeds or even if you are but it involves criminal behavior, the attorney-client privilege goes bye bye. tRump might as well have hired My Cousin Vinny.
Pepsidog
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Cha
(297,154 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,128 posts)Execution of warrant on Monday became a focal point for the rest of the week
Then Friday the stunning release of pinpointing Cohen in Prague in the final months of the 2016 campaign, though he has testified he had never been there, which goes a long way toward a specific contact point for the collusion that Donald Trump keeps telling us never happened.
So no matter how much they deny, deny, deny, one just had to know it was all bravado. They enjoy the game of trying to get away with it, and it's not working.
I suspect this won't be the last surprise, startling revelation, or well-timed legal action in the coming months.
Strikes on Syria are a managed showcase event, and genuinely temporary.
erronis
(15,241 posts)Sounds like there's an off-the-books private business/spy cadre going on that's worthy of the best spook novelists - LeCarre, Ludlum, Deighton.
I often post it - agent without portfolio; it's covert but hiding in plain sight.
If this thing blows wide open and is not hushed up (as dozens of GOP Congress retire in favor of family time), it might rival the fall of the Berlin Wall in long term consequences.
Nicely stated. Rogue individuals with something to sell trying to make bucks on the street...
K Street, that is. And usually selling themselves.
Guess poor beagle won't be pulling down lawyerly fees for a long time in the future. Poor wife and children. Maybe he should have become a "good family man" many years ago.