DOJ: Michael Cohen 'under criminal investigation'

[mobeau69]

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/

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It's official!

[PJMcK]

1. Hey, Trump!

Ya hear that noise coming' up from behind?

Heh, heh.

[NastyRiffraff]

32. But he barely knew him!

Cohen may have occasionally served coffee to meetings in the WH, but Trump couldn't pick him out of a lineup!

[lunatica]

40. He was the covfefe boy.

[Botany]

2. The NY Times editorial "The Law Is Coming, Mr. Trump"

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, he’s 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 lawyer’s office doesn’t happen every day; it means that multiple government officials, and a federal judge, had reason to believe they’d find evidence of a crime there and that they didn’t 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]

27. Yep. My fear is that Trump is correct in his assumption that he will continue to get away with

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]

3. Finally.

[BootinUp]

4. Yeah but Cohen and Trump want a take back

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. There won't be one. Mueller is a stickler for detail & I'm sure SDNY office is the same. . . . nt

[janx]

6. This announcement was in response

to that request.

[getagrip_already]

14. it was a 20 page response......

almost all of it redacted when released to public. must be some meaty stuff in there.......

[wasupaloopa]

7. Mama always said you lie down with dirt you are going to get up dirty

[leftynyc]

8. I've been using the metaphor

of laying down with flea bitten mongrels.

[jpak]

9. Lock Him UP!

Lock Him UP!

Lock Him UP!

Lock Him UP!

[duforsure]

10. Looks like trumps losing another lawyer,

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]

11. who could have seen that coming

[honest.abe]

12. He was just a coffee boy.

Lock him up!! and his clients.. especially the Orange One!

[Freethinker65]

13. I beg your pardon

[Hekate]

22. Zap

[dchill]

33. +1000!

[Jim__]

15. I wonder if Cohen is re-thinking his willingness to take a bullet for Trump.

Something tells me Mueller has a deal for him.

[matt819]

16. Hmmm. . .

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]

17. Flip him, I say.

Let him walk free if he thoroughly and honestly testifies in a court to Trump's crimes.

[Johnny2X2X]

18. He was crying in court today.

Word is he was crying in court this morning.

These guys are total amateurs. They didn’t cover their tracks at all.

[calimary]

21. They never had to, back in their private sector days.

Or maybe that should be “PIRATE sector days”.

They’ve 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 didn’t 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 don’t work very well anymore. Certainly not here! And there really is some actual accountability.

[FakeNoose]

23. Crying because he knows what the Russian mob can do

He's between a rock and a hard place, and his own stupidity got him there.

[neohippie]

19. It appears that Cohen performs little or no legal work

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]

20. It's been reported that he rents a separate office from a law firm and has

the the only key to it. He also uses his own email address.

[catbyte]

29. This:

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[mobeau69]

30. Just snother coincidence.

[freethought]

24. Grab the popcorn! n/t

[lunatica]

41. And keep the Champaign on ice!

We might need it sooner than we thought.

[Mr. Ected]

25. What if Trump Scooter Libby's him?

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]

43. The jurisdiction is in the State of New York

And therefore out of tRump's reach.

[Grammy23]

44. But, but, but...

It won’t 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 isn’t so perfect these days.

[Mr. Ected]

46. New York FEDERAL Court

Not a state case.

[dameatball]

26. Does anyone know if the investigation includes state crimes?

That would affect the pardon power if convicted....correct?

[mobeau69]

28. This wouldn't but I trust NYAG is on this like white on rice.

[SergeStorms]

31. As the stupidest Lawyer on the planet......

he should be! Maybe he can get Trump's coffee in prison, and give him free "illegal advice".

[lunatica]

42. Do you think his Ray Donovan act will work in a real prison?

Hahahahahahaa!

[Pepsidog]

48. He aint no Ray. The thing about Ray Donovan is he is naturally cool

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 Ray’s 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]

51. Not a chance.

He'll be huddled in some corner, bawling like a newborn.

[Pepsidog]

34. Cohen literally went to the worst ranked Law school in the country Thomas Cooley Law School

[Sancho]

39. Damn...there's a branch of TCLS in Florida!

https://www.cooley.edu/locations/tampa-bay

[Grammy23]

45. The law school credentials were meant to cover his tracks

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 you’re 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]

47. Agree and I was think about my cousin vinny as well

[Cha]

36. Mahalo, mobeau!

[bucolic_frolic]

37. What a well played week

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]

38. I tried to make this comment on the locked thread but I'll put it in here.

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.

[riversedge]

49. Hope something sticks. He seems like a sleezeball.

[Grammy23]

50. He seems like it because he IS!