06-04-2018, 09:16 PM
(06-04-2018, 08:51 PM)Duchess Wrote: Woooo. Special Counsel Mueller has asked the judge to revoke Manafort’s bail. Appparently he tried his hand at witness tampering. Whatta dumbass
Bad day for Michael Cohen too.
Special master Barbara Jones, in a report to U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood, said her review of thousands of Cohen's seized items included in eight boxes, iPhones and an iPad has identified only .054 percent -- a tiny fraction of one-percent -- as privileged based on claims from Cohen, Trump and the Trump Organization.
Jones’ report echoes prosecutors’ claim that Cohen didn’t have a traditional law practice, and many items would be business records not subject to the attorney-client privilege. Privileged items can also lose their protection if they involve crime or fraud.
Lawyers for Cohen are still processing and making privilege claims to Jones on more than 3.7 million files copied to them by the government from hard drives and other electronic devices, and prosecutors have not yet provided items from a shredder and two Blackberries.
Wood has given Cohen’s team until June 15 to complete their review, and says she plans to let a government team walled off from prosecutors to complete the screening of any remaining items.
Full story: https://www.newsday.com/news/nation/trum...1.18969881