New secret filing in case of former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen

[DonViejo]

Source: CNBC



PUBLISHED 16 MIN AGO

Dan Mangan
@_DANMANGAN

A document that is sealed from public view was placed in a New York federal court vault in a criminal case against President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen.

The filing comes a week after Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison for financial crimes and for campaign finance violations related to hush-money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal.

Cohen also pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about an aborted plan to build a Trump Tower in Moscow.That case was filed by special counsel Robert Mueller, who is continuing to investigate Trump’s presidential campaign and its ties to Russians.

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Someone on Wednesday filed a document saying something in connection with a criminal case against President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen. But who filed it and what it says are a mystery.

The document, which is sealed from public view, was “placed in vault” at U.S. District Court in Manhattan, according to a docket entry.

The filing came a week after Cohen, 52, was sentenced to three years in prison for his guilty pleas in cases brought separately by federal prosecutors in New York, and by the office of special counsel Robert Mueller.

The sealed document was filed in a case brought against Cohen by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.


Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/19/-filing-in-case-of-former-trump-lawyer-michael-cohen.html

[pecosbob]

1. Maybe we can get Geraldo Rivera to do a special broadcast from the vault...

[mitch96]

5. Geraldo NEEDS a padded vault..nt

[33taw]

2. I wouldn't get too excited that the document was "placed in vault" - many exhibits filed in courts

..are placed in vaults. Many non-efiled documents are as well. My guess is most of this case is still under seal, so while it may be exciting - it could be a totally innocuous document. It could simply be housing or transport orders related to incarceration. Or, it could be the infamous “smoking gun”. Stay tuned....

[WiseElder]

3. A sealed indictment against Trump

A sealed indictment against Trump to be unsealed the minute he leaves office would prevent the tolling to the statute of limitations.

[33taw]

4. Wouldn't a sealed indictment against someone else be filed in it's own case?

[onit2day]

6. Michael Moore's new movie FARENHEIT 911 is scariest Movie of Trump's America

[greyl]

8. Fahrenheit 11/9, ya mean. ;) nt

[cstanleytech]

7. My guess is its something major that directly implicates Trump and Cohen together in a crime so its

going to remain sealed until Trumps out of office that way the statute of limitations will not run down the clock.