DU atty please explain what it means that Cohen gets to review first or not

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4. Usually there would be discovery

With a reputable attorney (or at least, an attorney who could viably claim to giving actual legal advice to actual clients) the government would have subpoenaed certain documents by asking for all documents that fit a certain description. Cohen would have responded by producing the ones he felt met that description, and the parties would have argued later about whether all documents were given and received.

If they want to just seize documents instead of going through the discovery process, they have to persuade a judge (magistrate, in this case) that there's a high likelihood that Cohen would destroy the documents upon receiving the subpoena.

We already know that Mueller never asks a question that he doesn't know the answer to. Although he "handed off" this part of the case, New York officials have said they've been monitoring Cohen for quite some time. I'm sure there are no surprises in what they got.

Hannity has bumbled this all the way, first denying that Cohen performed any services for him (therefore putting Cohen in legal jeopardy for claiming Hannity as a client whose documents were subject to privilege) and then saying he never paid Cohen for his services (another indication that there might not have been an attorney-client relationship) and now saying that he might have thrown "ten bucks" Cohen's way. Constant changing stories are not a sign of truthfulness.

What makes me seethe is Hannity and his friends talking about an invasion of his privacy. Tell Seth Rich's family about how much Fox News respects privacy, Hannity.