NYT: the FBI raided the lawyer’s office trump
Secret services agents seized correspondence, Michael Cohen, trump and documents regarding payments made by lawyer a former pornographic actress Stephanie Clifford.
TASS, April 10. FBI agents spent Monday searched the offices of a personal lawyer of the President of the United States Donald trump, Michael Cohen. They seized his correspondence with trump, as well as documents regarding payments made by lawyer a former pornographic actress Stephanie Clifford, aka Stormy Daniels, who claims that she had a relationship with the President of the United States. This was reported by the newspaper The New York Times, citing attorney Stephen Ryan, who represents the interests of Michael Cohen.
Permission to conduct the search given by the new York district attorney at the request of spectacular Robert Mueller, who is investigating about attributed to Russia’s intervention in the US elections in 2016. As the paper suggests, the searches are obviously not directly associated with the investigation, which leads Mueller, but may be based on information he learned and transferred to new York prosecutors.
“Today, the office of the Federal attorney for new York southern district of Manhattan have performed a series of search warrants and confiscated confidential communications between my client Michael Cohen and its clients,” said Stephen Ryan. “The U.S. attorney’s office informed me that in new York, in part, was undertaken on behalf of the office of spectracolor Robert Mueller,” added the lawyer.